listened to a few minutes of the bad takes pod, it was terrible. and i liked the weeds
― flopson, Wednesday, 5 October 2022 08:14 (one year ago) link
Anytime Yglesias offers one of his stupid-ass social prescriptions (people should live in windowless rooms!) the only appropriate response is "You first, fucker."
― but also fuck you (unperson), Wednesday, 5 October 2022 11:46 (one year ago) link
Matty: Windowless rooms are the future!Tokyo: *yawn*
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Wednesday, 5 October 2022 16:51 (one year ago) link
MattY: People are going to have to learn to live without their noses. Prove me wrong.
― “uhh”—like, this is an insane oatmeal raisin cookie “uhh” (President Keyes), Wednesday, 5 October 2022 17:17 (one year ago) link
it's impossible to have a functioning nose and read MattY's tweets
― stank viola (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 5 October 2022 17:26 (one year ago) link
blue check marks in absolute shambles pic.twitter.com/2Xg3JWLK01— brandon access memories (@uncledoomer) October 10, 2022
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 11 October 2022 15:43 (one year ago) link
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
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 11 October 2022 15:52 (one year ago) link
hot take probably but it would be good if matt yglesias got banned from the internet
― terence trent d'ilfer (m bison), Tuesday, 11 October 2022 17:05 (one year ago) link
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.
― stank viola (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 11 October 2022 17:28 (one year ago) link
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.
― “uhh”—like, this is an insane oatmeal raisin cookie “uhh” (President Keyes), Tuesday, 11 October 2022 17:37 (one year ago) link
wish someone had convinced him that it meant his engine was about to blow
― stank viola (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 11 October 2022 17:38 (one year ago) link
i just remembered the “organizing my toolbox” tweet
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 11 October 2022 18:34 (one year ago) link
Well well well actually look who’s the guest on the Ezra Klein Show today
― KPH, Friday, 21 October 2022 22:17 (one year ago) link
lol
https://i.imgur.com/2dhRTDn.png
― lag∞n, Saturday, 22 October 2022 16:23 (one year ago) link
Yglesias meets data sorta like friedman meets cabdrivers. Always foreign significant and revealing. Possibly imaginary.
― i'm right back on my shit (Hunt3r), Sunday, 23 October 2022 10:04 (one year ago) link
Living the unverified life— Matthew Yglesias (@MatthewYglesia1) November 1, 2022
― jaymc, Wednesday, 2 November 2022 03:23 (one year ago) link
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
― lag∞n, Friday, 11 November 2022 15:30 (one year ago) link
wow that second thread is impressive even for him; "a few years ago" lmao
― rob, Friday, 11 November 2022 16:54 (one year ago) link
can practically see the kickback checks sticking out of Matty's pocket there
― Fash Gordon (Neanderthal), Friday, 11 November 2022 16:55 (one year ago) link
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
― Fash Gordon (Neanderthal), Friday, 11 November 2022 16:57 (one year ago) link
its funny to simultaneously be a "nothing you do while governing matters to voters" and a "everything you do while campaigning matters to voters"
― lag∞n, Friday, 11 November 2022 17:01 (one year ago) link
what if and just hear me out we could give our people that nice winning feeling all the time
― lag∞n, Friday, 11 November 2022 17:02 (one year ago) link
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
― rob, Friday, 11 November 2022 17:08 (one year ago) link
I think he's on his "Tell the undecided voters what they want to hear" thing
― “uhh”—like, this is an insane oatmeal raisin cookie “uhh” (President Keyes), Friday, 11 November 2022 17:46 (one year ago) link
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
― Karl Malone, Saturday, 12 November 2022 03:59 (one year ago) link
Matty is probably still in awe of the potential represented by Theranos and its game-changing technology
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Saturday, 12 November 2022 04:05 (one year ago) link
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
― mark s, Saturday, 12 November 2022 11:29 (one year ago) link
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
― lag∞n, Saturday, 12 November 2022 17:53 (one year ago) link
lol he despises him so much
― mark s, Saturday, 12 November 2022 17:55 (one year ago) link
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
― Karl Malone, Saturday, 12 November 2022 18:02 (one year ago) link
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 realSam 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.
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.
― Karl Malone, Saturday, 12 November 2022 18:08 (one year ago) link
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
― mark s, Saturday, 12 November 2022 18:21 (one year ago) link
or "leading consequentialist moral theorist" as yggy puts it
― mark s, Saturday, 12 November 2022 18:22 (one year ago) link
let's just do it and be dickheads, man
― Fash Gordon (Neanderthal), Saturday, 12 November 2022 18:22 (one year ago) link
lol at ‘got lunch with him’
― mookieproof, Saturday, 12 November 2022 18:49 (one year ago) link
people really abuse the word notorious
― lag∞n, Saturday, 12 November 2022 19:01 (one year ago) link
matty could totally rescue this for me by going to bat for polycules
― mark s, Saturday, 12 November 2022 19:16 (one year ago) link
wait that's the polycule on the lower rolley traintrack isn't it
― mark s, Saturday, 12 November 2022 19:17 (one year ago) link
trolley
― mark s, Saturday, 12 November 2022 19:19 (one year ago) link
trofl
one track has a polycule on it the other has baby hitler which one do you choose
― lag∞n, Saturday, 12 November 2022 19:21 (one year ago) link
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.
― difficult listening hour, Sunday, 13 November 2022 08:44 (one year ago) link
also you could purchase petroleum from him, and ignite it to make things go.
― difficult listening hour, Sunday, 13 November 2022 08:45 (one year ago) link
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
― “uhh”—like, this is an insane oatmeal raisin cookie “uhh” (President Keyes), Sunday, 13 November 2022 13:56 (one year ago) link
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
― lag∞n, Sunday, 13 November 2022 14:13 (one year ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FhZTanMXEAEua37?format=jpg&name=large
― lag∞n, Sunday, 13 November 2022 14:15 (one year ago) link
love how any time something happens that matty was absolutely wrong on, the alarm sounds and everyone shows up
― mh, Monday, 14 November 2022 19:42 (one year ago) link
“It’s plausible that without SBF’s money, Trump would still be in the White House.”
― papal hotwife (milo z), Thursday, 17 November 2022 16:57 (one year ago) link
Wasn't sure whether to post this in the outbreak thread or the Ezra/Matt thread but I decided to post it here because (and I say this as someone who generally likes Yglesias's work) this one really highlights a very particular way in which he sometimes misses
There’s a faction on US Twitter that insists we could have had Xi Jinping’s Covid policies if not for David Leonhardt and Emily Oster. https://t.co/5B2UpVbiW9— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) November 26, 2022
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Monday, 28 November 2022 00:57 (one year ago) link
truly cannot imagine liking this slug at this point
― lag∞n, Monday, 28 November 2022 01:09 (one year ago) link