[new draft post] The whole point of a democracy https://drafts.interfluidity.com/2025/08/20/the-whole-point-of-a-democracy/index.html

what if you are a lawyer and like really really idealistic but you don’t even like U2?

i feel like zuckerberg might be bipolar one minute it’s like let’s poach them for billions, the next minute let’s fire them all.

the converse, if you wish not to remain a form of exploited labor…

it's not economic competition if one monopolist is toppled by a successor monopolist. (it's sequential tournament competition, which delivers for shareholders of the victors, rather than for customers, vendors, or workers.)

i just learned that my @inoreader.com will AI-read-aloud arbitrary RSS feeds. hmm.

from @blbalthaser.bsky.social www.versobooks.com/products/278...

“It's no wonder that Zuck thinks that chatbots can replace our friends… At some foundational level, he thinks we are all chatbots” ~Cory Doctorow pluralistic.net/2025/08/18/s... ht @carolannie.bsky.social

sociopathy is a full time occupation, and it does require staff.

opposites are alike in most ways. hot and cold are both temperatures, have much more in common with one another than they have with green or tall. and so it is with human adversaries. the bitterest of enemies are always more alike than different.

the world as composed of bleats, tweets, skeets comes out looking pretty bleak.

i wish the correlation between exhaustion and ability to sleep were stronger.

"he may be a sociopath, but he's our sociopath."

a pluralistic society, if you can keep it.

jfc.

distinctions btw equity and debt and money are much more a spectrum, a continuum, then we mostly acknowledge, and tremendous good could be done developing instruments between currently conventional points along this spectrum. see @greenbackbetter.bsky.social moneyontheleft.org/2025/08/13/b...

i mean, who would you go to for advice on how to run free and fair elections?

i remember when you bought a thing you owned the thing and could do with it anything the thing could do. are they all awful now, or can we learn to eschew manufacturers who do this kind of thing?

so many AI videos are just the marketing of marketing.

sandwich guy is gonna become our J6-er.