"What appeals to me most abt American traditions is the creedal nature of national identity, the Declaration’s insistence on universal equality…the rights enumerated in our Constitution…I consider innovation…growth…sustained material prosperity…downstream of free expression." @rajivsethi.bsky.social
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How I, a non-developer, read the tutorial you, a developer, wrote for me, a beginner - annie's blog
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is CBS the new “newsweek”?
the word “subject”, referring to a person, is fascinating. on the one hand it means a subordinate, a “subject of” someone who rules them. on the other hand it means a locus of agency, a subject can act, not merely be acted upon (which is the role of an “object”) 1/
subject in contrast to object, vs subject in contrast to king. /fin
among the most selfish, but perhaps the least self-aware person in all of human history. xcancel.com/elonmusk/sta...
we’ve redefined meritocracy as a tournament to acquire the best “cheat codes”.
i guess they’re real guys!
Photo of a sign advertising “medbeds” and “stem cell activation” in Pinellas County.
“The lesson we shld be taking from LLMs is the immense social value there is in having all kinds of material—all kinds of products of human intellectual labor—freely available online. They shld be reminding us of the early utopian promise of the web.” @jwmason.bsky.social jwmason.org/slackwire/ac...
[new draft post] A fertile corpse https://drafts.interfluidity.com/2025/10/04/a-fertile-corpse/index.html
"Postliberalism and the romantic lie" by Lyle Enright www.christiancentury.org/features/pos... ht @poetryforsupper.bsky.social
The scandal of J.D. Vance and René Girard
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humans are the soul module of the global computer.
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people are mad at bluesky about something but i don't know what it is.
kind of ironic that they used to throw around “soy boy” as an epithet.
which is worse, to hate or to be hated?
what if there were a Halloween Everyday 🎃 app where you could post the location anytime you see anyone in a cool mask!
it’s a paradox, they reflect to themselves. the only people who seem truly tolerant (tolerant of them at least) are the nazis.
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1) you can just tell these people to fuck off. 2) work strategically to arrange things so you will continue to be able to just tell these people to fuck off despite the costs they will try to impose on you for doing so. 3) in any case, just tell them to fuck off.
the modern republican coalition is made up of people who are sure that any supposed connection between fuck around and find out is a fabrication of libs and pointy headed elites and the deep state.
for a certain kind of elf at least it seems they canceled christmas.
Text: The single most important problem for pro-democracy forces is that too many people — especially in position of power — seem unable to truly believe that we are living in a consolidating competitive authoritarian regime. Perhaps they are too habituated to the "rules" of the system that no longer exists. Perhaps they still cling to the drug of American exceptionalism, which makes it difficult for them to accept that "it can happen here." Perhaps they understand it intellectually, but find it too difficult to make the necessary paradigm shift.