you're not ready for the world that's coming

How cool is it that 2 years ago, the “future of tech” was selling jpegs for hundreds of thousands of dollars to degens And now the future of tech is hooking an entire fission reactor up to billions of dollars worth of GPUs

Teaching is so great for sneakily learning all the stuff you didn't quite understand the first go-round

Former CIA Director Leon Panetta calls Israel's explosive pager operation "terrorism" in an interview with CBS today: "I don't think there's any question it's a form of terrorism." "When you have terror going into the supply chain, it makes people ask the question: what the

I disagree with this. Usury shouldn’t be defended on the grounds that it’s a market rate of interest.

Please join the LPE Project on Wednesday, October 16th at 12:10pm ET for a lunch talk with Sandeep Vaheesan to discuss his forthcoming book (December 2024) Democracy in Power: A History of Electrification in the United States. lpeproject.org/events/democra…

Jameson is the basis for so much of how I see the world, and also for my single dumbest twitter interaction of all time

Oh hey — I have a piece in the new issue of Dissent about Bidenomics, chiefly re: how I think it re-embeds fiscal policy, tax hikes on the rich, and labor and environmental protections in its big three industrial policies: dissentmagazine.org/article/rebuil…

I love the false notion that New Brandeisians, by rejecting the consumer welfare standard, must love high prices. "HOW CAN Lina Khan like low prices when she's against child labor? ANSWER ME THAT?" #Satire

Jake Tapper I’m the reporter who interviewed Rashida Tlaib. She never said Nessel did this because she’s Jewish. Never. You’re spreading lies. metrotimes.com/news/fact-chec…

I think it’s cool how everyone is extremely dishonest and extremely cowardly at the same time. Historically, two cultural currents that produce wonderful moral outcomes

I have a new piece in Dissent, asking whether we can separate industrial policy from militarism, nationalism and the US-China rivalry. My answer: economically, you can certainly have one without the other; politically, I hope so but am not sure we can. jwmason.org/slackwire/at-d…

Sharing a blog post on how antitrust law highlights the contradictions in the "gig economy" (mis)classification model.

Innovation as such isn't and shouldn't be the most important objective, of course. The type of innovation (e.g., "disinformation") matters a lot!

Leaked docs: While Gaza starved, USAID and State's refugees bureau came to a legally explosive conclusion — Israel had deliberately prevented food & medicine from getting in But Blinken told congress the exact opposite, so the arms could keep flowing. propublica.org/article/gaza-p…

Hard to fathom the moral depravity of judges who do this

Supply & demand graphs remind me of Spanish grammar. Most verbs are regular, like most products obey simple supply & demand. But the most frequent verbs are irregular (ser, estar, etc.) just like many of the most important markets (housing, labor, credit, etc.) aren't simple S&D

Maybe check before accusing someone of anti-semitism, idk

TIL that Third Way has something called the "Moderate Talent Pipeline" which is just an awesome name thirdway.org/moderatepowerp…

Heading off in a couple days for our annual visit to my in-laws in this underrated city. On the drive in, we'll hit one of the farms that grows chiles AND San Marzano tomatoes 5280.com/how-pueblos-cu…