adulthood is diaspora.

from @jamellebouie.net www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/o... ht @larryglickman.bsky.social

i wonder if this is the end of history because from now on historians won’t be able to distinguish real from fake sources.

AGI: println(“Cleared of all charges. Have fun out there!”)

wait, so is this the purge?

“Remember, you’re not just performing an idea, it’s your life. It’s who you are.”

Was Trump I a RINO?

not about this, as far as i can recall.

violence perpetrated by the state is not “political violence” bc the state has a monopoly on legitimate violence, violence of the state is presumptively legitimate. when it no longer is presumptively legitimate, one no longer has a state, just multiple deployers of violence contending for legitimacy

kind of the flip side of “every accusation is a confession”, often virtues they attribute to themselves are unpersuasive appropriations of the work of others.

“Both the attention theory and moderation theory share the same fundamental flaw: they accept the existing conflict terrain as given and static. The moderation data nerds and shutdown commentators are bringing the same one-dimensional view.” @leedrutman.bsky.social

“The vision of politics—technocratic experts pulling just the right levers to secure just enough votes—is not just sterile + unappealing. It…has…consequences…contributing to the…sense…strategists + politicians don’t really care abt what they are saying… The poll-tested candidate looks like a phony…”

radical centrists are utopian in the sense that they’re always nowhere at all.

hospitals. famously cyclical.

a minimal prerequisite of sovereignty. it’s shocking how many states just bleed data and fees to US companies.

kind of wanna get my account suspended now.

right. and some of those people do list at the prices they’d like but won’t very quickly receive, generating inventory. i think that my intuition is closer to yours than the original poster, that this is more a demand than a supply story. but it’s fun because you can tell both!

does inventory cause price or does price cause inventory? (usually causal arrows go both ways, but is the inventory-causes-price story true enough it can reliably guide policy?)