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Will Wilkinson 🏳️🌈@wlknsn.xyz |
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Head of Policy at TBD/Block. Ex- Niskanen, NYT, Economist, Cato. Los Angeles. Invite me on a hike!
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alex (kamalist-restorationist) 🥥🙏🥥
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OK but what if the gay furry hackers released transcripts of their text conversations with Heritage Foundation Director and massive pissbaby Mike Howell?
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b-boy bouiebaisse
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i think the thing that is leading me to check out of the biden conversation as much as possible is the sheer amount of certainty being expressed. i am not at all confident that i really know anything here!
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Will Wilkinson 🏳️🌈
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Nobody is compelled to keep allocating their energy and criticism toward weakening Biden rather than his opponent. It’s a choice to keep the issue unsettled rather than coalescing around the candidate. The question is, at this juncture, why make that choice?
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Will Wilkinson 🏳️🌈
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It's not "up to the states" to declare that obvious non-persons actually are (why not chimpanzees? why not Anthropic's Claude?) on the basis of nothing but sophistical dogma, and then turn around and use that to curtail the most fundamental and precious of rights of uncontroversial persons
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Will Wilkinson 🏳️🌈
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As basic matter of intellectual merit, the case that the family dog is a person is stronger than the case that a human zygote is. Of course, the case that women of reproductive age are persons entitled to legal protection of their interests in survival, health, and liberty is unimpeachable.
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Ed Zitron
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Newsletter: Goldman Sachs has called BS on Generative AI, and I believe that it's time that everybody follows suit - generative AI is unreliable, unsustainable, requires an entire rebuild of America's power grid, and is most decidedly not the future.
www.wheresyoured.at/pop-culture/
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wade of mutilation
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I will bang this drum forever: in THEY THOUGHT THEY WERE FREE: THE GERMANS, 1933-45 Milton Mayer interviewed 10 ordinary Germans after WW2 to learn how fascism took hold. There was never a moment when everyone woke up:
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Matt Novak
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I only realized this during the covid pandemic. I had this very naive notion that serious events would spur serious action. In reality, the world just grinds on. We will collectively rationalize anything unpleasant and get a new baseline for normal. And then we ourselves die, to be forgotten.
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McNutcase
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Gonna chase their sunk cost all the way to the ocean floor in a carbon fiber submarine.
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Kevin M. Kruse
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My favorite part of the West Wing fantasies about replacing Biden is the idea that there wouldn’t immediately be a new fatal flaw with whoever replaced him.
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Will Stancil
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They’re already setting up the next overblown freakout, this time to take down Harris. Nice work everyone
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Will Wilkinson 🏳️🌈
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Sure! I'd prefer he hand the campaign over to Kamala. But the main thing is Trump loses and I'm not interested in reinforcing a climate of opinion that makes that less likely.
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Will Wilkinson 🏳️🌈
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* Exceptions: a) 25th Amendment; b) convention delegate revolt. a) does not happen barring an actual stroke, an undeniable display of profound and terminal cognitive incapacity, etc. b) could happen if things just get worse and worse but very unlikely if the status quo basically holds.
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Will Wilkinson 🏳️🌈
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I think some of us struggle to accept Biden's authority and autonomy here. It's his decision, period.* He's an adult person with all attendant rights, the PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, and his party's presumptive nominee. If he digs in, we gotta go with it. Make peace with that now.
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Will Wilkinson 🏳️🌈
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But if he does step down, I will joyfully eat my foot.
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Will Wilkinson 🏳️🌈
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This is what I'm betting on.
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Will Wilkinson 🏳️🌈
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Also, if this take is correct in a week, then it's actually correct now, but just took folks still hoping he'll stand down another week to accept it.
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Will Wilkinson 🏳️🌈
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Maybe! But I think he sees it as one of a hundred hair-on-fire "this campaign is toast" shitstorms he's hunkered down and weathered before. It's ultimately just up to him. Nobody can MAKE him do anything, barring 25th Amendment action or convention delegate revolt, which seem unlikely.
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Will Wilkinson 🏳️🌈
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Polls don't have to validate him staying in. It's his decision, period, unless Kamala and half the cabinet make a different one, or a miracle happens in Chicago and all those delegates, selected by democratic means in 50 state primaries, just happen to flake. If he digs in, we have to live with it
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Will Wilkinson 🏳️🌈
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Great idea. They really respond to that.
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Will Wilkinson 🏳️🌈
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I respond to fundraising requests with angry responses about Gaza. It's clearly moving the needle.
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Will Wilkinson 🏳️🌈
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There's a circularity here. That's why I'm saying people seem to need to convince myself that there's no path to victory when they're engaging in behavior that is helping to close it off.
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Will Wilkinson 🏳️🌈
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That's exactly what I think is going to happen.
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Will Wilkinson 🏳️🌈
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Sure. But they also know that they're making his chances worse the longer they keep pushing, yet with very little realism about the alternatives.
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Will Wilkinson 🏳️🌈
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Totally accept those point. But... so what? If the pressure to step back hasn't worked yet, why think it will? If the expected return of further pressure is negative, which I fear it may be, why keep pushing rather than pivoting to a patriotically world-historical Weekend at Bernie's effort?
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Will Wilkinson 🏳️🌈
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Seriously, though. I'm not sure that this is correct, but the dynamic I see unfolding here is very worrying.
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Will Wilkinson 🏳️🌈
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Thank you. Now slap me!
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Will Wilkinson 🏳️🌈
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Tell me I'm wrong: A bunch of the media and donor class panicked, for good reason, after the debate. Made a big coordinated push to make Biden step aside. Didn't work, wounding pride of lots of big egos. Now too miffed to concede so stuck denying that Biden can win to justify continued aid to Trump.
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Will Wilkinson 🏳️🌈
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Yes! Not very well. I was at Cato. He sublet a room in our group house that one summer. We chatted some but he was usually out early and back late, and generally quiet, wearing some old fashioned hat.
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Will Wilkinson 🏳️🌈
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YES!
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Will Wilkinson 🏳️🌈
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The next year I lived with Keenan Kmiec, who was clerking with Roberts at the time. I think Will was maybe with McConnell then and did SCOTUS the year after.
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Will Wilkinson 🏳️🌈
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Yeah, should be about then. Did his clerkships a bit later, I guess. Must have been a summer associate thing.
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Will Wilkinson 🏳️🌈
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Lol. I do have half a DC novel, my MFA thesis, sitting in a "drawer." But my TWO Roberts clerk roommates never figured in.
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Will Wilkinson 🏳️🌈
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He was my housemate in DC for the summer he was clerking.
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CHOAM Nomsky 💭
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it rules so hard that the myth of the Kennedy dynasty has resulted in a guy running for president on the libertarian ticket and his platform is that if elected he'll direct the FBI to investigate ghosts
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Paris Marx
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Google’s emissions are up 48% in 5 years. Microsoft’s are up 30% since 2020. Those soaring figures are being driven by mass investments in data centers to power AI tools. Generative AI is a climate disaster and data center expansion must be stopped.
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Philip Bump
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A second American Revolution, this one aimed at unwinding democracy in favor of a monarchy. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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Will Wilkinson 🏳️🌈
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If you can't handle efficiency, maybe capitalism isn't for you!
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Brendan Nyhan
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Extremely frustrating to hear legal experts analyzing the SCOTUS ruling on immunity like just another case - it's an inherently normalizing act. People need to stop playing constitutional Calvinball and treat them like political actors.
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Will Wilkinson 🏳️🌈
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I think, psychologically/ideologically, firms prefer slightly smaller profits if that's what it takes to maintain a sense of control over workers. Less competitive and efficient labor markets is a price worth paying for security in power to treat labor as a commodified input rather than a partner.
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Will Wilkinson 🏳️🌈
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No-fault safety net exit option for workers is horrible for exploitative bosses. As a rule, it seems that if the choice is between a bigger share of a smaller surplus, based on stronger bargaining position, and a smaller share of bigger surplus with more equal conditions, firms prefer former.
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Will Wilkinson 🏳️🌈
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The matching logic here has always been intuitive to me, which is why it seems pretty clear that the actual system has very little interest in the efficiency of labor markets. Seems more about the distribution of bargaining power between workers and employers.
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Aaron Sojourner
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What if quitting your terrible job would help the economy?
Research by economists Zhifeng Cai & @heathcote.bsky.social shows that extending unemployment insurance to workers who quit their jobs would improve economic efficiency.
www.vox.com/future-perfe...
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Will Wilkinson 🏳️🌈
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Tech people.
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Will Wilkinson 🏳️🌈
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In bits and pieces, mostly in a few essays at Niskanen. But working on a book proposal on exactly this right now.
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b-boy bouiebaisse
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we’re in danger
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b-boy bouiebaisse
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the other thing is that people have no sense of how much space cars and so they imagine that a road full of cars must be a lot of people when it very often is not. a well-used bike lane transports like twice as many people during a given time as does a road
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Dave Levitan
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I have no idea the best path re Biden but I do know a solid week straight of “Biden Old” and “Rich Dems Worried” above-the-fold stories are *obscene* in the face of SCOTUS using the Constitution to wipe their asses purely in the service of reinstating a felon rapist as president. Crazy-making shit.
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Pavel
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Remember how the "retail theft crime wave" disappeared as soon as companies had to do their annual reports? That's because it's illegal to lie to shareholders.
AI is booming (if you're a pleb) but if you have money - Goldman Sachs will be honest with you instead web.archive.org/web/20240629...
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Tyler King
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There is no model in which these products become profitable. The overhead is astronomically high and will require defying the laws of physics to overcome. Meanwhile, they’re fleecing gullible businesses and governments blind on false promises of an everything tech that in fact does very little.
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