[new draft post] A few simple points https://drafts.interfluidity.com/2025/02/22/a-few-simple-points/index.html
if Trump bullies the Fed into cutting and offering forward guidance with high commitment to keep rates low no matter what, do long-term rates go down or up?
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running the government on the management principles that built the 737 MAX.
Next e-mail from the Office of Personnel Management…
SUBJECT: What R U Wearing?
we could rename Mars “Elba”.
my son, when accused of mischief: "I am innocent of all the crimes that I've committed."
people are mean to Elon Musk, but he has the same care for all of us as he has for his own children.
why does tech hate science? https://universeodon.com/@memeorandum/114042241214262845
"When reporters called this out, the DOGE team made a fascinating choice. Instead of fixing their error, they actually removed the correct document from their website and replaced it with the old, incorrect one. They are now deliberately posting false information to support the narrative." @mmasnick https://www.techdirt.com/2025/02/19/its-easy-to-save-billions-in-taxpayer-funds-when-everything-is-made-up/
Called my Congressional delegation to express my disgust at the President’s turn against Ukraine. Two Senators’ voicemails, one exasperated House staffer. Doesn’t take long. Can’t hurt. If we act like we live in a democracy we still might.
microsoft always astonishes me. it's allegedly an IT company. i renewed my Excel subscription yesterday, after i let it expire. today they write me — twice, same e-mail — "Your Microsoft 365 subscription has expired" asking me to renew.
it was queued yesterday or whatever. information technology.
in many languages, the slang word for testicles is "eggs". so you can see the Trump Take Eggs thing has hit Congressional Republicans particularly hard.
the UK thrashed around in years of controversy over retrograde plots to ship migrants to Rwanda, while in a matter of weeks the US starts shipping migrants to camps in Central America with hardly a whiff of scandal.
i’m sure conditions at these rushed camps will be stellar. i’m ashamed.
can we just call him Benedict Donald?
i wake up, feel stateless, naked, vulnerable. maybe i’m too online, too connected to the news. but the supposed normalcy seems feigned, fake, forced, doomed. which of us are being irrational? it feels like we are in one of @pkrugman’s wile-e coyote moments. some of us have looked down.
Why isn’t MSM covering this story?
the real freedom fries are poutine.
He's not uncovering corruption. He's murdering people. It's not read only. He shut down USAID and people died.
Is Musk the head of DOGE or not? In court they said no. Trump's executive order said yes.
Did they really fully comply with all procedural requirements to delegate power before in those first days accessing all our bank information, if they did?
These are terrible people doing terrible things while pretending to "uncover corruption".