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I don't think the wok is there yet, otherwise fire would look different.

If you're down, absolutely.

What I'm getting so far (from the reviews and your comment) is that deregulation could incentivize more housing construction, but there's a massive asterisk that Klein and Thompson are avoiding.

My opinion so far is they either earnestly believe in the neoliberal promise that "if you just get out of the way, the free market can solve anything" or (more cynically) they're seeding the terrain edify buzzwords for a Democratic comeback campaign.

Either way, you've convinced me to put it on my to-read list.

Most of what I've read about Abundance is a general distrust for their arguments.

::: spoiler Alex Bronzini-Vender says abundance didn't work in practice in Colorado.

The abundance agenda’s fundamental sleight of hand is that, by unleashing the private sector from burdensome consumer protection, labor standards, and zoning regulations, American consumers might recover their lost purchasing power and living standards without the state directly tampering with workplace standards or wage levels. The private sector would supply more goods at lower costs—if only it could. That hasn’t panned out in Colorado, and it’s unlikely to elsewhere. (thebaffler.com) :::

::: spoiler David Sirota says the project is a scam because all it does is deregulate corporations without addressing medical care or the social safety net.

David Sirota, the founder of Lever News and a former Bernie Sanders speechwriter, summed up one stinging progressive critique of the whole project: “Abundance™ being defined as ‘kill zoning laws and corporate regulation’ but not ‘give everyone decent medical care’ — that’s the tell, and you’re the mark.” It’s true that this is not a focus among the advocates of abundance. Relaxing zoning laws won’t do anything to bring us universal health care or bolster the social safety net. It may not even, in the short term, do enough to create affordable housing. (nymag.com :::

::: spoiler He also argues that they ignore the real obstacles to efficiency and abundance: corporate corruption driving artificial scarcity.

[T]he takeaway from the broadband tale is that the biggest obstacles to efficiency and abundance are often corporate power and its corrupting influence on our politics — factors typically downplayed or unmentioned in the Abundance Discourse. ... We could pass all the federal permitting reforms Klein and Thompson could dream of, but if powerful fossil-fuel interests continue to call the political shots, we’ll never achieve the clean energy build-out we desperately need. ... In many of those areas, there’s no actual scarcity of structures that could be living space. It’s just that corporations and oligarchs hoarding wealth and land aren’t being compelled by zoning and tax laws to open up the space for housing. :::

As someone who's actually read the book, have these criticisms been handled and no one noticed, or would they need to publish a revised edition?

The defendant’s full post read: “Go on Rotherham. Burn any hotels with them scruffy bastards in it.”

What's the game from the link thumbnail?

This decision reinforces the idea that copying for non-commercial, transformative purposes—like making a book searchable, training an AI, or preserving web pages—can be lawful under fair use. That legal protection is essential to modern librarianship.

I'm happy that this works out in libraries' favor, but I can't see how Anthropic managed to slip through "copying for non-commercial, transformative purposes". Are they a non-profit and I just didn't know?

In two years, only these two guys thought of buying more shampoo.

Archive link: archive.ph/wUAQn

The comic was posted the same week that happened, so my money's on yes.

Ah yes the ever loyal praetorian guard. Who often auctioned off the emperorship when the last one died.

• @glorymechanic.bsky.social

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) posted an AI-generated image depicting the Statue of Liberty wearing a black burka with the caption: “This hits hard.” 

Greene’s fellow congressional stunt artist Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) posted a photo of Mamdani dressed in a kurta — a garment worn by men in Southeast Asia — while attending an Eid service at the Parkchester Islamic Center in the Bronx. “After 9/11 we said ‘Never Forget.’ I think we sadly have forgotten,” Mace wrote. 

Turning Point USA founder and far-right influencer Charlie Kirk wrote on social media late Tuesday night that “24 years ago a group of Muslims killed 2,753 people on 9/11. Now a Muslim Socialist is on pace to run New York City.”

“People were saying, ‘You took two bullets for this country. Like you’re more American than most of the Americans living in America,’” he said.

Seems like you should get honorary citizenship at that point. He’s put in the work.

Maybe they saw the phone and thought "ah, he's already covered."

::: spoiler Tap if you've given up trying to figure out what this is It's a Pikachu face. :::

Your Honor, I rest this guy's case.

I think it's less the interaction with currently established economies and more that it would never pass without lobbyists Congressmen sabotaging the law to make it fail and then using that to say, "See!? UBI doesn't work (when you set it up to fail)!"

I think it's normal to not be into stuff.

Hating stuff that you have the option to not interact with seems like extra work.