i guess the other place you might see this is a voting booth.

i periodically repost this one. never really know why. www.interfluidity.com/v2/7964.html

makes me jealous of certain members of foreign intelligence services.

the rise of China is not the problem, is the opposite of a problem. the problem is the fall of America. the two did not need to be linked, but for foolish American policy choices.

one nice thing about being in Europe is you get to see all the surveillance Substack is putting you through.

i was trying to remember something, but i forgot what i was trying to remember.

the Supreme Court is playing a Jenga game, pulling away one protection at a time of the vague, lived “it’s a free country” experience many of us associate with America. at first nothing seems to happen.

if they don’t let you vote because you look like a libral, you can sue and a judge can tell you they should have let you vote but what can be done let the next voter sue.

if the best way to rob a bank is to own one (Bill Black), what about an insurance company?

flirt with apocalypse but turn away before consummating then enjoy the ensuing relief.

By far the most common SMS message I send is “stop”.

that so often "insane" vibe-coding prompts are "clone this popular app!" suggests that coding LLMs are better copy machines than architects of applications.

i ❤️ justice jackson.

i think democrats should rebrand themselves "queer commies for abundant housing, free health care, amazing education, and silly dance parties". personally i like it, and it's unlikely to be worse branding than "democrats".

“No good faith discussion is possible under the current regime of relentless and partisan dishonesty; no clear and public principles can be known when the real mainsprings of Republican thought are cloaked in the pretext of originalism. Instead we have a game of endless Calvinball”

who lubricated the present that it slips so easily into the past?

a bit racy!

maybe the answer to the riddle of theodicy is just a really bad prompt.

laissez-faire ≠ liberalism