this suburb is a machine that turns world-historical wealth into spiritual sickness

Ruiz is so funny, man. Guy absolutely addicted to the based pro-growth Trump when NatCon ideology doesn't give a fuck

lump of labor fallacy? labor slop fallacy.

broke: die hard is a Christmas movie woke: eyes wide shut Is a Christmas movie

ross douthat stared into the void long enough to become the thing he was looking at, I think is pretty fair to say

"Which is why they and their adherents have a keen interest in diffusing their class interests, their way of thinking, into the common sense throughout all strata of the tech world — even among workers" Well put and a process I've seen working itself through the tech workforce

"it is a question of soft power in economic thinking." substack.com/inbox/post/1...

found the most gender car review out there www.youtube.com/watch?v=yik2...

tooze LRB NYC lecture was by in large exactly this point

grinding my way through

why does Eli Lilly have the same logo as Leica

its insane how much more meditative and satisfying trail running is compared to road running, as well as somewhat less tough on the joints

"all my ape gone"

the older I get the more I realize I just kinda hate working and I need to come to terms with simply chopping wood and carrying water as a practice

This paper looks really good. It also brings up the issue with treating price increases as a unitary phenomena under the guise of "Inflation" as measured by CPI or some other aggregate price index. www.crisesnotes.com/are-general-...

everyone: anti woke economist du jour: "je suis jeffery epstein!!"

goodreads getting rid of DMs is sad, but not surprising

this is just the part of the iceberg which is above the surface. www.nytimes.com/2015/02/15/m...

thinking about how some dude threatened to call ICE on my mom in a grocery store parking lot for some imagined offense

Antichrist Financial LLC

suburban architecture is slop

if there's anything that doing physical work/projects has taught me over the past several years its that measuring things is an art, truly difficult

lol

witnessing this breakdown of judgment that ganz/arendt identify has been one of the most distressing things, glad it was put to words

it's just code for treats.

Based on my careful observation of consumer price trends (cases of Egly-Ouriet Les Crayères Blanc de Noir), the cumulative rate of inflation since 2019 is 200%

polycules, the face that shipped a thousand throuples.

one of the stranger, in terms of variance (visually, if not by actually speaking to strangers...i would never do such a thing), events i attended in nyc was a lecture on Musil's TMWQ. In a way that completely makes sense to me, but its hard to say exactly why.

reddit, me (30M) and my dominating humiliation fetish partner (~300yo non-human lovecraftian globalizing and coordinating semi-decentralized intelligence) are having issues: AITA?

the sf bay area has been a 40 year advertising technology darpa psychological operations special project which is now ending. thank you for your cooperation.

imagine someone saying out loud: "grok is this true?" like they would speak to siri

Shibata Zeshin, Crow on Tree 📷 The Met

Executive order to freeze rent nationwide

tweaking my resume with one last SEO/AI/bullshit optimization (changing a job title to be more legible) in an attempt to try to catch the last copter out of 'nam before the labor market completely collapses around me

refusing to learn about nuzzi because life is precious and short. id rather use that same time to order items of temu and watch short form videos.

I'm confused as to why unemployment claims are still "muted" as this article puts it. Is it data lags, composition in who is getting laid off (eg people who less likely to file for whatever reason)?

Going to start doing double workout days more often I think

Both Hyman Minsky and distressed debt investors alike think that borrowing money just to pay interest is, like, THE line between "Ponzi finance" and insolvency. That's where CoreWeave seems to be right now: www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

"...French fries, no potatoes -- I mean,..."

golden age of fraud part 1 trillion: annuities and onshore-offshore cosplay balance sheet trickery edition substack.news-items.com/p/warnings-o...

>open linkedin >search for jobs >only data annotation jobs spam >end job search for the day cool, very cool

mods, halp spilled juice, need employment, mods, mods, halp, mo-

Today I learned the EBRD has a literature prize, lol

Am I having a stroke or is the LinkedIn mobile app introducing short form video

mamdani: "what if...free buses...?" silly-con valley+manhattan institute: "kill everything that moves"

peter thiel, woody allen, and jeffery epstein walk into a bar

imo its notable that bannon is directly implicated with both epstein and brock pierce

did a job app IQ screening, quasi illegal of course, but the icing on the cake was there was a second screening that was about correct AI usage.

starting to get real tired of living in a country that has (ostensibly, at least) laws but no longer any society