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Pete Buttigieg shreds Doge from the perspective of how to do it better. As rhetoric he assumes layoffs are needed and from there spells out the case for Doge’s incompetence, (basic team hiring and firing, Doge is fish in a barrel). It’s a line of attack I’ll add to my arsenal.

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A programmer had a problem. He thought — "I know, I'll use async!" has problems Now . two he

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EV tax breaks are out, while Ute tax discounts clog suburban streets. And negative gearing and capital gains tax discounts are untouchable in a housing affordable crisis and debt bubble. Please make it make sense. More sense than they just don’t believe there is any hope for the future. #AusPol

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Fantasizing colonizing another planet, when you can’t implement longterm environmentally sustainable living here, is doomed to failure. Environmental restoration and long term environmental sustainability here on Earth is the easy mode training level for actual off-planet living.

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To call this US Gov piece greenwash insults the corporate shills and conmen who actually put in hard work to game the system. It doesn’t even work as a fig leaf. It reads like someone smirking when they know their excuse doesn’t actually make sense but they just don’t care if they’re called out.

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When I left the Washington Post in 2023, my colleagues and I were worried AI would hoover up our work and enable "zombies" to churn out stories based on our reporting and writing styles. Today WaPo announced a partnership with OpenAI. And here it is: Zombie Gillian Brockell. I DID NOT WRITE THIS.

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A colleague at Stanford’s business school used The Stanford Daily to argue—poorly—against DEI. The piece was riddled with historical errors and left one searching for fact, so I broke my public writing hiatus to respond. I hope you’ll read and share the piece. stanforddaily.com/2025/04/22/w...

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So, protect investments by squeezing another 2 generations of renters. Rental and old age housing conditions must dramatically improve for those who don’t make it onto the home ownership ladder. We can’t have a perpetual renting underclass funding investment security on this housing price bubble.

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Today drilling for gas under the Barossa project off the coast of Darwin was approved. That's 274mil tones of emissions from one of the dirtiest gas projects in the 🌏 More than 100x emissions from the 🇦🇺 electricity system. Our approvals system is broken. We need urgent reform.

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I had a corn dog once when I was teenager. I remember really liking it. I’ve never really had the chance to have another but I think about them fairly regularly. Are they as good as 40 years of mythologizing? Would I be disappointed? Where would I even find one here? Could I make one at home?

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We have enough resources to satify the poor. We don’t have enough resources to satisfy the rich.

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About 90% of election advertising for me in Wills has been local Greens and ALP candidates, and Trumpet and Advance focused on can’t vote Green messages. Trumpet has a weird mix of good and double-plus-ungood ideas. Also seen some Fusion and Socialist ads, very little Teal or LNP stuff. #auspol

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Omg. This makes so much sense.

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People spend a lot of time wondering why the left is worse at using independent media to control the national narrative. A useful exercise is to ask why the left is also worse at selling snake oil and pyramid schemes, because I think the reasons are basically exactly the same.

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Costco is a really popular subject for business-success case studies but I feel like business guys kinda lose interest when the upshot of the study is like "just operate with scrupulous integrity in all facets and levels of your business for four decades" and not some easy-to-fix gimmick

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At what point could we say the other parties are not upholding their side of the Aukus deal and be justified in withdrawing from it or withholding and redirecting payments required by it?

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Looking at the Job Guarantee versus UBI argument. Maybe there’s a blended position? It’s important required jobs be dignified and valuable. If no such job is available then a living still must be assured. It’s wrong to assume all jobs are worthwhile. We shouldn’t require worthless activity.

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Neoclassical economics preaches a merit-based theory of income distribution. Implying those who make hiring and firing decisions are always correct and so always correctly make decisions of merit when firing. It is another specific example of the fantasy of perfectly rational economic agents.

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There’s no rational LNP vote. I feel like anti-scientific absurdity, flat-earth conspiracy, the harms of anti-vax, distractions about teaching evolution, are all to avoid talking about the need to act on climate change, the need change our economy and culture gently before reality forces us.

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Lots of vaccination confirmation content in my feeds in response to Kennedy. Fortunately the algorithm knows I won’t tolerate anti-vax lies and trash. It’s a stain on humanity that anti-vax is even a concept. Anti-vax is the stochastic killing of children and should be treated with horror.

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These flying devils were an annual terror when I lived in Berlin. So common their burrowing would loosen the cobble stones used on train platforms and sidewalks. They would swarm the display cabinets of bakeries and cafés, worse than flies. And I can say first hand, they hurt crazily when they bite.

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It’s as if the way they decide what to do is to judge what should cause maximum outrages and push for that. This is what the trope of “owning the libtards” gets us: outrage as a sign of success. Glee at cynically provoked outrage distorts Australian public life as well.

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Jazza is a big art YouTuber which really just means a small business with a few income streams. Here’s some insight into what that business is like, what can go wrong, and right now the impact of Trump’s China tariffs. So many small specialist businesses will have a harder time and no one benefits.

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I wish I was funny, but it’s just not my gift. Self deprecation is as close as I get. Earnestness comes far more easily.

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Why has 60 years failed to make things better? Consider this piece on the shift in political doctrine that makes ‘60s era UK moderate conservatism look like today’s intolerably hard Left such that today even the traditional parties of the Left are further Right than old-time mainstream conservatism.

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60 years on, the same election issues recycled ring as true today as ever. #auspol youtu.be/gQrtxkYrt4o

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