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@tonyannett People don’t care about aggregates They care about individual experiences or the people they know It is a massive reason why oil prices and interest rates are important High oil prices hurts everyone’s wallet High interest rate means suppressed employment and high housing

@mattparlmer Aren’t we all doomed by the price of dated oil

The “direct action” wing of the doomer movement is eventually gonna realize that sabotage against billion dollar datacenters is considerably safer, easier, and more politically popular than going after big lab staff in their homes, and that’s when the real problem starts

Glad Kushner was there. Safeguarding U.S. interests and looking out for the common man

the government never bothered to hold facebook accountable for anything or break up big tech and now we're all forced to go through age verification because it's "regulating" big tech even though *checks notes* facebook wrote the age verification laws

*logs on Twitter* Huh the world is going to hell *logs off Twitter*

I really think the left has lost the way on tech policy

@AlexSJacquez @Groundwork @MikeFellman We need to remove a lot of zoning and bad processes to make the finance work! @PEWilliams_ did good work on the topic!

🚨 NEW from @Groundwork: Despite what you may have been told, we can't deregulate our way to housing affordability. The housing debate is badly missing the most critical piece: finance. From @MikeFellman and J.W. Mason 🧵

@mnolangray Housing overcapacity is better than “abundance” Leave less room to the imagination

The ultimate form of tenant protection is the ability to say to your landlord, "I'm moving out," and that requires housing abundance.

@musharbash_b To be fair, it’s not just AI products Schools use a lot of student surveillance products that’s are just horrible

What the fuck

@mattparlmer Sunk cost fallacy is the goal

A lot of ppl are gonna get killed if they do this

So, if you aren’t a doctor, you are pretty much doomed

he’s not dead

@katewillett Good luck!

I am going to Cuba!

We don’t have a discrete lab experiment for the Jones Act. Almost every set of policies we have — from financial regulation, to tax policy, to railroad regulation, to antitrust, to corporate governance, and beyond — favors consolidation by incumbents, incentivizes offshoring, and discourages investment in capital-intensive industries. The failure you’re describing is not the failure of the Jones Act; it’s the failure of our entire policy apparatus. Getting rid of the Jones Act in this context will just eliminate the very last policy still in place to keep some shipbuilding in America. If you get rid of it, American shipbuilding will disappear. Would I prefer a situation were we aligned industrial, corporate, tax, finance/securities, banking, and antitrust policies to support capital-intensive investment in shipbuilding instead of a crude protectionist policy like the Jones Act? Of course. But that’s not the world we live in, nor is it the world the Cato Institute people are seeking. They’re just zealots for open borders and global trade — no matter the consequences. I prefer to follow more practical people.

It’s a tough sell for the admin to say “Israel didn’t drag us into war, we faced an imminent threat,” when the stated explanation of that threat is that Israel was about to attack and that meant our troops would be exposed to retaliation.

⚡️ Following their invasion of Lebanese civilian homes in border towns, Israeli forces are being seen documenting the destruction of the contents of the homes while mocking an elderly woman.

@writerofscratch wut

The Streetpass scene is dying. Like and #retweet if you're a real passoid. 😔✌️

The energy crisis that is gaining steam rn will force a ton of industry to go electric on accelerated timetables, power electronics will be a very good business over the next five years or so

Would literally be cheaper to just give them UBI and housing

The cheapest way for cities to become family friendly and more pronatal, is just focusing on doing a better job and improving service delivery