could not find this among the ocean of DESTROYS video slop, anyone recall?

Ben Shapiro interviewed a woman on his podcast, probably a Fox News pundit or something, and she literally said out loud that one reason to fight transgenderism is because it undermines and traditional nuclear family. It was a good few years ago. I also recall her being blonde. Anyone remember?

Imagine knowing your political leader is mentally unstable, dangerous, and corrupt and refusing to admit it or do anything about it. Now meet all GOP representatives and senators.

"For example, I have not written any statistical programming code in many months and I don’t see why I would ever write any such code ever again." mattbruenig.com/2026/01/19/s...

DOGE was a deliberately inflicted disaster donmoynihan.substack.com/p/a-year-on-...

Gabriel Zucman on the shocking concentration of extreme wealth in the United States…. gzucman.substack.com?r=nle0&utm_c...

if i could make you read ONE (1) single post to improve your understanding of the challenges of social science in general it would be this one from @markfabian.bsky.social about wellbeing science specifically profmarkfabian.substack.com/p/airing-my-...

pretty sure he meant the other thing, grok, but very cool that those are your two things

I realise I'm just a freak, but living in a multicultural city is the best thing of all time, it's just the best possible human experience and i can not understand why anyone on earth would be like "weve got to destroy this"

NEW VIDEO: Everything Was Already AI youtu.be/Km2bn0HvUwg

Reading Friedrich Bastiat on pollution in the 19th Century just convinced me that reactionaries have been imagining a guy being mean to them and letting it change their politics since forever www.econlib.org/library/Bast...

This essay might be a tad unfair to Graeber. But it makes a valid point. dissentmagazine.org/article/the-...

This post by @newqueuelure.bsky.social on the credibility revolution in economics reminds me of the 'intuitition dance' economists do, both with theory and empirics informationtransfereconomics.blogspot.com/2022/09/is-c...

"what's possible within the system", versus "the wider environment in which the system is embedded" backofmind.substack.com/p/was-the-gr...

I was 20 when HS2 was announced. Great to know i’ll probably be in my late 60s when the Birmingham-Manchester section starts work let alone finishes. Seems like a country doing things the right way!

I'm honestly starting to feel bad about my critiques of Sowell

Interesting video from @unlearnecon.bsky.social & makes you re-evaluate AI in the context of other learning systems like firms & government. We did get through the Ant Man film & it was truly awful. Check out our podcast on Herbert Simon who features here. #EconSky podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/s...

NEW VIDEO: Everything Was Already AI youtu.be/Km2bn0HvUwg

Sweet video on housing coops! www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6Q4...

Leftists often misunderstand the right, this is something I've been thinking about a lot recently and @mattpolprof.bsky.social has nailed it www.currentaffairs.org/news/why-fas...

The worst thing is that you can hear how horny he is bsky.app/profile/zack...

2027: US invades UK. PM calls it 'an admirable takeover which should be celebrated for its boldness'.

Whatever you might think of Maduro, the seizure and kidnapping of a head of state takes us to a very dark place. Vast, arbitrary, extra-legal power, which could be exercised almost anywhere, regardless of the character of the target government.

podcasts

My New Year's Resolution is to listen to fewer podcasts bsky.app/profile/drma...

Watching Stranger Things, it struck me that contemporary programs could be improved a lot simply by cutting about a third of the dialogue out

This is the best type of article: reads vaguely like an Onion headline, but actually gives you a new insight into a big problem (cars) www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

*someone fails to unmute themselves before speaking* Me: haha, what an idiot. A fool - so easy to avoid such a simple blunder *I fail to unmute myself before speaking* Me: oh it’s just me, I’m just a lil guy. So easily done guys, lolz

too many people cannot understand the difference between general skepticism + specific critiques of economic data; versus blanket rejection of them, usually from a position of complete ignorance bsky.app/profile/opin...

Here's a pretty incomplete list of YouTube channels owned or funded by private equity.

Damn, that’s some cynical manoeuvring from Starmer and co. archive.md/yR4Cp

Cars are another area where failure to invest publicly costs us down the line: road repairs, traffic, accidents, pollution, and state-subsidised car trips theconversation.com/how-the-uks-...

Things are increasingly homogeneous and boring: www.experimental-history.com/p/the-declin...

I was disappointed with several elements of The @economist.com recent articles on minimum wages. To their credit, they've published my response. Here are some links to the research I reference and to some other research which had to be cut from the published letter 1/N

Theres plenty of competition, but Douglas Murray is in the running for ‘most insufferable modern charlatan ’ www.currentaffairs.org/news/douglas...

I didn’t watch the 2022 World Cup and I’m not gonna watch the 2026 one either

Fantastic news! Kerala continues to set the pace for how to approach extreme poverty www.brookings.edu/articles/how...

Part of me absolutely loves this list. Like fuck it, Quentin. Just pick the most basic ass man films of all time. Hell yeah. bsky.app/profile/andr...

I'm kind of shocked by the idea that anyone mentioned here thinks that any of these statements provides meaningful/useful information comparable to the atomic structure of matter

When you get down to it, most mainstream economists are fundamentally pro-market, pro-growth, and individualistic in their outlooks www.ft.com/content/e196...

Anyone remember when the director of High Speed 1, Paul Charles, wrote a letter to the editor about High Speed 2 and how they'd gone wrong with the contracting process?

Rebecca Watson is the GOAT www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNLd...

I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture. They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1

Great piece by @superwuster.bsky.social on how the UK became a digital colony of the US by believing the "dream of the 1990s" and "the logic of free trade and globalisation" h/t @unlearnecon.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n...

Follow @nojusticemtg.bsky.social (and me!) bsky.app/profile/ryan...

One thing that’s become blindingly obvious over the past year is that the right have no ideas whatsoever. All of the recent solid ideas have come from the left (and let’s say a few from the centre). This is why the right just can’t deliver on anything once in office and end up floundering.

The main thing I've learned from starting a book club is that most contemporary books are kind of bad once you dissect them

This is the stupidest thing I’ve read in a good while

The main thing I’ve learned from my trip to Amsterdam is how similar the UK and Netherlands are. Both culturally reserved, a bit rainy, enjoy bland food, both early cradles of capitalism, and both wrestling with similar economic issues today - austerity, immigration, and wealth inequality.