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History PhD @Brown
Studying money and finance in early America
https://fortunesficklefavors.substack.com/
Studying money and finance in early America
https://fortunesficklefavors.substack.com/
lmao?
Q: would you feel comfortable living in NYC under a Mamdani administration ?
TRUMP: I would. I really would.
TRUMP: I would. I really would.
November 21, 2025 at 9:05 PM
lmao?
i really wonder if the term inflation has simply come to be a vague vibes-based placeholder for a gap between expectation and reality in a wide range of experiences
By this I mean -- I doubt real-world actual humans are going to say "The labor market is getting worse and I dislike Trump more, but I'm noticing inflation is cooling off so I'll give Trump credit for that." Orange Man Bad is going to have a high correlation to all the issues.
November 20, 2025 at 4:05 PM
i really wonder if the term inflation has simply come to be a vague vibes-based placeholder for a gap between expectation and reality in a wide range of experiences
too slimy for AI is crazy
BREAKING: Larry Summers has stepped down from the OpenAI board after Epstein emails were released this week
November 19, 2025 at 1:38 PM
too slimy for AI is crazy
“the cruelty is the point”-type interpretations of this phenomenon are simplistic, but it is fundamentally true that one way of increasing the relative social position of elites is by depriving people of things.
It is genuinely incredible to me how much evidence there is to support investing in the public good and how much animus there is to do this simple, effective thing.
November 18, 2025 at 3:13 AM
“the cruelty is the point”-type interpretations of this phenomenon are simplistic, but it is fundamentally true that one way of increasing the relative social position of elites is by depriving people of things.
aw so sad what a shame
BITCOIN WIPES OUT 2025 GAINS AS CRYPTO BEAR DEEPENS
November 17, 2025 at 12:07 AM
aw so sad what a shame
i dont really know where the chips land on all of this but societies in which both the economic elite and political norms are totally delegitimized tend to face… challenges
November 13, 2025 at 11:03 PM
i dont really know where the chips land on all of this but societies in which both the economic elite and political norms are totally delegitimized tend to face… challenges
seems pretty obvious now that the anti-cancel culture movement was driven by elites who deserve to be cancelled
Honestly, we could have used a lot more cancel culture.
Insights from Larry Summers
"I observed that half the IQ In world was possessed by women without mentioning they are more than 51 percent of population..."
"I observed that half the IQ In world was possessed by women without mentioning they are more than 51 percent of population..."
November 13, 2025 at 2:27 PM
seems pretty obvious now that the anti-cancel culture movement was driven by elites who deserve to be cancelled
we are once again approaching the fundamental problem of politics as posed by spinoza: how to live with idiots
We used to call this stupidity. There were smart people and stupid people and we let the smart people do the things they were good at and the stupid people were taken care of and didn't need to worry about what the smart people were doing. But now we let the stupid people think they're smart.
Greg Gutfeld says he doesn't understand how vaccines work as “a community preventative thing”
November 13, 2025 at 1:18 AM
we are once again approaching the fundamental problem of politics as posed by spinoza: how to live with idiots
really feel this but i also think this is something teachers in primary school are also feeling—somehow no matter how early you go it is too late to make a difference
I am increasingly distressed by the thought that university level teaching no longer can meaningfully advance the cause of humanistic progress. one shows up far too late on the scene for students who have by and large already been violently deskilled and stripped of any hope. it is heartbreaking.
November 12, 2025 at 1:12 AM
really feel this but i also think this is something teachers in primary school are also feeling—somehow no matter how early you go it is too late to make a difference
a big problem for centrists and liberals is that if you dont want left-leaning people to become marxists, you should not run a government that basically functions like the marxist stereotype of a capitalist state. but they cant help themselves!
November 11, 2025 at 1:46 AM
a big problem for centrists and liberals is that if you dont want left-leaning people to become marxists, you should not run a government that basically functions like the marxist stereotype of a capitalist state. but they cant help themselves!
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i'm a deleuzean in the very specific sense that i spiritually align with the freaks but i really like hanging out at home
October 31, 2025 at 3:46 PM
i'm a deleuzean in the very specific sense that i spiritually align with the freaks but i really like hanging out at home
trump’s america
October 28, 2025 at 8:54 PM
trump’s america
im like 65% of the way to convincing myself that capitalism, as most people understand it, existed for ~one century, and everything beyond that is people trying to construct a prehistory for something that was totally contingent
October 28, 2025 at 7:20 PM
im like 65% of the way to convincing myself that capitalism, as most people understand it, existed for ~one century, and everything beyond that is people trying to construct a prehistory for something that was totally contingent
this is because a successful bipartisan project of the last 40 years has been obfuscating all of the things the government does
I think very often people do not realize the sheer *scale* of government, particularly the US government.
There are already food banks/depositories in every district & a ton of Democrats have been doing events to support them, but if no one besides a staffer posts about it, no one knows about it.
Even with a massive support, it's not replacing $100 billion in SNAP. We need a functional government!
Even with a massive support, it's not replacing $100 billion in SNAP. We need a functional government!
October 27, 2025 at 2:37 AM
this is because a successful bipartisan project of the last 40 years has been obfuscating all of the things the government does
my backyard has a carefully balanced ecosystem of 5 squirrels, 2 rabbits, and one large rat
October 21, 2025 at 5:08 PM
my backyard has a carefully balanced ecosystem of 5 squirrels, 2 rabbits, and one large rat
it was such a good bit to get my entire generation addicted to the internet by making it good for the formative years of our development, and then make it completely unusable by the time we reached our 30s.
October 15, 2025 at 1:46 AM
it was such a good bit to get my entire generation addicted to the internet by making it good for the formative years of our development, and then make it completely unusable by the time we reached our 30s.
it’s good when the army is paid entirely by one anonymous rich guy
Trump: "I had a very wealthy person who called -- a donor, a great gentleman -- and he said, 'if there's any money necessary, shortfall, for the paying of the troops, then I will pay it.' Meaning he will pay it. How about that?"
October 14, 2025 at 7:15 PM
it’s good when the army is paid entirely by one anonymous rich guy
nothing really gets me going like writing historical materialist heterodox macroeconomics for 18th century french colonies
October 13, 2025 at 7:56 PM
nothing really gets me going like writing historical materialist heterodox macroeconomics for 18th century french colonies
trump snubbed again
*MOKYR, AGHION, HOWITT WON NOBEL PRIZE IN ECONOMICS
October 13, 2025 at 6:33 PM
trump snubbed again
torn between “i should flee america” and “i should move back to philly”
October 9, 2025 at 10:18 PM
torn between “i should flee america” and “i should move back to philly”
goin outside to eat a cliff bar like im having a cigarette
October 8, 2025 at 8:00 PM
goin outside to eat a cliff bar like im having a cigarette
“can a civil war be imposed from the top down” looks like a question we are going to learn the answer to soon
October 8, 2025 at 12:53 AM
“can a civil war be imposed from the top down” looks like a question we are going to learn the answer to soon
david graeber has a curious essay about why the police were so bothered by large puppets during the anti-globalization protests. i thought it was bullshit when i read it but this video is making me reconsider.
October 6, 2025 at 1:03 AM
david graeber has a curious essay about why the police were so bothered by large puppets during the anti-globalization protests. i thought it was bullshit when i read it but this video is making me reconsider.
“can the king break the law” essays in intro political theory classes probably go hard this year
October 4, 2025 at 12:34 AM
“can the king break the law” essays in intro political theory classes probably go hard this year
AI is mostly a project to find out how small you can make the ruling elite while subjecting the median individual to increasingly harsh conditions. the bet is you can proletarianize all knowledge and entertainment industry workers and suffer little to no blowback.
October 3, 2025 at 1:33 AM
AI is mostly a project to find out how small you can make the ruling elite while subjecting the median individual to increasingly harsh conditions. the bet is you can proletarianize all knowledge and entertainment industry workers and suffer little to no blowback.