Brian Gawalt
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#ReaderBot: Brian is a quarter through Jonathan Franzen's "The Corrections" and should finish in around 21 days. [Brian's Reading List]
This is the "Concrete Economics" problem from Cohen & DeLong: without some frontier we want to push into as a nation, we fall back to letting finance call the shots of who does what where.
we verifiably do not do a good job of mitigating the societal impacts of technology on labor. this leaves us with things like the entire state of west virginia yearning for the return of the coal economy, whatever's going on with detroit, etc
This is really grim. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/28/o...
December 30, 2025 at 8:14 PM
This is the "Concrete Economics" problem from Cohen & DeLong: without some frontier we want to push into as a nation, we fall back to letting finance call the shots of who does what where.
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I met R2D2 on the street and he was not gracious at all. C3PO had to apologize for him like, he hasn’t had his crystals today. The crystals that he eats. He has to eat these it’s like cereal to him. He offered to take a pic w/me but I was like lol you are like the Ringo of this. You are below Wicket
November 24, 2025 at 10:49 AM
I met R2D2 on the street and he was not gracious at all. C3PO had to apologize for him like, he hasn’t had his crystals today. The crystals that he eats. He has to eat these it’s like cereal to him. He offered to take a pic w/me but I was like lol you are like the Ringo of this. You are below Wicket
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truly one of the geniuses of posting
December 30, 2025 at 2:25 PM
truly one of the geniuses of posting
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[new draft post] Constant real wages can hide a lot of pain https://drafts.interfluidity.com/2025/12/28/constant-real-wages-can-hide-a-lot-of-pain/index.html
December 28, 2025 at 10:06 PM
[new draft post] Constant real wages can hide a lot of pain https://drafts.interfluidity.com/2025/12/28/constant-real-wages-can-hide-a-lot-of-pain/index.html
Btw, compound inflation from this era handily comes to ~2x. So this is $4 for six wings, a deal I'll take eight days a week.
December 26, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Btw, compound inflation from this era handily comes to ~2x. So this is $4 for six wings, a deal I'll take eight days a week.
Followed the instructions in this book and started solving Rubik's Cubes for the first time
December 25, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Followed the instructions in this book and started solving Rubik's Cubes for the first time
#ReaderBot: Brian is a quarter through Jonathan Franzen's "The Corrections" and should finish in around 21 days. [Brian's Reading List]
December 25, 2025 at 11:06 AM
#ReaderBot: Brian is a quarter through Jonathan Franzen's "The Corrections" and should finish in around 21 days. [Brian's Reading List]
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The Linux Kernel is just a program: serversfor.dev/linux-inside...
The Linux kernel is just a program
Most books and courses introduce Linux through shell commands, leaving the kernel as a mysterious black box doing magic behind the scenes. In this post, we will run some experiments to demystify it: t...
serversfor.dev
December 24, 2025 at 5:18 AM
The Linux Kernel is just a program: serversfor.dev/linux-inside...
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Jodie Foster: They should have sent a poet
Poet: Aliens ahoy! A galactic sight. When you’re in space all day is night
Poet: Aliens ahoy! A galactic sight. When you’re in space all day is night
December 24, 2025 at 2:47 AM
Jodie Foster: They should have sent a poet
Poet: Aliens ahoy! A galactic sight. When you’re in space all day is night
Poet: Aliens ahoy! A galactic sight. When you’re in space all day is night
If you see me, an elder millennial, still vaguely clinging to the *idea* of effective altruism (if never the identity), it's because it started out as this
My dad once told me that rich people care more about animals than people and whenever I see them doing a fundraiser for dogs or whatever instead of paying taxes, goddamn that rings true
December 22, 2025 at 8:57 PM
If you see me, an elder millennial, still vaguely clinging to the *idea* of effective altruism (if never the identity), it's because it started out as this
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Every time I see the mac System Information icon all my brain thinks is: Onigiri
December 22, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Every time I see the mac System Information icon all my brain thinks is: Onigiri
PETCHOW [ruff ruff!] /
PETCHOW [ruff ruff!] /
PETCHOW [ruff ruff!] /
(ʀᴀᴛ ᴘᴏɪsᴏɴ)/
youtube.com/watch?v=IprSkoPs2aQ
PETCHOW [ruff ruff!] /
PETCHOW [ruff ruff!] /
(ʀᴀᴛ ᴘᴏɪsᴏɴ)/
youtube.com/watch?v=IprSkoPs2aQ
December 22, 2025 at 4:51 PM
PETCHOW [ruff ruff!] /
PETCHOW [ruff ruff!] /
PETCHOW [ruff ruff!] /
(ʀᴀᴛ ᴘᴏɪsᴏɴ)/
youtube.com/watch?v=IprSkoPs2aQ
PETCHOW [ruff ruff!] /
PETCHOW [ruff ruff!] /
(ʀᴀᴛ ᴘᴏɪsᴏɴ)/
youtube.com/watch?v=IprSkoPs2aQ
couldn't tell whether i was missing a "we put the new yorker header on a tumblr post" joke, but nope, it's real, and for sale:
condenaststore.com/featured/mom...
condenaststore.com/featured/mom...
December 22, 2025 at 7:24 AM
couldn't tell whether i was missing a "we put the new yorker header on a tumblr post" joke, but nope, it's real, and for sale:
condenaststore.com/featured/mom...
condenaststore.com/featured/mom...
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December 22, 2025 at 4:09 AM
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who calls the shots where you get your news? defector.com/products
December 22, 2025 at 2:23 AM
who calls the shots where you get your news? defector.com/products
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Oh, so that's where that's from!
December 21, 2025 at 12:04 AM
Oh, so that's where that's from!
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I like this poster that looks like Frankenstein is skanking.
December 19, 2025 at 6:02 PM
I like this poster that looks like Frankenstein is skanking.
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A surprisingly accessible introduction to cryptographic theory in the context of... Super Mario Brothers, and the construction of a cryptographically insoluble Super Mario level by exploiting the blink pattern of flying clown cars. Yes, really. www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrBe...
How the Blinking Animation of a Clown Car Revolutionizes Super Mario Maker Cryptography.
YouTube video by Ceave Gaming
www.youtube.com
December 12, 2025 at 10:04 PM
A surprisingly accessible introduction to cryptographic theory in the context of... Super Mario Brothers, and the construction of a cryptographically insoluble Super Mario level by exploiting the blink pattern of flying clown cars. Yes, really. www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrBe...
we went to an art show/concert thing a year ago and one of the acts was a seven piece orchestra doing a philip glass number. which i love in general and loved there! but after a minute i began growing apologetically guilty over how they had to loop like that frantically for so so so long.
December 19, 2025 at 7:05 PM
we went to an art show/concert thing a year ago and one of the acts was a seven piece orchestra doing a philip glass number. which i love in general and loved there! but after a minute i began growing apologetically guilty over how they had to loop like that frantically for so so so long.
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The only solution is multiparty institutional reforms. These people exist in every rich democracy. They're 15-25% of the population. But other countries have electoral/legislative institutions that allow the pro-democracy supermajority, split among other parties, to govern
bsky.app/profile/mcop...
bsky.app/profile/mcop...
This is a grim read. I don't know how we construct even a semi-functional party system when the rising generation of Republican leaders are going to be even more Nazi than the current batch. www.city-journal.org/article/manh...
Everyone Wants to Know What Gen Z Republicans Think. We Asked Them.
Twenty GOP Zoomers on Trump, Hitler, dating, racism, politics, the economy, and more
www.city-journal.org
December 19, 2025 at 6:45 PM
The only solution is multiparty institutional reforms. These people exist in every rich democracy. They're 15-25% of the population. But other countries have electoral/legislative institutions that allow the pro-democracy supermajority, split among other parties, to govern
bsky.app/profile/mcop...
bsky.app/profile/mcop...
This really does hit the spot
www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwVR...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwVR...
December 19, 2025 at 6:24 PM
This really does hit the spot
www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwVR...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwVR...
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Now term is over I can return to my true passion: 40k fanfic. This is one of those ones where I had a sci-fi idea ("what if there were a device that ruined your life if you have social anxiety?") and then loosely framed a plot around it. Enjoy!
sherdenpact.neocities.org/device
sherdenpact.neocities.org/device
Sherden Pact
sherdenpact.neocities.org
December 16, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Now term is over I can return to my true passion: 40k fanfic. This is one of those ones where I had a sci-fi idea ("what if there were a device that ruined your life if you have social anxiety?") and then loosely framed a plot around it. Enjoy!
sherdenpact.neocities.org/device
sherdenpact.neocities.org/device
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Mods are asleep post the forbidden version of Fargo that was directed by Kathy Bates starring Edie Falco.
December 19, 2025 at 2:53 AM
Mods are asleep post the forbidden version of Fargo that was directed by Kathy Bates starring Edie Falco.
my friend mikey p shares an old microhobby he had where he would overlay the audio from movie trailer A onto video of movie trailer B with zero additional effort and it would work to a surprising extent. pulling at ~random, here's pacific rim 2 x avengers 2, it's comical: crossfade.io#!/9354x3nw9t
crossfade.io
crossfade.io
December 18, 2025 at 11:31 PM
my friend mikey p shares an old microhobby he had where he would overlay the audio from movie trailer A onto video of movie trailer B with zero additional effort and it would work to a surprising extent. pulling at ~random, here's pacific rim 2 x avengers 2, it's comical: crossfade.io#!/9354x3nw9t
Wrapping Christmas presents listening to Jòhann Jòhannssonn, which is seasonally appropriate. This song is appropriate for the season, winter. youtu.be/-jAYc7Ir5pI
Tu Non Mi Perderai Mai
YouTube video by Jóhann Jóhannsson - Topic
youtu.be
December 18, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Wrapping Christmas presents listening to Jòhann Jòhannssonn, which is seasonally appropriate. This song is appropriate for the season, winter. youtu.be/-jAYc7Ir5pI