Aakash Japi @AakashJapi

Software engineer by trade. Tweets about history and urbanism. https://t.co/yxegZULTDk aakash.substack.com San Francisco, CA Joined November 2013

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Alec Stapp @AlecStapp

2 days ago

This pretty much sums up what went wrong with Biden era industrial policy:

Judge Glock @judgeglock

7 days ago

This pretty much sums up what went wrong with Biden era industrial policy: https://t.co/zaSrLGZLbf

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mattparlmer 🪐 🌷 @mattparlmer

5 days ago

America has an essential and immutable national character, it is and always has been a globalized economic zone, no amount of neopeasant revisionism can change that

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Hannah Cox @HannahDCox

2 weeks ago

We’re actually all slaves to the bottom 10 percent of society far more than we are to the top 1 percent.

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Richard Hanania @RichardHanania

2 weeks ago

Pensioners in France get so much welfare that they have higher incomes than people who work. Just completely unsustainable. The Boomer Question is the fiscal issue of our time. We need Critical Age Theory. richardhanania.com/p/critical-age…

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Aakash Japi @AakashJapi

2 weeks ago

the alternative is accelerationism, and imo that’s worse. who says this shutdown will be like the last few? better not to overplay your hand. fight for popular issues and own the messaging, don’t give the fascists their Reichstag fire.

Adam Carlson @admcrlsn

2 weeks ago

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Miroslav 🇨🇳⬛⬜ @slavomir_YU

4 years ago

I wish no harm to american ruling class, my enemy is the american people

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Megan McArdle @asymmetricinfo

2 weeks ago

Old joke: two social workers walking down the road come across a man who has clearly been viciously assaulted: he is bruised, bleeding, and lying unconscious in a ditch. One of the social workers looks at the other and says: "We have to find whoever did this. He needs help!"

Armand Domalewski @ArmandDoma

2 weeks ago

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NondescriptTransfer @QuaintTransfer

3 weeks ago

@mattyglesias @ezraklein The political trend of seeing politics not as a tool of collective action but instead through a lens of moral narcissism is a bad one. There is a focus on the left of maintaining a beautiful soul at the expense of not improving in our messy world.

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Everything Price Sufferer (but especially eggs) @agraybee

3 weeks ago

It's important for them to minimize the Holocaust because when you learn that Operation Reinhard killed 2 million Jews in 4 months it kind of puts things in perspective.

Claire @Claire_V0ltaire

3 weeks ago

It's important for them to minimize the Holocaust because when you learn that Operation Reinhard killed 2 million Jews in 4 months it kind of puts things in perspective.

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Aakash Japi @AakashJapi

3 weeks ago

If only Adams could actually win this race lol

Eric Adams @ericadamsfornyc

3 weeks ago

If only Adams could actually win this race lol

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Chris Gaun @cgaunerd

3 weeks ago

@mattyglesias Super relevant that the Queens housing Zohran opposed based on affordability just got scrapped yesterday so instead of the 1100 affordable units, there will be 140 6sqft.com/2b-astoria-pro… Great negotiation skills

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Aakash Japi @AakashJapi

3 weeks ago

How was France able to iterate on their democracy without revolution? Specifically, the transition from the fourth to the fifth republic. Or am I underrating the scale of the crisis in 1958?

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Unc Jess | Founder @ Blockus @theweb3jess

3 weeks ago

@julianweisser There’s only 2 jobs at any pre-50 people startup: engineering and sales. Either you build that shit, or you go out and ask people to use your shit. Arguably, this is true up to 200 people. There’s no biz to op and product to manage. You yell across the fucking room to get shit…

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Nicholas Fabiano, MD @NTFabiano

3 weeks ago

Life satisfaction is highly consistent with your personality.

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Real Estate Lawyer @SinaiLawFirm

3 weeks ago

Since everyone liked the previous post, here are actual laws in Los Angeles restricting evictions that are way worse than the JCO (Just Cause Ordinance) rules in LA (long post): 1. Interest Free Loans to Tenants - before you evict a tenant for non-payment in LA, you have to make…

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Megan McArdle @asymmetricinfo

3 weeks ago

The magnitude of the preference falsification left it ripe for what @timurkuran calls a preference cascade--when people start realizing that they're in the silent majority, not the outlying minority, true opinion manifests rapidly, like one of those chemical reactions where a…

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Kane 謝凱堯 @kane

3 weeks ago

Modern unions are why America doesn’t have automated ports, why major cities don’t have Waymo, why public services are mired in cost disease, and why public school reading and math proficiency is tanking despite record per-student spending.

Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders

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Goodeguy @Goodeguystuff

4 weeks ago

@RenOfMen Young men of the 2020s: if only we were safe and comfortable like our fathers in the 90s. Young men of the 90s: urban areas are decaying rapidly and everything predictable is disintegrating. If only we were hopeful like our fathers in the 60s. Young men of the 60s: truth is gone…

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T. Greer @Scholars_Stage

4 weeks ago

I don't think you need to read every page of Robert Caro's POWER BROKER or his LIFE OF LYNDON B JOHNSON series. But you should read parts. I have not found a better account of how power actually works in a democratic society. And really, how it works in most societies.