This is just nuts.

it’s not mere banditry. it’s a heist!

will Americans enjoy a self image as thieves?

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somehow this is a violation of @nytpitchbot.bsky.social’s intellectual property.

some pundits offer a school-marmy fingerwag that this was all some kind of collective “revealed preference”, fossil fuel + auto cos only humbly helped to meet. it’d be a great service if someone were to document the ways lobbying + marketing by oil + auto cos helped midwife this american nightmare.

Winning is for losers.

they think it’s manly, edgy, telling hard truths. but it’s just plain idiocy. the real world is governed by coordination at scale. overt coercion is costly and inferior to organizing enthusiastic consent.

let’s not nuke nuuk.

they know global warming is real, they just want the best beachfront properties for it.

affordable and abundance were both perfectly good words before consultants found them.

less than a year in and we’re talking about war with NATO. it feels untenable.

are there rare earths on antarctica?

so, will there or won’t there be lots of lawsuits over nonconsenual undressing by @grok on X? will or won’t those lawsuits succeed?

beyond a certain scale, ordinary speech becomes indistinguishable from harassment.

maybe if we are going to overtly subsidize fixed capital formation under competition—rather than let market power and the promise of difficult-to-limit rents encourage investment—well, we should! but maybe we should pick a an industry to develop that isn’t already obsolete and slowly killing us.

the credo of the contemporary US, articulated pretty directly by its political leader, is that to be smart is to cheat, if and as much as you can get away with it. most of the country’s preeminent tech industry has this as the basis of its business model.

i myself am not so fond of Crown Prince Stephen.

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doxxing is dickish, even of dicks.