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i think he's pretty clever tbh

for spendo - the chief economist of USAID. he's pretty well known, as a person who spent most of his life trying to work out and measure whether or not aid programmes were achieving anything or not. https://www.npr.org/sections/goats-and-soda/2025/02/26/g-s1-50584/usaid-economist-dean-karlan...

yeah. i think both of these things (what you're saying and what I'm saying) are true. although i can't say much about the kind of people you're talking about coz i'm never around them.

when brexit was coming down the pipe that's how i felt about it. i could feel that one. a good chance to give a kick against the comfortable and complacent people.

obviously with the USAID thing all the people affected outside of america don't even register in the imaginary

i think there's a particular thing in america where people hate being patronized and otherwise shit on by the good and the great on the coasts, who have got the money and the wealth and who have simultaneously also taken the moral high ground. the resentment goes both ways. part of the animus...

i don't think the USAID thing is remotely about saving money. it's about destroying something they don't like i think, and potentially also something that's intended to work on a symbolic level.

yeah 100%

yeah it is. it's a catastrophe on an individual level if you've built your life around working for those kinds of organizations. i know a couple of people who are going through that right now and it looks like a nightmare. it's a total collapse of an entire industry. the best estimate at the...

some of the big USAID contractors are literally $100 million down on work that they've already done that they haven't been paid for. USAID contracts a lot of private sector companies to implement thier work, coz they see it as more efficient and means they don't to have run it directly from...

i missed it coz i assumed that a globetrotting superstar DJ would have no need to have learned these office worker terms

it's when people leave anyway, like when they go and get another job or retire and so on, you just don't replace them. it's a humane way of doing things compared to getting rid of people

what did you like about it?

saw the colour of pomegranates. i didn't understand it, i didn't get much out of it. except that it made me want to go to armenia. but there was quite a lot about it which was irritating. i spent a lot of the film trying to work out how to describe that irritating thing and thinking about why...

Los Angeles, Lashkar Gah, the Hindu Kush,

Poo Tin

the first month has been a blitzkrieg. its really worked. everyone is reeling. does that still count as affect? it's a media experience at least. beyond the actions and policies there's the tone. which is very much: we are ruthless, rude and obnoxious, and we are going to use force. it provokes...

what i notice at the moment speaking to people is that all of this is provoking this feeling of instability. i can feel it too (but then my industry is pretty much collapsing so you know, am likely to feel it). mad shit is happening every day. which ok has been the case for a while and was to...

have been thinking about twitter a bit recently. people were saying that musk's purchase was dumb and that he's lost a lot of money coz he's an idiot. but obviously having control of such a massive platform has helped him get to his current position of making moves which are changing america...

yeah i love this one too