jimcashel.bsky.social
Tech and policy professional interested in global development, space policy, tech for good, effective government, level playing fields, overlooked ideas.
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I can’t read these words without being moved.
“Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door.”
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Tesla has lower sales, falling revenue, aging lineup, thin pipeline compared to BYD - and 6x the market cap.
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Yeah - honestly creepy.
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Looks like he even went with the American flag boxers?
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Agree - jarring and creepy.
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The sight of tanks in DC is jarring and creepy.
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I expect that the sight of tanks rolling through downtown DC is going to be jarring and creepy.
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Here's a graphic from the Stevenson and Wolfers introductory economics textbook. (It's a point of pride for me that no other textbook insists on this level of numeracy before presenting macro data.)
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I expect most people are going to react to tanks rolling through DC as jarring and creepy.
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Wow - someone in Washington over promising. That’s scandalous.
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Scientific progress requires precision. Otherwise it’s just meaningless.
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"That should not have happened. Apps on your phone are walled off from accessing your activity on other apps, including web browser apps like Chrome. Meta and Yandex found work-arounds.
The techniques essentially were akin to malware"
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Correct.
calbudgetcenter.org/resources/is...
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I agree that politicians are fickle and many will circle back to Elon. Sigh.
I have a harder time seeing Tesla consumers shifting back. If a meaningful percentage are "never Tesla", that's an enormous problem for his TAM.
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While the indiscriminate DOGE cuts are highly destructive, my company's experience is at least some DOGE activities involve trying to modernize government IT systems.
That is needed and welcome - but of course is simply a reprise of the US Digital Service (which DOGE took over).
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California sends the federal government $692 billion (12% of federal budget). It receives $609 billion in federal funding. That's a net payment to the federal government of $83 billion (2022 figures).
calbudgetcenter.org/resources/is...
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DOGE activities:
* Indiscriminate cuts to government: bad
* Politically targeted cuts to government: bad
* Sloppy handling of sensitive data: bad
* Updating of government IT and systems: great!
But that's basically a reprise of the US Digital Service (which DOGE took over).
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Passed by Congress. Signed by the President. Affirmed by the Supreme Court.
And just ignored by the current Administration.
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This is essentially the Prisoner’s Dilemma. It is each of their interests (and personalities) to escalate, ending up worse off for both.
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They love, LOVE, the attention. Not out of the question they’ll be smiling together in the Oval Office in the next few days.
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Forecast calls for fierce tweetstorms this evening, followed by searching the rubble for survivors in the morning.
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Governance should be competent and boring. Oh well.
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Or like one of his cars, accelerating from zero to “pedo” in like 2.9 seconds.
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Correct.
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She already did.
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NASA and DoD have worked hard to develop other partners (ULA, Boeing, Northrop Grumman) but SpaceX outperformed and others underperformed.
But you’re exactly right - today is every “privatize space” critic’s worst nightmare.
Given Elon’s behavior, there will be increased talk of nationalization.
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That’s the fundamental toxicity of social media tbh.
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Correct.
www.gao.gov/fraud-improp...
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Just a reminder that Medicare fraud is by outside criminals, not due to internal waste.
If Senators were serious about saving money, they would beef up enforcement, not cut services.
www.gao.gov/fraud-improp...
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Tonight’s forecast: vigorous tweetstorms followed in the morning by sifting through the wreckage looking for anything salvageable.
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Do I have to start making my “Bring Jonny Kim Home” protest posters now?
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MBK shaking his head today.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail...