Still thinking about this article. It’s always been a sore spot in YIMBY circles that so many progressive foundations pour money into NIMBYism, and I’m glad it’s finally being aired in public. Keep talking about it. www.insidephilanthropy.com/home/philant...

As a civil (and not religious) holiday, Thanksgiving opens the door to a lot of new Americans to be able to participate in a broader America in their own way. No other public holiday comes close to the assimilating force of Thanksgiving

People are getting mad here, but most journalists actually like RFK because they agree with his positions on eugenics and covid lockdowns, and will never forgive Biden for ending the Afghan war. Not explicitly a sex thing most of the time.

What happens when you pick an American Pope: he builds an entire international trip around a Thanksgiving Turkey pun

Friends of the Earth 1979. Note that the very existence of big utilities is bad. The ideal is energy efficiency + decentralized renewables but coal is preferred to zero-emissions hydro and nuclear because the target here is industrial-scale enterprises not pollution.

oh is he doing another can't-appear-in-public treatment

I was right

You don't hate journalists enough.

oh they definitely hadn't notified families yet

D.C. POLICE DEPARTMENT SAYS SUSPECT IN CUSTODY

I think this is an underrated source of the extent to which Bluesky is in a false consensus about public AI hatred. If you are a power user on a microblogging site you are basically by definition not going to see the "take the effort out of reading and writing" machine as being useful

this is what you get when you tolerate the idea for decades that what was bad about the Nazis was that they were "intolerant of different people" or that they sought to expand or dominate and that was their main issue *they were antisemites. they hated, specifically, Jews.*

scorn was an effective weapon for the monkey jpeg NFT shit because it was effectively a status good, generative AI is a tool that millions get utility out of daily and you can't sneer your way out of that.

your whole political project is built on the foundation of a high trust society and also your political praxis is "steal everything from everyone all the time" what's up with that

it's normatively bad in many ways and also clearly useful for millions of people. it can run on a laptop, thinking that it's going away is cope. gotta engage with the world at it is.

while many people experience the expectation of gender performance as a straitjacket many people enthusiastically and sincerely love performing their gender as they understand it. same people sometimes, even.

Yep, it's very real. People who don't realize I'm Jewish have said all kinds of bizarre things to me. One recently "confided" in me his theory that the Jews killed JFK to prevent him from stopping the building of the Dimona nuclear program in Israel.

the most important attribute for the Fed Chair, more important even than good judgement, is credibility

watching people like Charles Murray be (correctly!) horrified by the rise of people like Nick Fuentes is sort of bleakly funny. uh oh! maybe those hysterical libs had a point Chuck! maybe there was something there to worry about!

19 ex-members and bringing both your girlfriend and your dog on tour are all pretty flashing red warning signs, tbh

"By 2025, Brexit had reduced UK GDP by 6% to 8%, with the impact accumulating gradually over time. We estimate that investment was reduced by between 12% and 18%, employment by 3% to 4% and productivity by 3% to 4%" Read the Stanford report: siepr.stanford.edu/publications...

It's 2025, nearly 2026, the era of "make up odious accusation about person you disagree with for unrelated reasons" doesn't work anymore and it's time to stop. In fact it never really worked, it just pissed off people who hadn't been enemies at all (while you're stranded by actual enemies).

there's an old stereotype of china as outcompeting america because of masses of cheap labor. but as michael pettis puts it, contemporary chinese firms don't act as if labor is free. they act as if capital is free

basically American agriculture massively dwarfs everything else in water usage. it's like 80-90 percent of all usage.

gonna have to do ag reform if you want to fix the water. sorry. they’re the problem.

for instance, GPT-3 took 700,000 liters of water to train. That sounds like a lot! It is roughly the amount of water used to raise the amount of beef that *two* Americans eat in a year.

a lot of falsehoods are getting repeated about b) by people who rightly believe a), and it doesn't help credibility.

the left nimby crashout bc Zohran actually wants to build more housing is genuinely so funny

Is the problem the economic "messaging" or the economic "outcomes"

This should have been an instructive moment in people’s understanding of just how much people are willing to pay economically for racism and xenophobia.

Archetypal example is “capitalism ground me down so I quit my job and set up a small business so that I’m my own boss”. You didn’t dislike capitalism! You disliked authority!

In the alternative universe, America in the early 1980s (disastrous 1970s, back to back recessions, high inflation, Iran's hostage crisis, crime, drugs, HIV epidemic starting up, freshly elected president who ran against the system) was doing well

Much like most of the press, the wrecker left thought re-electing Trump would make them relevant like they were 2017-2019, & it's gone just as well for them as it did for the press.

There is a really bad habit on the left of middle class people trying to dress their concerns up as the views of the impoverished and down trodden, and this basically formalizes it

also not only CAN you build your way out of climate change, it's the only way out, and not building our way out of climate change dooms hundreds of millions to misery and displacement.

Trump’s Tariff War Is Leaving Ohio Farmers in the Red and China in Driver’s Seat

In other words they are not arguing that the hardship of the epidemic pushed people to the GOP for mystical reasons of out of abstract despair, opioid addiction drove voter demand for touch on crime policies that Republicans were offering.

This is a very cool paper with a clever identification strategy to test the causal impact of the opioid epidemic on various political outcomes. A key point that’s not in the abstract —causal mechanism is voters agreed with GOP tough on crime rhetoric and policy.

This chart (which applies even more to social media than it did to TV) lives in my head rent free. Social media enveloping traditional media means everything and everyone is now competing in the entertainment market. Boring stuff like policy that affects millions of lives doesn’t stand a chance.

People have been massively underrating how India/Pakistan tensions are warping discourse online

can’t really overemphasize how much the constituency for this does not exist

yep, it genuinely is racist to implicitly assume that Chinese people or Indians or some indigenous group are incapable of rigorous, reproducible science! Like it unironically is the soft bigotry of low expectations.

“Culver City becomes first California city to allow six-story apartment buildings with just one staircase, a move to ease housing construction and affordability. Single staircases reclaim 7% of space for actual homes while creating wider units with better light—and fitting on smaller urban parcels.”

me: what a nice day anti-solar nimbys: STOP EXTRACTING FROM THE SKY, CAPITALIST!

because it reinforces blaming *HR* - overwhelmingly female - over higher management or other policies.

Another perspective on the foreign policy chaos that may end up selling out Ukraine. 👇

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Its interesting that no one really talks about the fact they also took down the existing extremely good team that looked for cost improvements

If you got your mortgage anytime except the last 22 months, this effect will be totally swamped by changes in the interest rate environment.