this was the clear trend anyway, and the US was too smug to really learn from China. if we acknowledged the trend at all, we'd attribute it to population, mostly beyond science and industrial policy to affect, how convenient. but now it's almost guaranteed. the US is simply forfeiting the role.
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Normie white dude: This renaming shit is just stupid. Let Ulysses S. Grant Elementary stay Ulysses S. Grant Elementary. Yes, the Black Hills. It was 150 years ago. I mean, even Robert E. Lee Elementary. Who cares? Let's get real stuff done. Trump:
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elon musk as jodie foster in elysium.
i place my life in the hands of NOAA every hurricane season, along with millions of other Floridians, Trump-loving and otherwise. This terrifies me.
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[new draft post] Might Elon Musk be personally liable? https://drafts.interfluidity.com/2025/02/08/might-elon-musk-be-personally-liable/index.html
“professional Twitter poster and Jeffrey Epstein confidant Elon Musk”
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there was this theory, ca 2016, that Trumpism was basically a last gasp cri-de-coeur of old people, and (not to put too fine a point on it) we could just wait for them to die and be replaced with young liberals. oops.
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“If we don’t resign, remote workers have been told they need to move to work in one of 9 cities by March 3, and we haven’t been told if we get to pick from among the 9 or if we will randomly be assigned to a city in which we don’t live or have any connections.”~Annie Porter slate.com/news-and-pol...
I Work in the Office Carrying Out the Government Purge. Here’s What I Want You to Know.
Link Preview: I Work in the Office Carrying Out the Government Purge. Here’s What I Want You to Know.: We’re as freaked out and angry as everyone else.
“Big, credible news media outlets are mostly unable to imbue their reporting…with the seriousness that is warranted: whether due to their proprietors, their finances, or other sources of obeisance towards Trump/Musk.” @katemac.bsky.social @70sbachchan.bsky.social buttondown.com/polycrisisdi...
Organizing around and without the US
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maybe we can have the AIs fight out the civil war for us, claude vs grok or something. automate the unpleasant work.
people say mastodon is some kind of lefty echo chamber, but i get some pretty wild stuff. clew.lol/notice/AqtFs...
vandals.
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if AGI is intelligence superior to human intelligence, we're testing the proposition you can achieve it by reducing the latter rather than raising the former.
elon musk is a one man swarm of locusts.
from @joemenn.bsky.social @jeffstein.bsky.social @ellenwapo.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec... ht @nathantankus.bsky.social // things most payment systems don't have to consider
Text: The Bureau of the Fiscal Service ensures that Pentagon contractors, software vendors and U.S. spies overseas are paid. With spies, the means of payment are varied and generally indirect to avoid revealing any U.S. government connection, according to former national security officials.
Orban just had to kick Central European University out. Trump has so many!
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there's no need for formal background checks. Musk of course only hires the very best people, people of the very best character. these are kids or almost kids. juvenile misbehavior oughtn't permanently condemn them. but they have no business anywhere near secure mission-critical systems right now.
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Text: I think of it as the far center: a loose coalition of disillusioned Democrats, principled humanists, staid centrists, anti-woke journalists, civil libertarians, wronged entertainers, skeptical academics, and toothless novelists, all brought together by their shared antipathy to what they regard as the illiberal left. The far center is for free speech and bourgeois institutions; it is against cancel culture, student protests, and radicalism of any kind. Yet it rejects the idea of a shared ideology or politics. Instead, its members see themselves as independently sane individuals — concerned citizens who wish only to defend civil society from the unbearable encroachments of politics. So the far center is liberal, in that its highest value is freedom; but it is also reactionary, in that its vision of freedom lacks any corresponding vision of justice. It can be difficult to tell the far center from regular old conservatism.
i for one am very excited to see what a wired-up @nathantankus.bsky.social cyborg warrior might get up to.
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