Señor Chacarero
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Hands-free Codex Computer Use demo. Thanks to Tibo and Andrew Ambrosino.
Diamond and Saez (2011) find that the optimal top marginal tax rate (the peak of the laffer curve) is 73 percent. Diamond has a Nobel Prize in economics, and Saez will likely get one in the future.
"Spouses who don’t share a surname divorce at about a 50% higher rate than those who do share a surname, and their divorces come about 30% earlier in their marriages." Striking new divorce research from @lymanstoneky reinforces my earlier research on marital quality & naming:
The blueprint is out there for a successful North American populist left. But rather than nominate a pro-fracking, Jewish Latina, the Democrats are just going to scour high and low for a white guy with a military haircut.
I truly hate this argument, which assumes men simply have names but women’s are all somehow men’s. By this logic, it’s not your dad’s name either - it’s his dad’s. And not his either - his dad’s. Your name is actually your name. And yes of course women should have the legal right to change their names in marriage but let’s please not lie to ourselves that marital name-changing isn’t incredibly sexist and a very literal manifestation of patriarchal power. So is patrilineal naming for children, btw. One answer to “but it’s my dad’s name” might be to stop giving children dad’s name for a while.
I love that we have a snarky gay treasury secretary who lives in this pink house and who frequently just beats the shit out of people he doesn't like in the executive wing
la heterodoxia peronconga:
“Einstein is the problem.” Eric Weinstein didn’t mince words on Triggernometry. If general relativity holds, we’re trapped on one fragile planet. Even terraforming the Moon and Mars only gives us three reachable spheres — nowhere near enough diversification for long-term survival. A single catastrophe could wipe us all out because we all share the same atmosphere. The only real escape, he argues, is cracking physics beyond Einstein so we can get very far, very fast. Otherwise we’re stuck playing cosmic Russian roulette. It’s a sobering wake-up call about how dangerously misaligned our priorities have become.
