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I am shocked that a discipline dedicated to deconstructing social institutions spends so much time deconstructing social institutions rather than just saying existing social institutions are awesome. What is she talking about? This economics discipline spends too much time talking about incentives…

People embracing a racist who trashes US democracy because she also now supports Ukraine need to understand what they are supporting. You must own this as well. There is one side in support of freedom and the rule of law, and this is not on that side.

Historically accurate to a time period reconstructed with fragments of pots and text following the sack of a city that probably existed between 1100 and 1300 BCE, in a story told orally by a man, or maybe many men, centuries later. Oh and witches and the aforementioned cyclops. What a joke.

Yeah…when the elections happen and they don’t involve buses coming from Banja Luka I’ll believe this. Otherwise it’s just Vucic castling again.

Just. Be. Honest. Make people clear you are being honest and you support them living a good life and you have ideas how to achieve that. There is no poll-tested version that’s going to work. You might as well just be honest about what you think and believe.

I will note that this column seems to have not involved talking to non-activist voters or anybody who studies voting. People don’t have fixed views on policies and they don’t vote based on the shortest distance between themselves and the candidate in 50-dimensional space.

Yes. All that fasting and self-abnegation…very much correlated with being jacked.

Just thought I’d post something non political for once. Move a bunch of dirt today. Trying to fill our new beds. Had to stop because it was hot and soil is heavy. So much more to go. It’ll be worth it next year when I’m pulling in basketfuls of green beans and okra, but boy does that feel far off.

Happy birthday to Bill Watterson, the creator of Calvin and Hobbes! Born on July 5, 1958.

Okay, setting aside the claim, what a weird hill to die on. If I had to guess, Jimmy Carter and John Quincy Adams were probably our smartest presidents, but did not do the job well. George Washington was a very good president, but not a great intellect. Just do the job and shut up about comparison.

I know Calvin’s dad is already having a moment, but every terrible “outsource precious and fleeting moments with your children to tech so that you can spend more time on your work” pitch makes me think of that one strip I never really cared about as a kid, but care a lot about as an adult.

Tesla’s the exact opposite of high quality maintenance, aren’t they? Customer service people were rewarded for talking people out of making maintenance appointments, including straight up lying. What a bizarre example.

Mr. Friedman needs to read Robert Axelrod. The best strategy for mutually beneficial cooperation is simply tit-for-tat. If you are nice to me, I won’t screw you over. If you are mean to me, I will screw you over. You won’t learn not to be mean if I don’t screw you over. Deal with it.

I find postmodernism very annoying but if you don’t understand fundamental concepts like the act of observation affecting conclusions and maybe you should account for that, I don’t know how to help you. The pursuit of truth in social sciences cannot be successful without critical perspectives.

I know a lot of folks here are gonna cheerlead this act of dissension but Kent’s claim that Israel dragged the U.S. into the 2003 invasion of Iraq is a pile of horseshit. It also raises the question of how he got a federal appointment in the first place.

Didn’t this guy have a tantrum that people weren’t being nice enough to billionaires and thus broke “the deal” where billionaires make businesses and donate money and everyone fawns all over them without any criticism?

Martin Luther lived 500 years ago. He is probably the most consequential person in Western history in the last millennium and he was about the most obsessive, most agonized person who has ever existed. Idiots.

A long time ago, I used to know a lot about foreign-imposed regime change (FIRC) and study them. I guess that makes me qualified to write a thread about them, especially in wake of Trump bombing Iran. So here goes nothing. 🧵

Why is the #DoD, the largest bureaucracy in the world with incomprehensible amounts of funding that increases every year, not training its own models rather than outsourcing to #OpenAI, #Anthropic, or anyone else? Genuinely curious.

I gotta say, the people I would have thought of for classic and recent authors that I would want taught in school before these…Steinbeck, Faulkner, Allende, Orwell, Dickens, Austen, Tolkien (if he demands fantasy), Arkady Martine (if he demands recent sci-fi)…the list just goes on from there.