it is troubling, on a day like this, to have not so much faith in the competence, honesty, or intentions of the current FBI.

This is a good @mattyglesias.bsky.social piece. www.slowboring.com/p/national-c...

“you will hate us, but you will pay us anyway.” the new capitalism.

the automobile can be a great servant, but has proven itself (especially in the United States) a terrible master.

the consequence of tolerating misgovernance is you are misgoverned. which can be a pretty big motherfucking consequence!

our brave new financial system.

Trump is a charismatic, narcissistic, toddler in the wrong place at the wrong time. John Roberts is intentional and responsible. He did this and is doing it.

This is old, but it remains my preferred approach to (housing) abundance in the US. You’d probably slot it in the “red plenty” tradition. www.interfluidity.com/v2/8772.html (@holz-bau.bsky.social makes an appearance, from the first time I ever encountered him, and he’s only gotten better.)

“(As far as I can tell, no one from what Teles calls the ‘Red Plenty’ wing was invited to speak.)” @resnikoff.bsky.social publiccomment.blog/p/when-is-a-... // do they eschew purity tests, or just have a different notion of what counts as pure?

when the dust settles, will we think of it more as suicide or murder?

if AI isn't sentient, why do people talk about adopting it? everyone needs a family.

"to be immersed in the digital stream is to drink from the waters of Lethe, and daily we drink for far too long like the unwise souls in…the Land of the Dead. The most powerful tools of externalized memory, by a straightforward logic, have induced a profound forgetfulness." @lmsacasas.bsky.social

just as a matter of rhetoric, i don't understand the appeal of "this is not normal." it's not persuasive, if you are not already settled in your view of "this". it's not inspiring if you're already on-side. it's not blistering if you're on the other side.

just a reminder that we are still in, perhaps even pretty early in, the fuck around stage of the current administration.

from Zephyr Teachout the-antimonopolist.ghost.io/the-pro-mona...

bad news was good news but all of a sudden it's bad news.

in my logs, i see a lot more organizations than in the past apparently indexing my sites, organizations quite far afield from search engines. i'm tempted to interpret these as organizations experimenting with training their own LLMs, though it's just a conjecture.

will great trains be the Sputnik Moment for a declining America?

so, do we fire the new guy?