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@simeongh.bsky.social
Law/Engineering. Energy Economist. Energy Market Policy Junkie, w/ an unhealthy MENA + Medieval History obsession. Market Design. Some Heterodox Econ. 🏗 ☦️
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A mayoral candidate saying maybe the city should cover the cost of bus rides gets the full socialism panic treatment before he even tries it.
A sitting president taking billions of dollars worth of shares in private companies gets “I must say, a tad unusual” after it’s been going for nearly a year.
A sitting president taking billions of dollars worth of shares in private companies gets “I must say, a tad unusual” after it’s been going for nearly a year.
November 25, 2025 at 2:23 PM
A mayoral candidate saying maybe the city should cover the cost of bus rides gets the full socialism panic treatment before he even tries it.
A sitting president taking billions of dollars worth of shares in private companies gets “I must say, a tad unusual” after it’s been going for nearly a year.
A sitting president taking billions of dollars worth of shares in private companies gets “I must say, a tad unusual” after it’s been going for nearly a year.
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People mock the style conformity / restrictions of Switzerland and Germany but it solves an aesthetic coordination problem and results in more housing. You have to please the RETVRN types to get stuff built. You may not like it but that’s politics.
NEW PAPER w/ @cselmendorf.bsky.social & @jkalla.bsky.social:
An under-appreciated reason why voters oppose dense new housing, especially in less-dense neighborhoods: they think it looks ugly and want to prevent that, even in other neighborhoods.
Some of what we think is NIMBYism might not be!
An under-appreciated reason why voters oppose dense new housing, especially in less-dense neighborhoods: they think it looks ugly and want to prevent that, even in other neighborhoods.
Some of what we think is NIMBYism might not be!
November 25, 2025 at 11:28 PM
People mock the style conformity / restrictions of Switzerland and Germany but it solves an aesthetic coordination problem and results in more housing. You have to please the RETVRN types to get stuff built. You may not like it but that’s politics.
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"Ed Husic on the money: gas industry profiteering is costing Australians" by Matt Saunders #ThePoint
thepoint.com.au/news/251125-...
thepoint.com.au/news/251125-...
Ed Husic on the money: gas industry profiteering is costing Australians
Ed Husic’s ‘breaking ranks with Labor’ speech in parliament yesterday which claimed gas exporters are profiteering from Australians and driving up domestic energy prices, is right on the money and wel...
thepoint.com.au
November 26, 2025 at 12:02 AM
"Ed Husic on the money: gas industry profiteering is costing Australians" by Matt Saunders #ThePoint
thepoint.com.au/news/251125-...
thepoint.com.au/news/251125-...
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Massive abdication of responsibility by the German political and corporate establishment -- didn't take a genius to know this was coming
November 6, 2025 at 5:41 AM
Massive abdication of responsibility by the German political and corporate establishment -- didn't take a genius to know this was coming
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They’ve laid off so many people that the government is now getting its economic data from DoorDash.
November 12, 2025 at 2:46 AM
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more ghastly abuse and exploitation of disabled people by those who are paid for care and support
www.smh.com.au/national/vic...
archive: archive.md/eFySP
www.smh.com.au/national/vic...
archive: archive.md/eFySP
Fast food, drugs used to bribe clients into handing over lucrative NDIS packages
Unscrupulous disability service providers have been detected exploiting vulnerable clients with a host of manipulative tactics to get their hands on their allowances.
www.smh.com.au
November 16, 2025 at 8:49 PM
more ghastly abuse and exploitation of disabled people by those who are paid for care and support
www.smh.com.au/national/vic...
archive: archive.md/eFySP
www.smh.com.au/national/vic...
archive: archive.md/eFySP
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is there a program with a design as overly ambitious as the system they have set up for disciplining welfare recipients anywhere else in australian government?
Sometimes defective, maybe unlawful: what can be done about Australia’s crisis-ridden welfare system?
Sometimes defective, maybe unlawful: what can be done about Australia’s crisis-ridden welfare system?
Run by multiple departments and hundreds of private companies, advocates warn errors will continue to rock a system ‘in crisis’
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It’s a system designed to help Australians who most need it. Yet its created continuous scandals, with parts of it paused because the government can’t say if it’s operating legally.
Hundreds and thousands of Centrelink clients are affected by its frequent problems, being charged or overpaying debts incorrectly calculated as another class action is launched. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
October 25, 2025 at 7:00 AM
is there a program with a design as overly ambitious as the system they have set up for disciplining welfare recipients anywhere else in australian government?
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This is quite brilliantly written. A far better piece of journalism than anything you will find in the NYT
I havent read such a banger of an essay in a very long time. This is so well-written!
Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
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November 8, 2025 at 11:44 PM
This is quite brilliantly written. A far better piece of journalism than anything you will find in the NYT
Why wouldn’t requiring the corporate veil to be pierceable as a condition of private ownership in utilities regulation fix the moral hazard & hold-up problems PE LBOs create in electricity and water? Isn't abuse of the corporate form the key issue?
November 9, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Why wouldn’t requiring the corporate veil to be pierceable as a condition of private ownership in utilities regulation fix the moral hazard & hold-up problems PE LBOs create in electricity and water? Isn't abuse of the corporate form the key issue?
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“The elites are ecstatic about imagining a vast, uneducated, and unproductive population forced to pay companies like OpenAI to access the written word and to approximate thought.”
Must read piece by Noah McCormack with too many quotaboe lines to select one! thebaffler.com/salvos/we-us...
Must read piece by Noah McCormack with too many quotaboe lines to select one! thebaffler.com/salvos/we-us...
We Used to Read Things in This Country | Noah McCormack
Technology changes us—and it is currently changing us for the worse.
thebaffler.com
November 2, 2025 at 5:12 PM
“The elites are ecstatic about imagining a vast, uneducated, and unproductive population forced to pay companies like OpenAI to access the written word and to approximate thought.”
Must read piece by Noah McCormack with too many quotaboe lines to select one! thebaffler.com/salvos/we-us...
Must read piece by Noah McCormack with too many quotaboe lines to select one! thebaffler.com/salvos/we-us...
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*This* is how the left should be talking about Mamdani's fiscal prospects & challenges. Rather than reify private market prices while fetishizing liberal budget-balancing, Weber challenges the political composition of pricing in the first place. Bravo!
Zohran Mamdani shows how Democrats can defeat authoritarians like Trump | Isabella Weber
Democrats have two choices: fight to make life affordable again for ordinary people or watch voters embrace authoritarians
www.theguardian.com
November 8, 2025 at 1:09 PM
*This* is how the left should be talking about Mamdani's fiscal prospects & challenges. Rather than reify private market prices while fetishizing liberal budget-balancing, Weber challenges the political composition of pricing in the first place. Bravo!
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This great thread raises some questions worth thinking over:
1. Is all electricity demand equivalent, or should grid policy distinguish between demand that provides essential services (e.g. hospitals) and demand that doesn't (e.g. computers mining crypto in air conditioned warehouses)?
1. Is all electricity demand equivalent, or should grid policy distinguish between demand that provides essential services (e.g. hospitals) and demand that doesn't (e.g. computers mining crypto in air conditioned warehouses)?
I reckon the most interesting subset of discourse here is when presumed [good] factors are actually either actually bad, or there to downplay or dismiss the bad even if the amount of good is way smaller than the bad.
A short thread to explain: on "training for electrification" + "demand response"
A short thread to explain: on "training for electrification" + "demand response"
I would love it if public discourse on data centers could be just a skosh more sophisticated than "data centers good vs. data centers bad."
November 7, 2025 at 12:58 PM
This great thread raises some questions worth thinking over:
1. Is all electricity demand equivalent, or should grid policy distinguish between demand that provides essential services (e.g. hospitals) and demand that doesn't (e.g. computers mining crypto in air conditioned warehouses)?
1. Is all electricity demand equivalent, or should grid policy distinguish between demand that provides essential services (e.g. hospitals) and demand that doesn't (e.g. computers mining crypto in air conditioned warehouses)?
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TRANSITION CO-CHAIR LINA KHAN!?!?!??!
November 5, 2025 at 4:38 PM
TRANSITION CO-CHAIR LINA KHAN!?!?!??!
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Excellent.
Mamdani is a Magnetist. And last night showed the credulity chasm is closing.
www.weekendreading.net/p/bringing-a...
www.weekendreading.net/p/bringing-a...
Bringing a Survey to a Gun Fight
“Pollingism” Has Failed Democrats and Voters. Here’s Why, and What to Do Instead.
www.weekendreading.net
November 5, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Excellent.
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this is quite a chart.
i wonder if it reflects a view that states will no longer act effectively against the use of cryptographic privacy to engage in criminal behavior.
i wonder if it reflects a view that states will no longer act effectively against the use of cryptographic privacy to engage in criminal behavior.
November 6, 2025 at 2:11 PM
this is quite a chart.
i wonder if it reflects a view that states will no longer act effectively against the use of cryptographic privacy to engage in criminal behavior.
i wonder if it reflects a view that states will no longer act effectively against the use of cryptographic privacy to engage in criminal behavior.
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This is what a New Era looks like.
November 5, 2025 at 11:57 PM
This is what a New Era looks like.
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I can't stop laughing at this.
The look on the South Korean President's face? Tell me he doesn't know he's trolling. Fuckin delicious 🤣
The look on the South Korean President's face? Tell me he doesn't know he's trolling. Fuckin delicious 🤣
November 2, 2025 at 10:00 AM
I can't stop laughing at this.
The look on the South Korean President's face? Tell me he doesn't know he's trolling. Fuckin delicious 🤣
The look on the South Korean President's face? Tell me he doesn't know he's trolling. Fuckin delicious 🤣
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Oh, the neocons are gonna find some secret weapon to stop the groypers? Would this be the same one they used to stop Trump?
www.unpopularfront.news/p/who-will-w...
www.unpopularfront.news/p/who-will-w...
Who Will Win the GOP Civil War?
Hint: Not the Neocons.
www.unpopularfront.news
November 4, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Oh, the neocons are gonna find some secret weapon to stop the groypers? Would this be the same one they used to stop Trump?
www.unpopularfront.news/p/who-will-w...
www.unpopularfront.news/p/who-will-w...
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Nice piece from Verdad on this paper that once again confirms: private markets are a socially acceptable grift
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
October 28, 2025 at 3:59 AM
Nice piece from Verdad on this paper that once again confirms: private markets are a socially acceptable grift
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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The private equity presidency is deeply unpopular, who'd have thought
November 5, 2025 at 7:11 AM
The private equity presidency is deeply unpopular, who'd have thought
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“getting rid of anticircumvention laws only requires…govts control their own behavior—unlike taxing or fining companies, which only works if govts can control the behavior of companies that have proven…to be more powerful than any country in the world.” ~Cory Doctorow pluralistic.net/2025/11/01/r...
Pluralistic: There’s one thing EVERY government can do to shrink Big Tech (01 Nov 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
pluralistic.net
November 4, 2025 at 11:31 PM
“getting rid of anticircumvention laws only requires…govts control their own behavior—unlike taxing or fining companies, which only works if govts can control the behavior of companies that have proven…to be more powerful than any country in the world.” ~Cory Doctorow pluralistic.net/2025/11/01/r...