we all survive death. if we didn’t, there’d be nothing to bury.

don’t bug the librarians. if they’ve hallucinated the citation, they can always hallucinate the article for you!

this one's kind of a love letter to @besttrousers.bsky.social and @whstancil.bsky.social, both of whom i enjoy, agree or disagree.

[new draft post] When is the economy good or bad? https://drafts.interfluidity.com/2025/12/08/when-is-the-economy-good-or-bad/index.html

i don't have this yet, but i love everything @b0rk.jvns.ca does. wizardzines.com/zines/git/

the present is a foreign country.

Donald Trump is very much like the typical working man, who also can’t be impeached and convicted by Congress.

so you can’t be fired!

“just because it’s stupid doesn’t mean it won’t inherit the Earth.” @ojutel.bsky.social ht @niedermeyer.online

“the sellers of addictive products that skirt regulations and ruin lives should be summarily executed.” ~social media ceos and investors

the dose is the poison.

this is horrifying.

this is an important insight, given efforts by a Republican Congressman to ban dual citizenship. they can make you abjure whatever they want. other countries can still choose to grant you the rights and immunities of citizenship.

not just EV makers but also Apple are gonna really need to step up.

omfg.

“America’s utility vehicles—firetrucks, garbage trucks, dump trucks, etc., (along with most of our consumer vehicles)—are basically suburban-scaled vehicles. We’re missing the bottom half of the ‘scale ladder’ that corresponds to traditional urban spaces.” @ad-mastro.bsky.social

trying to look up some CDC data and sources. it's remarkable how much is 404-ed. sometimes the Wayback Machine will find it for you. sometimes alas not.

AI “alignment is not about imposing universal norms; it is about translation, pluralism, and respect for epistemic diversity. Machines must become fluent in multiple moral languages…to serve more than a single civilization’s idea of what it means to be human.”~Pranati Modumudi ^@glenweyl.bsky.social

as the calamity bears down upon us, we will have to live with the knowledge that it was we, all of us, who drove Larry and Olivia together.