our writers are not subtle.

This is just nuts.

it’s not mere banditry. it’s a heist!

will Americans enjoy a self image as thieves?

shouldn’t it be a food ziggurat?

mitpress.mit.edu/978026252614...

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.

i’m gonna charge an apostro fee for that.

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.

might be harassment. or violation of rights of publicity. or defamation. i think in the pre-AI era, publishing fake nudes or near nudes of a person without their permission would have risked lawsuits under a variety of theories? but maybe i'm wrong, Musk has asked his lawyers and it's fine.

not many NIMBYs among the penguins …

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.