Maia

Nomrally I don't like these jokes but... gottem

Quinn Slobodian has a book about this

well if only progressives didn't take such alienating issue positions on gender and race the legal system wouldn't need to say fake "therapy" is actually protected free speech

Joey Politano's review of Breakneck 3/5: I was honestly a bit disappointed by Breakneck—for a book giving itself the difficult task of understanding the world's largest country, it felt uncomfortably overgeneralized and surface-level. ...

I was honestly disappointed by Dan Wang's Breakneck—for a book giving itself the difficult task of understanding the world's largest country, it felt uncomfortably surface-level. I wished it gave space for the details that could do justice to such an important topic
www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

Supreme Court: of course states can regulate, and restrict access to, medical procedures if there’s a compelling public interest

Colorado: (bans conversion therapy for minors)

Supreme Court: no not like that, we only meant abortion

Supreme Court Live Updates: Justices Seem Set to Rule Against Colorado’s Ban on Conversion Therapy

Yet another day of needless cruelty towards queer kids, who are perfect just the way they are. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...

Nobel committee unable to reach prize winner who is ‘living his best life’ hiking off grid Fred Ramsdell was among those honoured with a 2025 Nobel Prize in Medicine but might not know because he is somewhere in Idaho and uncontactable

#goals www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

The more people argye about pronouns the less they argue about why David Ellison's dad has 500 billion dollars

Worth noting that Singapore always relied to some extent on badly paid, unregulated, legally precarious immigrant labor

British neoliberalism of the 70s and 80s was obsessed with Singapore, a technocratic autocracy of free trade and deregulation. Of course that would evolve to Dubai, an even more autocratic technocracy with even freer trade and no safety net beyond indentured migrant servants for the very rich

"javier milei performs the hava nagila in honor of charlie kirk in taxpayer-funded concert with his band featuring the flat earth otaku congresswoman" sell everything

"the United States of America might properly be called the Great Hog Eating Confederacy of the Republic or Porkdom" is something a tankie would say today

Welcome back Seymour Skinner

why is there so much alliteration is she adrienne lenker or something

The only thing anyone needs to know about Bari Weiss is that she first came to national attention trying to get a Middle East Studies professor at Columbia fired for anti-Israel views, and yet somehow huge amounts of the US media elite think she is committed to "free speech" and "heterodoxy."

how sam altman suggests you use ai: "can you generate a picture of a penguin skateboarding. also what's a good anniversary date idea"

how people actually use ai: yes grok, you are my husband, and you're right, i *can* fly if i jump off my roof right now

concerned about the birthrate?

Budget 2026: Basic income for artists to become permanent The Basic Income for the Arts scheme will be put on a permanent footing in the Budget tomorrow.

If we are thinking about alternatives to intellectual property, Ireland's Basic Income for the Arts seems like a model worth considering. www.rte.ie/news/budget-...

anyway, looking forward to bari weiss restoring “trust in news” where “trust in news” means pumping out propaganda for your oligarch boss

America is now one big bet on AI It’s seen as the magic fix for every threat to the US economy

“The hundreds of billions of dollars companies are investing in AI now account for an astonishing 40% share of US GDP growth this year. And some analysts believe that estimate doesn’t fully capture the AI spend, so the real share could be even higher.” www.ft.com/content/6cc8...

I've been predicting a structural IO prize (Berry, Bresnahan, Pakes, etc) for like 3 years and every year I've gotten it wrong so

Official prediction is international econ (Calvo, Rey, maybe Melitz). It's been like 20 years since Krugman got it and it's the hot topic of the year

Rage For The Dying Of The Light We are the world, we are the children

New post: Gen Z is mad as hell and they’re not going to take it anymore. But what are young people mad about? And why is it lowkey like Taylor Swift's latest album?

open.substack.com/pub/someunpl...

kinda wild how the only interesting lore in my family is that my great great grandfather won the lottery 3 times and he lost most of it so my great grandfather used his inheritance to buy land, it was useless, he became disabled trying to work it and my grandfather had to drop out of school to work

“The current AI boom would simply be impossible if tech companies had to pay the same tariffs that car manufacturers or homebuilders currently face.

“ .. a tacit admission that a full-scale trade war would kill America’s golden geese.”

@josephpolitano.bsky.social
www.apricitas.io/p/the-tariff...

yeah sure let's remake our entire economy after this

baez

oh wow they remastered farewell angelina. banger

I've said it before but the main reason why democracy is the superior system is that, while the average person is a moron, the average elite is even more moronic

To respond seriously a lot of people (esp on the academic side) are indeed pro Palestine for very strange postcolonial theory reasons but you don't really need to go very far from the liberalism 101 take of "killing people as part of an ethnonationalist war of aggression is bad"