“what pundits forget is, by the midterms, the ballroom will be complete.”

“really it was all about the American public wanting to show support for the Cheney family, and a tribute to the former Vice President”

“what mattered most of all was the Democratic Party’s messaging.”

“getting rid of anticircumvention laws only requires…govts control their own behavior—unlike taxing or fining companies, which only works if govts can control the behavior of companies that have proven…to be more powerful than any country in the world.” ~Cory Doctorow pluralistic.net/2025/11/01/r...

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people are like, leadership never put together a pipeline. but here online i see a fair number of young gerontocrats! they don’t seem shy.

you thought Havana Syndrome was bad, just wait for the vibes machine they bring on Mamdani. don’t believe the vibes. never believe the vibes.

"The problem with AI coding isn't technical debt. It's comprehension debt." ~Paul Sangle-Ferriere www.cubic.dev/blog/the-rea...

thread, as they say.

what's remarkable is that with USAID alone, the current administration is on track to outdo this. ph.ucla.edu/news-events/... ( image via Branko Marcetic, posting at the Nazi bar. original story www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/0... )

i’m old enough to remember proposals for a “green new deal” whose core idea was that broad-based prosperity could be wedded to, rather than traded off against, emissions reductions.

onions contain lacrimogens. they are literally chemical weapons.

if you want a manhattan project pursuing life extension, persuade your rulers — so that they really believe it — that good people go to heaven and bad people go to hell.

if your theory of politics requires as “discipline” that people can not publicly say what they actually believe, what kind of theory of politics is that? what is its relationship to democracy in any meaningful or substantive sense?

“the ultimate goal of democratizing Venezuela, and the resulting investment benefits, are front and center in investors’ minds.” “democratizing” you don’t have to be a fan of Maduro to think this is a funny word for what a Trump intercession might accomplish. www.semafor.com/article/11/0...

“Democracy persists as a legacy interface— maintained for stability, while being systematically hollowed out and replaced.”

Given what is happening to CBS News, I'l re-up this… drafts.interfluidity.com/2025/03/09/v...

there should be a whole genre of sloppish AI videos for Talking Heads’ “Television man” 🎵And everything is real / Do I like the WAYYY I feel. 🎵

if Harris had won, would AI build out be as central to our economy as it now is?

With most of our Big Politics conversations among nonfascists, it’s not so much which faction is right or wrong, it’s that whoever is right or wrong the question we are addressing is irrelevant, simply does not rise to the scale of the problems they purport to address.