Steve Randy Waldman

And not a single one has won a FIFA Peace Prize

social media is a reminder that the choice has always been introversion or misanthropy. only with peephole to the stupid human tricks in your pocket 24/7, it’s hard even for introverts to choose sufficient isolation.

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That this is in THE WASHINGTON POST is almost too much irony to bear.

When people experience nothing but personalist politics, their political imagination atrophies. Israelis vote for the party whose head they want as PM, and don't notice that they have no political apparatus to get things done. So they get despondent and turn inward, away from political engagement.

one must await the consent of the dead.

I’m not a political journalist, so was gladly surprised at the community I found here last night. To Americans anxious about the upcoming elections, a key thing we learned in Brazil that might help you: DO NOT engage with the far-right online. Don’t share rage bait. Amplify your people. Ignore them.

Lula has done it again 🫶🇧🇷

there must surely be a military-technical solution to constipation.

I haven’t slept a full night in three weeks ahead of the polls opening in Brazil today. I might be shouting into a void here, but if you can spare a few seconds to send good energy towards our elections today and for the largest country in South America to beat fascism, please do so. 🇧🇷

We are watching a coup d’état attempt unfold in real time in Brazil. I’m consumed by desperation.

data center joke

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i am an awesomist, which means i believe in things that are awesome and all the things that awesome people believe. you, of course, are free to disagree with me.

A hypothesis about the AI debt bubble: peterdorman.substack.com/p/explaining...

If anyone in Brazil needs help making a decision, you can’t seriously elect anyone on this continent as president who takes their orientation from the current US, which is in the process of very successfully ruining itself.

how do people justify this? ht @johncarlbaker.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/10/24/o...

I'm thrilled to be launching Econvitals today. It's been the main way in which I have been tracking and understanding the economy over the last several months. And I decided I might as well share it with all of you--for free. Has a combo of website, email lists & social media.

The richest 1% owns 47% of stocks among households GS Top 10% claims 87%

For the technocrat, "the business of politics is, at best, a kind of antipolitics: placating and distracting the masses sufficiently well to keep them away from any of the actual levers of power."

"immense wealth and control of information in a small number of tech-industry figures whose personal interests do not align with the public interest." // the true alignment problem

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one way to look at it is the enterprise is contaminated by its history and must be undone. rebuilt from purer roots. another way to look at it is all that misery should not have been endured in vain.

The Monkey's Paw bit here is that the Treasury Secretary my end up being right about the future direction of both USDJPY and US Treasury duration, but the reason for his being right about both things is a significant US tech/equity correction.

i hate this.

Krugman is a liberal economist but even still 10 years ago I couldn't imagine him calling for expropriation and (temporary) nationalization of a major company. What stage of capitalism is this? paulkrugman.substack.com/p/its-time-t...

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Just as a private equity firm buys out a corporation and strips it for parts, a consultant class is raiding the Democratic Party and getting “generationally wealthy” along the way New from me and @adambonica.bsky.social newrepublic.com/article/2163...

maybe we could convert them into dead malls.

lol free idea for science fiction writers: AI bubble pops and the husks of hyperscale data centres all get converted into concentration camps i mean after all what is a data centre besides a giant concrete box with potable water

how easily do data centers convert into housing?

the chart Krugman republishes gives a quite different spin than the widely cited www.federalreserve.gov/publications... even before the recent turn. you can reconcile them, if you call roughly half the population “okay 🤷‍♂️”, but it doesn’t look so great.

🔥 MEMPHIS to the city council: “YOU WORK FOR US NOT ELON MUSK” What a pic. (H/T councilman @jbsmileyjr.bsky.social — who voted for the moratorium, which failed 6-6)

"By starting from a position of 'respect for the problem', and treating public consent as one of the essential inputs to an infrastructure project…[France] deal[s] with the political problem at the level of the political system, rather than trying to shift it into the legal and regulatory framework"

Bad day to launch my PHP based certificate authority

502 Bad Gateway on interfluidity.com main ‘til I know more about this. i’ve disabled php. i’ve been meaning to sunset WordPress for a long time. this adds to the urgency. drafts.interfluidity.com is a static site, so it’s fine. hooray!

i tried to get over myself i just ended up with my head up my ass.

i think it’s best to be obtuse and not perceive even what others might describe as obvious slights.

“At this point anyone who says something like ‘We should look forward, not back’ is making it significantly less likely that we will have anything to look forward to.” @paulkrugman.substack.com.web.brid.gy paulkrugman.substack.com/p/nerobefehl...