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Zach Liscow
3 months ago
I had a great time talking with Santi Ruiz
@ifp.bsky.social
about how to reduce infrastructure costs. Here's the podcast.
www.statecraft.pub/p/what-is-am...
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What is Americaās Infrastructure Cost Problem?
āI'm part of the problemā
https://www.statecraft.pub/p/what-is-americas-infrastructure-cost
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Bobby Fijan
2 months ago
A lot of the credit goes to Santi Ruiz for being really well prepared and asking great questions ⦠but this is probably the best market wide and historical conversation Iāve had on apartments. And how it affects āapartments for familiesā
open.spotify.com/episode/63C6...
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Why We Don't Build Apartments for Families
https://open.spotify.com/episode/63C6gHk26Yp9KXCqwLBHAH?si=UYkD66MFSeeNRVt-Iq0HDg
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Development econ legend Dean Karlan, on DOGE, RCTs, and how to fix foreign aid.
www.statecraft.pub/p/how-to-fix...
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How to Fix Foreign Aid
USAID's former Chief Economist reflects on DOGE
https://www.statecraft.pub/p/how-to-fix-foreign-aid
5 months ago
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Amtrak says it'd cost more than $100 billion to build high-speed rail on the Northeast Corridor.
@alonlevy.bsky.social
says Amtrak's wrong. New Statecraft on why.
www.statecraft.pub/p/how-cheapl...
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How Cheaply Could We Build High-Speed Rail?
āAmtrak and the commuter rail agencies have a mutually abusive relationshipā
https://www.statecraft.pub/p/how-cheaply-could-we-build-high-speed
5 months ago
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Theo in Arlington
7 months ago
Map showing every general-purpose local government in the US. "The most eye-catching thing about this map is that the Northeast and Midwest are administered very differently from the South and West". More insights at source:
fakeisthenewreal.org/local/
. h/t
@salimfurth.bsky.social
from LinkedIn.
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Steven Lucy
7 months ago
Apparently before the St. Lawrence Seaway opened when they wanted to get large ships into the Great Lakes they just brought them up the Mississippi and shoved them through the Chicago River
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Statecraft crossover event:
@kyla.bsky.social
and I talk DOGE, Direct File, and deficits with the former #2 at Treasury, Wally Adeyemo.
www.statecraft.pub/p/how-to-run...
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How to Run the Treasury Department
Kyla Scanlon & I talk Direct File, Democrats, and debt with Wally Adeyemo
https://www.statecraft.pub/p/how-to-run-the-treasury-department
7 months ago
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Blair Lorenzo / The Fox and the City
7 months ago
Really great interview and deep dive into transit financing and the politics of the MBTA Green Line Extension (as well as the Big Dig). There's a lot to talk about here on costs, planning, etc about how things turned out. But this is a very good discussion about how things actually played out.
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Stephanie Pollack@
7 months ago
We need to talk more about how government can do better at delivering what people want and need, including infrastructure. Santi Ruiz and I talked about this in his recently-posted Statecraft podcast on rescuing the troubled Green Line extension from cancellation.
www.statecraft.pub/p/how-to-sal...
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How to Salvage a Transit Project
"When you give yourself too much rope, you hang yourself"
https://www.statecraft.pub/p/how-to-salvage-a-transit-project
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In most states and counties, different "human services" systems aren't synced up. You can't easily cross-reference CPS calls with substance abuse databases, for instance. In Allegheny County, you can. Here are the results.
www.statecraft.pub/p/how-to-fix...
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How to Fix Risk Assessment in Child Welfare
"If we took an index card and wrote down everything we know works well, we'd have a lot of white space left"
https://www.statecraft.pub/p/how-to-fix-risk-assessment-in-child
8 months ago
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Alec Stapp
8 months ago
šØ We're hiring! Join
@ifp.bsky.social
ās metascience team to rethink how science gets funded and organized. Fellow & Senior Fellow roles open ā $3K referral bonus if we hire your recommendation. Apply by May 11:
ifp.org/come-work-wi...
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Come Work with IFP | IFP
IFP is currently hiring ā join the team!
https://ifp.org/come-work-with-ifp/
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I went on
@ezrakleinbot.bsky.social
ās show to talk DOGE
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/25/o...
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Opinion | What Is DOGEās Real Goal?
Santi Ruiz, a senior editor at the Institute for Progress, examines what DOGE has been trying to accomplish in its first few months.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/25/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-santi-ruiz.html
9 months ago
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Before EcoHealth Alliance got NIH money to do gain-of-function research in Wuhan, it pitched the project to DARPA. Today's interviewee reviewed that pitch. New Statecraft on risky research, Ebola, and why the CDC is not a response organization.
www.statecraft.pub/p/how-to-bui...
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How to Build a Flying Ebola Hospital
DARPA maverick Eric Van Gieson on Ebola, the Ecohealth grant proposal, and the CDC
https://www.statecraft.pub/p/how-to-build-a-flying-ebola-hospital
about 1 year ago
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So far my impression of the culture on here is that it incorporates all the most annoying features of 2019 Twitter with none of its strengths relative to 2024 X.
add a skeleton here at some point
about 1 year ago
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Iām in The Free Press this AM, outlining how the next administration can make the federal government more effective and efficient.
www.thefp.com/p/the-five-t...
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The Five Things President Trump Should Do on Day One
Hire the right bureaucrats, set clear, ambitious goals, and experiment, experiment, experiment.
https://www.thefp.com/p/the-five-things-president-trump-should-do
about 1 year ago
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brendan
over 2 years ago
cool piece from
@regressstudies.substack.com
https://regressstudies.substack.com/p/why-writing-needs-speaking
into the idea of talking as ~ first draft tool! also the concept of "intonation units"ā¦could be a useful step in the drafting process, like songwriting techniques applied to prose
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real?
over 2 years ago
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that scene from TĆ”r where she corrects her wife on the BPM in that Duke Ellington song but itās me correcting Nicole on move order in the Tarrasch Swedish Variation
over 2 years ago
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Max
over 2 years ago
mm u have a very nice umwelt āŗļø
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angie fan
over 2 years ago
thinking about how inane those silicon valley dating dossiers were. none included crucial partner evaluation criteria such as: do u love/hate ur parents? why did ur exes break up w u? how much of a pain will u be to manage when u have alzheimers? publish the female:male author ratio on ur bookshelf?
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Kreayshawn revival
over 2 years ago
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would it be so wrong to put pasta sauce over stray pantry carbs? stale bread, chips, crackers, etc
over 2 years ago
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the day my kid catches me sneaking into the kitchen at night for one more slice of cheese itās over for household discipline
over 2 years ago
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no one at my dinner party is eating the figs
over 2 years ago
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natty bodybuilders š¤ English aristocrats high T is so important
over 2 years ago
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you guys should try posting your good stuff whenever Iām up burping the baby. could be fun for all of us
over 2 years ago
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Orpheasš¹
over 2 years ago
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We need a complete and total shutdown on GPT-aided poetry posting
over 2 years ago
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took the baby to his first Dimes function can I get a W
over 2 years ago
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thoughts on the Vince Gironda steak and eggs diet for a week? š§
over 2 years ago
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Has any discourse topic been as completely strip-mined for goodies as flight etiquette discourse? I defy you to come up with a new scissor statement on flight etiquette
over 2 years ago
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I have to stop watching Jeremy Fragrance videos for my psychic health
over 2 years ago
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alice
over 2 years ago
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disturbingly often these days I find myself saying āgive me a little more poopā to an infant
over 2 years ago
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heās going infantmode. heās babypilled. heās tinymaxxing.
over 2 years ago
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They should invent a task that makes sense to complete while holding a baby and low on sleep
over 2 years ago
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Ted
over 2 years ago
dying
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Loopy
over 2 years ago
"But you said you're nondual, no self!" "No I said: nondual? No, self!"
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This is great. āA favored tactic of the self-identified iconoclast is to argue that things that have already happened need, still, to happen.ā
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over 2 years ago
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my wife š¤ BAP bigoted against polenta
over 2 years ago
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over 2 years ago
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holding the baby so much with left arm I think it is bulking noticeably more, like an old timey tennis player
over 2 years ago
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brunella
over 2 years ago
like spreading pesto on your toast, spreading butt paste on your firstborn is an experience that transcends time
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to replace twitter, this platform will have to generate multiple posters who are like āwe need a new religion that will energize our societyā
over 2 years ago
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is it gauche to crosspost on secondary text social media platforms
over 2 years ago
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only two types of people in the world people who have administered butt paste people who have not yet administered butt paste
over 2 years ago
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John
over 2 years ago
bbbut im here for threads on how to maximize my side hustles
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gonna start posting like itās early Twitter days. meals Iām eating, āgoing for a run haha XD,ā etc
over 2 years ago
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