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once went to order fast food in a restaurant in a tier 3 city in china. Nowhere near a tourist area at all … stared at the menu before going in, looked up words, figured out exactly how to order. walk in. bustle behind the counter as I approach. I cough out a stilted order, something like...

i'm not any kind of right. in fact, i've never even heard of the right at all. i'm a Georgist, a real american political ideology that actually exists.

the idea is that you have a taco shell, but the outside of the shell is covered in dorito powder. peak american cuisine. the flocking machine, think an air gun that spits out a fiber-powder and glue to give things an ungodly fuzzy texture.

not sure how big an impact the "doritos locos taco" made across the pond but there's a very good piece on the development process that discusses how they cleaned the seasoning off a bunch of bags of chips and shot it out of a flocking machine

when emailing extremely wealthy and important people, i spend hours on the text, making it look authentically dashed off while communicating clearly. just like everyone else I definitely go hard on drink order signalling—have a stock repertoire of things that signal sophistication when dealing...

i got an email today from someone launching "Prager U for the Left," featuring Noam, Slavoj and Cornel. please subscribe to the patreon so they can buy youtube ads.

an escalade signals wealth far more than it does class

On the left you have the novel. On the right you have a selection of phrases that were deemed particularly salient by a reader, arranged by projecting word vectors into two dimensions. When you select a phrase that appears on the right, it surfaces on the right the set of phrases within the...

A key (if pathological) case is the conman—they understand very well how to use class-positioning goods as capital goods

I keep getting ads for a startup called "Grammarly," which promises to fix your bad prose and make you look like a respectable and well-educated member of society. An arbitrage for capitalizing on the intangible benefits accorded to the cultured classes, without having to go through the process...

gibson's pattern recognition was a big touchpoint for us in the last corporate rebrand, see http://rmozone.com/snapshots/2020/07/pattern-recognition/

very cool

For all the talk about capital, always surprised by how uninterested theory-folks are in actually-existing capex. Also, the suits quite dislike being compared to a Leninist party-state.

The point-to-surface method comes from the Soviet notion of an "experimental point"; the principle is that you: 1. Determine a policy goal you would like to reach 2. Designate several "experimental points" where you'll test different tactics. 3. At each of the points, the chosen method will be...

google market cap down 75% by 2030. other big tech corps continue to do fine.

Only in Europe, where there's only one tech company of note, could you get away with that line. Apple, the most successful of all the tech companies, is in fact centrally planned, in what resembles nothing so much as the Jiang/Hu-era CCP: point-to-surface sharing of successes, a militaristic...

I think some of it is that. The "Bret Victor / tools for thought for policy" sketch is insufficient / underdeveloped but a very welcome step in the right direction. He's got the "you need an ARPA to push economic growth from the bottom up" shtick down—not the first to say it but he gets it right...

Was referring to this one, although I'm now not clear if it's actually the cover or if it's other collateral.

Type on this album cover is extremely striking, and worth attention. Feels like following the Caroline Polachek album and several others, we're at the point where "Art Nouveau via the 70s meets 00s McBling" is a full-blown trend.

not gonna dox anyone now that their referral has been found lacking i will note that i maintain british citizenship and i do plan to return if nuclear war looks likely. probably to leeds, hard to be sure.