@loydchristmas.bsky.social
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This man doesn't just lead from the rear.
Slava Ukraini!
Slava Ukraini!
December 12, 2025 at 11:43 PM
This man doesn't just lead from the rear.
Slava Ukraini!
Slava Ukraini!
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not incidentally, this is the same rhetorical sleight of hand that the effective altruists do.
the thing that makes me angriest about arguments from Yglesias and Bazelon is the bland, placid insistence that it is not just imperative to vote for politicians with no principles, but that if you as a private citizen have principles then you may as well be turning on the gas chambers yourself.
December 12, 2025 at 6:03 PM
not incidentally, this is the same rhetorical sleight of hand that the effective altruists do.
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what in the cormac mccarthy christmas
I made it better*
*worse
*worse
December 12, 2025 at 2:18 AM
what in the cormac mccarthy christmas
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It’s funny because it’s true
Credit to Anduril - they realized their VC dollars are better spent buying elite’s opinion than spent on improving their shitty products!
December 11, 2025 at 8:46 PM
It’s funny because it’s true
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unironically the median American voter position
I'm a Hammurabi Originalist (I believe prices for market items should be permanently set by a beneficent monarch from the distant past).
December 11, 2025 at 9:33 PM
unironically the median American voter position
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It was transparent what was happening. Just not to you.
December 8, 2025 at 6:00 PM
It was transparent what was happening. Just not to you.
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this is a really important point. i am fond of saying that the CCP recognized that the commanding heights of the modern economy is finance. the federal government can likewise drive policy at the state level by choices about who to extend credit to--in this case, a uniform national building code
I don’t think it would be hard…just condition various housing benefits (Section 8, mortgage interest deduction, whatever) on it. We imposed a single nationwide drinking age this way. There’s a clear nexus – “we don’t want to waste federal housing money on you if you’re going to misspend it.”
December 8, 2025 at 2:52 AM
this is a really important point. i am fond of saying that the CCP recognized that the commanding heights of the modern economy is finance. the federal government can likewise drive policy at the state level by choices about who to extend credit to--in this case, a uniform national building code
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So much ink spilled about Buchanan, Strauss, Schmitt, Spengler, etc, and it's all so annoying boomers with SUVs don't have to contribute anything to anyone else
December 4, 2025 at 6:31 PM
So much ink spilled about Buchanan, Strauss, Schmitt, Spengler, etc, and it's all so annoying boomers with SUVs don't have to contribute anything to anyone else
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I think its more than a coincidence that
1. Elites crash out on X saying shit that is both utterly depraved and utterly insane
2. There is no apparent news value in reporting on this
3. A large number of commentators have stayed on X and say we are bad for not joining them
1. Elites crash out on X saying shit that is both utterly depraved and utterly insane
2. There is no apparent news value in reporting on this
3. A large number of commentators have stayed on X and say we are bad for not joining them
December 3, 2025 at 2:07 PM
I think its more than a coincidence that
1. Elites crash out on X saying shit that is both utterly depraved and utterly insane
2. There is no apparent news value in reporting on this
3. A large number of commentators have stayed on X and say we are bad for not joining them
1. Elites crash out on X saying shit that is both utterly depraved and utterly insane
2. There is no apparent news value in reporting on this
3. A large number of commentators have stayed on X and say we are bad for not joining them
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the last taboo that is left is being able to say what you are able to see with your own two eyes: "the people who rule us are insane"
December 3, 2025 at 2:09 PM
the last taboo that is left is being able to say what you are able to see with your own two eyes: "the people who rule us are insane"
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Happy Thanksgiving! Thanks CHIPS soup kitchen for bringing neighbors together to look out for each other — today and every day.
November 27, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Happy Thanksgiving! Thanks CHIPS soup kitchen for bringing neighbors together to look out for each other — today and every day.
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I once knew a Federal bank examiner, and one time someone asked him why we had to KEEP inspecting banks over and over. He basically said every new batch of business school grads invents bank fraud from first principles.
AirBnB CEO calling it “vibe revenue” just 👨🍳 😘
The underlying cause of every bubble - debt masquerading as financial innovation - depends on not just short financial memory & speculative neophytism, but reinventing jargon of finance, like how each generation of kids has new ways to say same things.
The underlying cause of every bubble - debt masquerading as financial innovation - depends on not just short financial memory & speculative neophytism, but reinventing jargon of finance, like how each generation of kids has new ways to say same things.
November 22, 2025 at 6:02 PM
I once knew a Federal bank examiner, and one time someone asked him why we had to KEEP inspecting banks over and over. He basically said every new batch of business school grads invents bank fraud from first principles.
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it was like the Old Major scene in Animal Farm where they make a big fuss over his importance before sending him to be turned into horse glue
one thing about this is that in the wake of all of this kirk is basically forgotten. he was barely cold in the ground before his allies — before his *wife* — started scheming over what they could take for themselves. a real life parable.
New: Reuters has tallied job losses, suspensions and investigations stemming from the reaction to Charlie Kirk's Sept. 10 assassination. Its findings: More than 600 Americans have been punished, and the figure is likely to be an under-count.
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
November 20, 2025 at 12:49 PM
it was like the Old Major scene in Animal Farm where they make a big fuss over his importance before sending him to be turned into horse glue
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the 30-year mortgage is rent control for the middle class, and it's not particularly well designed rent control www.npr.org/sections/pla...
Is a 50-year mortgage really that much crazier than a 30-year one?
Last week, the internet piled on President Trump's proposal for a 50-year mortgage. But maybe it's not as crazy as it sounds.
www.npr.org
November 18, 2025 at 6:35 PM
the 30-year mortgage is rent control for the middle class, and it's not particularly well designed rent control www.npr.org/sections/pla...
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the fact that the MTA is in the process of buying thousands of new subway cars without open gangways is a generational missed opportunity
My F train that was so crowded it couldn’t reliably get its doors closed at every stop between Jay St and Broadway-Lafayette — and I’ve never been more frustrated with the NYCT bureaucracy for cooking up literally every imaginable reason to not go all in on open gangways.
November 18, 2025 at 2:07 PM
the fact that the MTA is in the process of buying thousands of new subway cars without open gangways is a generational missed opportunity
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Much like real Bushido, poster's bushido is a post facto romanticization of an earlier era of uncontrolled conflict, constructed by the inhabitants of a more centralized system to justify their own pretensions.
poster's bushido logically implies the existence of historical european posting arts
November 14, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Much like real Bushido, poster's bushido is a post facto romanticization of an earlier era of uncontrolled conflict, constructed by the inhabitants of a more centralized system to justify their own pretensions.
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i think it's a strange attractor for people who don't actually know anything. like the theme running through all this is not having to know anything of substance about the subject--not having to take and defend a position about what's actually true--and instead it's all just meta-discourse critique
November 13, 2025 at 11:10 PM
i think it's a strange attractor for people who don't actually know anything. like the theme running through all this is not having to know anything of substance about the subject--not having to take and defend a position about what's actually true--and instead it's all just meta-discourse critique
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I've noticed this for a long time, but it has accelerated...
November 13, 2025 at 7:12 PM
I've noticed this for a long time, but it has accelerated...
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once again: it turns out that the actual execution of policy matters more than topline numbers or optimistic press releases
The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law passed 4 years ago. In new research @urbaninstitute.bsky.social we study its effects.
US transport spending increased by 30%, but:
—Funding for non-highway projects flatlined
—Construction cost increases resulted in no actual increase in infrastructure
US transport spending increased by 30%, but:
—Funding for non-highway projects flatlined
—Construction cost increases resulted in no actual increase in infrastructure
Federal Infrastructure Spending on Transportation, Four Years after the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act
The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law is up for reauthorization in 2026. New analysis shows that the act increased spending on transportation infrastructure, but…
www.urban.org
November 13, 2025 at 2:52 AM
once again: it turns out that the actual execution of policy matters more than topline numbers or optimistic press releases
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"This woke Me-Too bullshit has gone too far," said the former Harvard President and Secretary of the U.S. Treasury to the billionaire pedophile sex trafficker in a private email that the Justice Department under both parties kept secret for years
November 13, 2025 at 1:46 AM
"This woke Me-Too bullshit has gone too far," said the former Harvard President and Secretary of the U.S. Treasury to the billionaire pedophile sex trafficker in a private email that the Justice Department under both parties kept secret for years
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Jeffrey Epstein, the notorious child sex trafficker, says that Donald Trump is the worst person he has ever met
It's probably not fully possible for you to understand the full meaning of that sentence
It's probably not fully possible for you to understand the full meaning of that sentence
Jeffrey Epstein to Lawrence Summers (both of whom are very bad people):
“i have met some very bad people , none as bad as trump. not one decent cell in his body. so yes- dangerous”
“i have met some very bad people , none as bad as trump. not one decent cell in his body. so yes- dangerous”
November 13, 2025 at 1:37 AM
Jeffrey Epstein, the notorious child sex trafficker, says that Donald Trump is the worst person he has ever met
It's probably not fully possible for you to understand the full meaning of that sentence
It's probably not fully possible for you to understand the full meaning of that sentence
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I need to be clear about this, we're no longer being 'warned' about this, we're in the midst of a generational crisis caused by this.
You don't get Elon Musk, J.K. Rowling, Yoon Suk-yeol, Marc Andreesen and countless others in their reactionary incarnations without social media addiction. Period.
You don't get Elon Musk, J.K. Rowling, Yoon Suk-yeol, Marc Andreesen and countless others in their reactionary incarnations without social media addiction. Period.
November 12, 2025 at 10:23 PM
I need to be clear about this, we're no longer being 'warned' about this, we're in the midst of a generational crisis caused by this.
You don't get Elon Musk, J.K. Rowling, Yoon Suk-yeol, Marc Andreesen and countless others in their reactionary incarnations without social media addiction. Period.
You don't get Elon Musk, J.K. Rowling, Yoon Suk-yeol, Marc Andreesen and countless others in their reactionary incarnations without social media addiction. Period.