Damn. They actually did a Sicario from the movie Sicario

So fmr Honduran President Hernandez voluntarily surrendered, and was duly extradited, tried and convicted for drug trafficking, and Trump pardoned him 6w ago. And this morning, Trump illegally attacks Venezuela and abducts its president and his wife purportedly to try them for drug trafficking.

The media wants the war and likes Trump and so will not report on this war as if it is unpopular, despite overwhelming polling showing that it is. Covering things as if they are unpopular is for things they want to stop and they want the war and want it to succeed.

Furious all over again at the credulous Gen Z rubes who insisted Harris would get them killed in conflict.

1995 Sandra Bullock… 1st ballot risk it all hall of famer

Greta Thunberg was not the only Flotilla prisoner abused, which should come as a surprise to no one

Trump gutting FEMA means we have de-jure (vs de-facto) unmanaged retreat. Florida's collapsing insurance market is just the start of the national write-down of coastal property.

It's either medicare for all, or medicare for none. As I used to tell my boomer colleagues: The existence of the national debt means that you in fact, did not pay "your taxes" for "your social security".

Heartwarming: The existence of the US Navy, at long last, is coming to an end.

Manufacturing employment is way down in the past year, construction employment slowed and is likely being buoyed almost exclusively by data centers, but please say more about how non-white people are ruining the workplace.

Zohran Mamdani is not a nerd. He is a charistmatic rapper turned politician.

“Mr. President, here it is. This is even better than bleach was for Covid. It’s called ‘Coumadin’ and it’ll really thin out your blood nicely. No thick, clotty blood pumping through your heart or brain anymore, nosiree. There you go, sir, don’t pussy out, take as much as you want.”

I stumbled across this first-hand account of a nuclear test at the Nevada Test Site from 1957 and couldn’t stop reading it. So I put it up on DOOMSDAY MACHINES. Something to ring in the New Year with, perhaps… doomsdaymachines.net/p/zero-time-...

oh, we are from the pedophile party. just asking if we can come in and look at the children.

Trump has lost weight recently and I thought it was because he was on a GLP-1. But if he’s eating like this and losing weight something else is going on. This is my New Years message of hope.

Happy new years eveyone!

can some AI company scan this shit and ingest it? Seems like a cheap way to get some unique non public data into a useful form… @segyges.bsky.social

lmao

I recall a proposed voter ID bill where the only practically acceptable ID would have been a passport. Like yeah man I dare you

Thinking about those months of dialogue on whether or not it was against the rules to mention white supremacy. Remember that?

make the IRS woke ICE

Not really sure you can recover as a country with this out in the open corruption. Usually this stuff happens in countries that don't have functioning elections or a tradition of law and order. But the electorate is basically checked out on millionaires and billionaires committing robbing them.

drives me insane that education, the slow process of producing a society, has to change radically every year or two in response to trends and rhetoric

The mayor of Baltimore made investment in community violence intervention combined with effective law enforcement. The reduction in violence is the result of hard work by many people, in agencies and communities.

I wrote about apartments. I don’t think we’re building good ones open.substack.com/pub/ericerin...

The answer is that in a developed economy instead of 1 or 2 happening you will get financial repression, where you earn 0% in a bank account but your mortgage is still 8%, and the government pockets the spread by forcing banks to hold tons of treasuries.

MMT limits inflation by 1) cutting spending (lol) 2) raising taxes (lmao) 3) not spend in capacity constrained areas (roflmao) 4) monetary policy 4) job guarantee (??? we’re at full employment) MMT is an interesting idea for the economic problems of 15 years ago - but not the current ones

See also school busses

Self driving cars now please!

Get in losers we’re doing MMT but dumber

“Rewrite it in rust” by legislative mandate is going to happen after we see the first destructive cyberwar attacks. Formal methods will be required not long after that. LLMs will help - but it’s going to be painful as hell for the industry to get there.

One of the forgotten scandals of Trump I is that his AG Jeff Sessions, blocked the National Academy of Sciences from writing a report on this stuff

Ironically, this will hurt marginally attached Trump voters more than angry and educated turbo-libs

Seems to me if voting didn’t matter the people who benefit most from the destruction of democracy wouldn’t be trying so hard to demolish democracy

Xi and the PLA brass like "well the 2027 thing was made up by American think tankers and we originally had a much more long term and complex plan, but...

similarly, understanding Real Analysis places you on the spectrum to the point where your brainworms are so strong you no longer understand what is real

look at me, I’m John Harbaugh. My team can still win our division and make the playoffs.

I hear they are paying farmers not to farm…

Remember, reduction in murder rate was never the goal for media attention. If it was, we would have seen Brandon Scott and Wes Moore on the cover of every magazine across the country, on every morning show.

Remember this. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/29/m...

A tempting thesis but consider the counterfactual: SV bank goes bankrupt. The SV bubble takes a huge hit and medium sized banks collapse. End result: more rich assholes side with Trump.

I remain convinced that via constrained optimization this is a technically solvable problem

Drop the Anal. Just ProLapse. It’s cleaner.

Because she reported the truth.

If you do know and feel confident, you want to use this window to knife your rivals in the back while people are still distracted not coincidentally: JD is letting Rubio be the face of the Caribbean, while trying to consolidate support from the Charlie Kirk/Candace Owens crowd

If solar continues to plunge in price, and the “stranded oil asset” investment thesis plays out before 2028 (30% chance??) this will cause an economic crisis like the “rust belt” - it will lead to some VERY nasty politics

Bill Barr seems like a good fall guy… Maybe he’ll trade up?