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If you’re on academia dot edu, let me suggest that you strongly consider deleting your account.

Now, in the broader context of my adolescent development within the socio-spatial milieu of West Philadelphia—an urban environment where my recreational energies were overwhelmingly invested in basketball, often proximate to my immediate educational facility, and where the quotidian rhythms of play

the ability of mainline US punditocracy to combine amorality and self-importance is really quite something.

Monarez is playing her weak hand perfectly, and should be a model for institutional resistance for the next four years: 1. Make them fire you 2. Don’t go along to get along 3. Don’t apologize, have confidence in your own integrity and the importance of your role 4. Always escalate the conflict

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Just an idea, but why not leave people alone and keep your busybody curtain-twitching bollocks to your own living room.

the whole thing is calvinball now, calvinball tomorrow, calvinball forever

Despite being the only white man in his 30's without a Substack, I still wanted to write something long-form about why I think the Trump administration's trade strategy is struggling to extract meaningful ransoms. Hope you find it interesting! www.explaintrade.com/resources/tr...

the U.S. political press is incapable of dealing with this moment with any seriousness.

if you're a reporter and you've convinced yourself that your job is to make the audience mad at you, you are a lone voice crying in the wilderness maybe 1 percent of the time and a smug twat serving up reheated bilge the other 99 percent.

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Personally I think that having some of the most powerful institutions in American life publicly identify themselves as supporters of LGBT equality was (and is) a good thing, and that their retreat from that is quite bad.

A bivariate bicycle path arxiv.org/abs/2506.03094

New-ish paper: Optimal and efficient two-qubit gate synthesis for heterogeneous instruction sets. arxiv.org/abs/2505.00543 (Sorry, forgot to hype this earlier) The monodromy polytope is a tool to determine elements of SU(4) reachable via a given sequence of 2-qubit gates interspersed with SU(2).

Really, like… the concept of expertise is lib coded at this point. The 2025 American conservative view of knowledge appears to be that there are instinctual polymath common sense All Things Knowers and egghead specialists who pretend to know things but can easily be surpassed by Donald, Elon, etc.

I'll just take this moment to point out that the US Institute of Peace, just a few weeks ago, contained one of the finest concentrations of US expertise on India and Pakistan, and crisis management in South Asia.

I still like my suggested solution for user verification better github.com/bluesky-soci... more granular and scalable. Feels more in the spirit of everything else atproto

Costco is a really popular subject for business-success case studies but I feel like business guys kinda lose interest when the upshot of the study is like "just operate with scrupulous integrity in all facets and levels of your business for four decades" and not some easy-to-fix gimmick

I don't understand why the judges in all the cases against DOGE's actions at various agencies don't put Musk and Kliger and everyone else under oath, demand they produce an org chart, employment agreements, etc etc. It's completely opaque and the judiciary is sleepwalking around the critical Qs.

pretty much everything that has come out about Elon Musk makes Walter Isaacson look like a really shitty biographer.

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I am again calling for the next generation of leadership to be steely-eyed puritans who hate corruption in every form.

One thing the Democrats can do (and don't seem to be doing) is coordinate on/publish a 'here is what we we will do to reverse Trump' set of proposed measures. Republicans made it clear that they would overturn JCPOA, damaging its credibility from outset. Dems should do same for the shitty stuff.

Labour's betrayal of trans people - fueled by a wider reactionary movement taking a grip on older people in the UK even on the left - is one of the most disgusting things I've seen in politics from a party that *should* be better.

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if you have ever worked in or adjacent to payments every news story about doge in treasury is basically the preamble to the Demon Core accident of finance

If you accept that non-citizens have no right to due process, you are accepting that citizens have no right to due process. All the government has to do is claim that you are not a citizen; without due process you have no chance to prove the contrary.

cannot comprehend the hubris to agree to a Chotiner interview. Just gazing at his heap of skulls saying “rip to them but im different”. Lol.

As a parliamentary systems enjoyer, I am just going to quietly point out that Truss had been ousted by now.

Wrote up something about Techdirt's recent coverage, and why (whether we like it or not) we need to be a "democracy blog" now, rather than just a "tech" blog (not that we've ever been just a tech blog). This story is *the* story and it impacts everything else. www.techdirt.com/2025/03/04/w...

1) The NYT should never have done this glib "everything is like SEC rankings" feature. Someone should have said, WTF?? 2) The NYT should not have axed its public editor. The strong people in that role would have asked WTF? 3) You definitely should read @clarajeffery.bsky.social whole strong thread

*sigh* time to break this one out again, huh

what we are seeing now is a failure resulting from literally decades of failure to fix or modernize the system but instead propping it up and patching it - partially because the US has been so absurdly wealthy that it was able to wave away problems others had to solve

The fact that the USA has banned visas for trans people but welcomed rapist Andrew Tate shows how all this "defending women" stuff is total bullshit

Btw AOC is pretty damn popular with "normie" Democrats (which I'd consider myself to be) at this point, precisely because she's so damn good at conveying a message and landing punches on the GOP! She's not just some hard left phenomenon with no base beyond the DSA at this point! (if ever)

Really good piece. Other Democrats in power need to look at what AOC is doing right now and follow her example. One of the worst and most frightening aspects of this moment is seeing how many Dems in leadership roles seem resigned to defeat.

I’d bet a lot that the Trump administration abandoning US partners in Europe to Russian menacing does not, in fact, result in stronger US efforts to support South Korea, Taiwan, and other Asia-Pacific US partners against Chinese menacing.

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Again, Trump fired SBA Inspector General Mike Ware after he found $200 billion in fraud in Trump's COVID programs and returned $40B to the US Treasury. Instead, Trump brought in a bunch of fascist boys who know nothing about accounting. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Patricia Hewitt & Philip Gould's 1993 discussion in @renewaljournal.bsky.social of the difference between the US & UK media environments ... genuinely astounding to read today, and a striking reminder of just how different the pre-Fox News era was

Washington Post refuses to run $115,000 ad titled ‘Fire Elon Musk’

if they wanted to hold Breitbart and OANN press conferences, they could do it anyway! they *want* the 'legitimate' press there.

Adams must be removed. The city cannot sustain being governed for nearly a year by a Mayor who is being coerced by Trump admin in order to escape charges. This corruption poses a real threat to the people of the city. He should have resigned a while ago, but will not. So it’s time for him to go.

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i think that Musk's primary vulnerability is that....well....."it is not the fault of the king, it is actually his nefarious advisors" is a time-honored way of deflecting blame

I would suggest blaming the people who actually voted for Trump or withheld their vote from Harris, whatever their race or religion, while not blaming the people who did not vote for Trump, even if they share a racial identity with people who did.

I may just lose my mind if I read one more MSM story where the legality/illegality of certain actions -- eg deporting US citizens to foreign prisons -- is just lazily waved around like it's some goddamned unanswerable question. www.wsj.com/world/americ...