if we're going to get trigonometric, i feel like cosplay sounds less fun that sinplay.

"They apply the logic of collective guilt and punishment to public services. I don’t like one aspect of an agency or program—therefore it must cease to exist. Even if you hate DEI, or are a believer in the lab leak hypothesis…USAID, NSF, and NIH do a lot more than DEI programs or virology research."

i think housing policy should put its thumb on the scale for dense, multifamily, LARGE apartments. great buildings are where families are raised, not post-college dorms for singles and young couples.

perhaps it’s constructive if Donald Trump is dickish in a way that captures the attention of Catholic bishops, just before the conclave.

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look. it sucks that things are bad right now. but as a consolation prize, we can still refer to the Roaring '20s without ambiguity.

One way to think about it all is through the lens of the EU's three freedoms: 1. free movement of people 2. free movement of goods and services 3. free movement of capital Right populist movements have demonized the first and second, but been entirely mum about the third. I wonder why that is.

pretty much everything about Trump's 2nd term has been very different from his first term. that might apply to impeachment as well.

has anyone tried HarmonyOS?

it’d be nice if they let Marco share more of the burden with Amy Gleason.

Another wide-ranging essay from @kltblom.bsky.social. On complaining as a source of societal strength and information, the essential role of intentionally independent but politically accountable agencies, why diversity is our strength and much more.

a bit jarring, the juxtaposition of benign jobs numbers and the sense of angst and carnage Federal workers have, in anecdotes, experienced and expressed.

no wonder Musk turned against climate research. www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

after his boss set the prices, Rubio was also made head of the cosmetics section of the department store.

There is an incredible amount you can change the structure and form of our government with only an act of Congress. The US Constitution is only a sketch. It has a few immovable bones, but much of how the government is elected and operates is malleable.

why should we assume a Trump SEC won’t normalize Elon Musk levels of candor and honesty?

“some of them, i assume, are good things.”

i think they’ve decided, the way you deal with annoying “follow the science” people is ensure that there is no science to follow.

[new draft post] Overall but not bilateral balance https://drafts.interfluidity.com/2025/04/30/overall-but-not-bilateral-balance/index.html

all i'll say about the great "is American food somehow poisoned" debate is that (1) subjectively, yes, lots of us have had the experience of seeming healthy eating whatever we want elsewhere; (2) that when you are traveling you walking a lot is a real confound, but some of us have lived abroad too.