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Political scientist writing Drezner's World on international relations, American politics and the marketplace of ideas; author of The Ideas Industry.

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  The Trump administration is replacing professional bureaucracy with a corrupt, personalist system that extracts rents through force.

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  In practice, Hochman's hire is another nauseating sign that the Trump administration is destroying the bureaucracy in favor of some corrupt, neo-royalist husk of an apparatus that mostly posts memes and occasionally deploys the 82nd Airborne to extract rents.

  The Devolution of the Policy Planning Staffdanieldrezner.substack.com

Housing and development writer at Strong Towns, arguing that the professional, large-scale housing industry cannot produce widespread affordability no matter how it is deregulated or subsidised.

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  Falling rents are the signal that makes developers stop building, so a city cannot build its way to affordability under the current supply model.

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  To real estate professionals, slowing growth or declines in rent are often signals to stop building new housing.

  Some Things YIMBYs Tend To Get Wrong (and Right)strongtowns.org

Science fiction novelist, journalist and technology activist; writes the daily blog and newsletter Pluralistic, and coined the term enshittification.

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  Obstetrix

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  All told, this is a read-in-one-sitting thriller that does as much to illuminate the workings and dynamics of patriarchy and religion as any gender studies class. It's peak Kritzer (so far), and that's saying something.

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Behavioural economist at Chicago Booth, professor of behavioural science and economics and director of AGI economics at Google DeepMind.

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  Whether AI's gains are widely shared turns on whether it is like electricity, where the users captured the benefit, or like social media, where the platform did.

  energy

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  because a lot with electricity, a lot of the downstream benefits actually came to like the users of the electricity rather than the rather than the actual entity producing the electricity. On the other hand, with social media, it was the opposite case, right? Social media, you know, it was everywhere. Everybody uses social media, but the rents went to the platform.

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Astrophysicist and coffee researcher; author of The Physics of Filter Coffee and The Physics of Espresso, and writer of the Coffee ad Astra blog on brewing science and equipment.

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  Dripper diameter, with other brew variables held fixed, does not change extraction or taste — only batch size.

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  changing the dripper diameter, keeping all other important variables fixed, has no impact on the brew mechanics and the resulting cup, in an "idealized" scenario

  The Importance of Bed Depthcoffeeadastra.com

Coffee consultant and author of books on espresso, roasting and brewing, including The Professional Barista's Handbook and The Coffee Roaster's Companion; writes about brewing gear and roast control at scottrao.com.

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  Brewing coffee with too deep a bed forces a coarser grind, which lowers extraction efficiency and wastes coffee grounds.

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  If a bed is too deep, one has to use a very coarse grind. The result in the cup may or may not be good enough, but the extraction level will be low, which is inefficient, in the sense of wasting coffee material.

  Bed depth: why it mattersscottrao.com

Writes Where's Your Ed At and hosts Better Offline; runs a tech PR firm, and argues at length that the AI business does not add up.

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  Management has stopped meaning doing work and now means maintaining a culture of dominance and extraction.

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  Management as a concept no longer means doing "work," but establishing cultures of dominance and value extraction.

  The Era Of The Business Idiotwheresyoured.at

Coffee consultant and author of books on espresso, roasting and brewing, including The Professional Barista's Handbook and The Coffee Roaster's Companion; writes about brewing gear and roast control at scottrao.com.

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  Ceado Hoop

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  The Hoop may be the perfect manual brewer for cafes, as baristas can simply pour and walk away, knowing that four minutes later, the Hoop will deliver an excellent extraction.

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Urban planner, co-author with Charles Marohn of Escaping the Housing Trap, and policy director at the Parking Reform Network. Wrote for Strong Towns from 2015, mostly about how housing markets actually set prices.

From one piece Shortages and Spillovers: How People Misunderstand the Housing Crisis 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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  Building a lot of housing in an expensive city will not lower rents there; it lowers them in the cheaper places that were absorbing its spillover demand.

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  In fact — and this is a point that is, in my opinion, underappreciated by the pro-housing side — building a bunch of housing in Santa Monica would probably not lower rents in Santa Monica. It would bring more people to Santa Monica, creating lower rents elsewhere in Greater Los Angeles as the spillovers from Santa Monica lessened.

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  Rents rise when vacancy is low and stabilise when vacancy is high, which makes the vacancy rate the housing metric that actually predicts prices.

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  Empirical data drawn from many different regions clearly shows that, on a metropolitan scale, rents tend to rise when vacancy rates are low and stabilize when vacancy rates are high.

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Astrophysicist and coffee researcher; author of The Physics of Filter Coffee and The Physics of Espresso, and writer of the Coffee ad Astra blog on brewing science and equipment.

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  Lvl-10 dripper

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  I was super excited when I saw the Lvl-10 dripper, because it was very close to what I wanted to achieve, and as I expected, it performed very well in terms of extraction quality.

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