one of the difficulties mercies of existence is that no matter how profoundly you fail, not only are you permitted another chance, it is obligatory that you take it, the alternative is justly forbidden.
a lot of people should go to prison. but Bannon’s just a pundit. he didn’t break any laws. (at least that i know of!) the Doge kids, Musk, Noem and various ICE functionaries, have legit reason to fear return of the rule of law. Bannon just likes to make himself the hero by making himself the victim.
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the most interesting and important part of AI is generating the training data. we should just be better paid for it.
tasty AND aerodynamic!
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i think part of the worldview of the moderate Republican is it’ll be okay because the Democrats will clean up after our guys’ excesses. i’m not sure they’ve cottoned to just what a degree of catastrophic success they’re now, um, enjoying.
am i wrong that the path he laid is the one Marjorie Taylor Greene is now dallying upon?
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if this is for real, it could be a genuinely huge deal.
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we're for meritocracy, except half the population shouldn't be permitted to compete.
the synthesis here is you want macro bailed-out while micro churns. productivity gains mostly happen via new entrants or at least new plant. a downturn should be an incredible opportunity for new entrants, as the worst of the old crash and burn! 1/
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but for it to be an opportunity for new entrants, end customers still need to have cash to spend, even while it is some of their employers who have crashed and burned. that's where state transfers, spending, and lending have an essential role. 2/
let losers lose, create conditions under which new winners can emerge. /fin
my identity is increasingly diasporist. it matters less and less just who or what it was a diaspora of. diaspora is a situation, a circumstance all its own, one that reminds a person of how desperately essential it is to treat “the other”, any and every, as human with equal rights and dignities.
if you believe that AI will lead to a job apocalypse, i guess it’s unsurprising people are making up justifications for mass LIFO.
i’ve become radicalized on crime, looking for some serious motherfucking tough-on-crime politicians, but tough on serious crime, the kind that causes massive rather than just particularized harm, the “nonviolent” (despite mass casualties) crimes of the rich and powerful.
this is quite a chart. i wonder if it reflects a view that states will no longer act effectively against the use of cryptographic privacy to engage in criminal behavior.
hockey stick graph of ZCash, a coin that enables untraceable, cryptographically shrouded, transactions.
I think it’s too little noted how, for all that is to be lamented about Biden’s inability to communicate what he was doing right (IRA, CHIPS, anti-monopoly), and for all he did catastrophically wrong (foreign policy), he and his party did much better with its public than Britain’s Keir-Starmer-ism.
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“Stock market celebrates Mamdani victory.”
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it’s a beautiful day in the neighborhood.
“He is one of the most unpopular presidents in American history, and Democrats need to push news organizations (along with other institutions) to stop treating his political supremacy as if it actually exists.” @mikethemadbiol.bsky.social mikethemadbiologist.com/2025/11/05/s...
Some Thoughts on Last Night’s Rout
Link Preview: Some Thoughts on Last Night’s Rout: And that’s what it was. In no particular order: To the extent these elections were ‘nationalized’, it is not good when 45 percent of the population strongly agrees with the statem…
one big surprise after all this is how much everybody loves Curtis Sliwa now.