the phrase 'the west' becomes awkward if the westernmost part of the west is no longer in it.

if tech treated tech like government, it would have mocked computing relentlessly for crashing so much and sent its own industry to the wood chipper. manual typewriters would be a token of a vigorous masculinity.

you can persecute jews for not cracking down on anti-semitism hard enough. my god they love this shit. they laugh and laugh.

i’ve built software that converts anything with a full content RSS feed to an e-mail newsletter. you can try it at drafts.interfluidity.com/subscribe.html if you already have an infrastructure you like and it generates full content RSS (or atom), i’d be glad to help you add e-mail subscriptions.

it’s infrastructure weak.

a thing to understand about Democratic Party professionals, from Congressional leaders to NGO-ists, think-tankers, and consultants, is their material situation is not all that different from Big Law — they lead lives of comfort that can be undermined if they find themselves especially targeted.

a lesson of all this is it’s easy to intimidate people with a lot to lose, particularly if that lot depends on the workings of active businesses, which are easy for a government to disrupt.

if i’ve deleted a conversation from my messages, is there a way to find or restore it? (for good measure, the conversation i want back is with “deleted account”. i thought it spam. it caused a perpetual unread message i couldn’t click into, so i just deleted the whole thing. but now i’m curious.)

you start out so lonely. so you resolve, you struggle, you make enough money to buy the whole fucking world. so you do. then you find there is no place lonelier than a world that you own.

#evergreen

the fact that plutocrats and the Nazis are allied renders donor-dependent organizations particularly likely to cave to unlawful state coercion, alas. financing public goods via philanthropy means we’ve been governed substantially by plutocrats for a while.

we blame government for being inefficient when it is under-resourced, so we strip it of resources to make it more efficient.

you aut not.

i love canada and wish my own country hadn’t turned sociopathic.

we’re eliminating TPS for Ukrainians, potentially forcing them back to a war zone, but throwing down a red carpet for South African farmers. make it make sense, even taking for granted this administration’s racism.

“Democrats are going to have a hard time saving the republic if they’re spending their time convincing people it doesn’t need saving.”

Killing Pax Americana means killing nuclear nonproliferation. Thank Donald Trump.

don’t forget your index fund is a means of maintaining a DIVERSIFIED exposure to EQUITY markets, INCLUSIVE of every stock in a broad index.

so if my personal item is oversize they might charge me $100. what’s the fee for shutting down whole airports and making planes turn around midflight? does SpaceX cover it? are travelers compensated?