Nathan Tankus

levered beta is all you need how to win by riding waves you didn't make.

TIL that the companies that are promoting outrageous AI claims (e.g. professing to be your lawyer, professing to be your therapist, professing cheating on exams/interviews is virtuous) *want* you to be outraged about them, as it's free marketing for them. ethanding.substack.com/p/levered-be...

Life takes you to strange places, like a Lenox Massachusetts production of Romeo and Juliet

The perfect midtwit opinion.

A joker card with Tim Geithner illustrated as a DC Joker, credit to artist Marc Scheff

Got the first significant piece of art for the office. This is one of the "52 cards of Greed" that Occupy Wall Street alternative banking working group (of which I was a part of when i was 20-22) made in 2012. I believe this is the only print of the art from that project in existence

A joker card with Tim Geithner illustrated as a DC Joker, credit to artist Marc Scheff

Got the first significant piece of art for the office. This is one of the "52 cards of Greed" that Occupy Wall Street alternative banking working group (of which I was a part of when i was 20-22) made in 2012. I believe this is the only print of the art from that project in existence

Israel announces plan to retake Gaza City in another escalation of the war Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office says Israel’s Security Cabinet has approved a plan to take over Gaza City.

BREAKING: Israel’s Security Cabinet has approved a plan to take over Gaza City in an escalation of war.

Finally an accurate statement from a chatbot

Trump: "This one chart really says it better than anything, if you look at this. This is great. But this chart is pretty amazing. Right here. All new numbers."

"The Clarifier," new art at @truthdig.bsky.social:
www.truthdig.com/cartoons/the...

Why you might not know that 2024 was America's safest year since the 1960s An overwhelming majority of Americans, 64 percent, believe that crime increased across the country in 2024, according to a Gallup survey conducted late last year.

1. This week, the FBI released its comprehensive crime report for 2024, which revealed that both VIOLENT CRIME and PROPERTY CRIME reached their LOWEST LEVELS SINCE THE 1960s

This a massive story. But you might not have heard about it, even if you follow the news closely.

Here's why.

I am reading a lot about Ed tech and AI this month, to get caught up.

And I want to say one thing — this is every previous wave of ed tech extraction at one time, on steroids. Not even the Apple/microsoft school wars comes close.

This reminds me I gotta get on the review copy list for the Lise Vogel edited collection

The Production of Everyday Life in Eco-Conscious Households The Production of Everyday Life in Eco-Conscious Households - Compromise, Conflict, Complicity; Drawing on qualitative fieldwork, this book sheds much-needed light on how sustainability-oriented house...

I hope at some point the publisher- or some other publisher- puts out a paperback (and that the paperback is relatively affordable). The other thing I will say is @kmunro-econ.bsky.social's book is a rare example of qualitative methods research in econ

bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/how-eco-cons...

This is a very good concise summary of Kirstin's quite interesting book (full disclosure I have a review copy but I haven't had a chance to properly read it- its currently on loan to a student)

One idea 60 seconds. Are “efficient” household appliances really saving labor? Kirstin Munro.

thank you new institute for making me a thought leader video clip 🙏
www.instagram.com/reel/DM-gDzd...

god this woman is so fucking stupid. She literally thinks the Nazi holocaust has exclusive use of the word "survivor".

It's worth emphasizing here that this is not a problem with rent regulations as such. Any change in the housing market that resulted in slower rent growth - including Abundance-style deregulation - would be causing over leveraged landlords the exact same distress.

Counting Like a State An inside look at the 2020 Census that shows the importance of state and local cooperation in the complex federal project of census taking.The census plays a...

So @philiprocco.bsky.social has a book out on this topic

kansaspress.ku.edu/9780700639687/

Freddie deBoer writing for The Free Press: It's like that feeling when a jigsaw puzzle piece clicks into place.

Interior Order Chokes Off Permits for Solar and Wind on Federal Lands The department creates a seemingly impossible new permitting criteria for renewable energy.

HUGE: The Trump administration will no longer permit any solar or wind projects on federal lands unless they produce more energy-per-acre than coal, gas or nuclear power plants.

Solar and wind literally produce less energy per acre, so simply this may just kill off any project on federal lands.

Intermediate inputs are in fact why comparative advantage models don't work in general

Not that anything matters anymore, but this violates reporting laws wildly

@DHSgov on X: We’re taking father/son bonding to a whole new level. JOIN.ICE.GOV 06 Aug 25 [Young man and old man in ICE gear]

Wehrschiessen des Deutschen Volkes 1944 [Young man and old man sharing a rifle]

Oh look, ICE is copying literal Nazi recruiting propaganda again. The poster on the right is for the Volkssturm, the Nazi militia of older men and boys established during the final months of World War II.

at this point I wonder if Trump thinks real gold is fake given how little time he spends around actual gold.

Its so amazing how pathetic these people are

The president has been briefed by Mark Penn, a pollster who has worked for Bill and Hillary Clinton, and Andrew Stein, a former New York City Council president and decades-long friend of Mr. Trump, on a range of polling that showed Mr. Cuomo could still be competitive as an independent candidate. Both men have pushed Mr. Cuomo as the best candidate despite his loss in the Democratic primary, including in a recent Wall Street Journal op-ed. One of Mr. Penn’s firms did extensive work for a pro-Cuomo super PAC in the primary. And in a previously undisclosed call in recent weeks, Mr. Trump spoke about the race directly with Mr. Cuomo, an old associate and foil, according to three people briefed on the call, who were not authorized to discuss it.

Bombshell report from The New York Times reveals that President Donald Trump spoke directly to Andrew Cuomo about how to stop Zohran Mamdani from becoming NYC mayor. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/06/n...

Andrew Cuomo couldn’t allow his first, tepid recognition of reality — that the Israeli government, with the full support of the Trump administration, is starving the people of Gaza — last more than a few hours without walking it back.

This is someone who believes in nothing.

“Will Lewis, the then-new publisher of The Post…asked me: ‘What should The Post do to appeal more to Fox News viewers?’”

READ THIS.

this is so funny to me. MARK PENN, TRUMP AND CUOMO TOGETHER!

"She says each tent had eight large cages, which hold 35 to 38 inmates, which means each tent holds close to 300 detainees."

...Like “an oversized kennel.”