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Why there never was a Vibecession in one chart.
It’s always been about the prices of essentials.
It’s always been about the prices of essentials.
November 26, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Why there never was a Vibecession in one chart.
It’s always been about the prices of essentials.
It’s always been about the prices of essentials.
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Before women, the workplace was perfect. It was full of trees. There was no need to labor with your hands. You didn’t have to wear pants, or any form of clothes. Every kind of animal was there.
Hmm I may be thinking of something else women supposedly ruined www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
Hmm I may be thinking of something else women supposedly ruined www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
Women Keep Ruining the Workplace!!
Before they arrived, of course, everything was perfect.
www.theatlantic.com
November 21, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Before women, the workplace was perfect. It was full of trees. There was no need to labor with your hands. You didn’t have to wear pants, or any form of clothes. Every kind of animal was there.
Hmm I may be thinking of something else women supposedly ruined www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
Hmm I may be thinking of something else women supposedly ruined www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
"...inflation is a further tax on hoarded currency, a tax which no poor person or household receiving a living wage really feels.
Households feel Affordability crises, a drop in their wage-income relative to other prices, which is not inflation. Relative price adjustments are never inflation."
Households feel Affordability crises, a drop in their wage-income relative to other prices, which is not inflation. Relative price adjustments are never inflation."
Tax is Not for “Cooling Off Inflation”
Why We Really Should Burn the Scorepoints — and Be Funny About It or They'll Kill You
bijou.substack.com
November 20, 2025 at 2:31 PM
"...inflation is a further tax on hoarded currency, a tax which no poor person or household receiving a living wage really feels.
Households feel Affordability crises, a drop in their wage-income relative to other prices, which is not inflation. Relative price adjustments are never inflation."
Households feel Affordability crises, a drop in their wage-income relative to other prices, which is not inflation. Relative price adjustments are never inflation."
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Hi, I’m a website, product, or service you’ve relied on for years without incident. Great news: I’ve now been revamped with a mandatory AI component that makes me unusable.
November 18, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Hi, I’m a website, product, or service you’ve relied on for years without incident. Great news: I’ve now been revamped with a mandatory AI component that makes me unusable.
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HOW VOTERS PICK A CANDIDATE:
-they observe the social environment (largely through media)
-they decide what role they want to play in that environment (respected? savvy? oppositional?)
-they pick the candidate they think fulfills that role
-they reverse-engineer an explanation for their pick
-they observe the social environment (largely through media)
-they decide what role they want to play in that environment (respected? savvy? oppositional?)
-they pick the candidate they think fulfills that role
-they reverse-engineer an explanation for their pick
October 29, 2025 at 3:56 PM
HOW VOTERS PICK A CANDIDATE:
-they observe the social environment (largely through media)
-they decide what role they want to play in that environment (respected? savvy? oppositional?)
-they pick the candidate they think fulfills that role
-they reverse-engineer an explanation for their pick
-they observe the social environment (largely through media)
-they decide what role they want to play in that environment (respected? savvy? oppositional?)
-they pick the candidate they think fulfills that role
-they reverse-engineer an explanation for their pick
"What is rarely acknowledged is that the psychological and historical appeal of meritocracy is inversely proportional to its tenability. It is in fact hard to imagine a much more utopian idea that has even been posited than meritocracy."
The Utopianism of the Meritocrats
Trumpism has long been characterized by a desperate retreat from the dangers of thinking, making a heavy reliance on cliches a requirement. One of those cliches endlessly parroted by the administratio...
www.liberalcurrents.com
October 28, 2025 at 4:39 PM
"What is rarely acknowledged is that the psychological and historical appeal of meritocracy is inversely proportional to its tenability. It is in fact hard to imagine a much more utopian idea that has even been posited than meritocracy."
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Billionaire transhumanists who seek immortality want to defeat death, but this also means they want to defeat birth & rebirth
That attempt to break cycles of renewal and decay isn’t a celebration of life. It’s an attempt to make life more like death, stable & endless rather than fleeting & precious
That attempt to break cycles of renewal and decay isn’t a celebration of life. It’s an attempt to make life more like death, stable & endless rather than fleeting & precious
October 27, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Billionaire transhumanists who seek immortality want to defeat death, but this also means they want to defeat birth & rebirth
That attempt to break cycles of renewal and decay isn’t a celebration of life. It’s an attempt to make life more like death, stable & endless rather than fleeting & precious
That attempt to break cycles of renewal and decay isn’t a celebration of life. It’s an attempt to make life more like death, stable & endless rather than fleeting & precious
We must mock the fascists!
"the massive protests took on a tone of jubilant contempt, with Trump and his various lackeys derided on signs and in effigies, with jokes that ranged from the high-minded to the vulgar."
"the massive protests took on a tone of jubilant contempt, with Trump and his various lackeys derided on signs and in effigies, with jokes that ranged from the high-minded to the vulgar."
The massive No Kings protests may mark a new American political posture | Moira Donegan
The violence Republicans seemed to want did not materialize. Instead the event showcased liberal-democratic consensus
www.theguardian.com
October 20, 2025 at 6:33 PM
We must mock the fascists!
"the massive protests took on a tone of jubilant contempt, with Trump and his various lackeys derided on signs and in effigies, with jokes that ranged from the high-minded to the vulgar."
"the massive protests took on a tone of jubilant contempt, with Trump and his various lackeys derided on signs and in effigies, with jokes that ranged from the high-minded to the vulgar."
"No one can deny the power and size of the AI coalition, an ensemble of Silicon Valley investors, lobbyists, and bought-off politicians; hucksters, carnival barkers, and gravy train chasers; and bosses gleeful at the opportunity to downsize and deskill."
Large Language Muddle | The Editors
The AI upheaval is unique in its ability to metabolize any number of dread-inducing transformations. The university is becoming more corporate, more politically oppressive, and all but hostile to the ...
www.nplusonemag.com
October 16, 2025 at 1:00 PM
"No one can deny the power and size of the AI coalition, an ensemble of Silicon Valley investors, lobbyists, and bought-off politicians; hucksters, carnival barkers, and gravy train chasers; and bosses gleeful at the opportunity to downsize and deskill."
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yearly reminder to people insisting that we view Christopher Columbus as "a man of his time" that *the people responsible for the Spanish Inquisition* thought Columbus was out of pocket
Christopher Columbus was dragged back to Spain in chains by a crusading knight, convicted of tyranny and immeasurable cruelty, pardoned by Isabella but banned from returning to Hispaniola.
Fuck Columbus.
Fuck Columbus.
October 13, 2025 at 4:38 PM
yearly reminder to people insisting that we view Christopher Columbus as "a man of his time" that *the people responsible for the Spanish Inquisition* thought Columbus was out of pocket
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🚨NEW PAPER🚨
We all know the 2022 energy price shock fueled the cost of living crisis. It also caused a profit bonanza for the very rich. We show the US reaped the largest profits ($377bn) of any country. 50% went to the richest 1%, only 1% to the bottom 50%. A🧵 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
We all know the 2022 energy price shock fueled the cost of living crisis. It also caused a profit bonanza for the very rich. We show the US reaped the largest profits ($377bn) of any country. 50% went to the richest 1%, only 1% to the bottom 50%. A🧵 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
October 8, 2025 at 4:50 PM
🚨NEW PAPER🚨
We all know the 2022 energy price shock fueled the cost of living crisis. It also caused a profit bonanza for the very rich. We show the US reaped the largest profits ($377bn) of any country. 50% went to the richest 1%, only 1% to the bottom 50%. A🧵 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
We all know the 2022 energy price shock fueled the cost of living crisis. It also caused a profit bonanza for the very rich. We show the US reaped the largest profits ($377bn) of any country. 50% went to the richest 1%, only 1% to the bottom 50%. A🧵 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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“Supercharging searing civil tensions over jarring high-profile events drives attention, jolts low-propensity voters out of their information ruts, and compels them to really take sides.” Yep, @gregsargent.bsky.social.
newrepublic.com/article/2014...
newrepublic.com/article/2014...
Inside Stephen Miller’s Secret Plan to Normalize Trump’s Dictator Rule
He wants to supercharge searing civil tensions to get low-information voters to embrace their inner authoritarian. Exactly two Democrats appear to fully grasp this.
newrepublic.com
October 8, 2025 at 2:21 PM
“Supercharging searing civil tensions over jarring high-profile events drives attention, jolts low-propensity voters out of their information ruts, and compels them to really take sides.” Yep, @gregsargent.bsky.social.
newrepublic.com/article/2014...
newrepublic.com/article/2014...
"Why not fine the companies for endangering kids or create new rules they have to follow? Why not introduce competition into a monopolized market space? Why not put consumer safety standards on the algorithms, the software, the devices themselves?"
now is not the time to ban phones
why Jonathan Haidt sucks
howtodothingswithmemes.substack.com
October 8, 2025 at 12:23 PM
"Why not fine the companies for endangering kids or create new rules they have to follow? Why not introduce competition into a monopolized market space? Why not put consumer safety standards on the algorithms, the software, the devices themselves?"
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"hand-to-hand combat with antifa every night"
October 6, 2025 at 7:45 PM
"hand-to-hand combat with antifa every night"
"Alphabet, Google, Amazon and Meta together will spend nearly $400 billion on capital expenditures in 2025 alone. At the same time, the AI industry has a combined revenue that is little more than the revenue of the smart-watch industry (Zitron 2025)."
The AI Bubble and the U.S. Economy: How Long Do “Hallucinations” Last?
This paper argues that (i) we have reached “peak GenAI” in terms of current Large Language Models (LLMs); scaling (building more data centers and using more chips) will not take us further to the goal...
www.ineteconomics.org
October 2, 2025 at 2:25 PM
"Alphabet, Google, Amazon and Meta together will spend nearly $400 billion on capital expenditures in 2025 alone. At the same time, the AI industry has a combined revenue that is little more than the revenue of the smart-watch industry (Zitron 2025)."
"until every country in the world has adequate infrastructure, every business has plentiful access to clean energy and every household enjoys all the basic durable goods, it is obscene to talk of “too much” capacity."
How I learnt to stop worrying about China’s surplus
Lessons from economic history point to the benign effects of ‘overcapacity’
www.ft.com
October 2, 2025 at 1:17 PM
"until every country in the world has adequate infrastructure, every business has plentiful access to clean energy and every household enjoys all the basic durable goods, it is obscene to talk of “too much” capacity."
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*Foucault bursts out of his grave*
A new Search Party tool built into Ring’s Neighbors service will allow people to send out a local alert if their dog goes AWOL. Once it’s triggered, all nearby Ring devices will keep an eye out for the pup. nyti.ms/3IQ3iFo
October 1, 2025 at 6:45 PM
*Foucault bursts out of his grave*
"Mamdani has run perhaps the most explicitly pro-immigrant... campaign in recent memory. Mamdani’s innovation is not simply creative cost-of-living, take-on-the-elites politics. It’s also that he’s demonstrating how to do this without retreating from the defense of pluralism writ large"
Trump’s Rage at Zohran Just Backfired in a Surprisingly Revealing Way
The Democrats who are breaking through are the ones who talk about Trump’s disastrous economic record while also leveling with the public about our slide into authoritarianism.
newrepublic.com
October 1, 2025 at 12:36 PM
"Mamdani has run perhaps the most explicitly pro-immigrant... campaign in recent memory. Mamdani’s innovation is not simply creative cost-of-living, take-on-the-elites politics. It’s also that he’s demonstrating how to do this without retreating from the defense of pluralism writ large"
"Unrivaled, which was cofounded by WNBA stars Napheesa Collier and Breanna Stewart, reportedly paid its players an average salary of $220,000 last season, with no player making less than six figures. The average salary in the WNBA is under $150,000, with the minimum at around $66,000."
Unrivaled Has Signed Nearly 90% of 2026 Roster, Salaries to Increase
Bazzell spoke to Front Office Sports from the league’s HQ in Miami as it was hosting The Future is Unrivaled summit with 14 college stars.
frontofficesports.com
September 30, 2025 at 5:52 PM
"Unrivaled, which was cofounded by WNBA stars Napheesa Collier and Breanna Stewart, reportedly paid its players an average salary of $220,000 last season, with no player making less than six figures. The average salary in the WNBA is under $150,000, with the minimum at around $66,000."
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the UK so profoundly contradicts the narrative that 'the way to win back voters is abandoning trans rights'
ok, starmer tried that & . . .
ok, starmer tried that & . . .
September 17, 2025 at 1:08 PM
the UK so profoundly contradicts the narrative that 'the way to win back voters is abandoning trans rights'
ok, starmer tried that & . . .
ok, starmer tried that & . . .
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Per John Stuart Mill in his Chapters on Socialism, the three main sources of wealth are luck, vices like "hard-hearted, cold-fisted selfishness" and sycophancy, and "downright knavery."
September 24, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Per John Stuart Mill in his Chapters on Socialism, the three main sources of wealth are luck, vices like "hard-hearted, cold-fisted selfishness" and sycophancy, and "downright knavery."
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It’s striking that across the globe, labour is consistently taxed at higher rates than capital income.
September 24, 2025 at 1:41 PM
It’s striking that across the globe, labour is consistently taxed at higher rates than capital income.
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Why do both conservatives and traditional left-wingers get so triggered by MMT, or Modern Monetary Theory?
In my latest video, I lay it out for you
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSmL...
In my latest video, I lay it out for you
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSmL...
Modern Monetary Theory - A Primer
YouTube video by Brett's Altered States of Monetary Consciousness
www.youtube.com
September 23, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Why do both conservatives and traditional left-wingers get so triggered by MMT, or Modern Monetary Theory?
In my latest video, I lay it out for you
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSmL...
In my latest video, I lay it out for you
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSmL...
"The US doctrine of combined arms and precision strikes is ignored, replaced by indiscriminate annihilation. The weapons industry created to police occupation zones across the global South...has turned inward, to supplement a modern fleet of US-made equipment of maximum destruction"
From Domination to Extermination | Shir Hever
Israel’s military industry and strategy since 1948
www.phenomenalworld.org
September 23, 2025 at 1:12 PM
"The US doctrine of combined arms and precision strikes is ignored, replaced by indiscriminate annihilation. The weapons industry created to police occupation zones across the global South...has turned inward, to supplement a modern fleet of US-made equipment of maximum destruction"