how did they get past the historic preservation board? didn’t the neighborhood association object?

“My kingdom is not of this world.” ~Jesus (John 18:36) ht @epicureandealmaker.bsky.social (thanks claude.ai for the research assist)

always worth asking of any form of “investing”, is some meaningful social contribution getting compensated at a reasonable rate, or are returns at these levels some form of extraction laundered through complicated financial and regulatory machinery? (i think index funds have been a catastrophe.)

if AI does turn out to be massively labor replacing, we should should use the surplus to enable high-touch arts, liberal arts, care, and social gatherings.

maybe someday there will be a European Reunion that simultaneously brings back Great Britain and reorganizes the bloc into a more cohesive and capable polity. a kind of 1789 moment. at least Russia is helping.

conjecture: llm : friendship :: porn : love

conjecture: llm : friendship :: porn : love

all this western hemispheric adventurism just at a moment when putin and xi are making a play for a return to “great power” (ha!) spheres-of-influence. i’m sure it’s all coincidence.

#OutDamnedSpotify

for economicsey people of a certain age, this is kind of tragic: economistsview.typepad.com

you don’t have to hate anyone. not even the worst of them. you do have to hold them accountable, which means punishing them, sometimes severely. in sadness, not out of hatred or in anger. you can still wish the best for them, under the circumstances. love the humans, each and every.

it was a terrible own-goal not to invite Elon to some confab but putting out a video shitting on seven million of us doesn’t matter.

since it’s been embarrassing to them to repatriate survivors but they lack any evidence by which to hold or charge them, i fear the incentive going forward will be to ensure there are not survivors.

there was the “they are 12 year olds” theory, then it became 7 year olds after the “your mom” jokes and now we’re down to about 4.

there is no limit to how much his enablers debase themselves, because they can’t afford a transfer of power (neither now nor a year or three from now), and will do anything to avoid any risk of that.

do less online people even find out about this, um, shit, though?

#Tampa

“in Argentina the elite discovered that calling in the military could also lead to the dissolution of the State, both in its Weberian sense of claiming a monopoly of the use of legitimate force and in its Marxian one as the executive committee of the bourgeoisie.” @gabrielu.bsky.social

given what the Federal government is now, isn’t it time? drafts.interfluidity.com/2025/03/09/v...