I spent 15 minutes on my podcast that week comparing and contrasting the use of “Brothers in Arms” in that episode vs. the “Two Cathedrals” episode of West Wing, specifically the timing of the climactic “we’re fools to make war on…” line

Having lived half my life before the Internet and half after, I can say with confidence that the world now is fundamentally the same, just somewhat more convenient. I think that's the answer to Solow's Paradox in a nutshell.

If AI can bulk-solve hundreds of arcane mathematical proofs, shouldn't it be able to penetrate the various legal and accounting scams that rich people use to cheat on their taxes?

A brief thread on the Alpha Motivation Lab, Dr. David Yeager, and his many ties to Alpha School and its leadership. You might think just given the name, Yeager would just admit the lab is part of the Alpha empire. But he does not. He claims it's independent. So let's probe that claim, shall we?

80% of my brain watching this was processing the implications of Stairway appearing in a movie trailer for this first time

“School choice:” There is a school. You choose it. This is how choosing a sandwich works. You approach the sandwich. You indicate that you would like the sandwich. At no point does the sandwich ask for a letter from your pastor.

A number of states have passed really important school funding formula reforms in the last several years. So why do some inequities persist? Lots of little reasons--and this guide can help state advocates and policymakers find and seal those "equity trapdoors."

It's the normie moderate Republican version of the Obama rule -- less focused on for-profit colleges, weaker, but directionally correct and good.

Holy shit.

Sure all of that is illegal and much more but in the case we're debating right now, the Department of Education is simply implementing a law Congress passed last year. Nobody is making anything up.

What stops him from extending it further is the law Congress passed sets the standard and the Department of Education is implementing it. The law applies to *programs*, not -- as the TNR tweet implied -- majors.

Greg Abbott right now:

The SPEAKER implies. The LISTENER infers. The DUDE abides.