since you brought up the subject… drafts.interfluidity.com/2025/03/09/v...

there's a certain irony to the people championing stablecoins simultaneously championing the people destabilizing their most prominent backing currency.

to be fair, private industry often can do better than government, while saboteurs control government and intentionally rip it to pieces. i'd not want to live in an overpriced, ratty, motel but i'll concede it's superior to my home once the arson has taken place.

Musk's management style creates pain in the short term, but in the long term the pain recedes with the calm surrender of collapse. X.com is down for me again, second outage today. Not a great sign for the American state.

pretty soon the only allies we’ll have left are israel and rhodesia.

the Venn diagram between what i take from the Jewish tradition and what ADL takes from it is just two circles, very very very far away from each other.

is Khalil alleged to have violated any laws?

when “deep research” surfs the web for you, does it do the CAPTCHAs?

people with idiotic politics demand we deport people for having idiotic politics.

the writers aren’t terribly subtle.

i came up on the bowdlerized version, i guess, and still am fond of the attitude of deference that widespread perhaps misunderstanding of the phrase suggests.

huh! i was today years old when i learned…

“the customer is always right” is a relic of that world before success in business meant establishing monopoly. nowadays, the customer is always plankton.

it’s been kind of an exponential curve, increasing for a while but seemed gentle enough but all of a sudden it’s like a wall.

you gotta love how the supposed businessman treats his customers.

all things considered, despite sometimes legit critiques, you’d rather have more of these than fewer, right? overall they add, in terms of resources and pluralism. it might not necessarily be so, but they also tend to be pretty high quality. there’s also CBC on our own continent.

[new draft post] Voice of a Maryland https://drafts.interfluidity.com/2025/03/09/voice-of-a-maryland/index.html

we have to learn to take inclusiveness seriously—not merely as a performative commitment—but not let the tangible effect of that commitment be preventing good we can do that's not fully inclusive. it's hard, bc letting things go forward eliminates leverage. but the alternative yields dysfunction.

those pesky aleutians. it should always have been obvious we were unreliable.

a romanian perspective. friendshipbridge.eu/2025/03/09/d...