kind of fun that frog is now both a fascist-adjacent and antifascist-adjacent icon. slippery little guy, that one!

an antichrist is anyone who stands in my way. a christ is someone who reassures me that what i already want to do and already am doing is righteous. sounds like a good guy to go to for a theological education.

(fortunately, the US means to power its data centers with coal and burning dinosaur farts, so we don’t need to worry about that stuff.)

how will rare-earth scarcity intersect with data center build? might it be a meaningful bottleneck?

vote for the better candidate, but be grateful for vigorous primaries. “primarying” someone (an incumbent or just someone you like) is not a hostile act. it adds a sliver of choice in a system under which meaningful choice has too often been foreclosed.

“If your government is for sale to any billionaire willing to pay, you do not have a democracy… arbitrary power is arbitrary power, whether it belongs to a king of England or a prince of Silicon Valley… Billionaires are dangerous. We shld tax them until they aren’t.” @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com

if you oppose the administration and call them fascist, what does that make you?

i really like it when people read what i write, but i sure hope my essays are not “consumed” and if you did that please vomit it back motherfucker.

“I tried to help OpenAI raise some money by starting a GoFundMe for them, but those fundraising campaigns are capped at a mere billion dollars. Which doesn’t even pay for snacks at OpenAI.”

the whole furry thing never appealed to me, but now i think it'd be cool to be a froggy. ht @guillaumee.bsky.social

I can’t wait!

i’m so proud 🥹

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All else equal — ceteris paribus, as the economists say — if you were to just grab that expensive watch from the jewelry store counter and walk out the door, you'd be better off. Only all else would not be equal. Lots of data-centric political punditry is basically "grab the watch".

"we could call this a…muscular, socialism-inflected version of antitrust. Rather than (or in addition to) playing constant…whack-a-mole against market concentration…the govt steps in directly and creates the competition it wants, either thru subsidies or outright state-owned firms." @ryanlcooper.com

i hope they stop murdering people there. i am rooting for that.

“In smaller courses, the difference in the quality of…discussion where 70% of the students have done 50% of the readings and one in which 20% have done 10% of the readings is obvious in the same way…a cold Coke tastes different than lukewarm spit. The former is no Chablis, but it is more palatable.”

“It’s true that Bush did more to infringe on civil liberties than Trump did in his first term, but if Trump had been president on 9/11, he probably would have put the country’s entire Muslim population in internment camps.” @mattyglesias.bsky.social www.slowboring.com/p/the-author...

what variety of exquisite corpse is this?