When your position as the global hegemon was developed through public financing of the arms industry, everything looks like a nail I guess
12.03.2026 06:40
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When your position as the global hegemon was developed through public financing of the arms industry, everything looks like a nail I guess
Useful reminder that the French pronunciation of “GPT” translates to “I farted”
These results suggest that gig markets differ from standard labor markets in key ways, that create unique challenges for pay regulation. Namely:
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RIP
"The CIA conspired to make me less cool than I was when I was 25" is the most succinct Gen X manifesto I've ever heard
Life hack: imagine the news of the day read by Mike Duncan as a part of the long prologue to a revolutionary chapter
The D Line Extension to Wilshire/La Brea, Wilshire/Fairfax and Wilshire/La Cienega opens...
I would like to see Pritzker and Newsom declare a state tax receivership fund whereby citizens pay their federal tax liabilities into a state-run escrow account rather than directly to the IRS.
The state can hold these funds in trust for the federal government until Trump obeys the Impoundment Act.
Trump's speech was under two hours, which bolsters the thesis that the leaks about it being more than two hours were meant to work the prediction markets
What stands out to me is treating productive capacity as a political variable(!)
Moving from 500 to 1,400 shovelers at $30/hr is a real foray into capacity expansion organized around a clear public standard, instead of letting the “how do we pay for it?” frame set the ceiling in advance.
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cant.stop.laughing
I did, like five times, and it was even cooler than you can imagine
*looks directly into the camera Marxistly*
We should try electing some kind of deliberative body that makes decisions about levying taxes.
As a reader of Marx, as Krugman is not, I would put some things a bit differently than he does. But he is right on the fundamental thing: equality in the political sphere is not compatible with an arbitrarily large degree of inequality in the private sphere.
I know the endless sports gambling promotion was already bad enough but for some reason this stuff (also Giannis and Kalshi, substack polymarket embeds, etc) gives me End Times vibes. Just dark as hell, all of it.
NEW: ChatGPT and other chatbots are feeding users' fixations on real people, reinforcing users' delusional ideas and obsessions about others as they descend into unwanted harassment, stalking, and/or domestic abuse — traumatizing victims and profoundly altering lives.
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Wow
“Fixed price” stores— with labeled prices that were the same for all—were one of the great wonders of commercial life in the democratizing 19C. We will miss them when they’re gone!
(2/11) You know dynamic pricing—think Uber rides, flights, or concert tickets that surge based on supply and demand. “Surveillance Pricing” takes this to the next level: using your data to set a “price for you” based on your predicted breaking point. This is, increasingly, everywhere.
Newsom proudly leading the Democratic Party realignment (the side that’s turning the dems into the conservative party)
Thinking about how the Luddites correctly perceived that power looms created a much poorer quality fabric than artisan weavers… and yet
No son, they are not "magically delicious." The workers made them delicious. This is a slogan meant to mystify the social conditions of labor
Then again… not normal times for left candidates 🤔
In 2024 she was censured by the chapter but her endorsement was not revoked (by a hair), and she won outright in the primary. Her district will be extremely challenging for DSA in a special election tho
In a Democratic club meeting, LA Mayor Karen Bass pronounced herself "flabbergasted" by Nithya Raman's entry into the mayor's race. "I’ve worked closely with Nithya, helped her gain the Democratic endorsement, helped her clear an encampment in her district," she said. "I am going to fight."
Democratic Socialists of America — We are at 100,000 members!
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Few things more indicative of the liberal coalition’s learned helplessness
I think it's best for everyone to understand that the unified class project of billionaires right now is to do to white collar workers what globalization and neoliberalism did to blue collar workers.
