I wrote about SpaceX. SpaceX the rocket company, SpaceX the suspicious financial instrument for Musk to create value out of thin air. SpaceX the meme. SpaceX as the 7-headed hydra at the end of capitalism. (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
“The film’s biggest villains are the unwitting parents.” “Toy Story 5” is surprising, soulful and splendid, Alexandra Suich Bass tells “The Intelligence” bit.ly/44pwvOE
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To win a war means changing the politics of the enemy such that they must surrender. That is what Iran just did to the United States.
See my latest essay: "Capitulation Day: The dimensions of defeat, and the chance for recovery."
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ethnonationalism can’t roll like this bsky.app/profile/oemi...
"So ... so I said ... why not sign your treaty here, at Versailles?"
i think there are a lot of people who would find it very hard to believe that the field of economics could produce this paper. and yet! Acemoglu is like the mainstreamest and most successful economist working today. some priors could use an update.
www.nber.org/papers/w35336
Scenes from a personalist regime: the leader can never fail, he can only be failed
"The mere existence of trillionaires is a major political and economic problem, probably the defining issue of our time," writes @gabrielzucman.bsky.social.
"When the power of wealth is wielded by sociopaths, the consequences are a matter of life and death."
The company has mutated into something that defies both comparison and logic.
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There is a fundamental tension between extreme wealth and the very possibility of democracy. That’s because extreme wealth is always an extreme power
Ben Shapiro: "This MOU appears to be a disaster that does not achieve any of the signal goals that were set by the administration at the beginning ... in my opinion the vice president, the chief negotiator, has not well served the president"
World Cup might be the closest thing we’ll get to world peace
