People have refused work with US states because they demand a statement disclaiming BDS. e.g. www.npr.org/2018/12/26/6... Yes, this is old news. It's also just fucking terrible on the merits, and as Israel's aura of unanimous consent within US politics fades it's one more thing inviting catastrophe.

you'd think those advancing this sort of tactic — regardless of the justice or injustice of their cause — would have learned a bit more from the furious backlash to "woke", which IMHO derived mostly from people's sense they might be punished just for speaking their minds.

price level and income are not sufficient statistics for welfare.

and the apparent economic success is not orthogonal to these things.

heritage is a thing to transcend more than to treasure.

but success did ruin even some of the original counterculture idealists. larry & sergey didn’t want to be evil.

time to spread the good news bookshop.org

it's probably not supportable, but i like to imagine this is a selection effect, i mean what kind of person still buys books from amazon? // fd: still locked into an audible subscription by a zillion unspent credits

the past two decades have been a slow-motion performance-art piss christ with respect to all the values and institutions i thought that i admired.

"Institutions deserve defense when they are attacked unjustly. But they deserve trust only when they earn it—through transparency, participation, accountability, and reform." @pamilerinsamuel.bsky.social www.liberalcurrents.com/mistrust-is-...

it’s not an email attachment it’s an alternative fax.

I'd prefer Congress forbid partisan gerrymandering regardless of when in the decade it might occur. The norm of ratfucking once a decade was not a good norm.

“It’s not that the wealthy become evil; it’s that their environment stops teaching them the things that nonwealthy people are forced to learn simply by living in a world that pushes back.”

😢

when i went to new college of florida in the late 80s / early 90s, on warm evenings you could smell the perfume of orange blossoms in the breeze, on the short promenade between hamilton center and palm court. all of that is gone now.

i wonder what location the iphone put in the metadata. what timezone was the timestamp in?

I don’t know! There’s got to be a lot of it, but as a pedestrian and transit user I see very little of it.

i declare farce majeure.

a “friedman unit” used to be six months, but now it’s always the next 48 to 72 hours that are critical. welcome to the future.