jfc. ht @cavandy.bsky.social

i’m not sure a word better characterizes MAGA than “abdication”.

we are all for abundance, except with respect to the things we ourselves produce, or own.

we should amend the Constitution to explicitly forbid denaturalization under any circumstances, other than voluntary renunciation by a person also citizen of another state.

business idea 💡 sell nail files under an “epstein” brand.

the math of time is weird, some kind if strange curved manifold or topological curiosity. it is so much closer now in 2025 to 1863 than it was in 1999. happy thanksgiving.

i’m sure Tesla has them all outdone. bubble or no, we in the US need to learn a competitive, subsidized (a bubble is a form of subsidy, while it lasts) industry is the way you drive capability forward, not a swaggering (also inevitably subsidized) national champion. ht @edzitron.com

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@williamcb.bsky.social argues that gen-ai singularity talk is a distraction from the singularity ongoing, which we may not notice as it is the water we swim in, the only life we’ve ever known.

if you are troubled by vice they've invented a device.

insiders generally tell us it’s more “veep” than “house of cards”. l’affaire lizza/nuzzi reminds us that the two aren’t mutually exclusive.

Marjorie Taylor Greene is castigating the “two party toxic political system”. Is she going to join, in some fashion, team electoral reform?

nuzzigate / lizzagate / pizzagate?

The best thing you’ll read about the great $140,000 poverty debate, and the fallaciousness of reasoning endemic to the kind of people who get off on calling out other people’s fallacies. by @dsquareddigest.bsky.social ht @nothingsmonstrd.bsky.social @hilzoy.bsky.social

i’m so jealous of how you’re free of envy.

China is the center. Everywhere else is the periphery.

only democracy can make the world safe for technocracy.

expiation. lustration. ablution.

pretty dumb of the United States to abandon its (however notional) commitment to universalism in favor of chauvinism at precisely the moment when a chauvinistic world order would render it an also-ran.