worst person in the world is the guy who reuploaded all of the librivox feeds with commercials in them and somehow won in search priority

[having read 10s of business books, seeing everyone zig] ... but if i were to ...

sam kriss and scott alexander racing to publish an article about how "whoops", if properly pronounced, is an ancient sanskrit/hebrew/hittite sigil that lets you get away with murder

many languages have a concise reflexive verb to send oneself, throw oneself, both figuratively and literally. English, for centuries lacking, finally evolved "send it" which works both reflexively and transitively

the gambler->prophet frontier. When the gambler's hand goes golden, flecking delphic sparks, reality looks to it for guidance. We must imagine moses and elijah calling and posthumously winning a fourteen-way parlay

james joyce, famous for being the first and best to document post nut clarity in text,

the opposite of type of guy is one of kind

MEANWHILE, ON THE WAR-TORN ICE MOON EARTH,

Fundamentally childish essay. "Wealth is stuff we want:"

paulgraham.com/wealth.html

DJT: "Every time you make it more affordable for somebody to own a house cheaply, you are actually hurting the value of those houses. I don't want to do anything to hurt the value of their house."

Jeffrey Sachs belongs in an Oscar Wilde play. All of his colleagues were the most cynical operators of their generation and then they would hear Sachs, for three decades (!!!), defend markets and democracy and rule of law as he ruined countless lives and think to themselves "damn this guy's good."

you need to be courtiermaxxing you will be happy if and only if you ascend one level on the table of ranks you need to let the царь dance with your wife you could use a new frock coat you need to mount a plausibly deniable campaign of mockery against the too-talented, too-proud poet you need

Getting my priors "just the way I like them" and then retiring into a dark, soundless room for the rest of my life

the language-learning equivalent of hitting your sports parley is when, after a list of female nouns, you correctly female gender the verb/adj

internationally recognized symbol for "literally me"

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boiling a single large beet in a saucepan like a 1930s hobo

russian word for depth, "глубина", begins with "глуб". "глуб" is pronounced "glub", which suggests "glub glub", the landlubber's lament.

fundamentally unserious language