are any historically US-based software or tech companies relocating activities, servers, personnel outside of the US in order to address political risk?

i always thought of the US as a place where we kind of like a good ruckus.

I’d be honored.

"If there are two foreign policy agendas that tie US politics together, it is the mantra 'for Israel, against China'." @adamtooze.bsky.social adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-... // on the cosmopolitan research university—particularly Tooze's Columbia—as ground zero for unwinding retrofutures.

blockchain histories are close to immutable, but the state that history cumulates to is not. an issuance notice could be followed with a revocation notice. both would be permanently on the blockchain, but the passport’s state would become revoked.

if a US visa or green card is a “privilege” whose revocation constitutes foreign-policy discretion rather than punishment and so is not subject to protection on first-amendment grounds, couldn’t an identical case be made with respect to passports for US citizens?

I guess you’d have to unpack that. Do Hong Kong and Singapore do badly? Or did practices that work for them somehow prove terrible in the more Anglo Anglosphere?

we have existence proofs, but still a strong direction of correlation, no?

“We need…more capacity [in] the examination process…to allow for 3-way communication (including informal channels) btw developers…authorities…affected parties. [T]his is likely to be uncomfortable…alien to a common-law culture…having a much more active role for the state” @dsquareddigest.bsky.social

if they make America shitty enough, then who wouldn’t want to Make America Great Again!

We’ve had a lot of initiatives intended to do that. Remember Al Gore? The issue isn’t so much superannuated regulations we’d get rid of if we noticed them, but that the regulations that slow things down and create veto points have constituencies that actively preserve them, for reasons wise and not.

if only they’d been as clever as Stephen Miller.

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could the Alien Enemies Act have been used against The Beatles for the British Invasion?

[new draft post] Delivering rough consensus https://drafts.interfluidity.com/2025/03/26/delivering-rough-consensus/index.html

if they weren't so woke they'd plan these things on onlyfans.

@hannahstoryb.bsky.social (here's a dumb question! if i am referring to you, do you prefer "Brown emphasizes..." or "Story Brown emphasizes...")

Innocent civilians were harmed and killed. It definitely does matter. But that was something they chose to do when they undertook the operation, whether justifiable or not, rather than a side-effect of their incompetence.

( the part about eliminating consideration of civilian harm doesn't make anyone meaningfully richer, but it does make them much, much eviler! )

it feels like tech and government are converging on a new motto: "let's be evil."