the dose is the poison.

but the children of diplomats are not born on embassy soil, typically. they are born over American soil, under the American flag, and still are not citizens. i deeply favor of birthright citizenship, am very glad most legal scholars think arguments for loopholes weak. but this piece is not strong.

the zoomer analogue of fintwitter should be “top-tick TikTok”.

what if claude just automated the financial sector?

i worry, since they would lose any election in a wave, and they face significant criminal and business risks from a transfer of power, that they won’t see as their best bet manufacturing crises that they can argue foreclose the possibility of immediate term democratic transition.

raising money is not a legitimate function of political leaders.

why might we be going to war with Iran this weekend?

“Moreover, the Biden administration had sent very clear signals that it wouldn’t tolerate a coup. Given the Brazilian military’s heavy dependence on the United States for training + advanced weapon systems, the specter of an aid cutoff from Washington was a powerful deterrent.” youtu.be/Jne9t8sHpUc

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a bold reimagining of the yankee doodle dandy.

“If there is an inalienable right to life, it should follow that I have an obligation to take reasonable steps to minimize disease that could harm or kill my peers.” // this is general, a thing any serious liberalism must grapple with. the dual of any meaningful right is a burdensome obligation.

contemporary capitalism is the stench of desperation perfumed with chirpy pitches.

“It’s a lot easier to blame things on NIMBYism than to accept that the whole structure of planning permission might be broken.” @dsquareddigest.bsky.social ht @tomashirstecon.bsky.social

“National identities such as ‘French’ and ‘Italian’ were things that had to be invented, and they were often imposed through military or state power.” @resnikoff.bsky.social publiccomment.blog/p/the-great-...

social media is paradoxically both exhausting and insomnia-inducing at the same time.

we live in the age of the Bond villain.

I just made some shit up. Its authenticity has been confirmed.

if demons can be emergent from social affairs, perhaps angels can too.