What say the remnant denizens of this dumpster fire? Is it time to leave Twitter for good?.

From Aiskhylos to AI-Slop: Navigating the Cognitive Earthquake of Modern Advanced Machine-Learning Models.Modern Advanced Machine-Learning Models—MAMLMs—are already an off-scale financial-econo tech-sector earthquake as well, and they will become a.

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On Dan Wang’s Brand-New "Breakneck": The World's Dynamos China & America, & Building Our Common Global Future Home.The Sledgehammer & the Gavel at Dawn & Dusk: Synthesis, strife, and the race to shape the twenty-first century; how China & America build….

Trump Is Losing All His Trade Wars, Badly.Rhetorical claims of trade-war victory are entirely hollow. The costs of the new Trumpist Tariff régime fall overwhelmingly on Americans, the benefits of spurring productive reindustrialization are less than zero….

Why Cash Isn’t Truly King: Cash Transfers, Opportunity, & Real Engines of Transformation.To win the war on poverty, look beyond cash & toward the levers that truly unlock human potential. <gt;.2025-08-20 We.#on-ubi.#why-cash-isnt-truly-king.

I Badly Want a Map to the Likely Consequences of the AI-Infrastructure Construction Boom.& I do not have one. I do have scattered observations on how it might work out for the tech industry. How it is affecting the overall business cycle—that is another.

. CROSSPOST: NOAH SMITH: Toward a Shallower Future.A repost of one of my favorite essays… Adversity isn't worth the price of adversity. <gt;.2025-08-17 Su.#adversity-isnt-worth-the-price-of-adversity 4/END.

. the fact that fighting adversity builds character? Fighting suffering & evil is worthwhile. Nevertheless, any conclusion that we should have more suffering & evil so we can fight it is false. Noah rightly says: **adversity is not worth the price of adversity**. 3/.

. the point of life is just to create more neurons in orgasmic pleasure as possible—that is justified. Truly living wisely and well involves developing character and capabilities to become who you really are, & using those in worthwhile ways. What ways? And what about. 2/.

Romantics romanticize adversity—think of Eddison’s “The Worm Ouroboros”, in which the heroes, having saved the world from Great Evil, wish, for their reward, that they go back to the start & try to do it again. That is absurd. But kicking-back against a naïve belief that. 1/.

Dementia-Ridden Cognitively-Addled Chaos-Monkey Causes Chaos at Alaska Summit.A ceasefire-in-place in Ukraine might—might—be a way of stopping the atrocity of the death and destruction in the war Putin’s Russia is waging against Ukraine. A ceasefire in….

RT @zeynep: @dmimno heh, yep.

. picture of a WWII battleship that performed its mission impressively while in serious harm’s way, you want the U.S.S. Washington: 4/END

glory" is what he wants behind him on his video calls. That is definitely an ethos, of a sort. And the message he is sending is definitely received. The last thing the Bismarck transmitted was: "We will fight to the last shell! Long live the Führer!". If you want a. 3/.

. Well, maybe not all. Perhaps the extent to which Trump has been willing to give the baton to real, unapologetic, open fascists has been a little surprising. I mean, Commissioner of Labor Statistics nominee E.J. Antoni thinks the Nazi battleship Bismarck "in all its. 2/.

HOISTED FROM THE ARCHIVES: Trump Does Not Have the Cognitive Competence to Do the Job.From a year ago. All this was predictable. & was, in fact, predicted. <gt;.2025-08-16 Sa. 1/.

Trump’s Fed Chair Candidates: Sub-Mediocrity of Moral Character, at Best. & the Worst Plumb the Challenger Deep Along Several Axes.Why the next Federal Reserve Chair appointment may well be both the most consequential & the most badly compromised in….<gt;.

Trump’s Fed Chair Candidates: Sub-Mediocrity of Moral Character, at Best. & the Worst Plumb the Challenger Deep Along Several Axes.Why the next Federal Reserve Chair appointment may well be both the most consequential & the most badly compromised. <gt;.

An Interim Report on My Experience with Dia Browser Use, & MAMLMs More Generally.Contexts, copilots, and chatbots: A mid-course report on the AI-augmented web….<gt;.2025-08-13 We.#mamlms #diabrowser #an-interim-report-on-my-experience-with-dia-browser-use.

Digital Perikles vs. the Odd Roommate: State of the AI on ChatGPT5 Day.“I think it is finally time to anthropomorphize the heck out of it”: some brief field notes on conversing with an unreasonably effective yet clearly massively subTuring software….

Yes, Kevin Hassett Would Be a Very Bed Fed Chair.Lying liars who lie and knowingly and deliberately say whatever—whatever—lies they believe are to their immediate advantage are not the kind of people who should chair the Federal Reserve. Any questions?….