The archetypal rich American isn’t a founder-CEO with a stock ticker—he’s the guy with seventeen McDonald’s franchises and a seat on the hospital board. Zidar and Zwick counted him, traced how the tax code inflated him, and revealed a American gentry élite class... 1/
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apparently you either die a hero or live long enough to start using AI to write your blog posts....
To rephrase: the working classes are sweated to no more impressive purpose than to transform a few vulgar and half-educated upstarts into extensive fast-food franchise owners, celebrity used car salesmen, and established shag carpet dealers.
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Amy Chua, JD Vance's mentor in law school, says he once asked her "Why are you so nice to me?"
She says "I later realized, it’s his background. A lot of people weren’t nice to him.”
I don't believe in hell, but if it existed, I would say there's a special place in it for JD
this is the American version of those sahel military juntas who post about banning homosexuality every time they lose a major town to rebels
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The United States will NEVER be an effective altruist country. 🇺🇸
I am very happy to see this wide ranging review from Jacobin. The review does a good job of summarizing my arguments, and its criticisms are serious and thoughtful. This is the kind of engagement I was hoping for. Thank you.
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Economist Daron Acemoglu wants liberal democracy to connect with working people’s material interests and political power.
His case for institutional renewal should be taken seriously, but it needs a fuller account of class, war, and worker organization. jacobin.com/2026/09/review
Some people in research are still saying “you have to verify every line of code that AI writes”
Folks it ain’t happening
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if you pause for a moment to try and read the code Astra (and I presume fable) are writing it becomes clear that “corrigibility” has become a matter of faith. they are using crazy meta-programming and abstruse primitives to write hyperefficient code