Publisher: OK Alex, what are you thinking for the cover of your next book?
Dugin: I want 2/3 of it to be a giant picture of me and Jeffrey Epstein
Publisher: ... What?
Replying to @Skeleman71
Hey, you know those "free" samples at Costco? It turns out someone actually has to pay for those...
Replying to @JJ_McCullough
If you don't like the order with business attire, we could go the other direction and bring back court dress
Interesting article about replacing centrally planned distributions to food banks with a more efficient market-based bidding system that improved throughput and reduced wastage. And doubly impressive as a non-monetary market trading in imaginary "shares"
worksinprogress.co/issue/how…

ALT How market design can feed the poor 22nd September 2025 America’s food banks had a broken distribution system. University of Chicago economists fixed it. For most of its history, Feeding America, the nation’s largest nonprofit, relied on a broken system to distribute its 220 million pounds of food per year. It ignored existing stocks and donations, flooding fully stocked food banks in Idaho with potatoes and warehouses in Alaska with five gallon buckets of pickles. To fix how America fed its hungry would require the economics of market design. The new system increased food supply by 100 million pounds annually, equivalent to feeding an additional 60,000 people every day. It is one of the clearest successes of market design so far.











