isaac asimov would so hate these people.

new ticker symbol NOID.

say what you will about the man, but he had it right. he grabbed Congress by the pussies and they just let him do it.

Musk is a good businessman like PT Barnum was.

there are these people who are like, Trump's massive win means the bright, bold future belongs to resentment personified. intellectuals, they fancy themselves.

they want to bring agency back to the people, to families and local communities rather than some central government. boltsmag.org/florida-repu...

just because i’m bigger than you doesn’t mean you have to be smaller than me.

some related musings (from a position of no special knowledge or expertise) drafts.interfluidity.com/2025/02/08/m...

but no one pitied us then.

this is terrifying. i hope both firms pay a steep price. they have lawyers. the law is the law and Donald Trump cannot absolve them of their duty to follow it.

he references it explicitly!

#pathetic

“He’s ripping out important systems without understanding why they’re there, and then — because he doesn’t understand them, nor even wish to try — insisting that they must be part of some grand conspiracy for fraud.” @mmasnick.bsky.social www.techdirt.com/2025/02/13/s... ht @bananapantz.bsky.social

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they really should take place in Yalta. (perhaps not the safest place for it just now, though.)

see www.reuters.com/world/indias...

i wonder, is Trump himself is actually experiencing Leopard-eating-face now? is it in his nature to be so deferential to a person who upstages and humiliates him? maybe he’s just deferential to people with that much money. who was that guy JD again? the pope subtweeted him, right? #pathetic

funny like a funny bone. (or worse a funny bone hurts but doesn’t kill.)

yes!

“It’s the task of everyone who believes in democracy to make Musk’s story of hubris end in the traditional way that the Greek playwrights dramatized so well.”