“If you’re a political party, your goal is not just to know where voters stand, but to know how to move them.” ~Peter Shamshiri

a bit ironic that it's the people making a world ever more dystopian who are most up-in-arms about the crisis of collapsing birth rates.

the default american attitude is "the government is fucking up and screwing us", so whoever is the government has to swim upstream hard to avoid becoming unpopular.

I think you're all great and I rarely have any trouble with any of you.

[tech notebook] Zero-ish overhead logging facade in Scala 3 https://tech.interfluidity.com/2025/05/26/zero-ish-overhead-logging-facade-in-scala-3/index.html

sometimes i'm not quite sure whether it is a grift or a scam.

we’re all going through some things.

You blame the government for making it more expensive while you raise your price in the name of compliance. Such a shame they are making it so expensive.

“I don't mean to be alarmist, but I do think it's time to start assuming everything you see online is fake.”

dictator.

the Republicans will remind us that it’s much less racist to point out that children have small fingers when they bring iPhone assembly back to our shores.

except running for president, unfortunately.

"A much more promising path to abundance than the one this book offers is to embrace a twenty-first-century New Deal. That is the tried-and-true model for a “liberalism that builds” in the United States" ~Sandeep Vaheesan // this really is an excellent piece.

From a fantastic piece by @deanbaker13.bsky.social. (Thanks to David Brooks for provoking it!) A thing I'd add is that the welfare costs of people not getting treated because prices are too high may rival or even dwarf the financial cost of the patent monopoly. substack.com/home/post/p-...

mock the administration all you want, it is rather a remarkable achievement to render Harvard sympathetic. www.wonkette.com/p/kristi-noe...

compare 1984 to 2024.

a bit unfair to central planning. this administration does not plan.

[tech notebook] Scala 3 inline vs implicit ordering https://tech.interfluidity.com/2025/05/22/scala-3-inline-vs-implicit-ordering/index.html

what legal basis is supposed to distinguish the Fed from other erstwhile independent agencies with respect to Congressionally prohibited firings?