Alex Yablon

Policy analyst @nyccouncil, write about policy and economics when I can. formerly @patriotact and @teamtrace.

[Alex Yablon @AlexYablon]

Nuke the bond vigilantes

[Acyn @Acyn]

Reporter on Bond Market: The yields have come back up since then. Have you talked to Bessent about another type of intervention.?

Trump: The ultimate intervention is our military. And if we have to use that, we will.

[Alex Yablon @AlexYablon]

@JCColtin Very cute little town, my sister in law lives there

[Alex Yablon @AlexYablon]

@BABIP_WM @LFlings68288 @Burlydee https://t.co/fnh1bgGUKx

[Alex Yablon @AlexYablon]

@Burlydee Karen Hao, author of Empire of AI and source of the claims that data centers used city sized amounts of water, issued a major correction that she overestimated water estimates by several orders of magnitude due to confusing units of measurement https://t.co/f2jzNsfjuU

[Alex Yablon @AlexYablon]

@Burlydee Karen Hao, author of Empire of AI and source of the claims that data centers used city sized amounts of water, issued a major correction that she overestimated water estimates by several orders of magnitude due to confusing units of measurement https://t.co/f2jzNsfjuU

[Alex Yablon @AlexYablon]

I’m no data center hater but even discounting debunked water claims, it’s not surprising people are mad about a massive infrastructure buildout for an industry that boasts it will put many millions out of work while driving up prices of all construction inputs

[Jeremiah Johnson 🌐 @JeremiahDJohns]

I have never seen a psy-op more effective than the data center stuff. Absolutely wild how bipartisan the data center hate is for such an incredibly benign industry.

The same folks who'd be wildly enthusiastic over a new steel mill are irate at the idea of a data center.

[Alex Yablon @AlexYablon]

@BenjaminFogel There’s a whole genre of literature and film where an English or German person loses their mind in Italy (room with a view, death in Venice, etc)

[Alex Yablon @AlexYablon]

@SoBendito Though the woman in the opening anecdote is also a Republican

[Patrick O’Blivion @PatrickODonne11]

Jia Zhangke is a Rolex ambassador?

[Aaron Eisenberg @ae53]

With all due respect that’s literally a textbook defenition of a pied et terre

[Alex Yablon @AlexYablon]

@jfberke The sheer volume along with the fact that he dug his heels in when it was first noticed aren’t helpful

[Alex Yablon @AlexYablon]

The saddest thing about the Ross barkan affair is he maybe saved himself 10 minutes of work per column max each time he ripped off someone else.

[Alex Yablon @AlexYablon]

@cornu__copia Did you see the part where I said “in the last ten years”

[Alex Yablon @AlexYablon]

At some point in the last ten years Berlin stopped being cool and just became preposterous, the Portland Oregon of Europe

[Lord Bebo @MyLordBebo]

🇩🇪‼️🚨 GERMAN STATE RIPS OUT A SHOWER BECAUSE IT'S TOO LUXURIOUS!

Germany tries to protect many neighborhoods from becoming fancy luxury areas.

This manifests in situations like this: a guy who pays €950 rent built a shower for himself with his own money in a rental property.

The state declared it’s too luxurious because now he has a shower and a bathtub. This is apparently too luxurious and would improve the rental property too much, which could lead to the neighborhood becoming too expensive.

So the German state called in contractors to rip it out. And it’s gone.

Yay! Peak EU

[Alex Yablon @AlexYablon]

Underestimate the power of liberal arts grad brunettes with little line tattoos at your own peril

[Mid Castizas @castiza]

The Left has no answer for this

[Alex Yablon @AlexYablon]

@jaycaspiankang Have totally come around on those School of Rock places, seemed cornball at first but they’re great

[Christopher Hooks @cd_hooks]

This is a normal international airport amenity, and DFW has nonstops to Dubai, Doha and Amman. Most of Texas politics now is resentment at the consequences of moving to the center of the world economy

[Alex Yablon @AlexYablon]

@IrvingSwisher Wagner known for encouraging good behavior

[Alex Yablon @AlexYablon]

Hoping the implication of this homeschool mom’s post is that she believes in New Chronology

[𝘗𝘙𝘐𝘔𝘈 @nocertainlynot]

You can't defend homeschooling to me when this is the average homeschool take

[Alex Yablon @AlexYablon]

@PercyYaBysshe I am halfway through Urth of the New Sun now. The whole series is incredible, and at the sentence level too.

[Alex Yablon @AlexYablon]

Clearly he never read book of the new sun (as it came out more than 20 years after his death)

[Doug Henwood @DougHenwood]

Raymond Chandler on science fiction