if I can't get a job I think I will actually just apply to econ history phds and pick up welding. sigma grindset shit, you wouldn't get it

Doing a land acknowledgement of the Microsoft Azure Australia South-East Data Centre hosting this Microsoft Teams meeting.

and the cycle of entrepreneur to rentier is complete!

this is wild, and a beautiful (simple!) website to boot

got into the dodos via a longboarding YouTube video back in the 2010s. Amazing album. Flippant, fun, and serious too.

chat is it good if the labor market is flatlining?

To everyone out there disaffected and confused by systems of bureaucratic rationality: we see you. We care. And so we're expanding our regulatory reform program of reducing administrative burdens to also reduce spiritual burdens. The program will continue to operate by bureaucratic rationality.

average machine politics headline

did you ever doubt the plan, anon?

autumn weeks whoosh by like leaves falling from my mouth dead words float downstream

blueberried and 5pm coffee

mike brodie's work just hits different.

they feed us poison (NIMBYISM) so we buy their 'cures' (zoning reform) while they suppress our medicine (universal basic FEMA camps)

through the cutting wind a blur of autumn, scheming with your obscurity

scrolling be like

watching tonight

might get into welding, this whole learn 2 code thing isnt really working out anymore

announcing my new role as president, board member, ceo, and lead researcher @ Center for Median Voter Studies

One of my favorite bubble cons of all time is this guy, from the sovereign bond bubble en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregor_...

"we just need to reform NEPA"

Has anyone written about pandemic over hiring as a narrative or as a decision making process. Like, why did that happen exactly agaib

bleak, very very bleak stuff.

i talk about ICE and people kinda nod like I'm talking about some shit I saw on CSPAN

our grand strategy? to stop china from producing primo tier slop by whatever means necessary

tax evasion chic

i already use signal quite a bit but part of me wants to use it even more somehow, like to replace discord or something

i keep saying someone needs to write: how to blow up a data center (verso 2026)

i had a conversation about new grad unemployment rates with the really chill friendly new grad working at the burger shop cause thats the only work he could get. the job market is becoming a topic of everyday conversation for me. feel extremely bad for the new grads, i think they are just cooked.

Le Wokisme was wrought upon us by the *reads notes* mexican agricultural worker professional managerial class

along streets and walls golden leaves paper over change under heaven

trump take 'abundance'

verily, through it all, the median voter stays winning

correct

a vulgar analogy to be sure, but its shocking how we're basically just doing the soviet collapse elite land/asset/industry grab but more transparent and perhaps just as shameless.

anyone know if household debt service to disposable income is easily available by income decile or similar?

is there any kind of precedent for this sort of thing? on.ft.com/4nAsa2B

pretty cool that because we sloppified the labor market i have one shot on goal this week (and only bc i had extremely lucky referral of person who would be my manager) and if i dont get this, so far, it looks like thats it, im cooked.

I was saying to someone else: Trump's ego and who he talked to last are great predictors of some things like the tomahawks, without exaggerating. But with these things it's a deeper layer of decision making or institutional inertia I guess. Basically: no one's at the wheel

the pain of being even just semi literate (as I am) is the pain of every day, knowing just how limited even that degree is - how expansive the resolution of the world is in every scope and direction and that you will never, never know enough. and then the clock ticks again.

bought The Soviet Century [hard to resist with a book design like this] and some Lorca poems today (i am unemployed and am ringing up my CC like a degenerate gambler, hoping for liquidity to bail me out)

we do a little hobson, as a bit

i wonder to what extent china's production of solar and electric build out was parts developmental, parts strategic (they dont have massive domestic oil reserves from what i understand), and part climatic

beautiful typesetting is really such a subtle kind of beauty

many autumns passed yet the cat scratches remain on the wood bookcase

woke capital, save us [gift link] on.ft.com/4hilWCH

i am already pining for a cosmopolitanism that is fading

pray for me, trying to get on what might be one of the last choppers of out saigon ("the labor 'market'") before it all goes to absolute shit.