the Constitution doesn’t explicitly bar a deep fake from exercising Article II powers.

“centrists, the largest component of the British politico-media class, aren't actually liberals, neither in the broader sense of defenders of civil liberties against authoritarianism, nor in the narrower sense of advocates of free markets (their's is a capitalism of managed mkts + corporate graft).”

sometimes i think i have mitochondria hypochondria.

you worry that you’re self absorbed, but it really is all about you.

it turns out some people are unimpeachable whom i’d never have thought to apply that adjective to before.

your last home is one you never live in.

colononauts. where no man has gone before. www.thebulwark.com/p/all-the-pr...

sometimes i think AI should stand for “automated imagination”.

just nuking the archives of this one is a huge loss. economistsview.typepad.com

This is awful.

"he has small fingers and a nanobanana." is that the proper usage? it's hard to keep up with the lingo.

"The marketplace in ideas is broken; peddlars of crap do not exit as they would in a well-functioning market." @chrisdillow.bsky.social

i canceled my longstanding adobe subscription today. as usual they offered sane pricing only during the process, but i'm comfortable enough with the affinity suite now i just said "sayonara". a bit bittersweet.

from @resnikoff.bsky.social, excellent, (mostly) on the great polling kerfuffle. publiccomment.blog/p/some-sligh...

i’m ambivalent about the prospect of SpaceX really solving a really important problem in the way that i might be if Mengele announced an important medical breakthrough. would you not acknowledge it? refuse to use it if it would save lives? but still.

“hyperrealistic” is an oxymoron.

q: what do sentences and investigations (that can lead to sentences!) have in common? a: subject and predicate

was New Coke the original woke?

when will The State be reified as a chatbot you can talk to?