those little countries they made quickly license Starlink as a condition of tariff relief, will they now make ban Starlink?

i’m beginning to think President Miller might be even worse than President Musk.

i don’t think this is sulky or something to apologize for. we have gone way, way, way too far from this principle, which has probably harmed our prosperity and certainly harmed any legitimacy surrounding what even under decent government would survive as a somewhat unequal distribution of wealth.

(pedant note: “with Mamdani and former CFTC chair Lina Khan” should be FTC)

Yes. Insuring in practice no alteration of power doesn’t imply cancelling elections outright.

a lot more faith in continued alteration of power here than republicans seem to be expressing in the power they’re arrogating, the personal risks they’d be subject to following such an alteration. obviously we must act, not doom. but we can’t presume anymore that turntaking is a matter of course.

This post is all you need to know.

too much algorithmic social media consumption is like receiving one of those serial killer notes written in clipped-out magazine letters and being like “hey, this ‘Q’ is from The NewYorker so what the note says must be true!” a collage of a lie is not redeemed by the quality of elements collaged.

“what if we just gave the worst people in the world unchecked power for a while? that would shake things up.”

it’s weird that we pass when our body fails.

pretty soon we will get to say “Please summarize what will happen in my life” and the machine will tell us and then we will find there is nothing left for us, we’ll just yawn and curl up and slip peacefully away.

i just think the writers missed an opportunity by not combining her role with Jeffrey Epstein’s then we could all be talking about Gillibrand’s Island.

i’m a bit embarrassed of my own tweets from that era. i kind of abused the Crayola feature.

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conjecture: the quality of life in its prisons is a pretty good measure of the success and level of civilization of a society. (note “measure”, which does not make a claim of “cause”. there are Goodhart’s Law risks.)

hello.

i guess the other place you might see this is a voting booth.

i periodically repost this one. never really know why. www.interfluidity.com/v2/7964.html