On the one hand, prioritizing everything is prioritizing nothing. On the other hand, we can walk and chew gum at the same time.

it should be subscriber’s choice whether it is a block list or a starter pack.

if spells actually worked, a very absolute First Amendment might prove ill-advised.

the private sector relentlessly talks itself up, so generally does a worse job than you come to think from its self-presentation. the public sector broadcasts contention and controversy, draws contestation and criticism, so generally does a better job than you’d think from the shouty conversation.

The United States “needs to build up bureaucratic capacities that it doesn’t currently have.” @himself.bsky.social www.programmablemutter.com/p/small-yard... // elon and vivek will get right on that, i’m sure.

what contemporary governments do you admire?

the nazis had false theories about everything, but they were perfectly capable of building extermination camps nonetheless.

“The ideal of freedom and equality is something like the modern world’s official ideology—so much so that conservatives are always pretending that they’re the ones who honor that ideal best, even as they work assiduously to undo freedom and equality.” @rickperlstein.bsky.social bit.ly/4eYMOVO

sanity is mental illness now but thank goodness we have ketamine for that.

so if you bullshit enough you get a reputation for it, you can immunize yourself from accountability for what might otherwise be defamatory lies, because hey, everybody knows that you bullshit. doesn’t seem like the best incentive to embed in a legal regime.

“We direct all our employees and consultants to comply with the law.” 😉 www.reuters.com/business/ene... ht @bruno_j_navarro@mastodon.social @eilonwy@mstdn.social

in a cockney accent, we are all just skiing here.

there are days and especially nights when i don’t see the point of seeing the point.

the policy you propose, if it were implemented badly, would not succeed. therefore it is naive and counterproductive ever to try it.

when you are affluent, you value choice. when you are hungry, you value food.

if we have to argue whether a firm has a monopoly or not, the industry is too consolidated.

continuing on the fake accounts theme… i’ve been in early-social-media followback-nearly-anyone mode. i suspect i’ll want to recurate my follows, in a somewhat automated way. i presume the technical openness of bluesky renders that possible, but i’ve much to learn pointers gratefully appreciated!

the last few days i’ve seen sudden, relentless follower growth. which is wonderful, if each follower represents the account of a human. the relentlessness, though, and some regularities in profiles (“a blue dot in a red [noun]”) make me wonder whether automated influence brigades have joined us.

the way interest rate policy works is to impose a tax on the nonrich paid to the rich. nonrich spend their marginal dollar bidding up the price of goods+services. the rich bank their marginal dollar, so such a tax can be disinflationary, if new money to the rich (Federal interest) doesn’t overwhelm