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Law/Engineering. Energy Economist. Energy Market Policy Junkie, w/ an unhealthy MENA + Medieval History obsession. Market Design. Some Heterodox Econ. 🏗 ☦️
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is there a program with a design as overly ambitious as the system they have set up for disciplining welfare recipients anywhere else in australian government?
Sometimes defective, maybe unlawful: what can be done about Australia’s crisis-ridden welfare system?
Sometimes defective, maybe unlawful: what can be done about Australia’s crisis-ridden welfare system?
Run by multiple departments and hundreds of private companies, advocates warn errors will continue to rock a system ‘in crisis’
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It’s a system designed to help Australians who most need it. Yet its created continuous scandals, with parts of it paused because the government can’t say if it’s operating legally.
Hundreds and thousands of Centrelink clients are affected by its frequent problems, being charged or overpaying debts incorrectly calculated as another class action is launched. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
October 25, 2025 at 7:00 AM
is there a program with a design as overly ambitious as the system they have set up for disciplining welfare recipients anywhere else in australian government?
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This is quite brilliantly written. A far better piece of journalism than anything you will find in the NYT
I havent read such a banger of an essay in a very long time. This is so well-written!
Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
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November 8, 2025 at 11:44 PM
This is quite brilliantly written. A far better piece of journalism than anything you will find in the NYT
Why wouldn’t requiring the corporate veil to be pierceable as a condition of private ownership in utilities regulation fix the moral hazard & hold-up problems PE LBOs create in electricity and water? Isn't abuse of the corporate form the key issue?
November 9, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Why wouldn’t requiring the corporate veil to be pierceable as a condition of private ownership in utilities regulation fix the moral hazard & hold-up problems PE LBOs create in electricity and water? Isn't abuse of the corporate form the key issue?
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“The elites are ecstatic about imagining a vast, uneducated, and unproductive population forced to pay companies like OpenAI to access the written word and to approximate thought.”
Must read piece by Noah McCormack with too many quotaboe lines to select one! thebaffler.com/salvos/we-us...
Must read piece by Noah McCormack with too many quotaboe lines to select one! thebaffler.com/salvos/we-us...
We Used to Read Things in This Country | Noah McCormack
Technology changes us—and it is currently changing us for the worse.
thebaffler.com
November 2, 2025 at 5:12 PM
“The elites are ecstatic about imagining a vast, uneducated, and unproductive population forced to pay companies like OpenAI to access the written word and to approximate thought.”
Must read piece by Noah McCormack with too many quotaboe lines to select one! thebaffler.com/salvos/we-us...
Must read piece by Noah McCormack with too many quotaboe lines to select one! thebaffler.com/salvos/we-us...
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*This* is how the left should be talking about Mamdani's fiscal prospects & challenges. Rather than reify private market prices while fetishizing liberal budget-balancing, Weber challenges the political composition of pricing in the first place. Bravo!
Zohran Mamdani shows how Democrats can defeat authoritarians like Trump | Isabella Weber
Democrats have two choices: fight to make life affordable again for ordinary people or watch voters embrace authoritarians
www.theguardian.com
November 8, 2025 at 1:09 PM
*This* is how the left should be talking about Mamdani's fiscal prospects & challenges. Rather than reify private market prices while fetishizing liberal budget-balancing, Weber challenges the political composition of pricing in the first place. Bravo!
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This great thread raises some questions worth thinking over:
1. Is all electricity demand equivalent, or should grid policy distinguish between demand that provides essential services (e.g. hospitals) and demand that doesn't (e.g. computers mining crypto in air conditioned warehouses)?
1. Is all electricity demand equivalent, or should grid policy distinguish between demand that provides essential services (e.g. hospitals) and demand that doesn't (e.g. computers mining crypto in air conditioned warehouses)?
I reckon the most interesting subset of discourse here is when presumed [good] factors are actually either actually bad, or there to downplay or dismiss the bad even if the amount of good is way smaller than the bad.
A short thread to explain: on "training for electrification" + "demand response"
A short thread to explain: on "training for electrification" + "demand response"
I would love it if public discourse on data centers could be just a skosh more sophisticated than "data centers good vs. data centers bad."
November 7, 2025 at 12:58 PM
This great thread raises some questions worth thinking over:
1. Is all electricity demand equivalent, or should grid policy distinguish between demand that provides essential services (e.g. hospitals) and demand that doesn't (e.g. computers mining crypto in air conditioned warehouses)?
1. Is all electricity demand equivalent, or should grid policy distinguish between demand that provides essential services (e.g. hospitals) and demand that doesn't (e.g. computers mining crypto in air conditioned warehouses)?
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TRANSITION CO-CHAIR LINA KHAN!?!?!??!
November 5, 2025 at 4:38 PM
TRANSITION CO-CHAIR LINA KHAN!?!?!??!
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Excellent.
Mamdani is a Magnetist. And last night showed the credulity chasm is closing.
www.weekendreading.net/p/bringing-a...
www.weekendreading.net/p/bringing-a...
Bringing a Survey to a Gun Fight
“Pollingism” Has Failed Democrats and Voters. Here’s Why, and What to Do Instead.
www.weekendreading.net
November 5, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Excellent.
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this is quite a chart.
i wonder if it reflects a view that states will no longer act effectively against the use of cryptographic privacy to engage in criminal behavior.
i wonder if it reflects a view that states will no longer act effectively against the use of cryptographic privacy to engage in criminal behavior.
November 6, 2025 at 2:11 PM
this is quite a chart.
i wonder if it reflects a view that states will no longer act effectively against the use of cryptographic privacy to engage in criminal behavior.
i wonder if it reflects a view that states will no longer act effectively against the use of cryptographic privacy to engage in criminal behavior.
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This is what a New Era looks like.
November 5, 2025 at 11:57 PM
This is what a New Era looks like.
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I can't stop laughing at this.
The look on the South Korean President's face? Tell me he doesn't know he's trolling. Fuckin delicious 🤣
The look on the South Korean President's face? Tell me he doesn't know he's trolling. Fuckin delicious 🤣
November 2, 2025 at 10:00 AM
I can't stop laughing at this.
The look on the South Korean President's face? Tell me he doesn't know he's trolling. Fuckin delicious 🤣
The look on the South Korean President's face? Tell me he doesn't know he's trolling. Fuckin delicious 🤣
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Oh, the neocons are gonna find some secret weapon to stop the groypers? Would this be the same one they used to stop Trump?
www.unpopularfront.news/p/who-will-w...
www.unpopularfront.news/p/who-will-w...
Who Will Win the GOP Civil War?
Hint: Not the Neocons.
www.unpopularfront.news
November 4, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Oh, the neocons are gonna find some secret weapon to stop the groypers? Would this be the same one they used to stop Trump?
www.unpopularfront.news/p/who-will-w...
www.unpopularfront.news/p/who-will-w...
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Nice piece from Verdad on this paper that once again confirms: private markets are a socially acceptable grift
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
October 28, 2025 at 3:59 AM
Nice piece from Verdad on this paper that once again confirms: private markets are a socially acceptable grift
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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The private equity presidency is deeply unpopular, who'd have thought
November 5, 2025 at 7:11 AM
The private equity presidency is deeply unpopular, who'd have thought
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“getting rid of anticircumvention laws only requires…govts control their own behavior—unlike taxing or fining companies, which only works if govts can control the behavior of companies that have proven…to be more powerful than any country in the world.” ~Cory Doctorow pluralistic.net/2025/11/01/r...
Pluralistic: There’s one thing EVERY government can do to shrink Big Tech (01 Nov 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
pluralistic.net
November 4, 2025 at 11:31 PM
“getting rid of anticircumvention laws only requires…govts control their own behavior—unlike taxing or fining companies, which only works if govts can control the behavior of companies that have proven…to be more powerful than any country in the world.” ~Cory Doctorow pluralistic.net/2025/11/01/r...
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Hahahaha. That reporter must be crawling out of their own skin
But wine importer Bill DeBlasio did give the reporter what they wanted to hear
www.semafor.com/article/10/2...
www.semafor.com/article/10/2...
October 30, 2025 at 7:40 AM
Hahahaha. That reporter must be crawling out of their own skin
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“I need cash”
Oh good, ChatGPT is getting "erotica for verified adults" later this year
October 14, 2025 at 10:02 PM
“I need cash”
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@brianpotter.bsky.social new book is superb and you should all buy it, if not for yourself then for a high functioning autist in your life. The cover itself says “Hey remember How Things Work? That kids book you looked at for hours? Yeah you are our target audience.”
October 18, 2025 at 11:15 PM
@brianpotter.bsky.social new book is superb and you should all buy it, if not for yourself then for a high functioning autist in your life. The cover itself says “Hey remember How Things Work? That kids book you looked at for hours? Yeah you are our target audience.”
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I’m convinced that this is the right way to think about free buses. It’s not just a question of the same people making the same trips but not paying. It’s valuable insofar as it changes what kinds of trips people feel they can make.
imagine if getting across town was just a totally inconsequential thing you could do without any drama or anything. nobody asks if you paid, nobody needs to see your pass, nobody bothers you at all. you get on, you go someplace, you get off.
doctor, park, work, food truck you saw online, whatever.
doctor, park, work, food truck you saw online, whatever.
October 22, 2025 at 1:25 PM
I’m convinced that this is the right way to think about free buses. It’s not just a question of the same people making the same trips but not paying. It’s valuable insofar as it changes what kinds of trips people feel they can make.
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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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“The problems of racial injustice and economic injustice cannot be solved without a radical redistribution of political and economic power” — Martin Luther King Jr.
October 24, 2025 at 4:01 PM
“The problems of racial injustice and economic injustice cannot be solved without a radical redistribution of political and economic power” — Martin Luther King Jr.
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I'm excited to announce the release of our new, open access book, Governing Differences, co-edited with Paul Dragos Aligica.
New #OpenAccess title: Governing Differences, Social Diversity, Polycentric Political Economy and Modus Vivendi, edited by Paul Dragos Aligica and @jmurtazashvili.bsky.social
Read the entire book for 🆓 at: doi.org/10.4337/9781...
#PoliticalScience #PublicPolicy #PoliticalPhilosophy
Read the entire book for 🆓 at: doi.org/10.4337/9781...
#PoliticalScience #PublicPolicy #PoliticalPhilosophy
May 28, 2025 at 2:12 PM
I'm excited to announce the release of our new, open access book, Governing Differences, co-edited with Paul Dragos Aligica.
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"The United States must move beyond the broken models of the past and embrace an approach centered on human agency, economic opportunity, and local ownership," writes TPN member Faisal Saeed al Mutar with @jmurtazashvili.bsky.social.
nationalinterest.org/feature/reim...
nationalinterest.org/feature/reim...
Reimagining US Foreign Aid as a Tool for Change
A smarter, more targeted approach to foreign aid can foster real development without wasting taxpayer money.
nationalinterest.org
August 4, 2025 at 1:12 PM
"The United States must move beyond the broken models of the past and embrace an approach centered on human agency, economic opportunity, and local ownership," writes TPN member Faisal Saeed al Mutar with @jmurtazashvili.bsky.social.
nationalinterest.org/feature/reim...
nationalinterest.org/feature/reim...