“The problem is, though, that chasing customers isn't always consistent with telling the truth.” @chrisdillow.bsky.social

World War I never ended. The Civil War never ended. The sacking of Rome never ended.

The Democratic Party’s coherent message should be we’ll blow up the two party system, because this contradiction cannot be resolved, so an effective antifascist coalition must make space for dramatically diverging, often-in-conflict, political identities in ways no one “big tent” party can manage.

the relationship of the Republican Party to the United States can best be understood through @schwarz.bsky.social’s “iron law of institutions”. sure it weakens the country to destroy science, universities, cities. it also weakens their internal enemies. www.tinyrevolution.com/mt/archives/...

Kalecki in a tweet.

power is about “who”. in ostensibly liberal institutions it hides “who” behind “what” or “how much” but to the power hungry all of that is pretextual.

let them eat ChatGPT.

if you are trying to understand the inconsistency btw AI boosterism and shutting down renewable electricity projects, understand they have an ideological, economic, political stake in the fossil fuel industry, which enjoys when energy demand increases while energy supply competitors are restrained.

patents are maybe not the best way to finance innovation. see @nicholasdecker.substack.com.web.brid.gy nicholasdecker.substack.com/p/should-we-...

“There is a famous anecdote about the one-time dictator of Nicaragua, Anastasio Somosa, who told his defeated opponent ‘You won the voting, but I won the counting.’ So the conduct of elections is yet another source of uncertainty.” @adamprz.bsky.social

he's a character from a Stephen King novel.

I've a long thread in reply, on why I think the idea of rights of "a people" is a pernicious, deadly, immoral construct, a miserable idea celebrated (understandably but mistakenly) as a moral advance in the early post-WWII years. Or you can read me here. drafts.interfluidity.com/2023/10/13/n...

in the same way one death is a tragedy, a million is a statistic, i think it would be easier to "lose everything" than when you have to choose to part with things, little pieces of your history, of your life and family and memory, one object at an agonizing time.

extermination of human beings is the crime. the idea that “a people” has rights as “a people” distinct from, orthogonal to, sometimes in opposition to, states that in practice must be the source + protector of rights (regardless of whether you think them “natural” in a moral sense) is pernicious.

#relatable ht @keubiko.bsky.social

what humans generate is artisanal slop.

TPUSA. CPUSA. Coincidence?

"today we practiced an age-appropriate Active Threat Drill in conjunction with the…Sheriff’s Office. These drills are required by law to occur at least four times per school year. Students practiced either running or hiding depending on the location of the potential threat."

“The inoculations against another Gilded Age are found far less in the works of cyberpunk and far more in the Works Progress Administration.”

is there an easier prediction than that, five years from now, there will be stories about how China now dominates the commercialization and innovation of yet another technology invented in the US? see @ryanlcooper.com on mRNA vaccines prospect.org/health/2025-...