hello all!! Big Drop Today we are launching a manifesto for our framework for the next US supply-side economic consensus -- The Productive State -- at Forces of Production www.forcesofproduction.com/p/the-produc...

[still thinking about gen x] calvin johnson sounds like principal skinner

everyone over forty talks like bill maher now, its frankly unbearable

Trump's big news is China acquired the publicly available voter file? Bro, DOGE employees took off with our Social Security info on thumb drives.

Why Britain’s privatisation experiment is so extraordinary by international standards. www.arguably.uk/p/can-andy-b...

My takeaway from that speech is that we are headed down the road of Trump trying to outright rig elections. It probably won't work, but he's going for it.

how crazy is it to be one thing one time tbh

A cow caught on a security cam opening the electric fence. The farmer installed it after he assumed someone was doing it. Original post

I have encountered landlords that have asked for bank account login credentials. I have encountered others with the moderated stance, upon denial of said credentials, of screenshotting your bank account dashboard. Others moderate further by demanding the two years of pay stubs.

Gender studies does a far better job of explaining the Trump administration than traditional political science, or economics for that matter

Good article on “industrial staples”, aka the picks and shovels of factories fortunefinancialadvisors.com/lawrence-ham...

"Bolsonaro has begun a twenty-seven-year prison sentence for his role in January 8, while the instigator of January 6 sits in the Oval Office...Should we in the United States try a Brazilian strategy?" spoiler: I answer yes. me, for @bostonreview.bsky.social www.bostonreview.net/articles/tru...

Flimsy Steve’s estranged older brother

only straight boy with tickets to the ninajirachi show 💅💅💅

the other thing thats funny about watching Tech Indusrty people try to figure out the economic impacts of AI is the most confident people in the sector are those who learned about fractional reserve banking on youtube at an impressionable age

vance would be soooooooooooooo much happier if we all just got together and dumped him back on the banks of the ohio river and told him he never actually went to yale and that actually he has BPD and made the whole thing up with his friends in the group dm

"hell they were blocked from the start"

"postmodernity" is about fiber supplements, electrolyte beverages and loose-fitting dark-colored clothing

male culture is so funny

I'll be giving a short talk at the International Category Theory Conference at Johns Hopkins University on Monday. If that's the sort of thing you'd be interested in watching, I believe there will be a way to view the talk online. See ct2026.com/ct/abstracts...

finally, a believable scandal

evergreen

going to start saying "coup de gros"

what's crazy too is that the longer you pursue it, the emptier the signifier "inconvenient" gets; it's almost worse than "productivity"

Today we launch a special collaborative briefing with Forces of Production, introducing an approach to policy — The Productive State — governing the supply side. 🧵 🖊️ @atwilliams.bsky.social @brusselermel.bsky.social www.common-wealth.org/publications...

“.. We’ve burned through all of the buffers we had. Everything,” said one trader. “All of that’s now gone,” he said. @financialtimes.com www.ft.com/content/6c31...

they're just watching a tire (dir. Mr. Oizo)

*sighs* **Opens up AO3 tab**

🚨 BURIED LEDE ALERT: The lifelike robot teacher being sold to a rural reservation-area school, will be built by a former Metaverse crypto company that now owns RealDoll™, but in a distinct subsidiary that they swear will have no overlap with the manufacturing of the sex dolls

starting to think the problem may have been organizing it as "Computer Science" instead of "Computing Arts"

[coming up with an excuse to buy a 4xl jeff gordon jersey] what if I went as jennifer herrema for halloween this year

the worst part of that John Lennon song

when you are not aware of the word "some"

"immigrants are a significant part of not only how we build things in this country, but also why we build things in this country"

What’s the cultural reference you must frequently have to stop yourself from making at work, because no-one else would get it? Mine is “ze price stabilité is ze most important thing”.

'Got that new survey on Latin speakers in the United States, boss' 'Did you make sure to get a real range in there?' 'Yup, we did the polling in Annapolis and Santa Fe.'

"[The Productive State] means decommodifying essential goods and services, building the infrastructure that private capital has declined to build, and stabilizing systemically important prices through public ownership at critical chokepoints." @atwilliams.bsky.social & @brusselermel.bsky.social

The Federal government currently won’t provide any services itself which can be procured in the private market. This write up makes an interesting case to me on discovering new inherently governmental functions by finding market failures industry has no interest in fixing

unorthodox definition of 6 is the new ontological basis of 2, you heart id here first

A pretty remarkable and broad based downside surprise on June core inflation with declines in hotels, wirelsss phone servies, and soft gains in rent

Lot of hot takes on housing flying around at the moment. My basic contention is that the problem has always been that you can’t have a thing that provides shelter, your primary savings vehicle, and something that acts as the main collateral for small businesses all be the same thing.

"we hold these uncles to be self-evident: they are definitely there, and so like as not ought to be organized in some fashion"

imo youre not supposed to ensoul it, you're supposed to put it thru the mirror stage

This is the single item I found in the bathroom left behind by my parents after their last visit, and I have two questions about this Extremely Dad item: 1) did they make a single batch in 1962 that they just continue to sell? 2) what is country club size?

The cosmos doesn’t have to care about us if we care about each other.

"or as some are calling her, "Lady G" "

"NSF plans to claw back around US$500 million that has already been distributed to grant-making divisions. That money would be withdrawn from three of the NSF’s eight main areas, or directorates: engineering; computer and information science and engineering; and mathematical and physical science."

real

Does that make the Ballroom his Yoon cave

Hey, New Yorkers: Mayor Mamdani is recreating the city's digital service, after Mayor Adams destroyed it. They're hiring devs, designers, and product folks to work on-site in Brooklyn, starting now. You don't even have to be a city resident. Get on it!