a guy named Art Laffer had a curve…

should have! but you’ve got to pay that technical debt. you can’t just magic it away with AI.

as i say, i don’t think you have to choose, they come together in the miserable cauldron that turns us as societies from humans to monsters. we might disagree about which ingredient is most fruitful to try to interdict, but the dark magic requires both.

from the outside i thought it was, like, portable event toilets.

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there is work for a fine novelist/journalist to actually follow the path of these kids and portray, honestly and fairly, what their experiences must be like.

"The hard part is untangling decades of…business rules and small codebase-level decisions to make things work. Very little of that will be written down anywhere. Instead, people are essentially the documentation in legacy systems." @altusds.bsky.social ht @nathantankus.bsky.social

is this an idiosyncratic case, or is there some pattern or policy of denying passport renewals to American expats?

it’s better to have 10000 ft of altitude than to have 1000 ft if you are falling to the ground. at 1000 ft, i’d prefer if i could blink and find myself at 10000 ft. but even if i could, soon enough i’d find myself at 1000 ft again.

"Selfishness beats altruism within groups. Altruistic groups beat selfish groups. Everything else is commentary." ~David Sloan Wilson and E.O. Wilson via this very wide-ranging essay from @kltblom.bsky.social

by @fromarsetoelbow.bsky.social fromarsetoelbow.blogspot.com/2025/04/taki...

(thanks!)

(which do you use for this?)

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feeling liberated in the golden age.

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“in recent weeks something more sinister has taken form, with investors not only doubting where growth will come from in the United States, but doubting the actual rule of law underpinning the US dollar as the world’s reserve currency and US govt debt as the safest financial asset in the world.”

#FreeSpeech

trafficked, perhaps?