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The humans still have noses.

the really fun social media platforms will soon implement rage verification.

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sounds like science fiction. maybe after the singularity, we will be able to access your “books” and “libraries”.

acts of the devil?

not sure i’d feel safe in one of these with my surname.

“we don’t need specific numbers to understand that this kind of tragedy is only to be expected after politicians have spent decades denigrating government and degrading its effectiveness.” @pkrugman.bsky.social

what doesn’t kill you makes you bitter.

i’ve been transitioning to the Affinity suite (as replacements mostly for Photoshop and InDesign). affinity.serif.com

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(when I lived in SF, i did once attend a dinner with him. he was cordial, interesting, didn’t do anything dickish. he already had views i knew i disagreed with, but, a decade ago, pre-Trump, the stakes didn’t seem so high, it was a fine conversation. sometimes i wonder what happened to people.)

there are some clubs, the more exclusive you make them, the less desirable they become, even for the kind of people misguided enough to imagine "exclusive" is somehow attractive.

“‘targeting’ is just taxing by another name. Means-testers have not figured out how 2 better spend a fixed amount of tax revenue. Rather…they use national accting rules to allow themselves to tax more in order to spend more while preventing universalists from doing the same” @mattbruenig.bsky.social

do district court judges really have to follow the precedents of higher courts when those precedents are wrong and unconscionable? district court judges have life tenure too. let courts that make up law beyond conscience or reason have to take every appeal if they mean to enforce their atrocities.

youtu.be/pDlZLsJJkVA

we might have a reliberation day, but we can be sure we will have no deliberation day.

“The China challenge is much bigger than alarmists understand. It’s not just about espionage or market share. It’s about the United States and the West more broadly losing preeminence and Chinese firms becoming reliable parts of life.”

in the photographs, we are stuck, frozen in time, but we are young. so perhaps it’s a wash.

not sure how increasing costs to news organizations would have made them less dependent on consumers?