Andy Wingo

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picture of a book page, on which was drawn a letter, on which was drawn a moustache and the words “i know”
screencap of my bsky compose window with rendering glitches
quiz result: 91% woke, 59% neo-luddite, 52% hopepilled, 67% davos, closest match: mamdani
screencap: 56 reposts, 1.7k quotes, 258 likes, 3.8k replies
paragraph from matt levine’s most recent newsletter
pic of back label of french albariño wine, les vignobles foncalieu
bart simpson meme, “say the line european official / this is a wake up call for europe / whole class applauds”
screencap of chartbook 443: « In Class Wars are Trade Wars, Pettis and Klein draw explicitly on J.A. Hobson, whose book Imperialism (1902) provided an inspiration for Lenin's later writing on imperialism. Hobson, a radical liberal. araued that the distribution of »
screencap of typo in which instead of ", net-zero acceleration valleys" we have "net, zero acceleration valleys"
back cover of quinn slobodian’s “crack-up capitalism”
view of snow-covered rocky alps from plane window, looking west at dawn
my app telling me the panels are making 4.8kW, the battery is full, the house is using 200W, the rest is going to the grid
far side comic, “that should clear things up around here”, guy painting “the dog” on the dog, etc
copy of page 173 of paperback « globalists » by slobodian, discussing economist william h hutt : « At its core, Hutt argued, racism is a form of rent-seeking analogous to trade unions defending their own privilege against the entry of nonwhite workers. "The chief source of colour discrimination," Hutt sug-gested, was "to be found in the natural determination to defend economic privilege". In his reading, racism was not of the market but outside of-and in opposition to-the market. In a review, fellow MPS member Enoch Powell praised Hutt's book as a testament that "the market economy.... is the most effective enemy of discrimination between individuals, classes and races.
excerpt from latest tooze chart book about monkey shortages: Culture wars over the science establishment, Robert Kennedy Jr, China-US, Campodia, supply chains, the COVID shock .... Here we are well and truly in the world of uneven and combined development. In the end perhaps the lesson here is that though Trump's obsession with Greenland may still be a stretch, what expresses itself in the gyrations of lab monkey prices is, indeed, the polycrisis of our age.
statistics from solar panels showing a whopping 1kwh in production
zohran mamdani standing in front of a banner with a great ampersand
a very silly documentation screencap about gnu C
the usual "the future if" scifi meme
far side « that should clear up a few things around here » cartoon
like many loca newspapers in the us, the watauga democrat does not let people in the eu read it
the number 7,134,479 but with the digits weirdly spaced