Kaleidic Riot 🏴 🏳️‍🌈

Mass deportations were a key part of Trump's campaign & the GOP's platform this year. He's stacking his administration with extreme anti-immigrant hardliners like Stephen Miller & Tom Homan. We will see brutal human rights violations. What can we do to reduce the harm? 🧵

The big lie of “gov sucks at everything “ , is that they suck the most at enforcing performance and costs. You know what’s worse than the gov running a service? Private companies knowing that the gov entities they contract with can’t do shit to stop them from fucking up everything and making a fortune. I’m not saying this applies to every private company. Many do have ethics. Not all. And as an entrepreneur, it’s embarrassing to us all. Need proof ? Look at the Noem ad contract. Look at healthcare. Taxpayers provide 70pct or more of the revenue of the largest insurance companies. Those same insurance companies get fined and found liable for ripping off taxpayers, again and again and again. And they still get to do business with the gov, knowing they can effectively steal money from us all. The fines are a nuisance. And this is healthcare. When they lie, people die. Maybe when we are smart enough to pass laws saying that gov contractors get one mulligan. Two fines from any government entity and you are blacklisted from Gov contracts at the state and federal level for 10 years. That’s when things will change Until then the concept of privatization of gov services like the tsa or post office or .. is just a license for a private company to abuse taxpayers and face next to no consequences.

This is a wonkish thread about information, prices and decentralization. It touches on topics often discussed in economics, but with a revisionist take that might have relevance beyond economics, in particular about AI and control of information.

Some would-have-been-goated Conversations with Tyler episodes that are impossible due to human mortality: Nozick, G. A. Cohen, Charles W. Mills, David Lynch, Karl Hess, Rothbard if on a good day, David Foster Wallace, David Lewis, Kubrick, Ozzy Osbourne, Bill Buckley, Johnny Cash

Follow me if you’re an anti-transhumanist Libertarian. There needs to be more representation of technoskeptics among Libertarians.

There’s going to be an Abu Ghraib level exposure of the evil happening in ICE facilities in the next 12 months and nothing will be done.

Arizona had its own version of the Prairieland antifa frame up in 2020. The "ACAB gang." No consequences for the police involved. In fact, a very cushy retirement. As usual.