the United States is too small and fragile a basket for the Internet Archive to keep all our history in.

my President!

if this happens, i'm gonna be so mad we left California. (i already am.)

people don't like their franchise transgressed, i guess. it's fun when accusations of "judicial coup" issue from the people pursuing the more old fashioned kind.

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on the anti-US-imperialist left (“tankies”), i wonder if part of Trump’s appeal, perhaps only semiconsciously, is that he’d be openly as bad as they were always sure the United States always was. they’d be proven right, and no more of what they perceived as hypocritical sanctimony.

“We’re gonna shit in the swamp!”

“We’re gonna legalize bribery!” He campaigned on that, right?

this is like a cartoon where the legion of doom wins and takes over the world. in the cartoon such moments are always brief interregna. may life imitate art. ht @t0nyyates.bsky.social

i wonder whose face will be on the trillion dollar coin?

tech disruption is a theory about “disrupting” businesses engaged in competitive capitalism, to the benefit of customers. cargo-cult oligarchs have developed a “disruption awesome” ethos under which disrupting government and the lives of students and ordinary people means progress. idiots.

still Gulf of Mexico to me on Apple Maps.

ha!

i put a few bucks in the freezer and i don't see what the big deal is.

where are you checking from?

apple maps v google maps 2025-02-10

on the one hand, personalist regimes can act quickly. on the other hand, they have worse information and so err more. on the third hand, they have a thicker "ablative layer" — they can cause destruction to elements of the polity they superintend and remain insulated from the consequences for longer.

without comment. source: xcancel.com/ggreenwald/s...

progressives turned the Andreesons reactionary in Atherton, that's why it's all their fault.

"While it appears that it has never been easier for anyone to freely share their opinions with the world, the apparatus that shapes the public’s thoughts + sentiments has never been in the hands of fewer men. (And yes, they are all men.)" @lioneltrolling.bsky.social www.thenation.com/article/soci...