Nate Taylor

Public Policy is my background. Ag is my work. I do stuff.

[Nate Taylor @natetaylor21]

@bendreyfuss We are the cool, smart, and nice jock at the high school. You say you hate us, but you are so happy if we show up to your party.

[Nate Taylor @natetaylor21]

@KevinPinball Hah! My daughter just got her album and I was like, "who's that?"

[interpretation @materialcritic]

Plato gets banned from Ikea

[Nate Taylor @natetaylor21]

@CptHastings1916 Underrated point. Here, stateside, Senator Thune is magnificent in a small room. But when it came to TV and large rooms for president he just fell flat. It is what it is but it means he can't be president.

[Nate Taylor @natetaylor21]

@LandsknechtPike too many rich people attending games. The core 10% keep it lively but 90% are there to have fun.

[Nate Taylor @natetaylor21]

@matthew_loftus In my experience the parents have sacrificed a lot to homeschool their kids so they talk up the results and the purpose to justify their decision.

[Nate Taylor @natetaylor21]

@bendreyfuss Okay Benjamin.

[Philippe Lemoine @phl43]

Europoor discourse enjoyers and China hawks love to talk about how the share of the US in world GDP has remained constant, but that's mostly an illusion resulting from the almost continuous appreciation of the dollar relative to the currencies of the largest economies during the period.

If you look at the share of the US in world GDP in PPP, it has been going down exactly as you would expect based on differences in growth rates. Indeed, even with the slowdown in recent years, China is still growing significantly more rapidly than the US. The same thing is true for India and several other large developing countries.

So I don't know how you can believe that the US has somehow maintained its share of world GDP without engaging in magical thinking. Even if some developing countries are underperforming, there is still a lot of catching-up happening and it's to be expected that a mature economy will not grow as fast as developing countries.

[Hedgie @HedgieMarkets]

🦔AI companies are bulk-buying rare books, scanning them through high-speed machines that cut the spines off, and shredding the originals. A service called ISBNdb facilitates orders of up to a million books and keeps buyers anonymous. Pre-2022 books are premium because they're free of AI-generated text. A federal judge ruled the practice is fair use because eliminating the original means only one copy exists at a time. Anthropic hired the former head of Google Books partnerships to obtain "all the books in the world."

My Take
This got to me. A bookseller told 404 Media that rare books with almost no surviving copies are being fed into this pipeline. Books that survived wars, fires, and centuries of handling are being shredded so an AI can learn to write a better marketing email.
ISBNdb's website literally says "'AI company destroys two million books' is not a headline that generates sympathy," and they still built an entire business around making it happen quietly. They offer NDAs as a feature. They coach clients to call it "digital preservation."

I've covered AI companies scraping the internet, torrenting libraries, and stealing music. This is worse because it's irreversible. You can re-upload a website. You can reprint a bestseller. You can't replace the last three copies of an 18th-century botanical text once someone shreds them for training data. And the judge said it's legal. So it's going to accelerate.
"We shred rare books and offer NDAs so nobody finds out" is a legitimate business model in 2026. What a timeline.

Hedgie🤗

[Aaron M. Renn 🇺🇸 @aaron_renn]

It's notable that evangelical gender theology defines a man's mission and responsibility as almost entirely toward family. This orients the household inwardly, away from any form of external mission or legacy. (Work is just about earning money for family and religious causes).

[Lyman Stone 石來民 🦬🦬🦬 @lymanstoneky]

1) sir, just use https://t.co/LCbkZ7rZHn , paywalls, shmaywalls

2) No, women aren't spurning marriage proposals. They're just swiping left. It really is that simple. The bottleneck isn't even at marriage. It isn't even at engagement. Not even at cohabitation. The bottleneck is at the first date. And yes, empirically, there *is* an epidemic of women declining first dates! They just don't feel like they're doing that because swiping/ghosting/etc feels so low stakes and easy!

[Bobby Fijan @bobbyfijan]

Construction costs are not the same, even for the exact same product. And that’s bc labor is the largest cost input (50%). And labor is driven by local housing costs

You have to pay someone a lot more to lay tile in San Francisco than San Antonio

Which is why it’s much more expensive to BUILD homes in the places where people most want to live

[Law Murray ♣️ @LawMurrayTheNU]

How much does the NBA change over in 5 years?????

None of the 30 NBA teams have more than 4 players left from the 2021-22 rosters

Only 12 teams have more than ONE player left. And only six coaches from 2021-22 too (Carlisle, Spoelstra, Finch, Daigneault, Kerr, Lue)

[Josh Barro @jbarro]

John Major is not only still alive, he's younger than Joe Biden

[Nate Taylor @natetaylor21]

@VincenzAnastagi And soon we will be going back to that reality.

[Nate Taylor @natetaylor21]

@DrewPavlou One of the all-time posts: https://t.co/0w5mRZt3kT

[Crémieux @cremieuxrecueil]

@AzPetrich Jesus was a pre-Arab conquest Levantine.

If you'd like to see an example of what that group looks like, here's a modern one.

THIS is what Jesus looked like.

[Carlo Lancellotti @_CLancellotti]

At the end of the day there is no culture without religion.

[Nate Taylor @natetaylor21]

@dilanesper This is key. we are under policed. Cops are cheaper than prisons, but in the USA cities/counties pay for cops while states (usually) pay for prisons. We would save money with more cops, but the savings go to the "wrong" party.