“Either democracy was on the ballot in November, or it wasn’t, and if it was, it makes no political, ethical or strategic sense to act as if we live in normal times.” @jamellebouie.net www.nytimes.com/2024/12/18/o...

or maybe not, linkedin.

we talk about “white collar crime” but perhaps we need to talk more about “white collar murder”.

weird how the we-have-to-introduce-incentives ed reform crowd has so little to say about a democratic party that hews strictly to seniority despite failure after failure by incumbent leadership.

do your kids get COVID vaccinations at their pediatricians, along with flu + other childhood vaccinations? both here in Florida (stereotypically) but also in California, pediatricians who had every other vaccination did not have COVID, and we had to use Walgreens or CVS to get the kid a COVID shot.

weird social media person: hey, watch this. pennies fall upward! professor of something: pennies fall downward MAGA house member: the government is knows all about the antigravity devices and is hiding the truth people on X: antigravity is real people on BlueSky: i’ll never speak to those morons

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i mean, it's only rational to vote for him. he has so much seniority! think about the good he can do for our state with all that influence.

collapse, civil war, the cause of these things won't be ennui. but even as the machetes bite, they will tell themselves it was.

data has become the opiate of the professionals, inkblots only they can properly interpret, from which they weave accounts of the world in which everything is fine for everybody if only they wouldn’t change anything serious, and anything who says otherwise is objectively, mockably wrong.

i read people on here describing a crisis of affluence and i tell you i don’t know what country we’re sharing. i live in a country where the crisis is cost of living, where the burden of securing “ordinary” goods like safety, shelter, decent peers for ones kids, health care has become impossible.

people who quietly know the community they’ve joined up with is not right. but who are making good money, and feeling so fulfilled by great projects membership in that community helps get funded.

i suppose one shouldn’t be surprised to find that capital is on the side of an autocracy of capital.

in general on bluesky i don’t understand how to control or even know who is in the “canoe”, who going to be notified if i write a reply.

“data” tells you much less than you think. the odds that you interpret it in the way that accurately addresses the question rather than in the way that provides an answer you have some interest in is not so great. “data” says nothing without interpretation, and we are all unreliable interpreters.

remember JD Vance?

i think events over the last week or so really put a nail in the coffin of the thesis of this one.

there will be other events like Luigi, and they will use them to crank up the surveillance and Palantir the fuck out of us. stuff our phones overhear and snitch will constitute threats of domestic terrorism, considering the status of our country at this point.

hey guys what if they’re not drones at all but actually BALLOONS?

reality has a well-known liberal bias, but human psychology has a well-known conservative bias.