a bold reimagining of the yankee doodle dandy.

“If there is an inalienable right to life, it should follow that I have an obligation to take reasonable steps to minimize disease that could harm or kill my peers.” // this is general, a thing any serious liberalism must grapple with. the dual of any meaningful right is a burdensome obligation.

contemporary capitalism is the stench of desperation perfumed with chirpy pitches.

“It’s a lot easier to blame things on NIMBYism than to accept that the whole structure of planning permission might be broken.” @dsquareddigest.bsky.social ht @tomashirstecon.bsky.social

“National identities such as ‘French’ and ‘Italian’ were things that had to be invented, and they were often imposed through military or state power.” @resnikoff.bsky.social publiccomment.blog/p/the-great-...

social media is paradoxically both exhausting and insomnia-inducing at the same time.

we live in the age of the Bond villain.

the most authoritative citation!

I just made some shit up. Its authenticity has been confirmed.

if demons can be emergent from social affairs, perhaps angels can too.

This was weird, though now I get it. scala> 1 << 32 val res3: Int = 1 scala> (1 << 24) << 8 val res4: Int = 0

“That people move from representing the presidency to representing banks is so normal that we forget the costs: the private job done with the savvy to outfox one’s former public-sector colleagues, the public job done gently to keep open doors” @anandwrites.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/o...

#evergreen

and yet…

youtu.be/VOgFZfRVaww?...

suppose there were an elixir you could drink and become a giant, but if you did it would be inevitable you would, wittingly or not, step on some people like ants. would it be ethical to drink it?

“buildings are a bit like intellectual property, which also lasts longer than the economic horizon of the businesses that produce it. The economic argument for rent regulation is a bit like the argument for limiting patents and copyrights to a finite period.” // this is a very brilliant piece

an edit is always an addition, a delta in some form or a replacement. you want that, because history should be auditable to discourage malicious recontextualization of other people’s responses.

i’m with you there.