alex williams

pronounced "i'm a nuisance"

translation between domains as a big program

I don’t even really think this is fair. Iraq was heavily debated publicly, and there was a plan. It was a stupid and delusional plan based on unrealistic assumptions, but it was known publicly and voted on by Congress.

There was no public debate or Congressional authorization in this instance.

everyone's a "migrant" on the internet

All the focus groups I ever did on energy policy - and I've done a lot - showed that worries over geopolitics and supply was at least as powerful as climate in building support for renewables. Something I was thinking about as I charged my BEV just now.

"yeah i heard of the Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages"

"and those who were raised in discrete rather than continuous time"

in my ideal reallocation, the masked agents of the state swarming everyday life should actually be unarmed secret shoppers increasing the taxonomic and geographic granularity of our price measures

like come on, this is a facemash of me and dario amodei

pitched kait a paper the other day and she said "oh shalizi would love that" and wow the sheer validation even at one remove,

in my ideal reallocation, the masked agents of the state swarming everyday life should actually be unarmed secret shoppers increasing the taxonomic and geographic granularity of our price measures

they should allocate $100B to the BLS, in my expert opinion

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its funny, i need to read guillaume's second novel because its about a "Website Artist" and im just imagining a version of skipper from sex and the city who dresses more like me

ive been saying the langlands program extends to text for like eighteen months and no one ive said it to has any idea what the hell im talking about but look

the silly sites will continue until online morale improves

i have already made so many silly static sites using claude code, we should all band together and repopulate old growth web 1.0 static HTML with new ideas, imo,

I hate the crypto class so fucking much

Accurate labeling of Pete Hegseth as "the arse"

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im about to lol

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than 30 cities. It is two electric power plants, each serving a town of 60,000 population. It is two fine, fully equipped hospitals. It is some 50 miles of concrete highway. We pay for a single fighter plane with a half million bushels of wheat. We pay for a single destroyer with new homes that could have housed more than 8,000 people. This, I repeat, is the best way of life to be found on the road. the world has been taking. This is not a way of life at all, in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron.

from Eisenhower's April 1953 "Chance For Peace" speech

yes this is the one i saw go by!

there was another recent NBER paper too, doing GDP with more realistic estimation than past

yeah me either, imagine having to add small scale oxygenators to your AC units.......

gonna survey the damage function literature soon, see how it has changed since the last time i looked (2019)

this is a wild angle i hadnt thought about before but, makes sense

U.S. out of D.C.

With alt text. I’ve…never seen a court talk like this before?

I'm redeploying all of our brave boys to Jupiter, for the mission-critical purposes of getting more stupider