is it ethical to contribute to a good economy under a bad state?

we've advanced beyond "team of rivals" to "team of vipers".

A good parsing of the great censorship vs misinformation debate by @danwphilosophy.bsky.social www.conspicuouscognition.com/p/there-is-n... ht @rajivsethi.bsky.social

i think i want a browser plugin that substitutes "fucking never" for the words "maybe later".

great wealth simultaneously turns people into idiots and grants them great power.

the least informative word in political discourse is “organize”. what exactly do you mean? start a nonprofit? have your neighbors to lunch? join somebody’s thing? find some friends and picket your representative? you’ll cherry pick some thing and say that, *that*, was organizing. okay. what now?

“It’s also important to remember that CPI and PCE, by their very nature, are weighted to the consumption expenditures of higher income households. That’s because they spend more.” @nathantankus.bsky.social www.crisesnotes.com/one-election...

okay. so maybe it wasn’t a landslide victory. but it was for sure a mudslide victory.

there should be a river in Crimea called Crimea River. (sorry.)

I support an advertiser boycott of X (and Meta, and TikTok too). Here I am publicly stating that. Am I engaged in a "Conspiracy in restraint of trade"?

i'munna pin to my tie an "As Seen On TV!" button and get myself a cabinet position.

"our failure 2 remember…megaplatforms are…intentionally extractive constructs run by brainmelted…very human weirdos is a failure of accountability…our failure 2 remember…it doesn’t have to be this way is a failure not only of imagin8n, but of nerve" @kissane.bsky.social www.wrecka.ge/against-the-...

i used to be fond of Marc Andreeson. we'd chat very reasonably on Twitter sometimes, and i was a fanboy of Netscape back in the day. he's one of those "what happened?" people to me. cf @mmasnick.bsky.social www.techdirt.com/2024/11/14/y...

the real $DJT.

The standard deduction should be 150K individual / 300K married.

we tend to obsess about Trump, but he’s already done his work. for now his chaos is a saving grace. if he were sidelined, more capable elements of the movement he brought to power might find a firmer footing.

Do you feel welcome in the United States?

it turns out when you gamify governance, you don't actually get good governance. i wonder what happens when you gamify everything else.

q: how often do you see a ghost's butt? a: once in a boo moon