i think this was intended. Donald Trump is not unshrewd. the Mamdani Miracle replaces all the lame-duck chatter. it's a good plot twist.

remember when jerry springer was kind of a downscale thing?

writers, what were you thinking, today could have been Monday, Marjorie Mamdani Monday!

need to buy more media.

it’s not so much that digital media divide us as they dissolve us. the space of what you can interact with is constituted ever more sparsely of humans.

incentives matter, but disproportionately to the worst people.

oh, fuck.

are social democrats “leftists”? democratic socialists? self-described communists? trans rights advocates? feminists? civil rights advocates? what does the word even mean? who are people talking about when they say “leftists”?

“think tanks” should be entirely obsoleted by organizations called “political parties”.

there are a lot of people i’d could work in concert with who i wouldn’t want to share a sleeping bag — or a tent, or even a big tent — with. we need more tents.

these writers…

you need the kind of state you are willing to trust to be more than a night watchman. of the people, by the people, for the people.

technocracy alone, however sophisticated and data-suffused, is not adequate to the task of governing a human society. www.interfluidity.com/v2/9484.html (an old post, but seems relevant to some conversations here.)

shouldn’t it really be spelled “ewwwbermensch”?

look. it’s a computer algorithm. it can’t be biased.

“the broader political project of AI chatbots and LLMs: They are top-down systems controlled by the richest people and richest companies on Earth, and their outputs can be changed to push the preferred narratives aligned with the interests of those people and companies.” @jasonkoebler.bsky.social

might they argue that it cannot be illegal to follow and order that (because immunity) was lawfully given?

who knew “don’t break the law just because someone tells you to” would be such a controversial message.

To mistake problems of integration for problems of immigration is to render oneself pathetic.