with money, like any other thing, the dose is the poison.

on deportation, on tariffs, all the world is holding its breath, “does he really mean the extremity of what he proposes? or is the point to pocket some victory and negotiate back to moderation?” it wouldn’t be effective tool for negotiation if you could tell it was a bluff. you can’t.

i feel like i’ve been made President.

who do we have to tariff to stop the flow of ketamine?

people who have learned nothing are now going to run everything.

a good pairing: bsky.app/profile/cris... bsky.app/profile/whst... (ht @sjshancoxli.bsky.social for the latter)

how do you distinguish between writers who may often be mistaken from writers who are disingenuous and perhaps not worth bothering with?

i’ve never tried it, but i was intrigued. Elon Musk has really ruined ketamine for me.

who woulda thunk? (“We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both.” ~Louis Brandeis)

my mastodon feed has a lot of commentary suggesting the Trumpists will square the circle of detain-the-illegals, don’t-tank-the-economy by compelling and farming out the labor of detained migrants, making antebellum plantations of private prisons. sfba.social/@drahardja/1...

i’m on team approval, for “one-for-all” positions, where one person is supposed to represent a whole community. for “everybody in” representative minipublics (e.g. pop-weighted legislatures), you want a system that reliably yields proportional representation drafts.interfluidity.com/2023/04/24/t...

Commandment I: Thou shalt have no other gods before me.

the first time his entourage enthused he had a mandate, he said that wasn’t his thing and asked where Laura was. #microfiction

would bombs and bullets chasten these people, or enable a “crackdown on terrorism” they’d use as an excuse for anything and everything? what fraction of Hong Kong marched for democracy? how hard was it, with contemporary technologies of surveillance and control, to utterly crush them? like water.

i pay them for a subscription year after year, and still i am the product. tldr.nettime.org/@remixtures/... (hat tip Florian Schmidt)

“Mostly, we elect lawyers. Lawyers can do many things, but if you ask a lawyer to tell you how to make your drinking water safe, you will likely die a horrible death.” ~Cory Doctorow pluralistic.net/2024/11/21/p...

the truth is out there. and it’s coming for you.

real americans grift.