it might not be right to say the Trump Administration's garish chaos-monkeying contributed to the crash. maybe. but we don't really know that. nevertheless, it's a whole lot less ridiculous a claim than any attribution of blame to "DEI". ferchrissakes.
i'm not dissimulating i'm dissembling.
it was just a bunch of kids who liked to twirl around.
what kind of due process would apply to Guantanamo detainees?
his humiliations are like potato chips, once you take one you'll find perhaps despite yourself it is far from your last. ht @jedgarnaut.bsky.social
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maybe since by "the left" people sometimes mean social democrats and other times foreign policy "tankies" and other times identity politics radicals, and the Venn diagram of those tendencies is very far from a circle, maybe you could use more descriptive language?
"the…Court ruled…NLRB needs 3 members to have a quorum…until Trump appoints a 3rd NLRB member…NLRB will not be able to issue decisions. Trump cld opt not to fill any…vacancies + prevent the agency from issuing decisions for his entire term." @mattbruenig.bsky.social www.nlrbedge.com/p/trump-fire...
Trump Fires Democratic NLRB Member Gwynne Wilcox
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i used to have a higher opinion of drug addled degenerates.
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“No, I do not want AI to ‘polish’ me.” @thebloggess.bsky.social thebloggess.com/2025/01/28/n...
No, I do not want AI to “polish” me.
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Text: If the state can't build, then it can cut taxes, substituting private consumption for public infrastructure. This is fine; Americans have large cars (often to protect from other large cars) and large houses. But it's not a substitute for infrastructure and other social goods; it's a conscious decision to lose years of life expectancy and have a less efficient transport system to avoid building up the state.
Replicating Silicon Valley is replicating monopolistic extraction, endless surveillance, plutocratic distortion of politics, a cradle for eugenicist cults, elevation of overt fascists. Maybe, um, don’t do that?
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Guys, really. Our apparently brisk GDP growth is down largely to rentierism, attaching ever more, ever larger tolls to everything. It’s not meaningful prosperity. We are miserable. Don’t emulate us. Stick with Universal Scandinavia. cf @crookedfootball.bsky.social crookedtimber.org/2025/01/29/t...
The death of the hope of progress and the fear of being left behind
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“governments of the ostensible ‘centre-left’…are incapable of reviving neoliberalism in its progressive, internationalist guise, but are also unwilling to properly embrace the legacy of postwar social democratic nationalism.” @fromarsetoelbow.bsky.social fromarsetoelbow.blogspot.com/2025/01/the-...
[tech notebook] Adolescent DeepSeek on a Mac laptop https://tech.interfluidity.com/2025/01/28/adolescent-deepseek-on-a-mac-laptop/index.html
(i’m morbidly curious how Apple will handle the Gulf of Mexico thing.)
Norms only exist when there is a community of agents to enforce them. When there are only two agents, there’s no such thing as a norm, only cooperation or conflict. 1/
There can be Nash equilibria supporting cooperation with only two players, sure. But they’re fragile in practice. If defection yields a strong negative payout to the sole other player, its capacity to punish ex post and so deter ex ante will be weak. 2/
Norms can be thought of as Nash equilibria in very multiplayer games. They are strong if (and only if) defection can’t kneecap the whole community’s capability to punish. In practice that’s often the case. 3/
When there are broad communities, norms really can support cooperation! But much less so when the game collapses effectively to only two players. /fin
proclaim policy so extreme and destructive it’d be the dog catching the car if actually implemented. then walk it back declaring some misunderstanding or bullshit victory. 1/
you never have to face or be held accountable for the consequences of your proposals. you thrill your partisans. you leave your opponents bewildered and preoccupied. they come off as overwrought, nervous nellies. /fin
not the point, but in what world is the Manhattan Institute — Chris Rufo’s employer — “a center-right think tank”? i’m sorry, you don’t get to hire and fund arsonists and claim to be the sober center.
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from @jamellebouie.net www.nytimes.com/2024/12/18/o... democrats are always trying to be “generic democrat”. no one is mad at generic democrat, no donor is alienated. generic democrat polls pretty well! but generic democrat is an empty suit. we need people to lead, or, right now, to brawl.
Text: At the heart of all of this - whether it comes from congressional leaders, ordinary lawmakers or top pollsters - is the idea that Democrats can float above the fray and reap the political rewards of any chaos and dysfunction. Besides, voters say they want compromise - and what else can Democrats do but follow the polls?
tonight they begin starving the children. it isn’t complicated.
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