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A lot of tech industry stupidity about AI, "fake jobs", and a bunch of other things come from the fact that none of them know how anything that isn't tech works

Can someone remind me why it was a good idea to put tariffs on goods that don't grow in America again?

Art of the deal in two WSJ stories. ➡️ We unilaterally indicate we’ll remove export controls on the H20 so Beijing can dominate AI and seemingly ask for nothing in return. ➡️ On the very same day, Beijing slaps export controls on battery technology.

Once again, the cruelty is the point. This nothing to do with budget deficits or cutting waste - the Trump administration could have turned the food over to a global relief agency at no cost to the budget. Instead, they are spending tax dollars to incinerate the food.

Wrong. We can see the effects of tariffs on prices pretty clearly. Compare the change in prices across tariff-affected and unaffected industries. The reason we aren't seeing aggregate effects is the Federal Reserve is tightening monetary policy to keep prices stable.

I actually don’t think stranger approaches were ever a typical way to meet someone but that’s not the extent of it…people are meeting less often, even platonically, through basically all avenues except apps. That’s not great!

It continues to be enormously gratifying that Bradleys are riding off into the twilight exactly as they deserve to - torching Russian armor by a boatload. It remains a perpetual sadness that A-10s were denied the same apotheosis.

Tariff Rebates? Where to start? 1) We have a $1.8T deficit and just cut taxes by $4-$5T more. We're set to add $30T in debt over the next decade. Tax rebates? 2) New tariffs are bringing in $20B/month. But resulting economic sluggishness is likely offsetting all those revenues.

The Federal Reserve is NOT in the executive branch. Moreover, Jay Powell calmly corrected false information that was being used to smear him. He is not the villain here. Presidents are not kings, Powell does not work for Trump, and he has a right to defend himself.

One reason economists are unable to explain why wages haven't risen since the Cold War is the substantial increase in wages since the Cold War.

To advance the interests of workers and protect the environment, the Democratic Party should stop catering to unions and environmental groups.

frustrating part of tariff discourse is that a lot of the answer to "why haven't tariffs been as bad as economists warned" is "Trump has ex-post exempted ~60% of goods from tariffs" (most things from Mexico/Canada plus computers, smartphones, oil, drugs, etc all remain exempt)

just deeply disappointing to see More Perfect Union blatantly lying that building more market rate housing *causes* homelessness instead of preventing it. Austin is one of the few places in America where rents actually *fell* because it built so much housing!

It's worth remembering that DOGE is a failure at Every. Single. Possible. Level. At the micro level, they misread, misled and straight up lied about many of the 'savings'. They'd announce '500m saved!' and it would be some contract where the money was 98% already spent and

There's this weird way of talking about ambition that's popping up with the Luke Farritor stuff where people 1) Correctly value ambition and actually trying to do things. 2) Talk as if an important precondition to that is that you get to behave as if the world outside your life

The main problem here is blowing up PEPFAR. But I separately see a lot of young tech right people leaning a lot into the idea of ambition at any cost. I have basically Randian impulses about the importance of ambition, but you don't get to behave as if other people's lives are

And any objection to allowing huge numbers of people to die suddenly gets framed as if you're an Ayn Rand villain who secretly hates progress and good things. Not being able to seriously entertain the idea of obligations to the good is a sign that a person hasn't fully matured.

At this rate someone should start a betting market on when these tariff tweets will give me a brain aneurysm