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this was by the editor in chief of the atlantic, you can’t blame this shit on the west coast 😡

I pushed hard for a marianne williamson land value tax endorsement but my contacts with her campaign just weren’t strong enough.

I have quite a good rapport with the Gravel teens these days, they’re fans of my tweets. The Pelosi challenger was an also-ran; she lost the primary to Shahid Buttar, a candidate so bad that his entire campaign staff quit and even the SF DSA eventually pulled its endorsement.

George ran for mayor of New York City in 1886, landing behind the Tammany Hall candidate but ahead of Teddy Roosevelt. The Georgist position on electoral politics is that he only lost because a number of pro-George ballots were dropped into the east river. The approved legislation is anything...

hmm i've been a bit occupied but maybe a thread on "Georgist Accelerationism" would be good, nice way to scandalize the Europeans while also expanding some minds.

I say this even despite Moldbug's putative embrace of the land value tax—he's just not very good at thinking.

I can understand batting for the rats but moldbug is like a pt barnum figure. His prose is more inpenetrable than Land's, but instead of that being because he's clever and on amphetamines, it's because he's not even very good at fooling himself. He'll trail off on a tangent just long enough that...

moldbug can't be described as "having ideas" so much as he does moving through them slowly and arduously, never arriving at a conclusion, only producing the permanent experience of moving towards a conclusion without ever arriving, the chain of reasoning always shriveling before finding a path

they’re both working for the feds, what’s the difference?

i want to thank Tony for making this thread because it's the biggest force keeping me from moving to brooklyn

The key analogy is the way that credit reports work in the US today—the bureaus are allowed to hoover up data in certain categories willy nilly, but they have to allow you to view the data being used to make the decision and contest its accuracy.

whatever you say, Beefy T.

while we’re talking about his fictionalization, his name isn’t actually Gus, it’s Anthony. “Tony,” if you will.

i dunno where he got the community college thing, maybe he’s trying to anonymize me, it’s entirely false, I actually dropped out of high school and several years later got a masters. no undergrad.

i don’t think it even does that, the surveillance is a sideshow, if you did the exact same thing with no surveillance it would be slightly worse at it but ultimately the same.

its not the beating heart, it’s a sideshow, production still reigns supreme. Facebook, Google, okay, you’re at 2 trillion dollars, throw in a couple hundred billion more for the long tail, but it’s just not really that big. Sure, you have some funny oracle system that tries to get you to buy...

I have a very simple take on the matter, which is that if I followed you around with a clipboard and took notes on all your behaviors in public, despite any one observation being legal to observe, I would likely get arrested for stalking. It’s an adversarial use of what is incidentally legal...

reporting on the eviction seems fair but showing up to the event is honestly just embarassing.

we work very hard to limit people’s access to these, because they’re expensive to operate, and we give a very large leeway to humans because it’s incredibly hard to prove one way or another whether they were discriminating. I think it’s funny that everyone has jumped to hiring algorithms, to...

the brain worms that exist across europe are simple: nobody believes anything; they can problematize, but can't construct a position. believing things is gauche, you're naive.