Mike
@misaligned.markets
Was Philosimplicity on the other site. Now blogging about political economy and the structure of capitalism at https://misaligned.markets/
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Mike
@misaligned.markets
· Dec 18
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I'm Mike, been writing on the internet for 10+ years. Started a blog, in 2017, called Philosimplicity.
I've moved on to a new project, Misaligned Markets, to answer every question I've ever had about capitalism. Looking for researchers to interview as project grows misaligned.markets/start-here/
I've moved on to a new project, Misaligned Markets, to answer every question I've ever had about capitalism. Looking for researchers to interview as project grows misaligned.markets/start-here/
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THEY WILL NOT BREAK US
THEY CAN NOT BREAK US
THEY DIDN'T BRING ENOUGH GUYS
FOR EVERY ONE OF US THEY TAKE, ONE HUNDRED MORE TAKE TO THE STREETS
THERE WILL FOREVER BE MORE OF US THAN OF THEM
THEY STAND FOR NOTHING, WE STAND FOR EACH OTHER
THEY WILL REGRET COMING HERE
MINNEAPOLIS WILL WIN
THEY CAN NOT BREAK US
THEY DIDN'T BRING ENOUGH GUYS
FOR EVERY ONE OF US THEY TAKE, ONE HUNDRED MORE TAKE TO THE STREETS
THERE WILL FOREVER BE MORE OF US THAN OF THEM
THEY STAND FOR NOTHING, WE STAND FOR EACH OTHER
THEY WILL REGRET COMING HERE
MINNEAPOLIS WILL WIN
fear.
they need to demonstrate that resistance is worse than useless, that it will be broken, and that their agents have impunity regardless of their actions.
they need to demonstrate that resistance is worse than useless, that it will be broken, and that their agents have impunity regardless of their actions.
So… what’s the strategic goal for the administration in Minnesota, exactly?
I’m not being cute, I don’t understand the theory of victory here and want someone to explain it to me.
I’m not being cute, I don’t understand the theory of victory here and want someone to explain it to me.
January 24, 2026 at 1:40 AM
THEY WILL NOT BREAK US
THEY CAN NOT BREAK US
THEY DIDN'T BRING ENOUGH GUYS
FOR EVERY ONE OF US THEY TAKE, ONE HUNDRED MORE TAKE TO THE STREETS
THERE WILL FOREVER BE MORE OF US THAN OF THEM
THEY STAND FOR NOTHING, WE STAND FOR EACH OTHER
THEY WILL REGRET COMING HERE
MINNEAPOLIS WILL WIN
THEY CAN NOT BREAK US
THEY DIDN'T BRING ENOUGH GUYS
FOR EVERY ONE OF US THEY TAKE, ONE HUNDRED MORE TAKE TO THE STREETS
THERE WILL FOREVER BE MORE OF US THAN OF THEM
THEY STAND FOR NOTHING, WE STAND FOR EACH OTHER
THEY WILL REGRET COMING HERE
MINNEAPOLIS WILL WIN
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Look, we've had no shortage of signs and portents
January 22, 2026 at 7:54 PM
Look, we've had no shortage of signs and portents
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This brain drain from science to the gig economy is not unique.
Like I said, the brain drain in US science will not be to other countries but away from science. In one case, to being an Uber driver.
‘It’s a nightmare.’ U.S. funding cuts threaten academic science jobs at all levels
“There is a lot of pressure to essentially leave the country or not pursue research,” one Ph.D. student says
scim.ag
January 22, 2026 at 6:23 PM
This brain drain from science to the gig economy is not unique.
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The argument against ICE isn't an especially difficult one to make politically in this moment. The issue is that people who substantively disagree with abolishing ICE prefer having a proxy fight about strategy to discussing that stance. Many such cases.
January 22, 2026 at 3:06 AM
The argument against ICE isn't an especially difficult one to make politically in this moment. The issue is that people who substantively disagree with abolishing ICE prefer having a proxy fight about strategy to discussing that stance. Many such cases.
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Canadians you are not prepared for the temperature he tells you he is experiencing here.
January 21, 2026 at 10:21 PM
Canadians you are not prepared for the temperature he tells you he is experiencing here.
(1/6) My blog #MisalignedMarkets turns one! I spent the year blogging about lots of topics: optimization, information asymmetry, risk, #AI but here are my most popular posts
A thread 🧵:
#blog #anniversary #economics #longthread
misaligned.markets/review-first...
A thread 🧵:
#blog #anniversary #economics #longthread
misaligned.markets/review-first...
Misaligned Markets blog post review - First year edition
Catch the highlights from the first year of the Misaligned Markets blog
misaligned.markets
January 21, 2026 at 7:51 PM
(1/6) My blog #MisalignedMarkets turns one! I spent the year blogging about lots of topics: optimization, information asymmetry, risk, #AI but here are my most popular posts
A thread 🧵:
#blog #anniversary #economics #longthread
misaligned.markets/review-first...
A thread 🧵:
#blog #anniversary #economics #longthread
misaligned.markets/review-first...
I keep bumping into articles asking why people feel worse about the economy than the data suggests they should. Rather than continuing to roll my eyes, I’ll take this as a sign I should write a blog post about this.
January 16, 2026 at 7:54 PM
I keep bumping into articles asking why people feel worse about the economy than the data suggests they should. Rather than continuing to roll my eyes, I’ll take this as a sign I should write a blog post about this.
New post: In a lot of ways naïve AI boosterism resembles (and is down stream of) commodity fetishism and market fundamentalism. All of these are modes of thinking that erase deeper context of how a system works. misaligned.markets/ai-hype-mark...
AI hype is a mirror of market fundamentalism
Both AI enthusiasts and market fundamentalists gloss over the context needed to understand complex systems.
misaligned.markets
December 29, 2025 at 10:26 PM
New post: In a lot of ways naïve AI boosterism resembles (and is down stream of) commodity fetishism and market fundamentalism. All of these are modes of thinking that erase deeper context of how a system works. misaligned.markets/ai-hype-mark...
Cyberpunk as a genre feels like it’s about fear of a recurring past. Back to a world of Zaibatsus, Business Plots, and to the violence of
Blair Mountain. It’s a world where technological progress guarantees the alienation of working people as they are nothing more than pieces in a mechanistic game.
Blair Mountain. It’s a world where technological progress guarantees the alienation of working people as they are nothing more than pieces in a mechanistic game.
2/ Sound familiar? "Cyberpunk as a genre was never a celebration of technology...The end of the 70s was the birth of modern corporate power and modern perception of technological change..
Mega-corporations more powerful than any government, fascist police serving the status quo and the upper class"
Mega-corporations more powerful than any government, fascist police serving the status quo and the upper class"
December 24, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Cyberpunk as a genre feels like it’s about fear of a recurring past. Back to a world of Zaibatsus, Business Plots, and to the violence of
Blair Mountain. It’s a world where technological progress guarantees the alienation of working people as they are nothing more than pieces in a mechanistic game.
Blair Mountain. It’s a world where technological progress guarantees the alienation of working people as they are nothing more than pieces in a mechanistic game.
If you want to understand market #capitalism or #economics, information asymmetry is foundational. I argue controlling the flow of information by either discovering real (in)efficiencies or shaping consumer perceptions drives all profit-driven activity. misaligned.markets/corponomics-...
The lethal economics of corporate kung fu
Does competition in market capitalism incentivize increasingly cleverer ways of bypassing economic competition?
misaligned.markets
December 23, 2025 at 6:20 PM
If you want to understand market #capitalism or #economics, information asymmetry is foundational. I argue controlling the flow of information by either discovering real (in)efficiencies or shaping consumer perceptions drives all profit-driven activity. misaligned.markets/corponomics-...
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#LLMs stand on our shoulders to become giants, using our data and an army of underpaid workers.
Then, at runtime entire subsystems must be maintained to ensure these things work. All of this is in service of the #darkpattern that models alone are intelligences.
misaligned.markets/llm-intellig...
Then, at runtime entire subsystems must be maintained to ensure these things work. All of this is in service of the #darkpattern that models alone are intelligences.
misaligned.markets/llm-intellig...
LLM “intelligence” is a dark pattern
LLMs leverage scaffolding and user psychology to appear as slabs of raw intelligence in service of a costly illusion.
misaligned.markets
December 19, 2025 at 8:03 PM
#LLMs stand on our shoulders to become giants, using our data and an army of underpaid workers.
Then, at runtime entire subsystems must be maintained to ensure these things work. All of this is in service of the #darkpattern that models alone are intelligences.
misaligned.markets/llm-intellig...
Then, at runtime entire subsystems must be maintained to ensure these things work. All of this is in service of the #darkpattern that models alone are intelligences.
misaligned.markets/llm-intellig...
#LLMs stand on our shoulders to become giants, using our data and an army of underpaid workers.
Then, at runtime entire subsystems must be maintained to ensure these things work. All of this is in service of the #darkpattern that models alone are intelligences.
misaligned.markets/llm-intellig...
Then, at runtime entire subsystems must be maintained to ensure these things work. All of this is in service of the #darkpattern that models alone are intelligences.
misaligned.markets/llm-intellig...
LLM “intelligence” is a dark pattern
LLMs leverage scaffolding and user psychology to appear as slabs of raw intelligence in service of a costly illusion.
misaligned.markets
December 19, 2025 at 8:03 PM
#LLMs stand on our shoulders to become giants, using our data and an army of underpaid workers.
Then, at runtime entire subsystems must be maintained to ensure these things work. All of this is in service of the #darkpattern that models alone are intelligences.
misaligned.markets/llm-intellig...
Then, at runtime entire subsystems must be maintained to ensure these things work. All of this is in service of the #darkpattern that models alone are intelligences.
misaligned.markets/llm-intellig...
I'm Mike, been writing on the internet for 10+ years. Started a blog, in 2017, called Philosimplicity.
I've moved on to a new project, Misaligned Markets, to answer every question I've ever had about capitalism. Looking for researchers to interview as project grows misaligned.markets/start-here/
I've moved on to a new project, Misaligned Markets, to answer every question I've ever had about capitalism. Looking for researchers to interview as project grows misaligned.markets/start-here/
Start Here
New to Misaligned Markets? Here's an overview of the ideas behind the project.
misaligned.markets
December 18, 2025 at 11:40 PM
I'm Mike, been writing on the internet for 10+ years. Started a blog, in 2017, called Philosimplicity.
I've moved on to a new project, Misaligned Markets, to answer every question I've ever had about capitalism. Looking for researchers to interview as project grows misaligned.markets/start-here/
I've moved on to a new project, Misaligned Markets, to answer every question I've ever had about capitalism. Looking for researchers to interview as project grows misaligned.markets/start-here/
Nostalgia for academic Twitter (circa 2018) brought me here. I used to write a blog called Philosimplicity and found engaging w/ #philosophers, #academics, and #humanities focused creators stimulating.
I know it's 2025 and a lot has changed online, but hoping to rekindle just a bit of the past.
I know it's 2025 and a lot has changed online, but hoping to rekindle just a bit of the past.
December 18, 2025 at 6:21 AM
Nostalgia for academic Twitter (circa 2018) brought me here. I used to write a blog called Philosimplicity and found engaging w/ #philosophers, #academics, and #humanities focused creators stimulating.
I know it's 2025 and a lot has changed online, but hoping to rekindle just a bit of the past.
I know it's 2025 and a lot has changed online, but hoping to rekindle just a bit of the past.