is there actually more to james c scott/david graeber in the long run that cant be accounted for under "bureaucracy, regardless of relation to production, is also an independent site of proletarianization" ?

funding lotteries have been waiting for this moment

This would be so popular at the national level if centrist Democrats let us use those words in that order

I was wondering what Mamdani's first executive order would be, and I'm not disappointed by this. He has wiped off the books EVERY Eric Adams executive order issued on or after September 26, 2024, the day Adams was indicted on federal bribery charges.

times squares

It's official: Bulgaria is in the euro-zone. An excerpt from an atypically emotional NYE address by the Central Bank governor: "Thank you, friends. We are home. This is not a protocol. It is a feeling. In this sense, the euro is not just an economic solution... www.bnb.bg/AboutUs/Pres...

Yearly reminder that you CAN just become a different person, you're not as imprisoned in your life as you think. You can just be the one who dresses nice or exercises or reads a lot, or whatever. You can just start doing it, some people might make fun of you but they don't really care.

The assessments of 1 and 2 on this list are about as well-trodden as any macroeconomic discourse get and absolutely impervious to the empirical reality of how bond and currency markets treat Treasuries and the USD.

Cat running for office: But we're going to get rid of the humans because they've been treating us very badly. And our bowls will be full in the morning- perhaps fuller than ever before

the more i learn about him the more confident i am that goethe is one of the posters of all time

absolutely world-changing. even beyond the “harm”, my hope for greater drug literacy is that some people who’ve only drank alcohol and think cannabis is a Dangerous Substance would realize that THEY are the ones more playing with fire.

Every major city oughta have their own book review. Well done.

"attempts to exit the symbolic order using the symbolic order have been met by continuation of the symbolic order"

biggest technological revolution of our lifetimes and it's not AI or blockchain or cryptocurrency or metaverse.

"Excess fuel supplies, a hardware backlog and a more competitive alternative bode ill for LNG market incumbents. A crash is looming." I'm used to making forecasts a few years ahead. But things are moving fast now. I wrote this story in Sept and now Reuters is running with the same message

so it happened - greens just met labour in the polling average

Masked agents dragged a teacher from her classroom. They pepper-sprayed a toddler. They shot a father of two, for the crime of trying to go to work. This is Trump’s America—and we need your help to keep exposing it. trib.al/vg825QS

[screaming at the top of my lungs, once again] the fundamental technology of humanity is care

America has 925 billionaires as of this year. Collectively they have a record $6.9 trillion in wealth. The bottom 50% of Americans control $4.2 trillion in wealth. When 925 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.

90% of bluesky posts, to me

The way the banks did it was basically sort of proactive stonewalling, you appoint some VP of blockchain initiatives to constantly turn out studies about how the current tools aren’t helpful to your business but you’re definitely on top of things in case something good does turn up, which it won’t.

shit like this is why when i was unpacking my library yesterday, i put "Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs" in with psychoanalysis and literary criticism

I've been telling people that we are <14 months from someone making the argument that AI should have more rights than are currently available to human women and the only adjustment to that statement that I'm willing to make is to truncate the original timetable.

"tell me we didn't just fire a dozen $500,000 missiles at a $200 camel" "sir, no evidence of any camel present, sir!"

Public discourse on this subject has utterly failed to direct citizens' attention to the actual problem, which is that a commercial industry is assaulting education. So every week we get another thoughtless op-ed on blue books or the death of the college essay, etc etc.

It is EXHAUSTING not only being made responsible for coming up with new kinds of assignments for our students; it's also tedious reading op-eds that suggest the core problem is a crisis in teaching. But, as Chris and I lay out here, this isn't a crisis in teaching; it's an attack on learning.

I know everyone on this website hates AI but let’s not lose sight of the fact that stuff enjoying copyright protection for a century is preposterous

When the time comes - and it will - I will happily write a check to the relevant agency if they’ll use the money to prosecute these assholes.

offering a Tender Buttons Christmas Blessing to all

im sure there's a ton of interesting analysis on how much putting the provision of health insurance on to private employers actually costs us collectively. wages depressed, jobs not created etc. the system we have is ruinously expensive for employers. how does anyone defend it

A beautiful story of kindness and love for Christmas day. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

i could write a novel that includes all of these predicates, no problem

More #JoblessRecovery chatter: @byheatherlong.bsky.social

Out in spring from @bentarnoff.com & I www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...

longer time goes on it feels like no one has been as completely vindicated by the large language model paradigm as lacan

CHOTINER: and when you're in water you PARTICLE MAN: don't get wet, that's right. CHOTINER: And this is because PARTICLE MAN: the water gets me instead. It becomes particle-manish CHOTINER: There's been some debate on this point. Triangle Man, for example PARTICLE MAN: I think we're done here

"Some loans now reach 100 months, or more than eight years, especially for the purchase of larger pickups, Experian data show." Good lord. www.wsj.com/business/aut...

Markus Brunnermeier: What lessons do you take from the large fiscal stimulus we saw after COVID and the ensuing inflation? Zombie Keynes: Braaaaaaaaiiinnssss

Scott Bessent on the All-In podcast appears to confirm that Michelle Bowman is out of the running for Fed chair. He says he's only expecting to sit through four chair interviews with the president. Warsh, Waller, Hassett have happened. Rieder is upcoming. Or he could just be going on vacation.

Year 1 data on congestion pricing in Manhattan… * Vehicle traffic: -11% * Foot traffic: +3.4% * Storefront vacancy: -0.9% * Pollution: -22% * Revenue for mass transit: $548M So YES this has been a huge success.

larry summers

War on Christmas

CO2 is amazing. While having just a little too much in the atmosphere is really bad, it may also be the best stuff to use for longer duration energy storage, which is key to keeping more of it out of the atmosphere. Simply convert CO2 back and forth from a liquid to gas. energydome.com

Interesting to see government spending positive in Q3 after coming in negative in Q1 & Q2. (largely drvien by national defense spending)

Incredible story. Garmin has a feature in some of their new glass cockpit systems that can detect if a pilot becomes unresponsive. This weekend it activated in a non-test scenario for the first time www.flightradar24.com/blog/aviatio...

if you cant flunk people you basically dont have a school

i get cancelled for this take a LOT but one of the most important things I think we need to do is start handing out failing grades again. if you can't do algebra, you should not pass algebra. but, of course, for political reasons,,,,