I have said this over and over and over and over again: if California adopted Texas' housing policies, it would become a completely unstoppable economic powerhouse. It would be eating Texas' lunch.

California actively chooses to make itself poorer, to satisfy rich NIMBYs.

the closer she is to biden the more power the progressive movement holds. yall suck at politics

AI is certainly the future, but the way we talk about it now needs to reflect reality, says Kyla Scanlon 🎥

Incredible pitch from Stancil
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EPISODE #200 just dropped! It’s on postmodern subjectivity and “ideology without ideology”. Thank you everyone for making 200 episodes of the podcast possible. Gauging by the emails from people telling me what the podcast means to them I think together we’ve done some measure of…

H-hellooo?? Is this thing on? So what’s the deal with carrot prices these days

Great new interview with Jerry Seinfeld.

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hearing numerous reports today that administrators have taken over a number of american universities, and are only able to defend their position by force of arms, lacking the legitimacy provided by improving either the institution they work for or the education provided by it

I genuinely believe tulips have gotten more beautiful in the last four years. I never used to care about them, but now every April I go around overwhelmed almost to tears with aesthetic pleasure over tulips, like some gay Dutchman in 1634

There is this immense mental cage that people construct, plain to see: The 'ideal' place to do something is always one level up from the responsibility you can affect. That way, you're never responsible for it not getting done.

this is an example

My thoughts on TikTok divest or ban

Thinking about this Ethan Hawke interview

Here you go. The trend over the past 20 years is that students are doing significantly more homework than the early 2000s. Some people do vibes based work. I trust the survey experts at the BLS and the real students who answer their questions.

AI is certainly the future, but the way we talk about it now needs to reflect reality, says Kyla Scanlon 🎥