give. gaffe. glove.

i think a thing that’s really hurt Harris as a candidate is that she hasn’t made a lot of mistakes. the discipline required to avoid any hint of scandal creates a perception of inauthenticity, a sense u just don’t know the person u are asked to vote for, that they are dissembling, hiding something.

believers in Roko’s basilisk offer nuclear reactors in sacrifice to reassure themselves they will be spared.

A scary thing abt Gaza is, when considering future contingencies or policy changes and gaming out potential abuses, we'd clip a lower tails with remarks like, "It'd be too overt, too egregious, the public simply wouldn't tolerate it." After Gaza, that kind of implausibility claim seems implausible.

a democracy is a China shop. a billionaire is a bull.

[new draft post] Rule-of-law is incompatible with a sharply polarized two-party system drafts.interfluidity.com/2024/10/21/r...

“We're handing so much money over to owners of prime residential or commercial land…of oil and gas fields, intellectual property and infrastructure…there isn't enough left to create…demand for dynamic sectors of the economy.” @chrisdillow.bsky.social stumblingandmumbling.typepad.com/stumbling_an...

regardless of who becomes the next President, nothing is a Federal crime unless this Supreme Court agrees that it is.

the main case people make for capitalism is that it gets incentives right to encourage people to act, to produce. but a capitalism under which the key to wealth is riding number-go-up by owning the right assets engenders very different incentives than to act, to produce.

am i misreading the joke, or was Trump not the first major figure to allude to genital size during this campaign? www.cnn.com/2024/08/21/p...

“Elon Musk Veers Into Clearly Illegal Vote Buying, Offering $1 Million Per Day Lottery Prize Only to Registered Voters” @rickhasen.bsky.social electionlawblog.org?p=146397

there’s a lot of science fiction in which protagonists are living out exciting stories against the backdrop of masses enduring dystopian or at best banal lives. welcome to the science fiction future! who did you, my statistically sophisticated reader, imagine you would end up?

distinguish yourself in character rather than in status.

it’s not AI. it’s Jungian engineering.

we’d be better off if journalists never used the word “experts” and provided more explicit descriptions of the sources on whom they rely.

there’s no cult more faithful than the formerly ostentatious atheists.

what if the enemy within is a conscience?

i hate to screenshot the bad place and its pimp. but… is this legal? x.com/elonmusk/sta...