huh! i was today years old when i learned…

“the customer is always right” is a relic of that world before success in business meant establishing monopoly. nowadays, the customer is always plankton.

it’s been kind of an exponential curve, increasing for a while but seemed gentle enough but all of a sudden it’s like a wall.

you gotta love how the supposed businessman treats his customers.

all things considered, despite sometimes legit critiques, you’d rather have more of these than fewer, right? overall they add, in terms of resources and pluralism. it might not necessarily be so, but they also tend to be pretty high quality. there’s also CBC on our own continent.

[new draft post] Voice of a Maryland https://drafts.interfluidity.com/2025/03/09/voice-of-a-maryland/index.html

we have to learn to take inclusiveness seriously—not merely as a performative commitment—but not let the tangible effect of that commitment be preventing good we can do that's not fully inclusive. it's hard, bc letting things go forward eliminates leverage. but the alternative yields dysfunction.

those pesky aleutians. it should always have been obvious we were unreliable.

a romanian perspective. friendshipbridge.eu/2025/03/09/d...

the phrase 'the west' becomes awkward if the westernmost part of the west is no longer in it.

if tech treated tech like government, it would have mocked computing relentlessly for crashing so much and sent its own industry to the wood chipper. manual typewriters would be a token of a vigorous masculinity.

you can persecute jews for not cracking down on anti-semitism hard enough. my god they love this shit. they laugh and laugh.

i’ve built software that converts anything with a full content RSS feed to an e-mail newsletter. you can try it at drafts.interfluidity.com/subscribe.html if you already have an infrastructure you like and it generates full content RSS (or atom), i’d be glad to help you add e-mail subscriptions.

it’s infrastructure weak.

a thing to understand about Democratic Party professionals, from Congressional leaders to NGO-ists, think-tankers, and consultants, is their material situation is not all that different from Big Law — they lead lives of comfort that can be undermined if they find themselves especially targeted.

a lesson of all this is it’s easy to intimidate people with a lot to lose, particularly if that lot depends on the workings of active businesses, which are easy for a government to disrupt.

if i’ve deleted a conversation from my messages, is there a way to find or restore it? (for good measure, the conversation i want back is with “deleted account”. i thought it spam. it caused a perpetual unread message i couldn’t click into, so i just deleted the whole thing. but now i’m curious.)

you start out so lonely. so you resolve, you struggle, you make enough money to buy the whole fucking world. so you do. then you find there is no place lonelier than a world that you own.

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