democrats, not beloved as a political party even as the Republicans are unpopularly overtly fascists, should make blowing up the two-party system the central reason why people should vote for them.

to talk about RFK Jr, we need a word for murder, but where the deed performed is like ten years in advance of the predictable deaths that result and there is a thin patina of plausible deniability.

social.coop/@cwebber/114...

i think @peterfrase.com pretty much called it when he coined the term “exterminism”. jacobin.com/2011/12/four...

so, is it China or Germany or India or who else that’s going to the next century’s biotech / biomedical powerhouse? who’s gonna pick up the mRNA mantle, along with all the others we’re casting off?

tell it to anyone who ever took a plea bargain.

where are the free drinks, the comped rooms and meals?

i think this one still holds up pretty well. www.interfluidity.com/v2/1781.html

cc @poetryforsupper.bsky.social

i wanted to joke like a sweaty person meme saying the temperature is a SCAM! except that’s not a joke at all that’s literally the position on climate change.

historically, are BLS initial nonfarm payroll numbers a biased or unbiased estimator of the ultimate revised figures?

where are the planning board meetings full of nearby residents shouting over neighborhood character and traffic and how the deadbeat drunken diplomats urinating on stoops after hours is already bad enough, thank you, to block this?

AI business will truly take off when you can replace not only your employees with markdown files you call “agents”, but also your vendors and customers.

"'Hegemony' is neither a birthright nor a permanent condition; it is a practice, fragile and perishable, dependent on the continual renewal of both material capabilities and the legitimacy of leadership." @delong.social braddelong.substack.com/p/a-note-on-... ht @dhnexon.bsky.social

a few of them are sure what they are building is god, and they are competing to become the parent, teacher, and trusted advisor of the almighty. old-testament-style they imagine the tribe that exalts and exults the most capable smoter will be granted domination over the earth.

“$100 received out of labor is not a net, but gross, wage. Because working involves disutility.” // this is an excellent essay from @brankomilan.bsky.social

very sad news about a very remarkable person.

eventually tax policy may remedy this. capital gains should be heavily disfavored. if you invest wisely, you take your gains over time as that wisdom is ratified by actual cashflows. i don’t disagree with @conorsen.bsky.social that we are far from being so sensible. but we are courting catastrophe.