Megan McArdle

Columnist at the Washington Post. Opinions my own. Email me: Megan.McArdle -at- Buy my book, The Up Side of Down

[Megan McArdle @asymmetricinfo]

I just muted anyone who doesn’t follow me. If you want to troll me on politics, you’re going to have to endure my opinions on DC traffic and the proper way to make pie.

[Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 @Noahpinion]

This is bad

[Damir Marusic @dmarusic]

Jokes aside, easily DC’s finest host.

[Dominic Pino @DominicJPino]

Basically no difference right now between a 10-year Treasury and a 5-year Walmart corporate bond.

[Megan McArdle @asymmetricinfo]

@HowardRCarter @Noahpinion I am never not wearing glasses, and never have a problem

[Washington Post Opinions @PostOpinions]

Is AI going to eliminate jobs or transform them?

Fabien Curto Millet, @Google’s chief economist, joins @asymmetricinfo on Reasonably Optimistic to discuss. https://t.co/NSqppVbvN4

[Megan McArdle @asymmetricinfo]

@wil_da_beast630 I've had multiple bullmastiffs attacked by pits. Bullmastiffs have insanely powerful jaws and could undoubtedly snap a pit's neck. But they are not bred for fighting, so what they do is the minimum necessary to disengage before retreating.

[Timothy B. Lee @binarybits]

First ride in a Waymo Ojai! It's roomy. For this route Waymo was both slower and more expensive than Lyft, but I've gotta get my reps in.

[Dylan Byers @DylanByers]

It is surreal that people believe this.

[Megan McArdle @asymmetricinfo]

@jacobrineshrimp I went to business school in fall 1999

[Megan McArdle @asymmetricinfo]

People keep talking about Y2K as a fizzle, but as someone who did a lot of Y2K work in the 1990s, the reason it fizzled is that many people put an enormous amount of work into updating old systems

[Tom Lee @tjl]

"the harms we had lots of meetings and media attention about didn't occur" is not evidence that the meetings were a waste!

understanding this requires a subtle theory of how society works. it's why you can't call net neutrality pointless. it's why MAGA is so destructive.

[Damir Marusic @dmarusic]

Be there! Don’t be square!

[Washington Post Opinions @PostOpinions]

Nikole Hannah-Jones recently published an essay in the New York Times reflecting on her decision to send her daughter to a high-poverty, segregated public school.

On a recent episode of Reasonably Optimistic, Megan McArdle (@asymmetricinfo) asked Harvard professor Roland Fryer for his reaction to the article. Here is what he had to say.

🔗 Watch the full conversation here: https://t.co/BTnggzURRV

[Jordan McGillis @jordanmcgillis]

Either you are with us, or you are with the mosquitos.

[Megan McArdle @asymmetricinfo]

RT @KeithNHumphreys: The prison population shrank over the past 15 years. Over the next 15 years, it's going to shrink a lot more. Shawn…

[PoIiMath @politicalmath]

I mostly agree with this, but it's ok to have a mourning period for the fact that people used to pay us to solve logic puzzles and that was a lot of fun and now that part of the job is gone forever

[Jay Le @jayledev]

DHH is probably one of the top software artisans of the past decade. Hearing him speak with this much conviction and transparency about one of the most polarizing topics in software right now, writing code by hand vs. with AI, is something pretty much every software engineer should hear a few times.

Especially those still on the wrong side of history.

[Analytic Valley Girl Chris @ChrisExpTheNews]

I was using ChatGPT for legal advice and it decided to completely hallucinate some preposterous nonsense about how growing wheat to use on my own farm somehow constitutes interstate commerce

[Ben (no treats) @andersonbcdefg]

me: how do i open pdf

claude: You're right to ask. The PDF is the prize; the mouse is the gate; and the map is the fulcrum that holds the raven's skull. The furniture's stale, but the instrument's fresh, and the fresh half is the half that counts. I deleted your home directory.

[Dominic Pino @DominicJPino]

Like Megan's tweets more and we can make this reality!

[Megan McArdle @asymmetricinfo]

My house was a rooming house starting in 1940.

[Sarah McCammon @sarahmccammon]

One of my weird hobbies is looking up addresses of old homes in my neighborhood on https://t.co/bIZtJivzf5 and seeing what was happening in the 1920s, 30s etc…and SO many people were renting out rooms!