Adam Daniel-Wayman
@adwayman.bsky.social
i've used twitter for 14 years so it's too late to pretend i'm not into this
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Good statement from the US conference of Catholic Bishops
November 14, 2025 at 2:17 AM
Good statement from the US conference of Catholic Bishops
everything about the questions asked in this section about residential retail exhausts me! inertial conservatism will fight tooth and nail to preserve euclidean zoning.
Up now: corner stores. The original recommendation to allow small retail uses within neighbourhoods was watered down at committee, but the recommendation to allow retail uses along designated major streets remains. secure.toronto.ca/council/agen...
Agenda Item History 2025.PH25.3
Agenda Item History 2025.PH25.3
secure.toronto.ca
November 13, 2025 at 6:10 PM
everything about the questions asked in this section about residential retail exhausts me! inertial conservatism will fight tooth and nail to preserve euclidean zoning.
darkly fascinating episode in hegseth's pentagon where the purge of women reaches into special operations and you get retired maga seals being profanely shocked pikachu about it.
www.thedailybeast.com/pentagon-pet...
www.thedailybeast.com/pentagon-pet...
Pentagon Pete Accused of Forcing Out SEAL Team Six Heroine
The Navy captain’s orders were revoked just days before she was supposed to take over a new command.
www.thedailybeast.com
November 12, 2025 at 1:56 AM
darkly fascinating episode in hegseth's pentagon where the purge of women reaches into special operations and you get retired maga seals being profanely shocked pikachu about it.
www.thedailybeast.com/pentagon-pet...
www.thedailybeast.com/pentagon-pet...
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books have no tech tree, no fog of war
November 10, 2025 at 8:13 PM
books have no tech tree, no fog of war
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Correct
If the reform focuses on ICE because they're the Big Baddies in the popular mind, it'll completely miss the fact that the actual worst actor (so far) and the one with an internal culture most prone to be trumpist brownshirts is the BP
If the reform focuses on ICE because they're the Big Baddies in the popular mind, it'll completely miss the fact that the actual worst actor (so far) and the one with an internal culture most prone to be trumpist brownshirts is the BP
I understand this argument but I disagree: being precise about who is doing this stuff matters, especially since we will eventually have to determine what to do in the future if reform becomes possible.
I somewhat agree with you about political messaging, but that’s not what I’m trying to do.
I somewhat agree with you about political messaging, but that’s not what I’m trying to do.
It's fine and good to note that CBP is extra bad, but from a political messaging point of view, ICE is the way people identify the larger group and being Technically Correct is often just bad political messaging. It's ICE to the public. They're all on the same Gestapo mission.
November 8, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Correct
If the reform focuses on ICE because they're the Big Baddies in the popular mind, it'll completely miss the fact that the actual worst actor (so far) and the one with an internal culture most prone to be trumpist brownshirts is the BP
If the reform focuses on ICE because they're the Big Baddies in the popular mind, it'll completely miss the fact that the actual worst actor (so far) and the one with an internal culture most prone to be trumpist brownshirts is the BP
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Interesting to see @meganwachspress.bsky.social observe that the Sierra Club’s staff were clear-eyed about the need for clean energy development while the *members/small-dollar donor base* were more resistant to it.
I was at the Sierra Club during the period described in this article and although I have my criticisms, it gets the issues in the Club fundamentally wrong. A 🧵
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/u...
The Sierra Club Embraced Social Justice. Then It Tore Itself Apart.
www.nytimes.com
November 7, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Interesting to see @meganwachspress.bsky.social observe that the Sierra Club’s staff were clear-eyed about the need for clean energy development while the *members/small-dollar donor base* were more resistant to it.
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November 7, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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If sandwich shops don’t start offering a sandwich named “the acquittal” then what are we even doing
November 6, 2025 at 9:27 PM
If sandwich shops don’t start offering a sandwich named “the acquittal” then what are we even doing
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Ellis begins by quoting from Carl Sandburg's "Chicago": www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...
Chicago
Laughing the stormy, husky, brawling laughter of Youth, half-naked, sweating, proud to be Hog Butcher, Tool Maker, Stacker of Wheat, Player with Railroads and Freight Handler to the Nation.
www.poetryfoundation.org
November 6, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Ellis begins by quoting from Carl Sandburg's "Chicago": www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...
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The factional grifters will hate this, but the Mamdani-Spanberger-Sherrill axis actually suggests the outlines of a broad, emerging Dem coalition organized around both anti-Trump *and* affordability politics, not a party bitterly divided against itself.
These big wins will embolden Dems to take on Trump's lawbreaking and show there's a price for GOP enabling of him. Folks hate to hear this, but normal patterns are asserting themselves: Liberalism isn't dead, Rs are likely to lose in 2026, and Trump is really unpopular, not a magical exception.
November 5, 2025 at 2:48 AM
The factional grifters will hate this, but the Mamdani-Spanberger-Sherrill axis actually suggests the outlines of a broad, emerging Dem coalition organized around both anti-Trump *and* affordability politics, not a party bitterly divided against itself.
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I truly never thought I’d see the day when Marin County voters went pro-housing; but they appear to have opted to upzone parts of Sausalito(!) and rejected the housing-centric recall effort against the mayor of Fairfax.
November 5, 2025 at 7:28 PM
I truly never thought I’d see the day when Marin County voters went pro-housing; but they appear to have opted to upzone parts of Sausalito(!) and rejected the housing-centric recall effort against the mayor of Fairfax.
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American left-wing patriotism is Jewish guys signing Christian anti-slavery hymns about the first Muslim mayor of New York and I think that’s beautiful
LET THE HERO BORN OF WOMAN CRUSH THE SERPENT WITH HIS HEEL
November 5, 2025 at 3:09 AM
American left-wing patriotism is Jewish guys signing Christian anti-slavery hymns about the first Muslim mayor of New York and I think that’s beautiful
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Bluesky rn
November 5, 2025 at 3:04 AM
Bluesky rn
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anyway my broader actual take on the issue is that Jain, Grumbach, and Bonica are all basically good faith actors disagreeing on an extremely complex epistemological problem from slighlty differing perspectives (isolating causality vs. prediction) and the Nate Silver is an asshole.
October 27, 2025 at 9:10 PM
anyway my broader actual take on the issue is that Jain, Grumbach, and Bonica are all basically good faith actors disagreeing on an extremely complex epistemological problem from slighlty differing perspectives (isolating causality vs. prediction) and the Nate Silver is an asshole.
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Nine months ago I put most of my hope in major institutions continuing to hold fascism in check, but had little expectation that regular people with little to no power would step up and put themselves at risk.
I had it exactly backward.
I had it exactly backward.
signs like these are up all over Chicago cafes and storefronts (here, cafes in Brighton Park and Back of the Yards) warning ICE not to enter without a judicial warrant
October 26, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Nine months ago I put most of my hope in major institutions continuing to hold fascism in check, but had little expectation that regular people with little to no power would step up and put themselves at risk.
I had it exactly backward.
I had it exactly backward.
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I’m a small d democrat out of the zeal of true belief, sure. But also because it’s actually the way things happen. Heroes generally don’t wear capes. They mostly do small things together that add up to big things in the end. And it has ever been thus.
Nine months ago I put most of my hope in major institutions continuing to hold fascism in check, but had little expectation that regular people with little to no power would step up and put themselves at risk.
I had it exactly backward.
I had it exactly backward.
signs like these are up all over Chicago cafes and storefronts (here, cafes in Brighton Park and Back of the Yards) warning ICE not to enter without a judicial warrant
October 26, 2025 at 2:03 AM
I’m a small d democrat out of the zeal of true belief, sure. But also because it’s actually the way things happen. Heroes generally don’t wear capes. They mostly do small things together that add up to big things in the end. And it has ever been thus.
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One of the big things with the cost of games is that a wildly successful game like Cyberpunk can sell between 4.25 and 5 times the copies of an early 90s game and make 2.4, 2.6 times the revenue. All else being equal, marginal profitability would be about half that of the older game.
I ran crude revenue estimates. Maximum possible revenue for Sonic 2 is ~$756 million in contemporary dollars (between 6 and 7 million copies sold). Maximum for Cyberpunk 2077+Phantom Liberty is ~$1.96 billion, in contemporary dollars. At best, 2.6x the revenue for, at best, 4.7x the fixed costs.
October 23, 2025 at 4:08 PM
One of the big things with the cost of games is that a wildly successful game like Cyberpunk can sell between 4.25 and 5 times the copies of an early 90s game and make 2.4, 2.6 times the revenue. All else being equal, marginal profitability would be about half that of the older game.
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Today @economicsecurityproject.org released its Affordability Framework by Becky Chao and myself.
As affordability remains central to economic debates, it's helpful to step back to see the key drivers of the crisis and build a theory of the case. /1 economicsecurityproject.org/resource/aff...
As affordability remains central to economic debates, it's helpful to step back to see the key drivers of the crisis and build a theory of the case. /1 economicsecurityproject.org/resource/aff...
The Affordability Framework - Economic Security Project
This report introduces a two-part framework, identifying 1) broken markets and 2) broken incomes as dual drivers of the affordability crisis. This framework assesses the forces driving up costs for Am...
economicsecurityproject.org
October 22, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Today @economicsecurityproject.org released its Affordability Framework by Becky Chao and myself.
As affordability remains central to economic debates, it's helpful to step back to see the key drivers of the crisis and build a theory of the case. /1 economicsecurityproject.org/resource/aff...
As affordability remains central to economic debates, it's helpful to step back to see the key drivers of the crisis and build a theory of the case. /1 economicsecurityproject.org/resource/aff...
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we’re at the intermission of Hadestown, pretty good so far, but confused as to why they haven’t used any boons yet? not even a Daedalus hammer??
October 22, 2025 at 3:58 AM
we’re at the intermission of Hadestown, pretty good so far, but confused as to why they haven’t used any boons yet? not even a Daedalus hammer??
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pleased to announce that there seems to be a passive-aggressive conflict roiling the august pages of Cooks Illustrated, Fall Harvest recipes edition. allow me to explain:
October 20, 2025 at 3:35 AM
pleased to announce that there seems to be a passive-aggressive conflict roiling the august pages of Cooks Illustrated, Fall Harvest recipes edition. allow me to explain:
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my meanest take is that I will trust academics on radicalism and political organization when they have fixed through collective action the academic publishing system.
a hot take about academia: it is both too activist and not activist enough. the endless focus on problematizing critiquing, etc etc often degenerates into navel gazing, while there is often a lack of high-quality outcome oriented empirical work on "what could make social institution XYZ work better"
October 20, 2025 at 5:53 PM
my meanest take is that I will trust academics on radicalism and political organization when they have fixed through collective action the academic publishing system.
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a hot take about academia: it is both too activist and not activist enough. the endless focus on problematizing critiquing, etc etc often degenerates into navel gazing, while there is often a lack of high-quality outcome oriented empirical work on "what could make social institution XYZ work better"
October 20, 2025 at 5:32 PM
a hot take about academia: it is both too activist and not activist enough. the endless focus on problematizing critiquing, etc etc often degenerates into navel gazing, while there is often a lack of high-quality outcome oriented empirical work on "what could make social institution XYZ work better"
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I found @kjephd.bsky.social's demcoracy for busy people very valuable because it was so focused on "how should we think about things as they actually exist? how can actually existing things be made better?" rather than "guess what? Liberalism? It's 𝓹𝓻𝓸𝓫𝓵𝓮𝓶𝓪𝓽𝓲𝓬"
October 20, 2025 at 5:38 PM
I found @kjephd.bsky.social's demcoracy for busy people very valuable because it was so focused on "how should we think about things as they actually exist? how can actually existing things be made better?" rather than "guess what? Liberalism? It's 𝓹𝓻𝓸𝓫𝓵𝓮𝓶𝓪𝓽𝓲𝓬"
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goddamn it's just a perfect sentence, wish I came up with it instead of the parking lot lady
October 20, 2025 at 7:04 PM
goddamn it's just a perfect sentence, wish I came up with it instead of the parking lot lady
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Everything Worse
@walshfreedom.bsky.social I thought you'd want to see this. People are waking up. I hope it's more numerous than that. But it looks like we're seeing people starting to wake up.
October 20, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Everything Worse