Judging by how everything is going, we’ve mastered social behavior and can move on to more solvable problems.

“… Code is the same: at the level of a function or a class, there’s usually a clear right answer, and AI is excellent there. But architecture is what happens when all those local pieces interact, and you can’t get good global behaviour by stitching together locally correct components.”

And from the blog itself, “The laws of physics look simple and Newtonian in any small local area, but zoom out and spacetime curves in ways you can’t predict from the local picture alone. …”

Likewise all three comments @lalitm.com makes to start off this thread. bsky.app/profile/lali...

This seems to me to capture *everything* about coding with agentic AI: “A lot of the work is right-sizing tasks such that they’re big enough to be genuinely useful compared writing the code yourself, but small enough that the model can complete it (ideally before compaction).”

Eleanor Roosevelt’s new york state gun permit from August 5th 1957. She is elderly with a fur stole, listed as writer and lecturer

Eleanor Roosevelt’s gun permit (which she got it around the time the klan put a $25k bounty on her head). What a vibe

You can vibe code your way to a working prototype. You cannot vibe code or one-shot your way to a competitive product that works at scale. The hard part isn't writing code; it's the architectural supervision.

Anyway, if you are still writing and understanding your own code in 2026, you have my deepest appreciation & gratitude.

Philip Glass boycotting the Kennedy Center
Philip Glass boycotting the Kennedy Center
Philip Glass boycotting the Kennedy Center
Philip Glass
Philip Glass
Philip Glass
Philip Glass
Philip Glass boycotting the Kennedy Center

From the thread:

> Surprisingly, ChatGPT was much better at explaining and helping with Claude Code than Claude itself. For example, Claude gave me incorrect info about how to set up its permissions files.

"This doux commerce hypothesis is consistent .. claiming that market interactions—unlike those within families or in-groups—foster impersonal prosocial norms that
support cooperation beyond kin and local networks, and it
aligns with recent evidence stemming primarily from small-scale ... societies."

So now we’re headed towards stormtroopers. Apologies for mixing the genres, but seriously.

I keep thinking “my god the people they’ve killed seem like exceptionally good folks” and I think the lesson there is that they’re not exceptional, but that wonderful people abound and that a baseline distrust in humanity is a shitty conservative trope that privileges power over collective strength

Signs about the history of slavery in the U.S. and the 9 people George Washington enslaved are being removed right now at the President’s House Site in Philadelphia, across from Independence Hall, months after the Trump administration threatend to do so.

How far we have not come in 250 years.

Who's Afraid of the Minimum Wage? Measuring the Impacts on Independent Businesses Using Matched U.S. Tax Returns* Nirupama L Rao, Max Risch The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Volume 141, Issue 1, February 2026, Pages 373-427, https://doi.org/10.1093/qje/qjaf053 Published: 10 December 2025 Article history V PDF • Split View 66 Cite P Permissions < Share V Abstract A common concern surrounding minimum wage policies is their impact on independent businesses, which are often feared to be less able to bear or pass on cost increases. We examine how these typically small and medium-size firms accommodate minimum wage increases along product and labor market margins using a matched owner-firm-worker panel data set drawn from the universe of U.S. tax records over a 10-year period, and using state minimum wage changes as identifying variation. We find that on average, firms in highly exposed industries do not substantially reduce employment-they do not lay off workers but moderately reduce part-time hiring. Instead, these firms are able to fully finance the new labor costs with new revenues, leaving average owner profits unchanged. Higher wage floors, however, forestall entry, particularly for less productive firms, reducing the number of independent firms operating in these industries by roughly 2%. Yet these industries do not shrink; instead, incumbent responses and strong positive selection among entrants reshape industries that rely heavily on low-wage workers, yielding fewer but more productive firms after the cost shock. We also take a worker-level perspective to examine how potentially vulnerable individuals are affected by minimum wage increases. Using panels of low-earning and young workers, we find that their average earnings rise substantially with the minimum wage, while they are no less likely to be employed. Worker transitions indicate that minimum wage increases boost retention and that worker reallocation from independent firms toward corporations buffers dis…

New QJE for the minimum wage literature uses IRS data to study effects on small and medium size businesses. The effects seem…very good

academic.oup.com/qje/article/...

I can’t wait to watch these! Knowing Andy, they’re going to be great.

I've never seen a population more united. If people can hold onto that unity, if people can accept that different people will have different ways of confronting fascism, if we can remind NGOs and orgs that they can join but not control the resistance, then, well, people here will write history.

But when I asked an organizer what they wanted to see out of press coverage, they told me they wanted people to see the beautiful things they are building here, and not just the worst stories of the worst of ICE's crimes.

What people are doing here is beautiful. It's a tragic beauty, but a real one

Another friend put it to me like this: "ICE has made the classic Nazi mistake. They've invaded a winter people in the winter."

So much to think about and prompt students’ thinking here. Regardless of how each of us may prompt students to use the resources to help them develop a deeper understanding of their choices.

On the micro side, it should be IO by a country mile and then Labour.

Trump’s E.P.A. Has Put a Value on Human Life: Zero Dollars

fewer new case studies for my regulatory politics class plz

It’s notable that the president can go on TV and be a total gutter racist, and somehow this isn’t news in the slightest. Says a lot about the sickness of American society right now.

One small thing I’ve been doing on every work call is starting out with blatant honesty about what is happening here without care of where they fall on the political spectrum. I meet with people across the country & world on the regular and they need to know the truth.

President Trump has justified many significant moves of his second term with false claims and overstated boasts. Here's a fact check. nyti.ms/4qEbf1q

Wait wait wait… the final boss at Nintendo of America was named Bowser?

🤯

“The system that made America the richest country in the history of world has failed America”

Even the cosmologists expected this

Americans Are the Ones Paying for Tariffs, Study Finds New research contradicts President Trump’s claim that foreigners are footing the bill.

By analyzing $4 trillion of shipments between January 2024 and November 2025, researchers found that foreign exporters absorbed only about 4% of the burden of last year’s U.S. tariff increases by lowering their prices, while American consumers and importers absorbed 96%.

www.wsj.com/economy/trad...