a bit surprising, and a challenge to @mattyglesias.bsky.social-style centrism, perhaps. a European context. perhaps the US is different. and this is within a sample that identifies as social-democrat persuadable or left, perhaps moderation on culture could bring in outsiders? read the full thread.

is America a retrofuture?

i think the tech pronatalists ought to shift a few shillings from their life extension institutes fund a Manhattan Project in pursuit of male pregnancy.

we can bring back the semicolon! accuse LLMs of overusing them, say writing with a lot of semicolons is usually AI slop, then watch writers and editors race to deploy them to defend their honor.

what if grok is really Adrian Dittmann?

i want to start the rival "Party in the USA"

least popular, least charismatic plutocrat burns cash to start a new political party without attending to the structural (especially electoral) factors that cement two party dominance in America.

it’s more than a bit pathetic that a *Gulf petrostate* like UAE sees the writing on the wall and dives headlong into EVs + solar, while the “good ol’ USA” clings nostalgically to coal, oil, and monster trucks. see @katemac.bsky.social @70sbachchan.bsky.social www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/bri...

they call alchemy a pseudoscience, then they invent a machine that turns bullshit into gold.

the profit motive can only be good when the state frustrates most means of achieving it. there’s an infinity of ways to provoke cash flows detached from or even negatively related to the production of social value. the state’s job is to foreclose those.

cc @poetryforsupper.bsky.social

we are governed by brats. ht @louisingenthron.bsky.social

love the humans, each and every.

it's ex ante precarity more than ex post deprivation that has us so collectively miserable.

maybe in a US context, state governments could work? drafts.interfluidity.com/2025/03/09/v...

One thing the conservative movement has proven is burying The New York Times in flack and pushback can be quite effective.

Where I am now it's already the 5th of July, but at home it is still July 4. I am posting what I traditionally post every July 4. Optimism of the will. "On the stairs I smoke a cigarette alone / Mexican kids are shootin' fireworks below." God bless America. www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_ty...

an unsurprisingly great summary, big picture, of how and where we have cornered ourselves economically the past few decades, by @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com.

tech barons take note. this is the future you preferred to one that included musings on an unlikely unrealized capital gains tax. this is the future you may have delivered to all of us, but from which you will not be exempt. ht @alanbeattie.bsky.social