EZRA KLEIN v MATT YGLESIAS

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I’m in a hotel room right now with two sets of curtains on the wall but one actual window. I guess it looks more symmetrical with an implied second window

listened to a few minutes of the bad takes pod, it was terrible. and i liked the weeds

Anytime Yglesias offers one of his stupid-ass social prescriptions (people should live in windowless rooms!) the only appropriate response is "You first, fucker."

Matty: Windowless rooms are the future!
Tokyo: *yawn*

MattY: People are going to have to learn to live without their noses. Prove me wrong.

it's impossible to have a functioning nose and read MattY's tweets

blue check marks in absolute shambles pic.twitter.com/2Xg3JWLK01

— brandon access memories (@uncledoomer) October 10, 2022

if he did his own dishes maybe he'd know about his indicator lights too somehow pic.twitter.com/w1yptAoclF

— The Pumpkin Dipshit (@ParSpec) October 11, 2022

hot take probably but it would be good if matt yglesias got banned from the internet

someone should create a twitter account of just his hot takes, called "Y Glesias?"

but then it might get shut down because it would just be all of his tweets.

it's more cost effective for MattY to crowd source reading his vehicle's owner manual. You don't want a mind like that wasting time.

wish someone had convinced him that it meant his engine was about to blow

i just remembered the “organizing my toolbox” tweet

Well well well actually look who’s the guest on the Ezra Klein Show today

lol

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Yglesias meets data sorta like friedman meets cabdrivers. Always foreign significant and revealing. Possibly imaginary.

Living the unverified life

— Matthew Yglesias (@MatthewYglesia1) November 1, 2022

reading the latest twitter and SBF news and stunned at the prescience of the GOAT. how does he do it pic.twitter.com/dyPYXXWRWr

— Dr Lyingin Tweets, MD (@FuzzyMarth) November 11, 2022

wow that second thread is impressive even for him; "a few years ago" lmao

can practically see the kickback checks sticking out of Matty's pocket there

It's worth remembering how nice it feels to win.

Like if you're a Democrat who follows politics at all, you're really psyched that Laura Kelly won. You don't know much about her or her positions on the issues, you're just glad she won.

That's why pandering is good.

— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) November 9, 2022

its funny to simultaneously be a "nothing you do while governing matters to voters" and a "everything you do while campaigning matters to voters"

what if and just hear me out we could give our people that nice winning feeling all the time

I honestly don't know what point he's trying to make there, but I may have suffered brain damage from the previous "checkmark drama is cuz NYT did journalism" tweet

I think he's on his "Tell the undecided voters what they want to hear" thing

the problem with tech coverage is that it's not glowing enough

Instead of covering the industry with a business press lens or a consumer lens they started covering it with a very tough investigative lens — highly oppositional at all times and occasionally unfair.

Almost never curious about technology or in awe of progress and potential.

— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) November 3, 2022

Matty is probably still in awe of the potential represented by Theranos and its game-changing technology

its a small thingin the wider world -- and sure he's not unflawed himself -- but jeet heer's open contempt for yglesias, increasingly robustly and directly stated ("reactionary cetnrist" etc etc), is funny and good

Fascinating piece from Matthew Yglesias from a few months ago defending the intellectual integrity of Sam Bankman-Fried ("SBF is for real"). Worth revisiting in light of recent news https://t.co/xKzyijbAFz

— Jeet Heer (@HeerJeet) November 12, 2022

lol he despises him so much

lol, this is kind of onethread with a lot of other things, but i love how in that yglesias substack where got ratio'd, he includes a Wasserman tweet where Wasserman says "I've seen enough."

i'm starting to get to know these characters and their catchphrases

haha, this is from that same Yglesias article (https://www.slowboring.com/p/understanding-effective-altruisms). i don't read him that often but

SBF is for real

Sam Bankman-Fried’s life choices are unconventional, and I think that has made it easy to dismiss Carrick Flynn as a “crypto-backed” candidate or Protect Our Future as a crypto play. But there’s a pretty clear and plausible argument that this is simply not the case:

SBF was raised by a leading consequentialist moral theorist.

While attending MIT, SBF went to a Will MacAskill lecture on Effective Altruism and got lunch with him.

At this point in time, MacAskill was heavily promoting “earn to give” as a life plan, specifically promoting the virtues of the then-unfashionable life choice of going to work in finance.

SBF then went to work at Jane Street Capital, a proprietary trading firm notorious for employing smart weirdos, giving half his salary away to animal welfare charities.

He left Jane Street to briefly work directly for the Centre for Effective Altruism, which MacAskill founded, but while there hit upon a crypto trading arbitrage opportunity.

He left CEA to focus on crypto trading, starting a company called Alameda Research focused on making money through crypto arbitrage and other trading strategies.

He then left Alameda to found FTX. Now the co-CEO of Alameda Research is Caroline Ellison, also an EA who writes posts on EA Forum explaining how much weight2 she puts on ensuring that potential hires are aligned with EA values.

FTX has been incredibly successful, and Bankman-Fried is now a multi-billionaire.

lol

effective alt is like "why we can be complete pricks and that's good not bad"

turns out that in a billion years our being pricks will be proveably beneficial for humanity QED, ps i was raised by a leading consequentialist

or "leading consequentialist moral theorist" as yggy puts it

let's just do it and be dickheads, man

lol at ‘got lunch with him’

SBF then went to work at Jane Street Capital, a proprietary trading firm notorious for employing smart weirdos, giving half his salary away to animal welfare charities.

people really abuse the word notorious

matty could totally rescue this for me by going to bat for polycules

wait that's the polycule on the lower rolley traintrack isn't it

trolley

trofl

one track has a polycule on it the other has baby hitler which one do you choose

rockefeller figured this one weird trick out a century and a half ago and iirc his dad was only a snake oil salesman. idk whom he might have had lunch w later tho.

also you could purchase petroleum from him, and ignite it to make things go.

The fact that even Republicans are now realizing that transphobia is bad politics makes it even more shameful that reactionary centrist Matt Yglesias (among others) urged Dems to throw trans people under the bus just a few weeks ago. https://t.co/AGgpAdEW5Q pic.twitter.com/ko5OCsPmvi

— Jeet Heer (@HeerJeet) November 11, 2022

ah matt replied to the jeet tweets yesterday asking for constructive criticism via email and everyone was telling him to stop being such a loser lol he deleted tho shouldve screencapped

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love how any time something happens that matty was absolutely wrong on, the alarm sounds and everyone shows up

“It’s plausible that without SBF’s money, Trump would still be in the White House.”