Category: Link Library
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MAGA Maoism
An interesting and new framework for me on the “left-is-right and right-is-left” phenomenon that’s being revealed.
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Crashing the Car of Pax Americana
“You cannot unring this bell. Sure, you can reverse this policy and that policy, and god knows we’re going to get plenty of that, but you can never go back to the way things were before. Once you toss over the game table, even if you reset the table exactly as it was before, the…
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Another tariff link, sorry
This Twitter article by Molson Hart, with manufacturing experience and grasp of the details, is one of the best commentaries I’ve read on the Trump tariff’s so far.
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Businesses can be not that, quickly
Another post that takes a fine detail out of this whole vague narrative and hammers home the point. This can get bad for people quickly.
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“We can reshore. Just not like this.”
Memorable post, with lots of specific questions and details, on the recent tariffs by the Trump 2.0 admin. This level of thinking and questioning is so rare in the info ecosystem around issues like this. I feel like I mostly encounter certainty from one side or the other. But to question it in extreme detail…
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Scott Alexander on Blogging
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Tick-Tock
“It was the summer of 1996, early June, and I was teaching a course at Simmons College in Boston to make some extra dough. Jennifer was clerking for a lawfirm down in Dallas, pregnant with our first child. My dad called. He and my mom were in London, where they had rented a small flat…
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“Is it okay?”
This essay from Robin Sloan (new to me!), shared by a friend, thinks about the outcomes of giving away (unwillingly) our collective creation of the internet to the AI. This particular section was worth remembering and thinking about: The Everything framework is pretty cool. Basically, we gave everyone the ability to type into one book…
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“Just spend the time thinking”
I’ve thought about how true this could be from an attentional perspective with wanting to get better at something. I.e., if I wanted to get very good at skateboarding, or thinking, or wanted to get progressively smarter at a thing, Time + Effort X Attention seems to = Progress. Most of us are used to…
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Style to remember
This style and taste in this tweet made me feel good when I saw it. So much of what’s presented to me online seems like it’s meant to make the observer feel a negative emotion. I don’t think it’s that intentional, I just think the Algorithm has conditioned new content with an awareness that if…