i feel like people fail to realize free street parking itself is a form of subsidy for both suburbia and also carbon-intensive land-use

The purest statement is Carl Schmitt, crown jurist of the Third Reich, basically whoever invokes humanity wants to cheat. Universalist language is always a weapon, never a sincere claim. Miller restates this almost clause for clause, swapping humanity for civil liberties.

we really need to roll back the normalization of murder. however hypocritical and based on ignorance it may have been, we were much better off when the culture was scandalized by official killing than now, when we shrug it off.

it's the biggest technological revolution of our lifetimes and you almost never hear about it (because it threatens to bankrupt many of the fossil fuel interests who currently run our society)

another big W for Merrick Garland. truly he was focused on doing his job in a quick and efficient fashion

“public conversation about children and technology focuses on regulating how long children themselves spend in front of screens. Our results show that this framing is incomplete… When adults engage more with the internet…quality and quantity of…interactions with young children is likely to decline”

when you're on the other side of "better to ask forgiveness than permission", it can kind of suck.

now is the time for a typewriter renaissance. i’d say selectric, but we’d better stick with manual just to be sure there is no funny business.

fwiw, the line "it takes 1000 years to develop habits" is a reference to so-called "deep roots theory," which is the kind of nonsense theory you come up with so that you can say "deep roots" instead of "inherent racial characteristics" www.patreon.com/sjshancoxli/...

again, i really cannot emphasize enough, the united states has accepted an enormous number of immigrants over its history, and--this may come as a surprise to you--they integrated pretty successfully like there's just no there there

just amazing mental gymnastics to claim you are somehow racially more able to understand liberal democracy while arguing for fascism.

to add to this, people *genuinely* do not understand how much more wasteful *suburbia* is for the environment over urban environments. rural areas are fine too! trying to double dip is the issue!

substack converted some people who used to be interesting writers into car dealerships.

it occurs to me that once you start RLing on firm-level measures of success, things must get really tricky with alignment

A lot of America’s problems would be solved if we went into every low-population-density red state, picked a promising metro area and threw money at creating jobs and housing and neat restaurants and fun activities there

social media has made us hate social media at the same time as it’s given us sufficient perspective to be really, really aware of the shortcomings of traditional media.

Oh, one other thing - "it takes 1000 years for the habits of mind supporting democracy to develop" is pretty funny when you rewind back to 1026 and check out what was going on with all the various peoples who now populate our modern democracies

“Even if the AI companies themselves are not…profitable, AI-related investment spending is probably an important factor in raising aggregate profits… the California gold rush generated plenty of profits for somebody, even if the vast majority of prospectors…went broke.” @jwmason.bsky.social

THE CRISIS BEHIND THE HOUSING CRISIS In today's NYT piece, I wrote about how the housing fight is both about housing *and* retirement. We made the house do two jobs at once, and it's pitting the old against the young. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/14/o...

one way to understand contemporary politics is we are collectively playing an ultimatum game, capital has made its proposal and this is what it looks like when the rest of society struggles to say no.

in orthodox economics, the value of firms is entirely derivative of the value of consumption by final purchasers. providers of intermediate "capital" goods are valuable because they contribute to production of consumables. with that in mind…. fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=1X3BM

my nuanced probing of the median voter’s thoughtful positions versus your despicable trickery of the barely literate ape-citizen

the thing about the past is though it was not then, it is now, a safe place.

two things can simultaneously be true: (1) contemporary AI is real and revolutionary technology; and (2) we are courting the greatest financial crisis in the history of humankind.

who knew piracy could be this lame?

a tell as to what is happeneing with this genre is that mainstream publications never ever publish the opposite: "a democrat tells republicans how they must adopt left-wing policies if they want to win elections"

Future utilitarians living in a solar punk utopia having anguished debates about the credit owed to President Trump for supercharging green transition.

kind of wild to remember that US climate policy on the right has basically accelerated in reverse from this moment in 2010

“Over one-third of the corporate money spent on this year’s elections so far has come from the crypto industry” ~MattSledge theintercept.com/2026/07/13/g... ht @doctorvive.bsky.social @riogranderift.bsky.social

q: so we pay you a reasonable fee and in return we are assured safe passage through the Strait? a: you rube. you absolute imbecile

it’s important to distinguish success from sociopathy.

ngl "basically all of human sapience was hiding in our language this entire time" is a shocking revelation tbh

Some problems are difficult because they're technically difficult, some problems are difficult because you don't like the answer.

the scale of the collective bet that this time it’s different.

the mclaughlin group was far more corrosive to the American polity than anything like heavy metal or gangsta rap lyrics that those guys liked to complain about

that you earn a living some way doesn’t imply that you believe people ought to earn livings that way. nothing about real life guarantees any of us have what we ourselves would consider to be ethically awesome choices. we face complicated tradeoffs between ethics and affluence.

Must have been fun to be the FT headline writer for a quantum story. Super position.

the culture has coarsened, but it wasn’t video games or sex scenes wot done it.

I don’t have strong opinions about banning teens from social media except that I think social media is very nearly as bad for adults as it is for teens.

modern-day midas.

Social Democracy FTW.

This is what passes for NPR discussion on higher education: does anyone have a better idea to lower costs than to cut funding and shut down whole programs? “Nope.” Haha It is literally within living memory that public universities were free of charge and fully funded by state

Often we claim presidencies have very little influence over the economy, but under a more AI-cautious second Biden administration (not necessarily a more tech-friendly Harris administration), I suspect we would have a very profoundly different economy.

"Uber runs a kind of cod-Marxist operation where workers are paid according to their desperation, and passengers are gouged according to their ability to pay" @doctorow.pluralistic.net pluralistic.net/2026/07/11/y...

🎵 From San Diego up to Maine But most of all on Capitol Hill Wherever rights are being lost McConnell's voting still! 🎵 bsky.app/profile/inte...

I spoke to Joe Hill last night for twenty minutes.

the correctly worded polls are the ones where the public comes out agreeing with my positions. all the others are distorted by omitted or manipulative context.

Rufo's great insight is that much of our media, even the media he attacked, was unable to convey his hypocrisies, and defaulted to treating him a serious thinker, helping him build a brand where he now charges 50-100K to give a talk. The hypocrisies were more valuable than integrity.

just like they did when they stole TikTok, they're going to use xenophobia and a fake concern for national security to undermine on-device open source AI alternatives to protect the biggest companies' expensive walled garden AI empires

Yeah, I've noted it as remarkable that we seem to think it was legitimate, all of a sudden, to start killing civilian leaders of our enemies. That opens up a can of worms we probably don't want.