Once you start thinking about growth, it’s hard to think about anything else, and then your monomaniacal focus on a measure that counts market power as human welfare undermines democracy and becomes handmaiden and apology for fascism.
they think it’s god’s will and i feel like it’s “the omen”.
tech oligarchs have been working obsessively on life extension, death the one obstacle they can’t buy their way out of or around. who knew they found a way?
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“i just want you all to know that i take great pride in my humility.”
“we have…some immunity shielding govt officials from liability…to leave them sufficiently free to do their jobs. But…no one in DOGE actually had a job that would have entitled them to do what they have done.” @cathygellis.bsky.social www.techdirt.com/2025/02/14/n... ht @glynmoody.bsky.social
No Personal Liability For DOGE Yet, But With Two More Lawsuits We Get Closer
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isn’t the “unitary executive” just respectable Yarvinism? it’s certainly contrary to a Constitution under which Congress structures, funds, and co-hires offices of the Executive Branch.
were they really so ignorant as to not know the Department of Energy’s role? being a nuclear scientist for this administration recalls historical analogies. ht @bananapantz.bsky.social
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( interfluidity office hours in 10 mins, on the half hour, if anybody wants to drop by www.interfluidity.com/office-hours/ )
isaac asimov would so hate these people.
new ticker symbol NOID.
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say what you will about the man, but he had it right. he grabbed Congress by the pussies and they just let him do it.
Musk is a good businessman like PT Barnum was.
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there are these people who are like, Trump's massive win means the bright, bold future belongs to resentment personified. intellectuals, they fancy themselves.
they want to bring agency back to the people, to families and local communities rather than some central government. boltsmag.org/florida-repu...
In Florida GOP’s New Immigration Crackdown, a Familiar Play of Overriding Local Democracy
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just because i’m bigger than you doesn’t mean you have to be smaller than me.
this is terrifying. i hope both firms pay a steep price. they have lawyers. the law is the law and Donald Trump cannot absolve them of their duty to follow it.
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“He’s ripping out important systems without understanding why they’re there, and then — because he doesn’t understand them, nor even wish to try — insisting that they must be part of some grand conspiracy for fraud.” @mmasnick.bsky.social www.techdirt.com/2025/02/13/s... ht @bananapantz.bsky.social
Some Follow Up Questions For Elon Musk, After He Admits He Gets Stuff Wrong Sometimes
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i wonder, is Trump himself is actually experiencing Leopard-eating-face now? is it in his nature to be so deferential to a person who upstages and humiliates him? maybe he’s just deferential to people with that much money. who was that guy JD again? the pope subtweeted him, right? #pathetic
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