i thought i’d made a mistake but i was mistaken.

whatever else is going on in the world, this is about as gracious as a person in this situation can be. credit where due.

entirely orthogonal to the question of whether it's right or wrong, AGI-ism behaves precisely as a millenarian cult. much can be dispensed with or tolerated, because ultimately all that matters is what we know will come.

i confess that sometimes late at night, like now, i wish i were not so woke.

they are achieving ever greater shares of the ecosystems they’re destroying.

Excellent.

under its newly ascendant "unitary executive theory", i suggest we refer to it as the Supreme Court Royale Of The United Monarchy". (sorry.)

does Trump really conduct internal administration communications via TruthSocial DM? now there's quite the hacking target, for a foreign state actor or anybody else. re xcancel.com/RichardHanan... sorry not the loveliest source.

the L-R spectrum is a dumb way to orient your thinking about contemporary electoral politics. the people for whom it matters are already placed and not persuadable. swing voters swing and vote based on other things. “moderating” in this sense doesn’t broaden the tent. you have to do something else.

frog, meet scorpion.

have we learned anything about the people who’ve been killed in the several US military operations against boats alleged to be operated by “narcoterrorists”?

#enshittification

eventually Europe will have the capability to independently deter Russia. before then, and while the US is like 🤷, there is potentially a temporary window of opportunity, from Russia’s perspective. use it or lose it.

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“Ut Res Magis Valeat Quam Pereat which translates to ‘it is better for a thing to have effect than to be destroyed’… This principle underscores…that all laws must be interpreted in such a way that the purposes which inspired them are achieved.” papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

if ben quits too they can rebrand as ampersand. &

you’ve got to admit there’s now an almost eerie peace between Azerbaijan and Albania. fantastic work mr. president.

there is no one more pathetic than one’s murderer.

regardless of whether they ultimately kiss up or stand up to Trump, none of the mergers involving these media companies — Disney, Nextar — should be permitted to go through. even if they do the right thing, they shouldn’t be paid off with more consolidation.