We just ran a vote for what is, afaik, the first American elected office decided majority-digital, open to all citizens.
Results just announced: utahnewsdispatch.com/2025/12/12/utahs-forward-partys-first-of-its-kind-preference-poll-picks-a-winner-to-replace-sen-thatcher/
Interesting highlights ⬇️
i think this is how i finally learn how to make music
It's got a lot of good features, but I've really struggled to find either of the two IBKR mobile apps intuitive at all. It's been a few years since I traded actively tho due to the day job. Can't bother with the desktop - now I'm a "retired" trader putting in maybe a dozen or two trades a year.
What's the best alternative?
Great job. Makes me want to pick up the piano
Here's a link to the original for reference - 31M hits www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZa0...
And the album release brings me to the arrangement I'd like to discuss today: "Guts' Theme" from the original Berserk series! This is a melancholic composition by Susumu Hirasawa, and it has risen to a sort of meme status.
Listen for yourself: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Il2-...
#berserk, #anime
hey @chris-towles.bsky.social pinging you about github.com/ChrisTowles/...
Everyone sooner or later cames to the same realization: deep risk in the global hegemon cannot be hedged
I'm nostalgic for the days I'd go browse the rental options. It made it more of an event. Feels like the easy accessibility cheapens it.
But it's hard to split out that nostalgia from the general nostalgia of youth, when the world was more full of mysteries to be experienced.
If you, a business, are reliant on an open source project to function it is YOUR responsibility to assess and ensure the health of that project by either contributing to it yourself or by using an alternative if project health cannot be guaranteed.
We can imagine a world where we have $200 in capital chasing $100 in economic return. In such a world capital competes to lose less. In a world of demographic decline it's not impossible. The rise of crypto while people bemoan high valuations in stocks suggests there is excess capital.
I do agree that if the external inflow is maintained and there aren't treasuries being issued, if could result in a wasteful bubble.
That said, in the real world the external inflow declines. Also maybe a bubble is inevitable - there is certain capital chasing a fixed number of opportunities.
I'm not sure how external inflow could drive the private sector into deficit. Some equation I'm forgetting.
Holding all else equal, if the government reduced its deficit by higher taxes, then someone is going to pay those taxes, so I can see how that reduces income.
"But if the government cut its deficit, while the external inflow continued, the outcome could be to drive the private sector into deficit, either via a slump in its income or a surge in its spending. The former means a recession. The latter means asset price bubbles"
Could use more unpacking
These types of articles need to start by pointing to some sort of remedial macroeconomics textbook 😅 - it's been about 15 years since I got my econ degree
To a lesser degree than llms, self-driving cars can reach a point at which they're good enough. The difference between errors 0.00001 of the time and 0.0000001 of the time may not move the needle commercially.
Waymo seems to be good enough for many areas, unlike Tesla at this point.
We need shareable block and mute lists. I understand that's got it's own disadvantages but ultimately I think it's worth it
That's not the only solution. Approval voting would also solve the problem - and doesn't even need ranking.
Ranked-choice voting is viewed with suspicion among some voters, so something simpler could work. Easy to implement.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Approva...
If you are going to #CFASummit this week, come to our session Thursday “You can carry on where 18F left off!”
18F wasn’t just a box on an org chart. There were a lot of good people and we had a way of working that led to real results.
summit-widget.codeforamerica.org/agenda/sessi...
I just unfollow and if necessary mute the more noisy political accounts
Also I'll admittedly pop into Twitter sometimes, but keep engagement minimal to avoid feeding it
the performative and obvious lie that he “hadn’t heard about” a grotesque abuse of power
Looks cool, sent it my brother who ran the games back when we played!
Might want to put something about how to get in touch w/ you if you're looking for work - I've got referrals to offer and also an open position altho it's just mid-level
Muted - please don't just credulously parrot nonsense @barchart.com - also makes me disinclined to visit your site
The code is open source, could try to track it down. Chatpgt probably has all of that code inside it too so could try asking why github.com/bluesky-soci...
I think you may be projecting from some concentrated talent in an urban area to the rest of the country
Even more sad when you consider that the bad guys now have more capital to invest in even more schemes
arguing against birthright citizenship in front of the supreme court while at the same time pitching a netflix show where immigrants compete for citizenship is such a perfect microcosm of america right now that it feels fake
