Notices by Steve Randy Waldman (interfluidity@zirk.us)

@light @ntnsndr @KevinCarson1 not exactly what you are after, but ESOPs are a related idea https://www.esop.org/

thinking of housing shortage in terms of raw numbers of homes is just stupid, because homes aren’t fungible. scatter 40 million new homes across the tundra of Alaska and you’ll do nothing to address housing miseries. build a neighborhood 50,000 people are excited to live in and you’ll do a lot more. https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2026/02/04/us-housing-shortage-millions/

they hate us for our freedoms.

i like to sign up for expensive classes so i can have the pleasure of skipping school again.

if you want to get shit done, rather than a “strong man”, instead of autocracy, have you considered a democratically elected unicameral legislature which directly appoints and can remove the executive?

An amazingly rich and thorough long read on rent control as an institution and the importance of security of tenure to the formation of public goods like vibrant and secure neighborhoods, by @phillmv.

One of the best things I’ve ever read on rent control and the issues surrounding it.

https://okayfail.com/2018/rent-control-great-security-of-tenure.html

there is no hypocrisy under supremacy. a double standard is, from a supremicist perspective, simply correct.

you used to have to change the clocks, but now it’s like a treasure hunt to find a clock that hasn’t changed itself.

much more dangerous than being straw manned by other people, it is so easy to fall into a practice of straw manning oneself: getting cornered into defending a simplification or caricature of ones own views.

“Let me repeat that — social media silos are fighting against web links, the foundation of the open web. They do so to ‘encourage’ content and discussions on their own platforms, noble goals a stakeholder would say, except that now these platforms are filled with politics, rage, and AI slop.” @alexelcu https://alexn.org/blog/2025/10/13/outsourced-voices-outsourced-minds/

is CBS the new “newsweek”?

would you really prefer an immoral panic?

people who style themselves political realists have such unrealistic views about how swing voters behave. it's not the issues, or at least not the issues our two parties elevate as objects of political contestation. it's a sense of affiliation, or of shared resentments, or just personal respect.

i just had a call from a very polite gentleman running for state house in a state not mine, seeking a donation. good luck to him, but it’s getting a bit ridiculous.

one thing to say about Charlie Kirk is he had enormous emotional range. he could project — very effectively! — reasonableness, bonhomie, good will, even across deep social chasms. he could also spew bile, hatred, and bigotry in a way that left little doubt he meant it. 1/

@realcaseyrollins I mean… https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/charlie-kirk-ezra-klein-tanehisi-coates

@realcaseyrollins i mean READ THE PIECE. every quote is a link. you may dislike the author, i certainly agree he’s a partisan, but the text is well documented.

pretty convenient how quickly The Left has forgotten sandwich guy.

if AI isn't sentient, why do people talk about adopting it?

everyone needs a family.

TPUSA. CPUSA. Coincidence?