Nicholas Handler

Move fast, break things, then spend 7 hours and $18,000 in a deposition authenticating emails.

At this point I'm 98% convinced the country is just going to memory-hole this entire administration like we did with the pandemic. No one will ever talk about any of this ever again after 2028.

It turns out most people have an imperfect command of their worst impulses and you need rules and structure in place to curb bad behavior. See, e.g., [broad sweeping hand gesture]

Law and order but make it woke.

The competition for AI users and the competition for 18 year olds’ tuition dollars may exhibit similar market dynamics.

These are the same guys who think ChatGPT could condense all of Aristotle into a 5 paragraph essay. Their whole thing is reframing ignorance and incuriosity as if it were some kind of cognitive efficiency.

If you think Blood Meridian could be improved by using ChatGPT to standardize its syntax then you should be shot out of a cannon.

Ah local government, where the police power is general and the executives are not unitary.

Everything’s fine

It's now just common wisdom in Silicon Valley that you can make yourself a genius by reading posts all day. Unbelievable levels of brain damage.

My information intake is now 1/3 huffing gasoline from a paper bag, 1/3 slamming my head in a car door, and 1/3 listening to the Hard Fork podcast.

Pretty cool that they eliminated their Middle East bureau for this.

Just filled up my gas tank and lol at this rate we’re going to be electing Mensheviks in November.

I'm sorry, but JD Vance needs to make this request personally or it's an instant no.

But will we even say thank you?

They're basically doing purple pill centrism

Everyone responsible for leaving the blanket on that plane has now been fired.

thanks!

no, this looks great. Thanks!

I've read a lot of the greatest hits on bureaucracy (Hirschman, McnollGast, Niskanen, etc.) but curious what the best scholarship is applying a theory of bureaucracy specifically to the permanent managerial class.

Random poli sci/ public administration question: Does anyone have any favorite books or articles that are explicitly about the middle-management layer of public bureaucracies?

The appointment and removal power: Middle East edition.

Maybe they can tell their sales associates not to be extremely high while working.

Have they considered actually becoming a fun place to shop for those things?

I would've guessed something about polarization or heterogeneity, but looking at the list that doesn't seem to be it!

A lot of state laws around guardianship seem really problematic and ripe for abuse. But it turns out this really wasn't the best cause celebre for reforming them.

Honestly, as someone who supported Bernie's first campaign I don't love that so many people in that orbit have been ZOG-posting themselves into schizophrenia.

He's been QTing Tucker Carlson and Matt Walsh on the other site so...

Always go with puns