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Graham Cummins @grahamiancummins.bsky.social · 37m

But can they supply 5 million frog suits on short notice?

Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 1d

My boss: so how's our fourth quarter looking?

Me, the sales manager at the company that makes inflatable frog suits: well, you're never going to believe this, but

Graham Cummins @grahamiancummins.bsky.social · 1h

But if we talk to people who knows what they’ll say? That's not consistent with our commitment to decision-driven data making!

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Graham Cummins @grahamiancummins.bsky.social · 2h

Argentina ran its government like a business. Like so many other businesses, they went broke and got a bailout from the US government.

The last step in this strategy won't work for the US government itself.

Graham Cummins @grahamiancummins.bsky.social · 7h

The core message still reads "I'm a libertarian, and that means I want to use state violence to prohibit people from doing anything I don't like"

I agree NYT is culpable for some laundering, but readers who accept that message aren't misled, they are supportive of hypocrisy and coercion.

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Graham Cummins @grahamiancummins.bsky.social · 8h

"Questionable" is the most legal edge of the distribution recently

Graham Cummins @grahamiancummins.bsky.social · 8h

In MAGA America, computer programs you.

Graham Cummins @grahamiancummins.bsky.social · 8h

It looks like we've got all the precedents in place now to assemble "the military can preemptively execute US citizens on US soil on suspicion that they may be anti-fascist"

Graham Cummins @grahamiancummins.bsky.social · 8h

TBF 1-5% is likely lower than what you'd get with humans :|

Graham Cummins @grahamiancummins.bsky.social · 8h

For some values of "solve"

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Graham Cummins @grahamiancummins.bsky.social · 8h

I think the Epstien thing is as much a social experiment as a coverup.

Trump has already resolved "people will vote for me if they have clear evidence I'm a criminal and sex abuser." He wants to level up to "they'll vote for me if they know I'm covering up sonething I promised to expose"

Graham Cummins @grahamiancummins.bsky.social · 1d

Education at large would, I think, save a _culture_ from this. There'd still be plenty of potential, educated evil leaders, but they'd have a harder time convincing followers.

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Graham Cummins @grahamiancummins.bsky.social · 1d

You are claiming the Infinite Perspective Vortex isn't punk?

Graham Cummins @grahamiancummins.bsky.social · 1d

"Lord" Thiel is concerned that someone (else) might try to exert control over people.

(And he's not just any tech "lord," he's specifically a guy who thinks he needs a mass surveillance network and killer robots)

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Graham Cummins @grahamiancummins.bsky.social · 1d

I'll be honest, I did not have "if you want to fight the most critical battle for American democracy in your lifetime, you'll need to be prepared with an inflatable animal costume" on my radar

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Graham Cummins @grahamiancummins.bsky.social · 1d

There are a lot of rich grifters who voted for exactly that.

Graham Cummins @grahamiancummins.bsky.social · 1d

"Statistically unlikely interpretations" is a beautifully crafted descriptor for this context.

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Graham Cummins @grahamiancummins.bsky.social · 1d

My compromise wealth tax:

Everyone with a net worth over $50M is taxed back down to $50M (on wealth, not income). There's an available exemption anyone can claim, but it has 501c3-like conditions. If you do significant political action, you lose the exemption.

Graham Cummins @grahamiancummins.bsky.social · 1d

It's often shocking how much the people we call capitalists hate capitalism these days.

That said, I expect some of this is because supply chains are now very complicated and bulk-optimized. Changing them adaptively is more difficult and expensive than it once was.

IDK much about this case, though

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Graham Cummins @grahamiancummins.bsky.social · 1d

Our user panels are full of people with mid-six-figure salaries telling us what they really want our software to do is the entirety of their job, fully automatically.

Graham Cummins @grahamiancummins.bsky.social · 1d

Do 85% of the chore, IIRC.

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Sarah Dougherty @sarahdougherty.bsky.social · 1d

Totally agree. Getting an ebike changed not only the way I get around atlanta, but my experience and relationship with the city, for the much better to be clear. Ebikes are revolutionary while EVs are a small (but important) shift in the current system.

Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 2d

By me this week - the happiest thing I've got to report of late, with a glorious trip over the summer to Montreal

"Forget EVs. Cycling is revolutionising transport."

www.economist.com/internationa...

Forget EVs. Cycling is revolutionising transport

Pedal power is booming, spinning up a new culture war

www.economist.com

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Graham Cummins @grahamiancummins.bsky.social · 1d

I guess they take the Sith code seriously :|

Graham Cummins @grahamiancummins.bsky.social · 1d

Don't worry. We'll get Glonzo yet.

Graham Cummins @grahamiancummins.bsky.social · 1d

I'll be honest here: I hoped 99% of the emails I've ever received didn't find me.

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Graham Cummins @grahamiancummins.bsky.social · 1d

I like Bernie, but his choice of talking points implies that Americans care more about free beer than Free Speech.

We should prevent the rise of a sociopathic class of wannabe feudal lords to prevent them from looting us, not because we want to loot them.

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