in these times, “the princess and the pea” becomes a dark parable. very sensitive, very powerful people are maybe not what you want.

so, insensitive speech is intolerable, but it's just fine to tell people you wouldn't care if they died, if the plane they were on just crashed. i think i'm getting the hang of this.

it's true that discretion over the application of antitrust laws gives a corrupt executive tremendous leverage over big firms. it's also true that if antitrust laws were consistently applied to keep industries diverse+competitive, a corrupt executive cld not so easily exercise control over everyone.

waiting for the supreme court, which has already insisted to us that money is speech, tell us that broadcast licenses are not.

nihilism is cowardice.

i feel like it’s 9:11 twice a day.

all this makes me wanna learn to be funny. please laugh.

look on the bright side, even really mild comedy is edgy again.

[new draft post] Too much murder https://drafts.interfluidity.com/2025/09/17/too-much-murder/index.html

are there good non-US alternatives to US online streaming services?

kind of a Rorschach test in multiple senses.

What if instead of replacing search with AI, Google used AI tools within its search algorithm to read stuff, follow links, and read those. It could then uprank hypertext—textual content that actually links, from within the text, to other content—without getting fooled by crap SEO and content farming

The way Google prioritizes links to TV stories when I search for newsy things has my conspiratorial dander up. TV news is the medium most susceptible to capture and control. Google, instead of linking to the text-based web—the medium most open to diverse viewpoints—privileges what can be controlled.

#neofeudalism

i'm really a single issue voter at this point: electoral reform. if we don't "break the two-party doom loop', as @leedrutman.bsky.social put it, it's hard to see how we don't escalate to killing each other even more than we are, let alone get any kind of sane and sensible governance.

It's surprising to me how large a fraction of prominent political violence (or violence that becomes very political ex post) has occurred in Minneapolis, a place I generally think of as very safe and civilized.

if we’re going to start throwing around accusations of “stochastic terrorism”…

we mock their reasoning. the supreme court blesses it.

the future of media is digital samizdat.

i just had a call from a very polite gentleman running for state house in a state not mine, seeking a donation. good luck to him, but it’s getting a bit ridiculous.