“centrists, the largest component of the British politico-media class, aren't actually liberals, neither in the broader sense of defenders of civil liberties against authoritarianism, nor in the narrower sense of advocates of free markets (their's is a capitalism of managed mkts + corporate graft).”
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sometimes i think i have mitochondria hypochondria.
you worry that you’re self absorbed, but it really is all about you.
it turns out some people are unimpeachable whom i’d never have thought to apply that adjective to before.
your last home is one you never live in.
colononauts. where no man has gone before. www.thebulwark.com/p/all-the-pr...
All the President’s ‘Butt Snorkelers’
Link Preview: All the President’s ‘Butt Snorkelers’: An emperor president surrounded by a sycophantic cabinet is a dangerous thing.
sometimes i think AI should stand for “automated imagination”.
just nuking the archives of this one is a huge loss. economistsview.typepad.com
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This is awful.
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"he has small fingers and a nanobanana." is that the proper usage? it's hard to keep up with the lingo.
"The marketplace in ideas is broken; peddlars of crap do not exit as they would in a well-functioning market." @chrisdillow.bsky.social
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people who style themselves liberals on Twitter mock Bluesky as a kind of left-liberal ghetto of irrelevancies. we style them as people whose brains are cooked into thinking you can have 50% fascism as a kind of moderation. 1/
objectively, yeah, we’re polarized. but which of us, in our mutual smugness, is harmful? /fin
i canceled my longstanding adobe subscription today. as usual they offered sane pricing only during the process, but i'm comfortable enough with the affinity suite now i just said "sayonara". a bit bittersweet.
from @resnikoff.bsky.social, excellent, (mostly) on the great polling kerfuffle. publiccomment.blog/p/some-sligh...
Text: All of which is to say you can't actually do an RCT of universal basic income. You can run an RCT of unconditional cash transfers, but that's not exactly the same thing. UBI is by definition universal: instituting something like a real UBI program anywhere in the United States would transform the entire local economy.
i’m ambivalent about the prospect of SpaceX really solving a really important problem in the way that i might be if Mengele announced an important medical breakthrough. would you not acknowledge it? refuse to use it if it would save lives? but still.
“hyperrealistic” is an oxymoron.
q: what do sentences and investigations (that can lead to sentences!) have in common? a: subject and predicate
was New Coke the original woke?
when will The State be reified as a chatbot you can talk to?
“The problem is, though, that chasing customers isn't always consistent with telling the truth.” @chrisdillow.bsky.social
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