DID YOU KNOW it's good practice, when writing a thread on #Mastodon  

...to set the Privacy of your first post as "Public" and then any follow-up replies as "Unlisted"

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This means that only the first post gets listed in the timelines, and anyone who wants to read more can click on it to see the full thread.

@pluralistic on inflation, monetarist bloodletting, and @blair_fix and Tim Di Muzio's critiques of monetary orthodoxy:

"You'd think that a self-styled physicist of human behavior would avail themselves of the underlying methodology of the 'hard' sciences, which is to say, forming falsifiable hypotheses and then checking to see whether they were borne out by real-world outcomes.

But that's not how the neoclassicals roll – they function like the caricature of the physicist whose every inquiry begins with 'imagine a perfectly spherical cow of uniform density on a frictionless plane.' Or, as Ely Devons famously quipped, 'If economists wished to study the horse, they wouldn’t go and look at horses. They’d sit in their studies and say to themselves, ''What would I do if I were a horse?''"

https://pluralistic.net/2023/02/04/if-i-was-a-horse/#friedman-was-a-dolt