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@Chris_arnade @EsotericCD It's an amazing song, and I bet there are big Dylan fans who haven't heard of it! Even with great songs he has versions that elevate them above the original (one too many mornings on Hard Rain for ex) and songs like Series of Dreams that didn't even make the album. amazing talent

@KarlDzel @EsotericCD My favorite of his list is about thirty. Lol. I chose that one since it was 2 am and vibe was chill and ready for a long quieter song

It's one of Bob Dylan's most obscure "hits." (Which is to say, not really a chart hit at all.) But nearly half a century onwards, it only grows in importance. Every word matters. youtube.com/watch?v=nZs3oX…

@Chris_arnade @EsotericCD Dylan has about 120 songs somebody could reasonably have as their personal favorite.

@EsotericCD Lol. I just requested this as my last song before leaving at my Seoul LP bar

@BaldingsWorld I'm doing the same and it really is unbelievable how sketchy the whole process is. Nobody can give a reasonable explanation for the test optional thing- it seems expressly designed to make kids apply to more schools and allow schools to all claim to be top tier.

I was travelling this week and have had a couple of thoughts rattling around. 1. We did a college visit for my oldest daughter after she was accepted into an elite university (good thing she is smarter than her old man). I going through this process I am struck by a few things. For all the hand wringing academics spend about Chinese science, they could easily solve this problem and simply at least double student admissions into elite universities. Elite universities have turned into hedge funds with a side hustle who sell access not education. Admissions rates at many of these universities are 3-5% so even if they all held admissions quality the same, they could at least double student levels without any loss in student quality. Why do I mention this? China's gains are just sheer numbers. Make no mistake there are lots of smart people there, I know more than anyone, but there is nothing intrinsic it's just sheer numbers. Additionally, lots of great candidates get lost in the numbers game. One of my daughters best friends with a perfect ACT score, grades to match, and all the things any elite university should want got rejected from every elite university. I can't help but think they are in a group that is probably discriminated against (see SCOTUS case). Part of the disgust I carry for academia is the towering hypocrisy they represent and all of this just reinforces that belief. 2. One thing I accepted a long time ago but I think the world has a long way to go and why I am much more accepting of events is the need for large changes rather than maintaining the status quo of entropy and decay. The status quo across almost any topic or domain is simply unsustainable. Tariffs and supply chain? Is there more that needs to be done? Absolutely. Will it be short and easy? Absolutely not. Is it starting to change the dependency on China and put the US in control of key sectors that impact national security? Absolutely. There are so many major changes that need to be made across so many areas I am willing to accept greater disruption because the status quo of entropy and stability was the road to hell. Listen to the critics and virtually all the arguments are not arguing for the status quo even if that yields to China or Iran. The problem with the status quo is countries like Iran, China, and Russia kept advancing under the status quo. Fighting back again them requires disrupting the status quo which allowed them to flourish. Like it or not the world will face greater disruption and countries will need to pick sides.

@BaldingsWorld If Brookings books the flight:

@KarlDzel Me going to China:

In professional news I am proud to announce I am joing the Brookings Institution China Center as the Xi Jinping Chair of Involution Economic Thought

@Noahpinion Noah- I get that we all have different predilections for lib vs con ideas, but what do you think is behind the pushback around basic public safety and order. Who is against not allowing homeless junkies to pee on the subway and why? Even in class terms, the loser are the poor.

Instead of a dying service that needs constant bailouts because it lets junkies and creeps ride for free, BART should install fare gates everywhere and be a thriving public transit system that working class people can use to get around without a car.

@briangobosox There's a strange urge from so many to be willfully stupid about these kinds of things-often by pushing the idea that guys like Rubio are so dumb they haven't thought of something this obvious. Rubio could be wrong, but he's not stupid.

Rubio was clear if you watch the entire interview: they're talking to people who are "saying some of the right things," but they aren't entirely sure these people can deliver. The US is painting a favorable picture for the regime if they choose the right leadership team.

@Ed_Realist @astupple The too smart and bored thing feels like a close cousin of the 'my kid is super smart, but lousy at tests' line.

If he's bored out of his mind, it's his problem. One thing everyone forgets: the vast majority of really smart kids like school. They find their own challenges. They ask for more to do. Constantly. So if you've got a kid who says "I'm done, I don't want to do more, it's up to the teacher to give me more" start by realizing it's his personal failing as a smart kid as opposed to a functional flaw in schools. Yes, it would be better if schools could deal with smart lazy kids, but until that point, it's not unreasonable to realize that he's part of the problem.

Family friend, 14, top of his class and bored out of his mind in school, watches football on YouTube in class. He should instead just be bored? “No, the teacher should be able to reach him and all the other kids at the same time.” Yes, it would be great if all kinds of magical powers existed.

@Chris_arnade @KAErdmann As you consistently point out, other countries’ public spaces are far more pleasant which mitigates some of the problem of having a small home. Not all obviously or they’d be having more kids too.

@KAErdmann Isn’t some or that, the housing constraint, about an acceptance in the top countries for small homes? Anglo world demanding larger homes?

@SantiagoAuFund Agreed, but I'd like us all to work harder to make ourselves less easily distracted by empty posturing about the sins on the other side of the aisle. It's a universal problem that deeply compromises both sides' effectiveness at solving real problems.

If you are upset that a politician on the campaign trail didn't live up to those promises once in office...that is on you.

@TalkinYanks Judge was bad and they still scored a bunch against a really good pitcher.

What was your most positive takeaway from the Opening Night win?

@Chris_arnade Hmm, any thoughts on why Koreans are so much thinner than Americans....

Back to Seoul.

@Chris_arnade @eigenrobot There’s an amazing amount of low IQ click-baiting that gets promoted. I’ve got my follows to help insulate, but the site really wants to drag you into talking about fake basketball trades presented as real and other total wastes of time.

I’m completely confused by payout algorithm. I’ve had a few tweets go big and doesn’t seem to impact my meager earnings in any way. Not complaining. I have little interest in doing whatever is necessary to make money on this site. But makes me think you have to fundamentally change how you tweet (almost entirely for the bad, ignorant) to get paid.

@cremieuxrecueil I'm 5'10", and it's remarkable how many 6' men who are shorter than I am...

The people who clearly believe this most are... Men who are 5'11"

@SoveyX a machine that can turn screws!‽? Let's keep this a secret from all factory owners everywhere or they may use these to automate building their products!

AI is gonna take your job and your girl.

@TonyNashNerd You've never done this, but the number of people who will explain what this means vs. the number of people on the planet who actually know is something like 100万to 1!

🇨🇳 More "anti corruption" activity in China. Remember, this is selective enforcement. 😈 It'd be like prosecuting members of Congress for insider trading. If we enforced equally, we'd have few members left. 🤔 So we have to ask why this is happening. And why it's happening now.

@wil_da_beast630 totally right, and you probably could extend it pretty far up the socio-economic ladder back then before somebody would be willing to trade- you couldn't even take care of your teeth properly no matter how rich you were.

Last comment on this absurdity: Literally no one living in the modern United States would trade places with a Black American slave, or serf in Ireland, back in 1850. Our lives today are SO remarkably soft and easy that adult fighting men of the various human tribes can spend hours arguing, on the magic computers in our hands, about which group has it worse.

@wil_da_beast630 There's also a very strange acceptance that Americans have of filth and disorder. Lots of horrible and scary behavior (by all sorts of people) on US city streets just gets ignored which leads to a feeling that things are out of control and nobody is there to help.

As I've noted before, the key difference here is media and social media, not "more low-crime Asian immigration." The 1960s/70s was the era of the hippies, the Mob and the great Black gangs, and open race war in many working class areas. Crime was 2-3x what it is today. The mf Manson family was WORKING the roads. People just didn't know.

@BaldingsWorld I’m using a vibe coding platform right now and it’s honestly extraordinary. Aside from the effect on programmers, the ease of creating tools to handle the tedious parts of my job is incredible. Hard to see how this won’t increase productivity in all kinds of industries.

It is amazingly clear there is a structural shift upwards in productivity and I would add not just in directly AI exposed industries. This is having enormous ripple effects

We don't have public restrooms because they'd be trashed in days. We don't build bus stops because they'd become homeless shelters. We don't have dense walkable cities because nobody wants to be accosted by strangers. This is because we have chosen to accept public disorder, and as the rest of the world shows, it doesn't have to be that way walkingtheworld.substack.com/p/america-and-…