i think i have like 4 parameters. anything more i might gain self-awareness, which could be painful.

if the founders wanted a unitary executive, why did they assign to Congress that task of structuring the executive branch? “all other Officers of the United States, whose Appointments are not herein otherwise provided for, and which shall be established by Law”

turns out i’m a bot!

instead of risking that bright, hardworking Chinese grad students might be CCP spies here to steal our science, what if we just didn’t have any science? that’ll show ‘em.

all in one place it’s even more indefensible and terrifying than you remember.

genxers — middle aged people — are the only age demographic a majority of whom voted for Trump.

of course it does. but i’ve spent the last 25 years watching Western economists point to China’s challenges and imbalances and predict its falling away from extraordinary progress. maybe this time is different. “growth” has slowed, while it’s dominated batteries, EVs, etc. i’d prefer China’s hand.

this was the clear trend anyway, and the US was too smug to really learn from China. if we acknowledged the trend at all, we'd attribute it to population, mostly beyond science and industrial policy to affect, how convenient. but now it's almost guaranteed. the US is simply forfeiting the role.

Normie white dude: This renaming shit is just stupid. Let Ulysses S. Grant Elementary stay Ulysses S. Grant Elementary. Yes, the Black Hills. It was 150 years ago. I mean, even Robert E. Lee Elementary. Who cares? Let's get real stuff done. Trump:

elon musk as jodie foster in elysium.

i place my life in the hands of NOAA every hurricane season, along with millions of other Floridians, Trump-loving and otherwise. This terrifies me.

(in general, drugs often have dose-paradoxical effects. alcohol is often disinhibiting, effectively stimulating, and modest doses, while it's more a downer at higher doses. the disinhibition is really a function of inhibitory systems getting inhibited first.)

it's a dissociative anesthetic. same class of drugs as PCP. it's not really a sedative. it can calm people, yeah in high doses render them unconscious. but not at recreational doses. users can lose feeling of their body without falling asleep. (thus cop stories of PCP users insensitive to attack.)

[new draft post] Might Elon Musk be personally liable? https://drafts.interfluidity.com/2025/02/08/might-elon-musk-be-personally-liable/index.html

i’ve switched to Tresorit. Dropbox feels like malware. I’ve had to keep a free account for integrations (things that dump into dropbox), but i don’t let Dropbox run permanently in the background, i briefly fire it up to download whatever’s been added, and move those files to where they belong.

“professional Twitter poster and Jeffrey Epstein confidant Elon Musk”

there was this theory, ca 2016, that Trumpism was basically a last gasp cri-de-coeur of old people, and (not to put too fine a point on it) we could just wait for them to die and be replaced with young liberals. oops.

“If we don’t resign, remote workers have been told they need to move to work in one of 9 cities by March 3, and we haven’t been told if we get to pick from among the 9 or if we will randomly be assigned to a city in which we don’t live or have any connections.”~Annie Porter slate.com/news-and-pol...