i’m honored to share a vintage, kid.

i’m 55 years old, but when i talk to myself i still refer to myself as “kid”.

i still post links to new blog posts on X. COVID, pre-Musk, cut my impressions on a typical tweet in half, as non-blue-check feeds were downranked over misinformation fears. under Musk, my that 50% became 80%-90% below the pre-COVID baseline. i too get lots more interaction here!

the new one sounds zystopian. (sorry.)

i just got texted a verification code and it started with 555 and i felt like i was in a movie.

so much of my telephone spam is people cold-calling to offer janitorial service.

which means it’s us, because they can’t be them without purchase of our services.

seems like that wad’s already been shot.

stalker.

#popularism

"According to the…annual Harris Poll, for the 1st time, a majority of Americans believe billionaires are a threat to democracy. A remarkable 71% believe there should be a wealth tax. A majority believe there should be a cap on how much wealth a person can accumulate." www.nytimes.com/2025/12/14/o...

we’ll find virtue among elites has been restored, once the snapchat generation takes control.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯ (i was responding to conversation i was seeing here.)

i wouldn’t have made myself an active participant in gab or parler (i considered making accounts to lurk and monitor them, though) why should i have treated it differently when Twitter was bought by, brought under the active control of, a person with the same views as the proprietors of gab+parler?

all these words, but they are all inevitably variations on a mixed economy of some sort, and the virtue and vice are in the details, the how even more than the how much, of the mix.

capital bought the center so you should respect its intellectual property and heed the cease and desist.

if the world lifted all tariffs but deficit countries committed to filling any domestic demand gap created by trade imbalance with efficiently implemented military build-up, perhaps surplus countries would seek a more balanced path. (not really recommending this. it’s a thought experiment.)

life marinated in contemporary communication technologies is neverending moral injury.

my favorite platform is the public internet.

who could have predicted?