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Lady Parts
The radical feminism of the Great Feminization
open.substack.com
New Substack post: we’ve all heard about the Great Feminization article and we’ve all delighted at how badly even friendly conversations went for its author. Now we ask the question: is Helen Andrews just wrong, or is she interestingly wrong?
open.substack.com/pub/someunpl...
open.substack.com/pub/someunpl...
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This is really well done. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
What Did Men Do to Deserve This?
Changes in the economy and in the culture seem to have hit them hard. Scott Galloway believes they need an “aspirational vision of masculinity.”
www.newyorker.com
November 10, 2025 at 4:03 PM
This is really well done. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
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I should write the argument up properly somewhere, but I think this is fundamentally wrong. A decisive fraction of the capitalist class does oppose addressing the climate crisis, but *not* because it would be bad for profits. If anything, a green New Deal type program would raise aggregate profits.
Yes, this is correct. And the reason is because our capitalist classes have decided that it is not sufficiently profitable, so they're not going to do it.
We must understand this reality. Capital *cannot* be relied upon to address the climate crisis.
We must understand this reality. Capital *cannot* be relied upon to address the climate crisis.
November 10, 2025 at 4:18 PM
I should write the argument up properly somewhere, but I think this is fundamentally wrong. A decisive fraction of the capitalist class does oppose addressing the climate crisis, but *not* because it would be bad for profits. If anything, a green New Deal type program would raise aggregate profits.
intermezzo
the next day at breakfast he goes 'I stayed up all night reading that book, and - there wasn't anything in it! there's no invasions or zombies or stuff, it's just about two people, and I couldn't put it down.' It was a genuinely transcendent experience for him.
November 10, 2025 at 4:25 PM
intermezzo
fartcoin-backed securities
This is insane. This is *literally* doing the same mechanics of the housing crisis and 2008 recession but to create debt to finance construction of AI data centers
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/b...
November 10, 2025 at 4:23 PM
fartcoin-backed securities
why do we have leo strauss and martin heidegger wojaks, so we can make stupid memes about hannah arendt's dating life in the 1940s?
November 10, 2025 at 4:15 PM
why do we have leo strauss and martin heidegger wojaks, so we can make stupid memes about hannah arendt's dating life in the 1940s?
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This is really good--one of the most powerful and insightful pieces I've read about what @qjurecic.bsky.social appropriately calls "The Third Red Scare." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
November 10, 2025 at 4:10 PM
This is really good--one of the most powerful and insightful pieces I've read about what @qjurecic.bsky.social appropriately calls "The Third Red Scare." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
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everything is "performative" because we're in a social media panopticon where everything becomes free content for our tech overlords so they can be rich and we can get a strangely unfulfilling but addictive form of attention
November 10, 2025 at 4:05 PM
everything is "performative" because we're in a social media panopticon where everything becomes free content for our tech overlords so they can be rich and we can get a strangely unfulfilling but addictive form of attention
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it's not 'performative' if you're taking pictures of random fucking strangers reading. they're just reading! you're the creepy one!
November 10, 2025 at 4:02 PM
it's not 'performative' if you're taking pictures of random fucking strangers reading. they're just reading! you're the creepy one!
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if i were part of a dying publishing industry i would simply not discourage people from reading in public
November 10, 2025 at 4:03 PM
if i were part of a dying publishing industry i would simply not discourage people from reading in public
if reading the let them theory is performative we live in an illiterate era
November 10, 2025 at 3:50 PM
if reading the let them theory is performative we live in an illiterate era
included the word "literary" because if you don't then by sheer readership, the contemporary canon has to be novels where a woman has to milk a minotaur's semen
contemporary literary fiction:
33% "i am a grad student from oberlin and this is my situationship with a professor"
33% "i am a novelist getting a divorce from another novelist"
33% "i am a member of [insert marginalized group] and this is my trauma dump"
1% actually good stuff
33% "i am a grad student from oberlin and this is my situationship with a professor"
33% "i am a novelist getting a divorce from another novelist"
33% "i am a member of [insert marginalized group] and this is my trauma dump"
1% actually good stuff
November 10, 2025 at 3:47 PM
included the word "literary" because if you don't then by sheer readership, the contemporary canon has to be novels where a woman has to milk a minotaur's semen
contemporary literary fiction:
33% "i am a grad student from oberlin and this is my situationship with a professor"
33% "i am a novelist getting a divorce from another novelist"
33% "i am a member of [insert marginalized group] and this is my trauma dump"
1% actually good stuff
33% "i am a grad student from oberlin and this is my situationship with a professor"
33% "i am a novelist getting a divorce from another novelist"
33% "i am a member of [insert marginalized group] and this is my trauma dump"
1% actually good stuff
November 10, 2025 at 3:32 PM
contemporary literary fiction:
33% "i am a grad student from oberlin and this is my situationship with a professor"
33% "i am a novelist getting a divorce from another novelist"
33% "i am a member of [insert marginalized group] and this is my trauma dump"
1% actually good stuff
33% "i am a grad student from oberlin and this is my situationship with a professor"
33% "i am a novelist getting a divorce from another novelist"
33% "i am a member of [insert marginalized group] and this is my trauma dump"
1% actually good stuff
Otessa Moshfegh being lowkey a hack is why Sally Rooney drank up all her milkshake, the ending of My Year of Rest and Relaxation is kind of like if at the end of Normal People Marianne got blown up by the IRA because she was in Lord Mountbatten's boat that one time
November 10, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Otessa Moshfegh being lowkey a hack is why Sally Rooney drank up all her milkshake, the ending of My Year of Rest and Relaxation is kind of like if at the end of Normal People Marianne got blown up by the IRA because she was in Lord Mountbatten's boat that one time
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they finally beat team transitory
November 10, 2025 at 2:46 PM
they finally beat team transitory
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Forthcoming in the AER: "“Potential” and the Gender Promotion Gap" by Alan Benson, Danielle Li, and Kelly Shue. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
“Potential” and the Gender Promotion Gap
(Forthcoming Article) - We show that subjective assessments of employee “potential” contribute to gender gaps
in promotion and pay. Using data on 29,809 management-track employees from a
large retail ...
www.aeaweb.org
November 10, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Forthcoming in the AER: "“Potential” and the Gender Promotion Gap" by Alan Benson, Danielle Li, and Kelly Shue. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
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📣 New NBER Working Paper out today 📣
"The Consequences of Faculty Sexual Misconduct"
Sarah Cohodes & Katherine Leu
"The Consequences of Faculty Sexual Misconduct"
Sarah Cohodes & Katherine Leu
November 10, 2025 at 1:49 PM
📣 New NBER Working Paper out today 📣
"The Consequences of Faculty Sexual Misconduct"
Sarah Cohodes & Katherine Leu
"The Consequences of Faculty Sexual Misconduct"
Sarah Cohodes & Katherine Leu
This isn't true. The trans woman finished second-to-last. Who finished last? Riley Gaines
iirc 1 trans woman has qualified for the Olympics in over 20 years and she came last
Olympics organisers moving towards blanket ban on transgender women from women's sport
November 10, 2025 at 2:37 PM
This isn't true. The trans woman finished second-to-last. Who finished last? Riley Gaines
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Terrific note via @business on the debt & deflationary trap the Chinese economy is now caught. It’s an accessible article for those that are not economists or capital markets professionals that is worth a read. #Econ #EconSky
www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
China’s Deflationary Spiral Hurts Economy Harder Than Official Numbers Suggest
Bloomberg analysis shows deflation on the ground feels more pronounced than official data show, with prices of everyday goods plunging and the share of loss-making companies at a 25-year high.
www.bloomberg.com
November 10, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Terrific note via @business on the debt & deflationary trap the Chinese economy is now caught. It’s an accessible article for those that are not economists or capital markets professionals that is worth a read. #Econ #EconSky
www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
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New NBER research finds that in NYC alone, Uber and Lyft collect $300M annually by making it hard to comparison shop before booking a ride.
www.nber.org/papers/w34441
www.nber.org/papers/w34441
November 10, 2025 at 2:11 PM
New NBER research finds that in NYC alone, Uber and Lyft collect $300M annually by making it hard to comparison shop before booking a ride.
www.nber.org/papers/w34441
www.nber.org/papers/w34441
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iirc 1 trans woman has qualified for the Olympics in over 20 years and she came last
Olympics organisers moving towards blanket ban on transgender women from women's sport
Olympics organisers moving towards blanket ban on transgender women from women's sport
The International Olympic Committee is moving towards a blanket ban on transgender women from women's sport, Sky News understands.
news.sky.com
November 10, 2025 at 1:28 PM
iirc 1 trans woman has qualified for the Olympics in over 20 years and she came last
2029: Manhattan skyscrapers jump straight from floor 66 to 68
Humans: capable of building entire skyscrapers but still afraid to put the scary number on one of the floors
November 10, 2025 at 1:49 PM
2029: Manhattan skyscrapers jump straight from floor 66 to 68
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Forthcoming in AEJ: Macroeconomics: "Time for Growth" by Lars Boerner and Battista Severgnini. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
Time for Growth
(Forthcoming Article) - This paper investigates the adoption, diffusion, and long-run impact
of the public mechanical clock, one of the most important
high-technology machines in history, on European ...
www.aeaweb.org
November 10, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Forthcoming in AEJ: Macroeconomics: "Time for Growth" by Lars Boerner and Battista Severgnini. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
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Reminder: we are in this together. Whether you accept it or not, they’ll eventually remind you.
November 10, 2025 at 4:42 AM
Reminder: we are in this together. Whether you accept it or not, they’ll eventually remind you.
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The BBC will also find out that they will never be far right enough for its critics.
Tim Davie resigns as BBC director general after accusations of ‘serious and systemic’ bias in coverage
Davie says departure is ‘my own decision’, while head of news also quits. Insiders say it ‘feels like a coup’ by broadcaster’s enemies
www.theguardian.com
November 10, 2025 at 12:15 PM
The BBC will also find out that they will never be far right enough for its critics.
