Maia
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2025 seems like it was just yesterday
January 1, 2026 at 6:50 PM
2025 seems like it was just yesterday
can't believe stranger things season 5 ends with vecna being shoved off the stage of the hawkins philharmonic by none other than hometown conductor lydia tár
January 1, 2026 at 7:08 PM
can't believe stranger things season 5 ends with vecna being shoved off the stage of the hawkins philharmonic by none other than hometown conductor lydia tár
there's a guy named "bert kreischer" who's getting dunked on on tiktok for discussing with another guy whose wife they'd like to run a train on. the most surprising part of it all is that "bert kreischer" is a right wing podcaster and not a 90 year old jewish man who used to be in cpusa
December 30, 2025 at 5:07 PM
there's a guy named "bert kreischer" who's getting dunked on on tiktok for discussing with another guy whose wife they'd like to run a train on. the most surprising part of it all is that "bert kreischer" is a right wing podcaster and not a 90 year old jewish man who used to be in cpusa
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Surprised that so few people in a poll of "The Argument" subscribers could remember reading "Abundance".
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December 30, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Surprised that so few people in a poll of "The Argument" subscribers could remember reading "Abundance".
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I think it's really worth noting that literally ZERO mainstream media outlets were talking about Trump claiming a land strike on Venezuela until a few others and I noticed this post here on Sunday and started asking questions. That goes completely unacknowledged in coverage.
Trump says this December 26 in an interview with John Catsimatidis that the US destroyed a drug trafficking plant in Venezuela on Christmas Eve.
“They have a big plant. A building from where the boats leave. Two nights ago we hit them hard.”
“They have a big plant. A building from where the boats leave. Two nights ago we hit them hard.”
December 30, 2025 at 3:43 PM
I think it's really worth noting that literally ZERO mainstream media outlets were talking about Trump claiming a land strike on Venezuela until a few others and I noticed this post here on Sunday and started asking questions. That goes completely unacknowledged in coverage.
the us government, which owns the kennedy center, is responsible for keeping the kennedy center viable. guess nobody wants to perform for the trump center
This is not hard. Artists are not responsible for ensuring the Kennedy Center remains relevant and successful. The center’s board is responsible for that, in a fiduciary way. All of this energy being directed at artists should be re-directed at the board.
December 30, 2025 at 5:02 PM
the us government, which owns the kennedy center, is responsible for keeping the kennedy center viable. guess nobody wants to perform for the trump center
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Recessions hit economically vulnerable groups first.
🚨 My First Working Paper 🚨 using broader labor-utilization measures, like a U6-based @claudia-sahm.bsky.social style rule, flags recessions months before dating.
Please read + share:
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
🚨 My First Working Paper 🚨 using broader labor-utilization measures, like a U6-based @claudia-sahm.bsky.social style rule, flags recessions months before dating.
Please read + share:
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
December 30, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Recessions hit economically vulnerable groups first.
🚨 My First Working Paper 🚨 using broader labor-utilization measures, like a U6-based @claudia-sahm.bsky.social style rule, flags recessions months before dating.
Please read + share:
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
🚨 My First Working Paper 🚨 using broader labor-utilization measures, like a U6-based @claudia-sahm.bsky.social style rule, flags recessions months before dating.
Please read + share:
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
big robert gordon point - AI, self driving cars, electric vehicles, etc will never have the same growth impact as computers, cars, and electricity *because they're iterations of computers cars and electricity*
I hate these charts so much because they imply chatgpt is comparable to the internet or phones
You could create the same graphic for full screen pop-up advertising on websites and make them look like ultra-rapid technology adoption when really they were just baked unavoidably into the internet
You could create the same graphic for full screen pop-up advertising on websites and make them look like ultra-rapid technology adoption when really they were just baked unavoidably into the internet
In 2025, AI became pervasive in American life and the economy, with ChatGPT surging in adoption much faster than any other major technology in memory. @nytopinion.nytimes.com
December 30, 2025 at 5:01 PM
big robert gordon point - AI, self driving cars, electric vehicles, etc will never have the same growth impact as computers, cars, and electricity *because they're iterations of computers cars and electricity*
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I hate these charts so much because they imply chatgpt is comparable to the internet or phones
You could create the same graphic for full screen pop-up advertising on websites and make them look like ultra-rapid technology adoption when really they were just baked unavoidably into the internet
You could create the same graphic for full screen pop-up advertising on websites and make them look like ultra-rapid technology adoption when really they were just baked unavoidably into the internet
In 2025, AI became pervasive in American life and the economy, with ChatGPT surging in adoption much faster than any other major technology in memory. @nytopinion.nytimes.com
December 30, 2025 at 7:38 AM
I hate these charts so much because they imply chatgpt is comparable to the internet or phones
You could create the same graphic for full screen pop-up advertising on websites and make them look like ultra-rapid technology adoption when really they were just baked unavoidably into the internet
You could create the same graphic for full screen pop-up advertising on websites and make them look like ultra-rapid technology adoption when really they were just baked unavoidably into the internet
trans inclusive war on males i guess
Two, I very much doubt that Hankins is making up this story out of whole cloth, which leads to an obvious question: what, exactly, did the people making these decisions think was going to happen when the politics inevitably shifted?
December 30, 2025 at 4:18 PM
trans inclusive war on males i guess
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Here's what I'll say about the Hankins story:
One, much moreso than the Savage article, this one is obvious culture war grievance bait that is being used to justify the "war on whites" narrative at the heart of MAGA antiwokeness. www.compactmag.com/article/why-...
One, much moreso than the Savage article, this one is obvious culture war grievance bait that is being used to justify the "war on whites" narrative at the heart of MAGA antiwokeness. www.compactmag.com/article/why-...
Why I’m Leaving Harvard
Two weeks ago I gave my last lecture at Harvard, where I have been a history professor for forty years.
www.compactmag.com
December 30, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Here's what I'll say about the Hankins story:
One, much moreso than the Savage article, this one is obvious culture war grievance bait that is being used to justify the "war on whites" narrative at the heart of MAGA antiwokeness. www.compactmag.com/article/why-...
One, much moreso than the Savage article, this one is obvious culture war grievance bait that is being used to justify the "war on whites" narrative at the heart of MAGA antiwokeness. www.compactmag.com/article/why-...
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One of the best to ever do it
December 30, 2025 at 2:09 PM
One of the best to ever do it
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Property taxes are like libraries in that people would scream they are an impossible leftist fantasy if they hadn't already existed forever.
No my man, the answer absolutely involves taxing those gains.
December 30, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Property taxes are like libraries in that people would scream they are an impossible leftist fantasy if they hadn't already existed forever.
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December 30, 2025 at 3:59 PM
i hate how people keep saying "read curtis yarvin read curtis yarvin" to understand the modern right. yarvin doesn't have a singular original idea, just a regurgitation of burnham and hoppe with a lord of the rings filter. it's like a dietician trying to infer someone's weight by smelling their shit
December 30, 2025 at 3:30 PM
i hate how people keep saying "read curtis yarvin read curtis yarvin" to understand the modern right. yarvin doesn't have a singular original idea, just a regurgitation of burnham and hoppe with a lord of the rings filter. it's like a dietician trying to infer someone's weight by smelling their shit
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what do you even call this. gender extremism treatment? gender reductio ad absurdum? not far from getting surgery to give yourself balls the size of space hoppers
Decades of the white nationalist movement evolving to adapt to current political trends has brought them to this moment.
December 30, 2025 at 3:23 PM
what do you even call this. gender extremism treatment? gender reductio ad absurdum? not far from getting surgery to give yourself balls the size of space hoppers
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In our FAQ on the far right, @tomgpalmer.bsky.social and I write about the inherent instability of far-right coalitions. When they turn on each other it's an opportunity for liberals opposing them.
That opportunity is not that they're liberal after all.
www.theunpopulist.net/p/your-compr...
That opportunity is not that they're liberal after all.
www.theunpopulist.net/p/your-compr...
December 30, 2025 at 2:39 PM
In our FAQ on the far right, @tomgpalmer.bsky.social and I write about the inherent instability of far-right coalitions. When they turn on each other it's an opportunity for liberals opposing them.
That opportunity is not that they're liberal after all.
www.theunpopulist.net/p/your-compr...
That opportunity is not that they're liberal after all.
www.theunpopulist.net/p/your-compr...
grothendieck is a truly inspired choice
December 30, 2025 at 1:43 PM
grothendieck is a truly inspired choice
i'm sure that in the final episode of stranger things steve and nancy get back together and she dumps that creep jonathan
December 30, 2025 at 1:42 PM
i'm sure that in the final episode of stranger things steve and nancy get back together and she dumps that creep jonathan
can't believe economics would just put together a theory that only explains ~33% of total economic growth and just calls the other 66% "productivity" and pretend they understand it. that wouldn't happen in physics - instead of "productivity" they'd have "dark technology"
December 30, 2025 at 1:36 PM
can't believe economics would just put together a theory that only explains ~33% of total economic growth and just calls the other 66% "productivity" and pretend they understand it. that wouldn't happen in physics - instead of "productivity" they'd have "dark technology"
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I see he managed to squeeze some drive-by birtherism in there.
Which, I think, at least partly answers the freaks question. These people will never recover from having a Black man named “Barack Obama” as president.
Which, I think, at least partly answers the freaks question. These people will never recover from having a Black man named “Barack Obama” as president.
This is how Christopher Caldwell begins his essay on Zohran Mamdani for the Claremont Review of Books.
Why are these people such freaks?
Why are these people such freaks?
December 30, 2025 at 7:14 AM
I see he managed to squeeze some drive-by birtherism in there.
Which, I think, at least partly answers the freaks question. These people will never recover from having a Black man named “Barack Obama” as president.
Which, I think, at least partly answers the freaks question. These people will never recover from having a Black man named “Barack Obama” as president.
i met francis fukuyama and that's like, about it
Right folks. Feeling rather down at the moment so bringing back an oldie
Please Quote this with your most minor celebrity interaction
Please Quote this with your most minor celebrity interaction
December 30, 2025 at 12:52 PM
i met francis fukuyama and that's like, about it
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This is true and I was the only one on set excited about it (and playing the song on my phone to blank stares)
Just watched the new Knives Out and I think it's really important you know that the scene in the Seminary's Gym is filmed in the same place Rick Astley filmed the music video for Never Gonna Give You Up.
I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.
I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.
December 30, 2025 at 4:21 AM
This is true and I was the only one on set excited about it (and playing the song on my phone to blank stares)