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Apr 7
The "authoritarian pivot" occurs when the populist strongman no longer requires a pretense of popular support to maintain control of state power.
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Jun 12
Spacex is cool but America is basically 350 million people working to keep 20 billionaires rich enough to protect pedophiles and perpetuate genocides on the other side of the world.
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Jun 12
RT @PhillipsPOBrien: This might be hard for Americans to hear, but the USA getting humiliated by its abject failure as a power during thisโฆ
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The trumps being evicted from Albania
Albania has officially drawn the
line, Sazan 'lsland is being cleared. In an stunning turn of events, Albanian authorities have
launched an active enforcement operation to kick
out foreign developers and private security
personnel occupying Sazan Island. The decisive
action marks a total collapse of the controversial โฌ1.4 billion luxury real estate deal that aimed to turn the protected national marine reserve and
former military base into an exclusive private playground for global elites,
The eviction comes after four consecutive weeks of historic
hundred-thousand-strong protests that completely
shut down the capital city of Tirana, refusing to allow their native coastlines and ecologically sensitive wetlands to be privatized by foreign
investors, the Albanian public unified under a
single, unyielding demand: "Albania is not for sale, the courts faced with a historic political crisis, mounting
domestic fury, and a widening anti-corruption
investigation by special prosecutors (SPAK), the
government was forced to pivot, by deploying state forces to reclaim Sazan lsland, Albania has
sent a clear message to international billionaires
and foreign developers trying to bypass environmental protection laws, This historic victory for citizen-led activism proves that the collective voice of a nation can successfully overpower backroom corporate deals and protect sovereign land.
The people spoke, and the
government had to listen.
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Donald Trump proposes a 1.776 billion slush fund for terrorists. In my book "On Freedom" I proposed $1776 as guaranteed monthly fixed income for Americans. Each kind of future is possible. We choose.
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Yeah the Trump administration needs to own this 100%
The "Cut Spending Cut Spending Cut Spending" crowd just targeted really good worthwhile programs, the deficit is higher than ever, and now we're seeing the effects of letting teenagers and Elon Musk LARP as libertarian budgeters
Never let these idiots touch power again
Jun 4
Given that we knew last year that this horrible disease was marching north towards the US,
I'm not sure I would have cut funding @USDA for animal disease control and prevention, including New World screwworm work, and pushed out staff with animal-disease expertise
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Republicans forcing us to eat bugs instead of beef because they can't think further than "government is bad"
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I can see the DOGE tweet: "We canceled a contract for Panamanian screwworms, saving $165 million dollars!!!" [aphis.usda.gov/news/agency-aโฆ]
Meanwhile: "The slightest oversight could undo all the work that came before."
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Jun 4
I've been playing around with cellphone video as an input to algorithms that generate plotter drawings lately. Here are 200 sequential frames of me checking out a Japanese Maple in my backyard.
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26 Nov 2025
Gerontokakistalism
Rulership by the gerontocracy, via a government operated by incompetent loyalists, using state institutions as asset funnels.
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May 28
Enzo Mari, Progetto 923. 1968.
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May 21
A superloser is a leader of a great power, or (onetime) superpower, whose disastrous choices lead to a crash. He possesses a combination of skills that allow for a rise to personal power and the collapse of state power.
I spell out the phenomenon in this video:
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May 12
Nothing sums up the truly Kafka-esque state of affairs better than the fact that Louisiana is throwing out votes so they can draw new Republican districts and Democrats are forced to throw out the votes that created new Democratic districts.
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May 4
This could have covered the entire budget of the National Science Foundation for 10 years.
Instead, Trump wants to reduce the NSF budget by 50% ($5B a year instead of $9B), which would decimate the American scientific research ecosystem, dramatically reduce the number of PhD graduates, and destroy the technology innovation flywheel.
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May 2
Had a Jane Street phone interview in 2016. "Price a 6-month forward on carrots."
There's no carrot futures market, so I build one from scratch: seasonal harvest cycles, USDA demand elasticity, cold storage decay rates.
One trader stops me. "Your storage cost functionโ you're modeling the carrot as dead inventory. Like grain in a silo." He asks me the metabolic respiration rate of a post-harvest carrot at 2ยฐC. I estimate.
"Your forward is overpriced by exactly that shrinkage. The underlying is consuming its own sugars. It's alive." Good correction. I adjust the model. I think I've recovered.
Rejection email comes the next morning. Subject: "Ethical Review." My framework, they write, "relied on the severance of the root organism from its growth medium." The question about respiration was a test. The carrot was still alive and I'd built an entire derivatives structure on top of its death without questioning whether harvest was an acceptable act.
I pull up the recruiter's original email. It doesn't say Jane Street. It says Jain Streetโ a non-violent quantitative commodities fund.
The carrot was never supposed to be priced. It was supposed to be refused. I later learn the only candidate who passed that round was a former monk from Gujarat who sat in silence for eleven minutes and said, "I cannot put a price on life." He's now a partner.
Jane Street made ~$40B in 2025 with 3,500 employees, a ~2x from the year before.
At ~65-70% profit margin, that's $8M profit / employee, the highest for a 1000 ppl company. High-frequency trading continues to be the most efficient money making engine.
I want to share an old story about my Jane Street interview in 2014. Jane Street was known for hiring a lot of math, physics and CS olympiad winners from top universities and putting them through many rounds - including, for trading roles, a gauntlet of mental math. It was my 6th interview and my final round and I recall being asked "What is the next day after today in DD/MM/YYYY where all the digits are unique?" They'd toy with you and say "You can use a pencil and paper, if you want" but you knew that was an instant no. Painstakingly and as quickly as I could, I came to an answer. "How confident are you that this is correct on a 0-1 probability scale?" the interviewer said. "0.95", I blurted out, not fully knowing how to answer that. "Are you sure?" After thinking harder for a few more seconds, I realized I could've flipped the digits around to get a closer date. I gave the interviewer my answer. It was correct. "0.95 huh?" he chuckled. That's when I knew I failed.
Note: fwiw, other companies that come close in efficiency are
- Tether ($90M profit/emp)
- Hyperliquid ($80M profit/emp)
and on revenue:
- Valve ($50M/emp)
- OnlyFans ($37M/emp)
- Craigslist ($14M/emp)
- Anthropic ($12M/emp, run rate)
- OpenAI ($8M/emp, run rate)
For comparison, Nvidia is very efficient at scale and is $4.4M/emp.
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May 2
Per White House pool reporter @AnnieLinskey the president has left his Jupiter golf club in Florida for a dental appointment. White House says itโs a โscheduledโ appointment at โhis local dentist.โ
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I fell for a phish yesterday and gave up my Google credentials. Some slick social engineering, but in hindsight very obvious... Guys, I did not know Google Sites is a webbuilder, and any criminal can use it to put their fake forms on a Google URL.
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May 1
When the guy who paid a bribe for a pardon is now suing the person who gave him that pardon for fraud and accusing him of extortion, you know we are in the wild west of corruption. Discovery could get really interesting in this case.
Justin Sun accuses the Trump family's World Liberty Financial of 'Criminal Extortion'
An awkward detail (that I'm not sure has been reported) is in 2025 Tron Inc majority owned by Sun's father signed a lease agreement for 2,791 sq feet in Trump Tower NYC
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If youโre wondering why America is sleep walking themselves into becoming a globally hated autocracy ๐is why.
People psychologically avoid politics because it makes them feel icky. Better to pretend everything is just fine.
I learned this years ago studying the Germans.
Apr 29
Big majorities of American adults actively try to avoid the news, per @APNORC >
- 62% avoid stories about Trump
- 69% avoid news on social media
- 57% avoid national politics news
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