>young, telegenic veteran >affiliated with Bernie Sanders >says they regret past homophobic comments >running against the establishment anyone know what Tulsi Gabbard is up to these days?

I did! A good paper, but an even more essential one is Gambetta/Origgi on Italian academia and the preference for low-quality work. Literally everybody I know who has read this and has experience in China has remarked on how useful it is. diegogambetta.org/wp-content/u...

Frankly I’m starting to think we need Pigouvian taxes on video games due to the negative externality of Gamers

Slavery analogy aside, the idea of a progressive tax code is that more tax burden falls on those with the means to pay it. A family with children has less disposable income than a single person with the same income and should be taxed at a lower rate.

“LLMs can’t replace humans because they just regurgitate things they’ve stolen with no critical thought. Also every query uses a gallon of water.”

Driving my stretch Hummer guilt-free because it’s Shell’s fault for selling me the gas.

Thank you Mr President

April Fool’s

Thank you Mr President

JD Vance inspires me to eat healthy and work out because I want to live long enough to piss on his grave.

I think it’s less that US debt is seen as riskier (default) as there is a strong desire to diversify away from exposure to the US economy and the dollar.

This is an excellent piece that I believe I can summarize below.

For no particular reason, reminder that the declassified CIA setlist of music played over loudspeaker at Noriega's mansion includes Never Gonna Give You Up, and the fact this was just two years after the song started in the US means Noriega is one of the first people to be rickrolled unwillingly

a thing that is a constant struggle is not letting myself get negatively polarized because some asshole on bluesky or twitter has a large following of tens of thousands of people saying something stupid — tens of thousands of people is still a rounding error compared to the population

This doesn’t even account for all the people who are being allowed to pursue their various pet projects unsupervised. Like the Middle East hawks are still trying to start a war with Iran and no one is in charge to say no.

Kevin Hassett is right. Dow 36k is totally possible.

ChatGPT ass presidency

I want off Mr Trump’s wild ride