Dan Greene

Yeah absolutely destroyed stevedore employment in a decade or so, so you gotta figure there's something there. Unclear if extends broader than that. I don't think so, or at least it's a wash in the north given the labor market mix tending more towards hard-to-automate services.

To counter Trump regime attacks on their public university systems and other institutions, states should issue bonds, hold ballot initiatives, or related measures.

University of California system debt has an AA rating. Resist Trump abuses, support higher ed, and a fairly safe investment all in one.

Really need to see this

Screenshot from RFK Jr’s official HHS secretary account that says Medical decisions should be made based on one thing: the wellbeing of the person—never on a financial bonus or a government mandate. Doctors deserve the freedom to use their training, follow the science, and speak the truth without fear of punishment.

RFK Jr. posted this with his official gov’t account yesterday.

In the video, he says “Should doctors make decisions based on what’s best for their patients, or based upon what makes them the most money?”.

Hours later a man who believed the COVID19 vaccine harmed him opened fire on the CDC.

More seriously: Tolkien, Tom King

Professional sports

The productivity statistics are what they are! Productivity growth is real weak post-1973. Containerization could conceivably boost productivity by making Toyotism-style manufacturing possible. But it's not in the statistics. So it's more likely to lower distribution costs and enable wage arbitrage.

A weird craft profession that revolted during Trump 1, which drove employers insane, and whose wage demands are less sustainable now that the free money is gone. Which is of course an adoption driver independent of any productivity gains.

The other way to slice it is by sector. Most Americans are wiping butts, making food, or watching kids. Not much for AI to do there. I genuinely expect some improvement in software development, because this rationalizes a weird craft profession, but that's not many people.

But if we're judging from history then there's a brief upward productivity blip in the late 90s where a tight labor market intersects with networking buildout--and it's just as likely the former caused the latter. Besides that, no major improvements from every new revolutionary computer widget.

The productivity problem is a difficult measurement problem even before you get to what management says about it. Because if you're gonna do layoffs because of cost pressure, your gonna say it's because of AI, or AI will make up the difference, because that's what the board and the market wants.

"You can see the computer age everywhere but in the productivity statistics". --Solow, 1987

When the history of this era is written, crypto’s “return from the dead” after the FTX implosion and SNF trial will be _the_ introductory chapter “hook,” the thing that establishes a problem and structure (cf electing Trump after Jan 6th).

Not clear to me if it genuinely explains it all. It might!

This was a big part of the Snowden revelations, as told by Farrell & Newman

They're so damn dumb (solidarity)

Am I gonna be the only guy wearing shorts at this conference

You can, in fact, just decide to start a thing. I do it all of the time and it's a good way to execute ideas rather to just critique others' ideas. Critique by doing as Michelangelo said. Critique by DOING.

The deep embedding of enterprise product teams within the state cuts both ways!

Exactly

it sucks being the one sultan who's got a genuinely stable and healthy relationship with his vizier when you're at the hangout and all your friends wanna talk about are the goddamn schemes

So far, we know that the Americans sent neo-Nazis, Christian Zionists and anti-Muslim Christian Nationalists to Gaza - and it’s those men that have been opening fire on Palestinian civilians along with the IDF.

Bullshit. Here’s a white paper with detailed school plans: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Trump will eventually, loudly, proclaim the deals for Palestinian and Ukrainian land as two examples of his acumen, two deals with bloodthirsty conquerors only he could pull off, and there will still be American news outlets and liberal politicians that will ignore any connection between the two

Repeat after me:

I am not feistier than Virgil Texas.
I am not feistier than Slavoj Zizek.
I am not feistier than Liz Franczak.
I am not feistier than Sam Seder.

But if I stand back and watch and learn,
I will be feistier than I am.

Obvs also hmu if you're in Chicago for DSA

(I use it in pad krapow for example)

You should cook more turkey outside Thanksgiving. The breast is so large it's fine to roast by itself (although I prefer kenji's turkey porchetta). Braised turkey is terrific throughout Mexican cuisine. Ground turkey is a better than ground chicken and a potential substitute for ground pork

You should cook a prime rib, a leg of lamb, a goose, a capon, or even just a couple roast chickens for Thanksgiving

Turkey is a terrible bird to roast whole--the proportions are all wrong--and should not be cooked for thanksgiving.

The tiki comeback was weird and a little racist but there's so much good stuff there. You haven't lived until you've had a pina colada with fresh pineapple.