“the Constitution is not a (career) suicide pact”, they console themselves.

if Tehran really runs out of water, would we help?

you can see why the Thiel / Andreeson /Musk types would have complicated theories about what would constitute an antichrist and in what sheep’s clothes it would appear, given the conclusions simpler stories might bring. xcancel.com/paul_heron_/...

if you’ve already eaten, i’m afraid you’ll have to vomit.

“and if you were raised in the house, enjoyed its shelter as a child, it’s only fair you should inherit the debt.”

i too am tempted into factional infighting, but i think for now elections are decided by whether the broad public is Republican curious or experiencing a bout Republican revulsion and our not-Republican factionalizing is mostly epiphenomenal. not a permanent state of affairs i suspect, but for now.

the relationship between how many units of CPI a person can buy — as reckoned (inevitably differently) by any of various statistical agencies which are doing the best they can — and economic welfare is extremely weak except over very short periods of time.

[tech notebook] Sysadminning in Scala, documenting in Claude https://tech.interfluidity.com/2025/11/08/sysadminning-in-scala-documenting-in-claude/index.html

how do you evacuate a city of 10 million people? and to where, where else is the water and resources now lacking in Tehran?

"You don’t have to be a wild-eyed leftist to think all of this has a pre-French Revolution vibe." @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social www.thebulwark.com/p/let-them-e... // liberals mugged by reality now clubbed by inequality. the world beats the shit out of you and there's no direction that's safe.

The LLM is so positive, but that's why it's not predictive. Just because it seems to really like what you are doing (and offers such apparently perceptive compliments!) doesn't mean that anyone else will.

the richest people in the world want to make the rest of us feel so poor.

how can Bovino be a real name in this story? isn’t that a bit heavy-handed of the author?

“It’s really concentrating the power very directly into the person of Donald J. Trump, as opposed to the president more broadly, or to the parts of the executive branch that would have the delegated authority to do this”

what is the legal form of the “stakes” he takes in companies? does the US Treasury become a regular shareholder or what?

Enshittification as a macro phenomenon, Cory Doctorow riffing on Pavlina Tcherneva.

hate the post, not the poster.

“Per capita wealth…should be limited to a maximum of $10 million.” // modern states are both extractive machines for war and domination and the enablers of social coordination at scale that make modernity possible. retaining coordination while restraining the assholes is an existential challenge.

[tech notebook] Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah https://tech.interfluidity.com/2025/11/06/zip-a-dee-doo-dah/index.html