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Maximizing my market appeal by capturing the crossover fanbase of political + economic history discourse & tweets about anime. Rat-Adjacent Tumblr castaway
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After a bit of a delay, I finally finished my translation of FLCLick Noise, an interview book with Tsurumaki & Sadamoto about the production of the original FLCL. Each chapter is a post on my blog with a Table of Contents linking each:
simulacrarealities.substack.…
Amusing watching discourse on "why aren't the new tech rich donating to charity like Carnegie" given that they are? Net charitable donations are high and growing?
They aren't building libraries because library demand is kinda low rn - 2026 isn't 1910, they are doing dif stuff.
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idk why but i find it funny how they are using a trackball controller in a giant space ship
This might be true, but the arg isn't sufficient - if the schools of high achieving parents all taught well, would parents stop doing extracurricular learning? Of course not - no force on earth could stop that red queen race! Tutoring inherently correlates with "good schools".
The distribution of math tutoring locations just looks like a map of affluent suburbs that people move to for the “good schools.”
The failures of basic instruction are extremely widespread.
slowboring.com/p/math-needs-…
One my most "heterodox" takes is that this econ consensus is wrong. It works in the model, but money is fungible across uses, classifying labor vs capital is very hard, and so in practice lower rates for capital pencils out to just regressive tax policy & regulatory distortions.
There's a funny disjuncture between everyday moral reasoning where working hard for your living is virtuous and optimal tax theory which says that's precisely the kind of income that needs to be taxed.
slowboring.com/p/the-truth-a…
(IMO I think we are on more similar pages now in the other thread, so I won't continue this thread, you can correct me if you'd like to continue it)
The ultimate delusion of every armchair general is that the enemy has no real agency and doesn't get to respond to your plan.
The current admin can at least take comfort in the fact that the lineage of dilettantes like them learning this lesson the hard way is very, very long.
The issue with these debates is that Trump won his elections by tiny margins - there is in fact dozens of voter groups who, if they flipped, deny him the White House. The MAGA core is absolutely immigration-focused! But for many swing voters in Pennsylvania it was cost-of-living
This is fun to watch but I have to imagine the data here is too vague to be meaningful. What do the numbers from the 1970's even mean, and where are they from? How do TV ratings vs home media sales add together? And so on.
The narrative "feels" right, but that is a risky bet.
A very annoying modern discourse trend is that "Dyson Spheres" - literally a joke that doesn't make any sense to build - is now used so freely it gets stuck to any space-based solar array.
Makes it harder to tell if this person is being a crackpot, or just going with the flow!
The large majority of these are great buildings, and nice for architecture classes given how the rest of the campuses *don't* look like these, so they shake things up.
They aren't all winners ofc - Boston continues to flail at doing modernism, and Princeton wtf are you doing??
Honestly today's round of college admissions discourse is actually a bit boring, because that admissions officer is just wrong. A top-scoring student with multiple extracurricular accomplishments is absolutely a get for most top schools! People are fighting a mirage here.
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Rewatching some old Toei films.
One thing that strikes me that I hadn't noticed before (because I didn't know about it) is how close the effects animation is to the patterns set out by Kenzô Masaoka in his animation courses/manuals
They also essentially irrelevant though, right, as we currently face ~zero AI job loss. To poll respondents this is a vague hypothetical, and each is assuming different premises. If we *actually* faced 20% unemployment rates, all these numbers would scramble.
I hear this commonly but imo it doesn't hold up - Obama won re-election and left office popular with decent immigration policy approval. Trump's immigration stance is his most popular policy. The fact that Covid happened, and Trump is otherwise a gigantic fuck-up, is just life!
Meanwhile, Biden may have "deported a lot of people" but he oversaw the largest recent foreign-born pop increase in the US by a country mile. In practice he was an immigration dove, and he suffered for it. He *also* fucked up massively in other ways, so telling how much is hard!