does inventory cause price or does price cause inventory? (usually causal arrows go both ways, but is the inventory-causes-price story true enough it can reliably guide policy?)

i just try to write it!

"Being an Apple customer is like being in a 24/7 BDSM relationship…without a safe-word. Maybe you like the control Apple exerts over your life most of the time, but if they ever start to hurt you, there's no way to make them stop" ~Cory Doctorow pluralistic.net/2025/09/28/w...

image/meme-based communication may be something quite different, i don't know. short-form video is also something distinct, but does seem closer to classical orality and gossip, although the differences may matter too.

we can just lord it over them into our nineties then.

maybe!

maybe we as a society decide we don’t want increased orality. maybe we put our thumb on the scale in a variety of ways for an internet of text.

nevah!

the process of persuasion between now and then would likely be ungentle.

have you brought any gold statuettes to my office?

only on toast!

the ethnonational reaction to liberalism, a backlash to the sense that important, protective, culturally important identities are dissolved under atomistic liberalism, will eventually occasion recourse to a more aggressively identity-undermining liberalism as the only way out of cycles of vengeance.

i’m imposing a 100% tariffs on your posts.

the miracle i want from a medbed is just a good night’s sleep.

would you really prefer an immoral panic?

am i the only one who worried for a moment that ICE was coming for this guy? youtu.be/ZcJjMnHoIBI

(i read the jasmine sun piece as very anthropological, explaining but from a distance.)

i feel like we are all, on every side, living through our villain origin stories.

sometimes people say “citizens” when what they mean is “subjects”.