@alainxiongcalmes
Airbnb Public Policy. Was Northeast Political Director for Harris-Walz. Former tech guy for Chamber of Progress and Governor Wolf staffer. Alain is pronounced uh-lawn. Views are my own unless you share them
From the New Yorker:
Is your child texting about Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson’s new book?
What your Abundance obsessed teen’s texts mean:
Smh = so much housing
Brb = breaking regulatory barriers
Ttyl = talking to Yimby’s later
Gtg = gotta tackle growth
Nsfw = national supply-side fixes waiting
Some abundance-oriented intellectuals would disagree, but my read on the abundance school’s greater significance is as an attempt to recover elements of the New Deal’s political economy and move past the New Left/degrowther instincts that still have too much influence over contemporary liberalism.
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Spotted the LEGO Starry Night to the left in Tim Walz’s background on Gavin Newsom’s podcast. A true man of culture.
S&P performance during the first 100 days of recent Presidents:
The fight going on in the Democratic Party right now is not between hard left, left and moderate. It’s between those who want to fight and those who want to cave. And Team Fight stretches across all ideological aspects of the Party. Misread this at your own peril.
This is so stupidly offensive. It's not just the obvious wink wink nod nod of renaming forts after *literal traitors*, it's the pretending he's not doing that, while knowing everyone knows he is.
Thinks he's being clever, but is too stupid to know he just looks like a dipshit.
This is very good
So good. . . Irv is the goat
It's so incredible. . . the tension is that episode was palpable
If you look at the computer screens as MDR engaged in data refinement, you’ll also notice that it appears that the data has measurements for each of the four humors
Each of the characters above correspondents to one of the four humors.
Helly + Raphael = Yellow Bile
Irving + Donatello = Black Bile
Dylan + Michelangelo = Blood
Mark + Leonardo = Phlegm
Blood → Frolic (happiness)
Phlegm → Dread (calmness)
Black bile → Woe (melancholy)
Yellow bile → Malice (anger)
The four humors were: blood, phlegm, black bile, and yellow bile.
Each humour was thought to correspond to specific temperaments.
The reason this comparison works is that both sets of four characters are based on an idea called Humorism.
The basic idea is that folks long ago thought there were four bodily liquids, “humors,” that governed your health and personality.
Lastly, Mark is Leonardo. Two leaders of their groups.
Irving is Donatello. Two thoughtful, smart, disciplined guys here.
Second, Dylan is Michelangelo.
They both bring humor and levity to their squads.
In advance of tonight’s episode of severance, here’s a thread on which MDR character is which Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle.
First off, Helly/Helena is definitely Raphael.
Both are intense, rebellious, and strong-willed.
i don’t even know if crime is the right word for the illegal destruction of USAID. it is an autocratic power grab and a direct attack on the sovereignty of the american people
When someone tries to call you but you’re running a zoom meeting
again this is a full scale attack on constitutional government
okay so what legal authority does elon musk have to commandeer the office of personnel management and access reams of sensitive data? www.reuters.com/world/us/mus...
hey question, is this bad?
Again, as @kateconger.com and @rmac.bsky.social demonstrate quite clearly in their book, Elon did this playbook at Twitter AND IT FAILED MISERABLY. But he and his fans convinced themselves it worked wonders. And now they're trying to do the same thing to the federal gov't.
i just cannot get over how much the administration’s response to the crash shows a profound disrespect for the lives of the people they are supposed to serve
WASHPOST: Trump launched air controller diversity program that he now decries wapo.st/3Cy3Pc6
Me waiting for next week’s episode of severance like:
What a cutie