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Swedish Made Prius Enlarger @ersatzverite.bsky.social · 22h

These fuckers are the biggest bunch of losers. If my closest friends/allies posted some shit like this, I'd be like "Ew, David."

Nick (derogatory) ✨ @slothropsmap.bsky.social · 23h

It is a scandal totally unprecedented in history that the Vice President has shared a video depicting the President as king. It’s an obscene violation of every founding American principle.

And nothing will come of it. It makes me physically sick.

Swedish Made Prius Enlarger @ersatzverite.bsky.social · 22h

Just silently admit you are better than everyone else, while acknowledging that everyone else feels the same way. Advocate on something ppl care about beyond pretending ppl are driven by the question "how can I be more like the person condescending to me."

Rafe Meager (they/them) @economeager.bsky.social · 23h

"we can win by showing people we are better, more tolerant, more kind and more compassionate than others" great! moral condescension! people love that.

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Swedish Made Prius Enlarger @ersatzverite.bsky.social · 22h

Ugh. My friend gave me an old anti-fed shirt as a lark with AG picture on it. I was debating my opinion on him. I don't think I've developed a strong enough opinion outside Volker and Powell.

Swedish Made Prius Enlarger @ersatzverite.bsky.social · 1d

What is really strange is that this seems to be more of a left thing than a right thing. There is a weird "we are all pigs, let's roll around in the mud" aspect to right politics that is either an awful coalition or a left-wing delusion.

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Swedish Made Prius Enlarger @ersatzverite.bsky.social · 1d

What is really strange is that this seems to be more of a left thing than a right thing. There is a weird "we are all pigs, let's roll around in the mud" aspect to right politics that is either an awful coalition or a left-wing delusion.

Swedish Made Prius Enlarger @ersatzverite.bsky.social · 1d

You care about what the in-group thinks, you think the out-group are fools or idiots. As a a result you care about the in-groups dumbass opinions more than the out-groups totally idiotic opinions are.

lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 1d

I agree with whoever said a rather under-appreciated dynamic is the extent to which Professional Politics Opinion Havers flat out just find the left interpersonally irritating in a way they do not find the right so, and I think a lot of the talk of a vibe shift was wish-casting their irritants away.

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Swedish Made Prius Enlarger @ersatzverite.bsky.social · 1d

From an AI tracking ppl's internet use habits, they know that we like, being angry about other ppl doing shit, looking for goods and services, or porn -- and apparently they are going to start feeding us 2 or all 3 at once in weird ways.

Romeo Dandy, #1 Monster Mash Stan @sleepydawgs.bsky.social · 2d

I got a third one so I recorded it this time.

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Swedish Made Prius Enlarger @ersatzverite.bsky.social · 4d

Shit, I should have definitely eaten this when I lived in the mid-atlantic.

Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social · 4d

Scrapple is great but it's entry level. People need to come to Frederick County and try old style puddin'-and-hominy. /2

Puddin’-and-hominy

My favorite local food from this part of Maryland and adjacent Pennsylvania is puddin’-and-hominy. Puddin’ consists of cooked-down meat scraps that is a lot like scrapple without the gr…

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Swedish Made Prius Enlarger @ersatzverite.bsky.social · 5d

I don't know if this is causal, but it looks like the move from "short-term, balloon mortgage" to "30-year mortgage" has reduced the amount of home ownership. Although ceasing to build things and longer lifespans may be larger causes.

Ryan Radia @ryanradia.com · 5d

Homeownership rate by decade of birth by current age (United States)
www.datawrapper.de/_/27AUY/

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Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias.bsky.social · 5d

Progressive prosecutors seem fine.

www.nber.org/system/files...

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Swedish Made Prius Enlarger @ersatzverite.bsky.social · 6d

I'm curious what Trump did in these negotiations that wouldn't have been done by any other President & their diplomatic corps.

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 6d

Just in case the dramatically low Leni Riefenstahl-style angle was too subtle, they used a word from her most famous movie

Time magazine cover featuring a photo of Trump from a dramatically low angle

HIS
TRIUMPH
by ERIC CORTELLESSA
THE LEADER ISRAEL NEEDED
by EHUD BARAK
HOW GAZA HEALS

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Swedish Made Prius Enlarger @ersatzverite.bsky.social · 6d

Mark Ruffalo is doing a hell of a job playing @alexhorne.bsky.social on Task.

Swedish Made Prius Enlarger @ersatzverite.bsky.social · 6d

I don't understand what you are communicating, and you don't want to go into detail .. which is probably better for each of us. So, I guess we just .. disagree?

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Swedish Made Prius Enlarger @ersatzverite.bsky.social · 6d

In what sense? You think stocks are undervalued (meaning we are deep in the 'crash')? Or do you mean that we are in the early stages?

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Swedish Made Prius Enlarger @ersatzverite.bsky.social · 6d

Wile E. Coyote running off a cliff -- and about to look down!

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Swedish Made Prius Enlarger @ersatzverite.bsky.social · 6d

The deck is stacked against Bari Weiss. Broadcast news is a public service that loses money for the network. Stories at CBS News will be fact checked like crazy, and every mistake shouted out. Oh, and she's unqualified in temperament or skill set to do the job.

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Evan Sutton @evansutton.bsky.social · 6d

I'm not much interested in defending Sean Duffy, but language evolves. If you want to get mad at people for "misusing" the phrase "beg the question" perhaps start with the person who translated the phrase into English so poorly that the common understanding of the phrase was essentially inevitable 🤷‍♂️

Screenshot from Miriam Webster Dot com that reads

Origin of Beg the Question
Beg the question is a phrase from formal logic. We have Aristotle to thank for it—or, actually, an anonymous 16th century translator who took Aristotle's phrase petitio principii and rendered it in English as "beg the question." A better translation would have been "assume the conclusion," as linguist Mark Liberman at Language Log explains; petitio principii is used to name the logical fallacy in which an argument assumes the very thing it's trying to prove. Here's an example:

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Swedish Made Prius Enlarger @ersatzverite.bsky.social · 6d

I also dislike Musk, but SpaceX has reduced the cost of entering low earth orbit by an order of magnitude. Yes, some of their test rockets blow up, but their risk tolerance is one reason why they have accomplished so much and NASA's caution helped hamstring the organization.

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Swedish Made Prius Enlarger @ersatzverite.bsky.social · 6d

I am not a huge fan of John Oliver's show, but the Weiss story was good, and he makes the key point -- we need traditional reporting outlets, not more opinion inflected news coverage. The 24 hour news stations have got us entirely covered on that.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 7d

This two-parter below is exactly why it's hard to make clothes in the United States.

Let's look at how much it costs to produce a button-up shirt in the US. 🧵

Someone on Twitter replies to me: "meh. buy american or stfu."

Two hours later, in a separate thread, the write: "$30 for a single button-up is ridiculous unless it is decent quality silk."

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Swedish Made Prius Enlarger @ersatzverite.bsky.social · 6d

Ppl accept that policy comes with trade-offs. If the only outcome you will accept is one where everyone is better off with no downsides -- then you can't do anything. And, "some improvements at some costs" is obv better than our current "beatings will continue until morale improves."

Swedish Made Prius Enlarger @ersatzverite.bsky.social · 6d

The first season ruled. The next two have been .. watchable I guess.

Swedish Made Prius Enlarger @ersatzverite.bsky.social · 6d

One half of the Noble in Econ this year went to Mokyr's work on what drives economic growth. Yeah, Trump's America doesn't do that.

(Source: @maiamindel.bsky.social's summary)

reliable and trustworthy institutions of governance, a forward-looking culture, some background environmental factors (like disease, climate, and resources), and a social structure that allows for artisans and craftsmen to produce

Swedish Made Prius Enlarger @ersatzverite.bsky.social · 7d

A prolific author is looking at between $300 and $1000 in total, and it would cost the companies about $10b total -- a meaningless amount of money to the companies. Do we really think that this would silence compaints?

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Swedish Made Prius Enlarger @ersatzverite.bsky.social · 7d

Let's say there are 1 billion books still receiving copyright protection (a vast overestimation). Imagine that an author gets on avg $3 from each book sold. If there are 10 big LLM companies, and they paid for 1 copy of each book -- they author would get about $30/book.

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