@natbas.bsky.social
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The main difference between Trump and the “traditional” neoliberals turns out to be their optimism or pessimism regarding durable control of government, not their view on whether neoliberals ought to control economic institutions.
My today's Substack:
Trump: Neoliberal agenda pursued by direct means
branko2f7.substack.com/p/trump-neol...
Trump: Neoliberal agenda pursued by direct means
branko2f7.substack.com/p/trump-neol...
Trump: Neoliberal agenda pursued by direct means
Forget for the moment the fuss between Trump and the Fed that is going on now.
branko2f7.substack.com
August 29, 2025 at 3:52 AM
The main difference between Trump and the “traditional” neoliberals turns out to be their optimism or pessimism regarding durable control of government, not their view on whether neoliberals ought to control economic institutions.
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“I already presume to know everything about everything and therefore anything new you are reporting has no value” is one of the most irritating undercurrents of Internet Discourse, and also a hallmark of an Idiocracy.
August 16, 2025 at 3:17 PM
“I already presume to know everything about everything and therefore anything new you are reporting has no value” is one of the most irritating undercurrents of Internet Discourse, and also a hallmark of an Idiocracy.
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13/ "As Cameron Abadi and I discuss in the podcast... if you were thinking geopolitically, why would you impose such a heavy tariff on India of all countries?
Doesn’t Trump know that India is America’s big balancing act in the Indo-Pacific struggle with China"
adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-...
Doesn’t Trump know that India is America’s big balancing act in the Indo-Pacific struggle with China"
adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-...
Chartbook 403 Trump as a Gulliver ... with no clothes.
It is hard to make sense of Trump’s understanding of international trade and tariffs according to any conventional rationale.
adamtooze.substack.com
August 14, 2025 at 7:19 PM
13/ "As Cameron Abadi and I discuss in the podcast... if you were thinking geopolitically, why would you impose such a heavy tariff on India of all countries?
Doesn’t Trump know that India is America’s big balancing act in the Indo-Pacific struggle with China"
adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-...
Doesn’t Trump know that India is America’s big balancing act in the Indo-Pacific struggle with China"
adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-...
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read this Brilliant & brooding piece by @kyla.bsky.social on the three different americas
kyla.substack.com/p/how-ai-healthcare-and-labubu-became
kyla.substack.com/p/how-ai-healthcare-and-labubu-became
August 8, 2025 at 4:18 AM
read this Brilliant & brooding piece by @kyla.bsky.social on the three different americas
kyla.substack.com/p/how-ai-healthcare-and-labubu-became
kyla.substack.com/p/how-ai-healthcare-and-labubu-became
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I wonder if social-media use will decline as more people use LLMs, since the latter are so much better at positive feedback. There is nothing so smart you can put on social media that someone won't call idiotic, and nothing so banal you can ask GPT that it won't call a brilliantly insightful query.
July 28, 2025 at 5:39 PM
I wonder if social-media use will decline as more people use LLMs, since the latter are so much better at positive feedback. There is nothing so smart you can put on social media that someone won't call idiotic, and nothing so banal you can ask GPT that it won't call a brilliantly insightful query.
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If you've only ever had to think of yourself, it's easy to feel like the whole world revolves around you. And then, when things go wrong (like being unable to get the job you want, or get into the college you want, or find the partner you want), it's easy to feel like someone must be out to get you.
July 13, 2025 at 12:42 PM
If you've only ever had to think of yourself, it's easy to feel like the whole world revolves around you. And then, when things go wrong (like being unable to get the job you want, or get into the college you want, or find the partner you want), it's easy to feel like someone must be out to get you.
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Honestly, the NYT siding with Idi Amin and saying that Indian-Ugandans are not Africans is not something I saw coming.
July 4, 2025 at 12:32 AM
Honestly, the NYT siding with Idi Amin and saying that Indian-Ugandans are not Africans is not something I saw coming.
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Sesame Street does Bergman: video evidence www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Vx9...
Classic Sesame Street - Sneak Peek Previews The Seventh Seal
YouTube video by Rohail Hashmi
www.youtube.com
June 17, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Sesame Street does Bergman: video evidence www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Vx9...
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“You’re citing Piketty to people who think Adorno was a cop. Quoting Pew data to accounts named @MLsexfart. They don’t want policy—they want penance. Every word you write is proof you’re not suffering right. You’re not in a debate. You’re in a tribunal. And the verdict was written yesterday.”
May 23, 2025 at 2:00 AM
“You’re citing Piketty to people who think Adorno was a cop. Quoting Pew data to accounts named @MLsexfart. They don’t want policy—they want penance. Every word you write is proof you’re not suffering right. You’re not in a debate. You’re in a tribunal. And the verdict was written yesterday.”
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It is hard to predict exactly what an LLM will output in response to any given input. Otherwise you wouldn’t need LLMs!
Therefore, when allowing an LLM to interface with the world, you should always ask “What’s the worst that could happen?” and prepare for that to actually happen.
Therefore, when allowing an LLM to interface with the world, you should always ask “What’s the worst that could happen?” and prepare for that to actually happen.
May 27, 2025 at 5:20 PM
It is hard to predict exactly what an LLM will output in response to any given input. Otherwise you wouldn’t need LLMs!
Therefore, when allowing an LLM to interface with the world, you should always ask “What’s the worst that could happen?” and prepare for that to actually happen.
Therefore, when allowing an LLM to interface with the world, you should always ask “What’s the worst that could happen?” and prepare for that to actually happen.
This is sad
After consideration, I will post occasionally, but heavily censor what I share compared to other sites.
I tried making the transition, but talking about AI here is just really fraught in ways that are tough to mitigate & make it hard to have good discussions (the point of social!). Maybe it changes
I tried making the transition, but talking about AI here is just really fraught in ways that are tough to mitigate & make it hard to have good discussions (the point of social!). Maybe it changes
May 26, 2025 at 4:40 AM
This is sad
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this is a profoundly misleading framing of what the article itself says!
"Biden’s personal physician [...] privately warned the president’s team that if Biden had a bad fall in 2023 or 2024, “a wheelchair might be necessary for what could be a difficult recovery,” Tapper and Thompson report."
"Biden’s personal physician [...] privately warned the president’s team that if Biden had a bad fall in 2023 or 2024, “a wheelchair might be necessary for what could be a difficult recovery,” Tapper and Thompson report."
Former President Joe Biden’s physical deterioration was severe enough in the second half of his presidency that his aides privately discussed putting him in a wheelchair for his second term, according to a new book from CNN’s Jake Tapper and Axios’ Alex Thompson.
New book: Biden aides discussed using a wheelchair in second term | CNN Politics
Former President Joe Biden’s physical deterioration was severe enough in the second half of his presidency that his aides privately discussed putting him in a wheelchair for his second term, according...
www.cnn.com
May 13, 2025 at 12:45 PM
this is a profoundly misleading framing of what the article itself says!
"Biden’s personal physician [...] privately warned the president’s team that if Biden had a bad fall in 2023 or 2024, “a wheelchair might be necessary for what could be a difficult recovery,” Tapper and Thompson report."
"Biden’s personal physician [...] privately warned the president’s team that if Biden had a bad fall in 2023 or 2024, “a wheelchair might be necessary for what could be a difficult recovery,” Tapper and Thompson report."
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Evergreen tbh
A significant factor in What Went Wrong is that the people in position to shape the information environment by highlighting what’s important decided that who said what to whom on social media about something was more important than the thing itself, in part because doing so centered themselves.
May 11, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Evergreen tbh
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on the war and necessary death, I've always liked this passage from Francis Spufford's Unapologetic
May 7, 2025 at 8:42 PM
on the war and necessary death, I've always liked this passage from Francis Spufford's Unapologetic
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the American voter is a curious cat
if you offer him this he would rather have that
if you offer him this he would rather have that
May 5, 2025 at 5:31 PM
the American voter is a curious cat
if you offer him this he would rather have that
if you offer him this he would rather have that
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any excuse to repost the greatest Tetris story ever, when a reporter went to cover early e-gaming championships and discovered that his wife was unknowingly *the world's greatest Tetris player* by a huge margin
archive.boston.com/news/globe/m...
archive.boston.com/news/globe/m...
May 4, 2025 at 4:35 AM
any excuse to repost the greatest Tetris story ever, when a reporter went to cover early e-gaming championships and discovered that his wife was unknowingly *the world's greatest Tetris player* by a huge margin
archive.boston.com/news/globe/m...
archive.boston.com/news/globe/m...
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The problem with the Middle School Cafeteria model of partnering is that it didn't really even work in middle school, and it really doesn't work in global trading partners either.
May 3, 2025 at 7:23 PM
The problem with the Middle School Cafeteria model of partnering is that it didn't really even work in middle school, and it really doesn't work in global trading partners either.
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An Israeli tourist was asked to sign a document stating that he had not committed war crimes when he checked in at a Kyoto guesthouse in April, prompting the Israeli ambassador to Japan to lodge a protest.
Israeli tourist asked to sign war crime declaration at Kyoto guesthouse
The guesthouse said the purpose of the document was to ensure a safe stay for other guests and not due to discrimination.
www.japantimes.co.jp
May 1, 2025 at 10:06 PM
An Israeli tourist was asked to sign a document stating that he had not committed war crimes when he checked in at a Kyoto guesthouse in April, prompting the Israeli ambassador to Japan to lodge a protest.
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teach kids poetry. www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVu4...
3-year-old recites poem, "Litany" by Billy Collins
YouTube video by D Chelpka
www.youtube.com
April 25, 2025 at 1:03 AM
teach kids poetry. www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVu4...
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The White House keeps saying: "Every country has been calling us this week, and that's proof the policy is working."
But it's not.
It's like my plumber, saying that lots of people call during a winter freeze. That's not good news. That's evidence of a lot of burst pipes.
But it's not.
It's like my plumber, saying that lots of people call during a winter freeze. That's not good news. That's evidence of a lot of burst pipes.
April 8, 2025 at 7:21 PM
The White House keeps saying: "Every country has been calling us this week, and that's proof the policy is working."
But it's not.
It's like my plumber, saying that lots of people call during a winter freeze. That's not good news. That's evidence of a lot of burst pipes.
But it's not.
It's like my plumber, saying that lots of people call during a winter freeze. That's not good news. That's evidence of a lot of burst pipes.
bsky.app/profile/lora...
"எல்லாரும் எல்லாமும் பெற வேண்டும் - இங்கு
இல்லாமை இல்லாத நிலை வேண்டும்
வல்லான் பொருள் குவிக்கும் தனி உடமை - நீங்கி
வரவேண்டும் திருநாட்டில் பொதுவுடமை"
"எல்லாரும் எல்லாமும் பெற வேண்டும் - இங்கு
இல்லாமை இல்லாத நிலை வேண்டும்
வல்லான் பொருள் குவிக்கும் தனி உடமை - நீங்கி
வரவேண்டும் திருநாட்டில் பொதுவுடமை"
...If there’s a good or service you want, you can just have it. Everyone in the world will be able to have anything they want." And he's talking about this as "sustainable abundance" enabled by AI and robotics.
March 21, 2025 at 5:41 AM
bsky.app/profile/lora...
"எல்லாரும் எல்லாமும் பெற வேண்டும் - இங்கு
இல்லாமை இல்லாத நிலை வேண்டும்
வல்லான் பொருள் குவிக்கும் தனி உடமை - நீங்கி
வரவேண்டும் திருநாட்டில் பொதுவுடமை"
"எல்லாரும் எல்லாமும் பெற வேண்டும் - இங்கு
இல்லாமை இல்லாத நிலை வேண்டும்
வல்லான் பொருள் குவிக்கும் தனி உடமை - நீங்கி
வரவேண்டும் திருநாட்டில் பொதுவுடமை"