.@TylerCowen raves: “There is a single best model, at least when it comes to tough questions (it is more disputable which model is the best and most creative writer or poet). I find it very difficult to ask o1 pro an economics question it cannot answer.” https://t.co/FdGbNwEcMT… https://t.co/9KRWk7FebY
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Feb 13, 2025
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February 12, 2025 at 11:53PM
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I’ve learned from hard experience that if you trust large corporations-or small ones, or any kind of organization-to adequately maintain electronic back records, you’re a fool. In a pinch, that’s the first thing that gets cut or degraded. Need a paper backstop.
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Feb 13, 2025
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February 12, 2025 at 07:34PM
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They’re not telling me at this point. They’re just trying to trick me into checking the box. https://t.co/VBn2DxGgM8
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Feb 12, 2025
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February 12, 2025 at 06:04PM
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Rethinking: If there is a smart, capable, and competent #2 to actually run DoD, why is it so terrible to have a non-managerial celebrity figurehead to point in the desired ideological direction? https://t.co/ClFeDkcoWC
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Feb 12, 2025
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February 12, 2025 at 05:57PM
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This makes it sound like the APA is just roving permission for courts to decide any presidential executive action they don’t like is “arbitrary” and strike it down. I don’t think it is, but if it is, how is that constitutional? Framers wanted judges to have that veto power over… https://t.co/oEwLN8Wfa0 https://t.co/hohUvezDho
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Feb 12, 2025
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February 12, 2025 at 05:44PM
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I bet this is as 60/40 issue! Maybe 70/30. https://t.co/44eO4Ol5Lk
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Feb 12, 2025
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February 12, 2025 at 05:32PM
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15 military flights X 134 per flight = a start. https://t.co/n3tLcRhDxW
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Feb 12, 2025
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February 12, 2025 at 05:28PM
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Now they’ll want *these* guys to go paperless. Don’t check that box! Think of the fraud that can be accomplished when it’s all on computers. … https://t.co/928FV7oHYG
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Feb 12, 2025
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February 12, 2025 at 04:41PM
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There should be a “Do Not Ask to Go Paperless” registry similar to the “Do Not Call” registry. Sign up and businesses must stop trying to make you go paperless. https://t.co/Yd5wMrNSkq
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Feb 12, 2025
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February 12, 2025 at 04:01PM
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.@NPR’s @tamarakeithNPR: “[W]e should note that DOGE is not an official government agency.” https://t.co/yZkIkPqu72
It isn’t? https://t.co/vwYihzIMmq
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Feb 12, 2025
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February 12, 2025 at 03:17AM
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Ripped from today’s headlines! https://t.co/xTpW6cVDSR
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Feb 12, 2025
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February 12, 2025 at 03:02AM
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Court gives Gazans right to settle in UK https://t.co/iZ2OxhYILV We think we got problems with unelected judges …
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Feb 12, 2025
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February 12, 2025 at 02:46AM
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!!!! https://t.co/5Ds6ssz0Xi
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Feb 11, 2025
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February 11, 2025 at 04:36AM
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“Instead, according to multiple lobbyists, they’ll seek to influence Brooke Rollins, Trump’s pick to lead the Department of Agriculture, and Kristi Noem …”
In other words, exactly the weak spots everyone knew they’d focus on … https://t.co/sMf2sKlnUQ
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Feb 11, 2025
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February 11, 2025 at 04:33AM
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How about a reverse-Romney-autopsy for the Dems: ‘We have been wrong on immigration”? https://t.co/sEmmI9wjL9
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Feb 11, 2025
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February 11, 2025 at 02:13AM
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“What Newsom says needs to be done [before] construction begins looks to me like a huge, centralized process involving an awful lot of well-connected and high-priced “experts” empaneled to redesign Pacific Palisades according to “scientific” principles involving all the… https://t.co/VkhI2ObUW3
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Feb 11, 2025
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February 11, 2025 at 02:07AM
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And of course if you want to dispense all sorts of welfare-state goods (company housing, pensions, etc) through businesses–as @RBReich did at least at one point–you’ve got to protect those businesses from competition from those who don’t provide the goods.
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Feb 11, 2025
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February 11, 2025 at 01:41AM
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The model is not only replicable in other areas–eg Big Media with special credentials and ‘journalist’s privileges’ in the pre-Web era–but it seems temptingly functional–eg easier to stop pollution if you just need to get a few big boys to cooperate. That’s the danger. https://t.co/IOx3LKNcO2
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Feb 11, 2025
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February 11, 2025 at 12:37AM
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What @pmarca describes here as the Biden AI policy is pretty close to a perfect example of corporatism: Government and a few big businesses get together to give the businesses a special position/function and keep everyone else doing other things. https://t.co/IdLNtp5HuG
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Feb 11, 2025
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February 11, 2025 at 12:34AM
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You’d think. But the distinction-or something like it-seems to be cemented into the constitution by the misguided 1976 SCOTUS decision in Elrod v. Burns–“civil servants” would be those who can’t be subject to patronage dismissals under the Constitution (not just a statute!)… https://t.co/rveEoadaXu https://t.co/eCQrUUlgfF
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Feb 11, 2025
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February 11, 2025 at 12:01AM
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Stop asking me to go paperless.
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Feb 11, 2025
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February 10, 2025 at 10:55PM
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“An official from New Mexico said the state would run out of cash in FIVE MONTHS if the funding freeze continued.’ [Caps added.] Five months? Is that immediate or irreparable harm? https://t.co/Dm9Zzbh3fX
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Feb 11, 2025
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February 10, 2025 at 10:20PM
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Don’t quite know why the anti-Trump Left is so upset about this op-ed /// https://t.co/d6JrjN0gOG
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Feb 11, 2025
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February 10, 2025 at 10:06PM
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Seems like a welcome retreat from the Democracy-at-the-Brink tone of the @NYTimes op-ed Summers and 4 other ex-Treasury secretaries put out today. … https://t.co/m6tLD9sNeN
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Feb 11, 2025
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February 10, 2025 at 10:02PM
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Seems a little early for the Massed 5-Dem-Treasury-Secretary Array. Why not wait until some vital Treasury payments have been stopped? What do they do for an encore? If they’re spotting *potential* problems, will this be a weekly NYT column? (Might be useful, actually) https://t.co/0CEJYvNzVM
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Feb 11, 2025
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February 10, 2025 at 09:57PM
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