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Steve Randy Waldman @interfluidity.com · 1h
this is a real problem, but cartel is a bad solution, for very obvious reasons. (it is the main solution we currently use in Western economies, which explains why our economies have turned extractive rentier, 'cuz there's no limiting principle to cartel.) can i interest you in a better solution?
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Income driven repayment of fixed capital
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James Umbanhowar @jumbanho.bsky.social · 19h
Spain->Spsin
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Steve Randy Waldman @interfluidity.com · 19h
we'll see what Google Maps has to say.
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Steve Randy Waldman @interfluidity.com · 20h
jfc.
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Steve Randy Waldman @interfluidity.com · 29/09/2026
I'm a huge @liberalcurrents.com fan, but not at all a fan of this piece by Cameron Cummins-Smith. For most of the piece it argues against strawmen, missing the point of wealth taxes — which is not, not at all, to "raise revenue". www.liberalcurrents.com/tax-the-weal...
liberalcurrents.com
Tax the Wealthy, Not Wealth
Don’t miss the forest for the tallest trees.
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Steve Randy Waldman @interfluidity.com · 29/09/2026
expected geometric average of short-term rates, or that catch-all rascal term premium. what say you?
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Steve Randy Waldman @interfluidity.com · 29/09/2026
The House of Representatives should be elected by proportional representation. The President and Senate by approval voting. There should be no formal primary system, parties should be allowed to choose their nominees as they see fit.
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Steve Randy Waldman @interfluidity.com · 29/09/2026
why is there so much journalism about the buoyancy of tension?
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Alastair Meeks @alastairmeeks.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This is something that we have forgotten that previous governments in many states worked very hard at. The United Kingdom was a government-led identity. Italy was a government-led identity (before reunification, only c2% spoke standard Italian as their primary language).
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Maria Bustillos @mariabustillos.com · 29/09/2026
'Founder' this word they worship turns out to be more like the nautical kind
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Maybe the reason the economic vibes are so off isn't that things are *worse* than the great recession but because back then we all thought the pain was temporary, whereas the things that are wrong with the economy today have all been getting worse for a long time and show no signs of improving
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Burnham aiming for a change to the UK’s voting system.
theguardian.com
Andy Burnham expected to say he will push ahead with electoral reform plans
Exclusive: Labour conference speech will kick off process that could replace current system with proportional representation
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The teleology of AI boosterism is that orgs *want* the efficiency. What if the efficiency increases costs instead of lowering them? Still a revolution, I wonder?
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Amy Hoy @amyhoy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
so sick of Chosen One-ification of everything narcissist ass worldview
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Steve Randy Waldman @interfluidity.com · 28/09/2026
the Gaius Baltar character in Battlestar Galactica (take 2) was so prescient.
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Steve Randy Waldman @interfluidity.com · 28/09/2026
sometimes when you think you are making progress, you are making a fool of yourself. and hopefully vice versa.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The most useless form of news is “CEO says.” Can this tool actually do what it says or is the company just trying to profit off fear?
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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
NEW from me: Over the last 4 years, America has lost more than 200k jobs in creative fields like publishing, film, TV, or graphic design. It's the worst stretch for arts jobs outside of recessions. How much is AI to blame? And can the arts' business model survive?🧵 www.apricitas.io/p/ai-and-the...
apricitas.io
AI and the Fall? of the Creative Class
America is Losing Hundreds of Thousands of Jobs in Media, Film & the Arts. How Much is AI to Blame?
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Daily Chartbook @dailychartbook.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"Baby Boomers currently account for 53.0% of total US household net worth. Together with the Silent Generation, they account for 64.0% of household net worth." -Yardeni
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Steve Randy Waldman @interfluidity.com · 27/09/2026
toward the governor module…
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Steve Randy Waldman @interfluidity.com · 27/09/2026
if civilization can wane, we can only hope it can wax as well.
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Steve Randy Waldman @interfluidity.com · 27/09/2026
hmm…
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niraliberalism @niral.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
What transhumanists want to do with computers, advancing the species by melding with machine, gerbils did long ago with hang gliders.
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Brian Beutler @brianbeutler.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Wild. This should create a Streisand effect, which Dem ranking members can enhance by sending the companies document preservation demands. www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/dig...
hollywoodreporter.com
The Major Social Media Platforms Are All Rejecting Paid Ads for Alex Gibney’s ‘Musk’ (Exclusive)
YouTube, TikTok and Meta have all turned down the trailer for the Oct. 9 doc, citing “political” content. X won't even take Bleecker Street's calls. The distributor is appealing.
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 26/09/2026
great piece. man social media is a cancer themomoftheyear.substack.com/p/im-the-mom...
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I’m the Mom in That Viral Giants Clip. Let Me Tell You About My Husband.
You saw me carrying our baby and food. There was more happening in our family that night.
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Steve Randy Waldman @interfluidity.com · 26/09/2026
even if they kill us all they are only our ghosts
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Kevin Collins @kwcollins.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
If every contact with a political organization is an ask for time and money, it will burn supporters out. Find time to create community. Not every event will be for everyone and that's totally fine. But these ideas are good ones even if they don't work for this particular poster
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Steve Randy Waldman @interfluidity.com · 22/09/2026
we need an @ezraklein.bsky.social interview. ht @jamellebouie.net
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Hakeem Jefferson @hakeemjefferson.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Nikole Hannah-Jones w/ a sobering follow-up on her decision yrs ago to enroll her daughter in a poor, majority-Black public school rather than a wealthier, whiter private school. You leave heartbroken for the kids being failed by this grossly unequal system. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/20/m...
nytimes.com
In Fighting for Every Black Child, Did I Betray My Own? (Gift Article)
A decade ago, I made a decision about my daughter’s education that I hoped would challenge New York City’s separate and unequal school system. Now 16, she thinks I made the wrong choice.
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value plus discounted @akhilrao.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
this is clearly a joke, only the representative macroeconomist would do this
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Paul Ford @ftrain.com · 19/09/2026
people constantly confuse being smart with being right and it’s killing us all
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Doremus Schafer @doremus-schafer.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
"I asked ChatGPT" "I asked Grok" Well, I took my question to the shrine that has not ceased from speaking, The heart within, that tells the truth and tells it twice as plain davidsuttonpoetry.com/2020/04/03/w...
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Steve Randy Waldman @interfluidity.com · 19/09/2026
“While the colossal failure of the Iran War has some roots in the last thirty years of US Middle East policy, it’s most critical elements all stem from Trump’s destruction of US government expertise over the last two years.” @drfarls.bsky.social www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2026/09/tech...
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Technically the Patient Isn't Dead Yet But an Autopsy is Still Warranted - Lawyers, Guns & Money
Some excellent work on how Trump’s failure in Iran resulted from his destruction of US government capacity at home: Likewise, the administration launched the war with no consultation with its transatl...
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Blair Fix @blairfix.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
What if 'business' and 'industry aren’t synonyms? This essay introduces the business-to-industry index (the ratio of income share to energy-use share) to map the financial core of global capitalism, and to trace the rise and fall of capitalist empire. economicsfromthetopdown.com/2026/09/19/t...
economicsfromthetopdown.com
The Business-to-Industry Index and the Geography of Global Capitalism – Economics from the Top Down
I use the business-to-industry index to chart the rise and fall of capitalist hegemony, and to map the uneven structure of global capitalism.
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Steve Randy Waldman @interfluidity.com · 19/09/2026
that no one has founded an AI lab at delphi feels like a lapse.
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Steve Randy Waldman @interfluidity.com · 19/09/2026
omg. this is real. the world is well beyond my meager satirical skills.
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Steve Randy Waldman @interfluidity.com · 19/09/2026
get google and apple to rename it red-white-and-blue land. you know you can.
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Super Shoe @shoe.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
This is incredible nitter.app/banteg/statu... H/t @gregdoucette.bsky.social
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banteg (@banteg)
>be me >discover effective altruism >apparently normal charity is inefficient >why donate to random sad thing when spreadsheet can tell you optimal sad thing >fair enough >buy mosquito nets >save live...
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Here's a chart from the post.... quite a change in a single generation.
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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
today in cultural decline gambling eclipses arts and entertainment combined film box office $8.87B recorded music $11.5B live music $18.51B books $14.6B museums $16.4B add it up: $70B less than half of the $166B Americans wagered on sports fortune.com/2026/07/26/g...
fortune.com
Gambling becomes America's favorite pastime as Americans spend more on sports bets than movies, arts, museums, and music combined | Fortune
Americans wagered $166 billion on sports last year, more than Hollywood, the music industry, books, and museums combined.
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Ivan the K ™ @ivanthek.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
For those who asked,* this is my all-time favorite Kennedy Center performance. * No one asked.
youtube.com
Heart - Stairway to Heaven (Live at Kennedy Center Honors) [FULL VERSION]
YouTube video by Don Jack
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Steve Randy Waldman @interfluidity.com · 17/09/2026
have there been experiments along the lines of publish a new programming language with reference and tutorial documentation, then ask coding agents to write in it? can coding agents learn new programming language without a sizable corpus of human-generated programs in the language?
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Steve Herman @newsguy.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Peter Max has died. The US Information Agency (then the parent agency of VOA) commissioned him in 1970 to design a recruiting poster. Decades later I found and purchased a signed copy and donated it to the National Voice of America Museum of Broadcasting in Ohio. apnews.com/article/peter-max-...
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Steve Randy Waldman @interfluidity.com · 17/09/2026
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Steve Randy Waldman @interfluidity.com · 16/09/2026
yes, even when you do the right thing a lot of people will talk shit about you. but actually more and better people will talk shit about you if you talk yourself into not doing the right thing.
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Mauricio Sellmann Oliveira @mausellmoli.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
“More recent experiments underscore a less celebrated lesson from [Portugal’s successful model]: These policies depend on an integrated system of health and social services, sustained political support and buy-in from the institutions, including law enforcement, charged with making them work.”
theconversation.com
Portugal decriminalized drugs 25 years ago, but the real lesson is what it built around this policy
Portugal’s remarkable public health strides after changing its approach to drugs may not be replicable in other countries absent broader systemic reforms.
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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 15/09/2026
Big things are happening. Foreign investors prefer US stocks to Treasuries as debt worries grow - www.ft.com/content/e565...
ft.com
Foreign investors prefer US stocks to Treasuries as debt worries grow
International flows into American equities exceed government debt for first time this century outside pandemic and aftermath of global financial crisis
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Steve Randy Waldman @interfluidity.com · 15/09/2026
just because a claim isn’t falsifiable doesn’t mean it can’t be true.
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Steve Randy Waldman @interfluidity.com · 15/09/2026
when an asshole rises to power in any powerful country, other countries decide they must put into power an asshole of their own. one can’t fall behind in the asshole race, we think. then suddenly we realize, hey, the world is run by assholes! oops.
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James Holland Jones @juemos.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Gas prices today in Menlo Park.
Chevron sign advertising gas prices. Regular, Plus, and Premium are $7.69, $7.89, and $8.09 respectively. An empty bench for the 86 and 87 samTrans bus lines sits in foreground.
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