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Spooky Adult Paul OBE(S)

@sanjukta.bsky.social

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Interested in the idea and practice and law of economic coordination. I work as a law professor at a public university.

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Spooky Adult Paul OBE(S) @sanjukta.bsky.social · 10d

Hello! Here is my essay (still a draft) for a symposium held in the spring at the university of chicago. (Please note that the title of the symposium was set by the law review; I chose my essay title.) Comments are welcome.

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New essay: law & the self-coordinating market idea

Essay for the University of Chicago Law Review Symposium, held in April 2025, on “Law & Economics vs. Law & Political Economy: A Debate” (draft) Law & the scm idea uchi l re…

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hyperplanes.bsky.social @hyperplanes.bsky.social · 10h

I just want to say, it's not a planning problem. The shipper has to pay the tariff, and they have very little ability to recover the debt, or even to contact, the customer. It's an inversion of how shipping usually works, no amount of planning will help bsky.app/profile/kevi...

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 14h

Matt Stoller being very Matt Stoller, calling someone else a "classic left poseur snob"

Matt Stoller being eviscerated by @dieworkwear.bsky.social

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Lake Michigan! Live! @lake-michigan.live · 10h

Current* conditions near Chicago, IL:

View of Chicago skyline from William E. Dever Crib in Lake Michigan east of North Avenue. // Image captured at: 2025-10-13 04:20:01 UTC (about 17 min. prior to this post) // Current Temp in Chicago: 62.42 F | 16.90 C // Precip: scattered clouds // Wind: S at 2.997 mph | 4.82 kph // Humidity: 75%

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Ryan Broderick @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social · 25d

In the 2010s, this country's elites were thrown onto social platforms with everyone else and could finally read what we all think about them and it caused them so much psychic damage that they decided to destroy both the internet and democracy to make sure nothing like it ever happened again.

Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 25d

If this is what it took for you to be pushed into fascism you were probably already there

This predates the social media wars of the late 2010s: One Trump appointee told me that a radicalizing experience was being booted out of the Gawker comments section, way back in the day. But as progressive movements swept through social media, others were tossed off Twitter and Facebook for stepping over a variety of lines, from allegations of harassment to claims of election misinformation. Pandemic era public health rules and fevered enforcement cost others their accounts.

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Atrios @eschatonblog.com · 1d

True of every "demographic panic" and often from exactly the same people

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Nate Holdren @nhold.bsky.social · 12h

I'm glad you also don't like him. I genuinely loathe him. This type who is well and resentful and also condescends about regular people to pretend to be their mouthpiece while pushing a bad political line, it might be the literal worst type out of the whole menagerie that is the hellscape we live in

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Spooky Adult Paul OBE(S) @sanjukta.bsky.social · 12h

I don't monitor this person's output, yet it's clear that it has taken a further darker turn since trump (note the addition of "native born" american above).

I think it's wrong for supposedly "progressive" institutions to engage with this. It's been wrong for a while, but it's inexcusable now.

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Spooky Adult Paul OBE(S) @sanjukta.bsky.social · 12h

Amazing to see this guy talking about OTHER people's "weird insecurities"

Tweet response from matt stoller to menswear guy saying "Your weird insecurities aside, you consistently lie that native born Americans can’t and never have made clothes, and push offshoring in sleazy ways. Then when confronted you talk about your left wing views. You’re slime." The first response to him shows a thread from the menswear guy discussing the details of an American clothing manufacturing company.

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Spooky Adult Paul OBE(S) @sanjukta.bsky.social · 12h

Sorry was too annoyed to add alttext; it's a tweet from the menswear guy: "i was not born in london to a wealthy bank executive, sent to an exclusive private prep school in new hampshire, and then studied at harvard before larping as a champion of the people. you have to work with my low upbringing"

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Spooky Adult Paul OBE(S) @sanjukta.bsky.social · 12h

And yes! exactly! This is why i'm not giving up the hate right away - it really is substantively bad force in the world, and he gets way too much of a pass from way too many on the progressive side of the spectrum

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Spooky Adult Paul OBE(S) @sanjukta.bsky.social · 12h

I hate him so much. I doubt i'm close to nirvana in this lifetime, but really it will be one of the last hates to give up if/ when i am

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Spooky Adult Paul OBE(S) @sanjukta.bsky.social · 12h

Finance and entertainment - quite literally an intercontinental empire. Based on a quick look, it appears that he has recently scrubbed his wikipedia page of a lot of the background.

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Spooky Adult Paul OBE(S) @sanjukta.bsky.social · 12h

.. or rather, a politics based on some terrible simulacrum of that, much like his bud JD Vance, whom he regularly boosted as a "populist" who would take on big tech

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Spooky Adult Paul OBE(S) @sanjukta.bsky.social · 12h

He is genuinely the worst. An idiot born on home base who somehow manages to carry a massive chip on his shoulder (and whose entire politics is based on this highly limited metaphor of individually making it to homebase)

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Spooky Adult Paul OBE(S) @sanjukta.bsky.social · 12h

That would be whatever except that this little personal quirk is part of his America-first politics, heightened under trump, and he still enjoys far too much of a reception among vaguely left economic populists (see the Prospect).

The menswear guy says it perfectly below.

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Ghostin this Hell @hoovybaby.bsky.social · 14h

no quarter given lmao

Matt Stoller & @matthewstoller • 2h
UPS had seven months of warning about the de minimis change, but is still taking packages w/o getting required customs info & is making tariff charge errors.
Nice use of passive voice though!

derek guy
@dieworkwear • 2h
i apologize using a passive voice. i was not born in london to a wealthy bank executive, sent to an exclusive private prep school in new hampshire, and then studied at harvard before larping as a champion of the people. you have to work with my low upbringing.

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Spooky Adult Paul OBE(S) @sanjukta.bsky.social · 12h

Oh my god I hate this guy so much. (Sorry - I say that about almost no one, and someday hopefully I'll rise above this too.) Every single person who grew up lower middle class and has had some moderate success in his extended universe is a "left poseur snob" to him

Ghostin this Hell @hoovybaby.bsky.social · 14h

Oh honey what is you doing

Antitrust fetishist Matt Stoller picking a fight with Derek dieworkwear

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Ethan Nichtern @ethannichtern.com · 13h

A fascinating way to win an argument is to claim that anyone disagreeing is the thought-police. Especially in an era of gestapo kidnapping/disappearing humans. It’s almost like the whole idea of “cancel culture” was a preemptive intellectual smokescreen in preparation for real dictatorship.

Sally Jenkins @sallyjenx.bsky.social · 20h

Ratio me. Please. It's a badge of honor. If you don't like a link, go follow some chicken-heart who needs the approval of the thought-police. Caitlin Flanagan of @theatlantic.com is a tremendous writer and this piece is an excellent read. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Don’t Bet Against Bari Weiss

The new editor in chief of CBS News triumphs over her critics.

www.theatlantic.com

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Spooky Adult Paul OBE(S) @sanjukta.bsky.social · 13h

Anyway, if you disagree with me, you are the thought police.

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Andy Broughton @andybroughton0.bsky.social · 14h

A lot is happening here.

AKlob post on FB: A guitar-wielding Tommy Stinson of the legendary MN-based band The Replacements hit the campaign trail with Tim Kaine on the harmonica with Elizabeth Guzmán and me in Manassas to kick off a canvass for Elizabeth and Abigail Spanberger, the next Governor of Virginia!

From left: Tim Kaine, patting Tommy’s back; Tommy; AKlob; and Elizabeth Guzmán.

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Spooky Adult Paul OBE(S) @sanjukta.bsky.social · 14h

Bari weiss is a monster but she's not quite such a fluffball. As we can see however, it's such powerful fluffballs who helped elevate her and made her absurd levels of success possible.

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Spooky Adult Paul OBE(S) @sanjukta.bsky.social · 14h

That low information verbal stylists like Caitlin Flanagan hold positions in legacy journalism is basically a sign of societal decadence/decline. Plenty of nonsense in every country's elite journalistic circles ofc, but you do usually have to actually *know something* with a position like that.

Sally Jenkins @sallyjenx.bsky.social · 20h

Don’t Bet Against Bari Weiss

The new editor in chief of CBS News triumphs over her critics.

www.theatlantic.com

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Spooky Adult Paul OBE(S) @sanjukta.bsky.social · 16h

Yeah I meant that it happened very quickly when it did happen

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Spooky Adult Paul OBE(S) @sanjukta.bsky.social · 16h

It's one of those things that became common very quickly, and is quite strange if you take a step back from it.

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Lake Michigan! Live! @lake-michigan.live · 16h

Current* conditions near Chicago, IL:

Buoy cam looking back at the Chicago skyline from a couple miles out in Lake Michigan. // Image captured at: 2025-10-12 22:27:06 UTC (about 9 min. prior to this post) // Current Temp in Chicago: 63.98 F | 17.77 C // Precip: broken clouds // Wind: E at 10.357 mph | 16.66 kph // Humidity: 71%

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Spooky Adult Paul OBE(S) @sanjukta.bsky.social · 16h

One thing I find truly bizarre is hollywood types and worse the public, referring to the substantive work/creation in terms of the legal forms that were invented to divide up decision-making and control rights TO that work ("franchise," "IP")

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Spooky Adult Paul OBE(S) @sanjukta.bsky.social · 17h

Alas, i'm not even sure it's market-addled as such; people were confusing who would succeed in the imperial court w/ evaluation on the merits well before markets were predominant...

Steve Randy Waldman @interfluidity.com · 22h

i wouldn’t bet against Bari Weiss, but i absolutely would oppose her. that so many in our society are so market addled they confuse the difference is much of our problem.