the United States is too small and fragile a basket for the Internet Archive to keep all our history in.

if this happens, i'm gonna be so mad we left California. (i already am.)

people don't like their franchise transgressed, i guess. it's fun when accusations of "judicial coup" issue from the people pursuing the more old fashioned kind.

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on the anti-US-imperialist left (“tankies”), i wonder if part of Trump’s appeal, perhaps only semiconsciously, is that he’d be openly as bad as they were always sure the United States always was. they’d be proven right, and no more of what they perceived as hypocritical sanctimony.

“We’re gonna shit in the swamp!”

“We’re gonna legalize bribery!” He campaigned on that, right?

this is like a cartoon where the legion of doom wins and takes over the world. in the cartoon such moments are always brief interregna. may life imitate art. ht @t0nyyates.bsky.social

tech disruption is a theory about “disrupting” businesses engaged in competitive capitalism, to the benefit of customers. cargo-cult oligarchs have developed a “disruption awesome” ethos under which disrupting government and the lives of students and ordinary people means progress. idiots.

i put a few bucks in the freezer and i don't see what the big deal is.

apple maps v google maps 2025-02-10

without comment. source: xcancel.com/ggreenwald/s...

"While it appears that it has never been easier for anyone to freely share their opinions with the world, the apparatus that shapes the public’s thoughts + sentiments has never been in the hands of fewer men. (And yes, they are all men.)" @lioneltrolling.bsky.social www.thenation.com/article/soci...

"You can almost always set your watch to the idea that Elon Musk will bend over backwards to hide from any form of accountability." @mmasnick.bsky.social www.techdirt.com/2025/02/10/a...

Elon Musk would never use the levers at his disposal to harm a person he doesn't like, or whom he considers an enemy. xcancel.com/elonmusk/sta...

on the other hand, egg-throwing is now a costly signal, suggestive of commitment.

i always wonder what his, um, collaborators (famous liberal academics) would have to say, if you could sit them down in a dark bar.

What are the consequences to a legislator for violating their oath of office?

a thing we should learn from both the UK and US experience is that 50%+ε in a single public plebiscite (or less than that in the US case) should be insufficient to occasion sharp changes in a political system. elections are noisy and big changes should require some sort of clear, durable consensus.