maybe the answer is your faction should always loudly accuse the press as being and enemy and out to get you. it seems to work. they go every extra mile to prove they are evenhanded and unfairly maligned.

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@artcollisions maybe an iPad.

@artcollisions you might consider replacing them with your phone!

our phones are trying to make themselves our spouses, completing our sentences for us when we are half way through them.

“The one thing that you should not be able to say about my work is that I am not telling you what I really think. That is the price of entry to the worthwhile part of the Ideas industry. We may be bastards, but we are not bullshitting you.” #HamiltonNolan https://www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/ideas-that-cannot-be-spoken ht @AliceMarshall

one strange characteristic of our moment is we’ve developed new forms of a “republic of letters” whose participants view themselves as an intellectual elite, while the actual content of that elite discourse is memes or, at best, several hundred character interjections.

@realcaseyrollins@a.nti.social @realcaseyrollins@noauthority.social it can certainly feel that way too! i wonder if you ever found yourself using your depression, or musings on acting out from your depression in ways that would harm yourself or your relationships or loved ones, in a kind of psychological bargaining? that gets you close to the sense of the tweet.

@eARCwelder i think that was a key moment in his devolution. he was forced to abjectly (insincerely) apologize. i think he might have resigned from some boards. i think he tremendously resented that he could not play with loose historical musings in public, to him that was “censorship”. (i don’t think it’s because at the time he was so attached to the thesis, he felt it out-of-bounds to be told not just “you’re wrong” but “you’re bad” and even face professional consequences.)

@realcaseyrollins it’s kind of like a joke, only the opposite. but like a joke’s not funny if you have to explain it, if i explained this it’d just drain it of its punch. hopefully it’s hard for you to get because you’re not depressed a lot!

sometimes depression is an attempt to hold oneself for ransom before god.

andreeson used to chat widely, then he blocked anyone who might say anything he might find uncomfortable to hear. in retrospect that has proven consequential.

“When there is a need to address a specific weakness (say chip production), subsidies for reshoring are far superior to tariffs. Subsidies for chip making help our industries that use chips, while tariffs on chips hurt those industries.” #ScottSumner https://scottsumner.substack.com/p/nonzero-trade-edition

Chimerica is doing a remake of the pandemic. China will bring back PPP-style business “loans”. The US will reprise shortages of basic goods.

“The group chats that changed America” by @Buzzfeedben https://www.semafor.com/article/04/27/2025/the-group-chats-that-changed-america

was Milton Friedman the first MMTer? https://xcancel.com/jbsteinberg/status/1915783062698217716

the version of capitalist democracy where we tolerate intercessions into deliberation motivated by capitalist ROI (lobbying, campaign contributions, “gratuities”) can’t work. injects noise into democratic deliberation at best, more often worse, supercharges Matthew effects democracy exists to blunt.

“China surely does not have a great record in respecting the rule of law, but it actually is probably a better bet at this point than what we have seen in Donald Trump’s first 100 days.” @DeanBaker13 https://cepr.net/publications/turning-america-into-russia/

war is always unsustainable the question is for whom it’s unsustainable first.

[new draft post] How can taxing foreign investors balance trade? https://drafts.interfluidity.com/2025/04/27/how-can-taxing-foreign-investors-balance-trade/index.html