can you tell?

pricing power is the root of all evil, except of course when you’re the one doing the pricing.

i just aced my turing test.

principle is like kryptonite to the unprincipled.

Traditionally, we favored novelty.

wtf?

i encounter a lot of worry over online porn and the effect ubiquitous AI-generated porn might have on users, but less discussion of the producer side, of the likelihood AI is the end of the porn industry, porn in all its fetish and variety simply becomes too cheap to meter.

to say that its a fallen world is optimistic. it suggests the world is not still falling.

from a really excellent piece by @kevinerdmann.bsky.social kevinerdmann.substack.com/p/are-we-und...

www.interfluidity.com/v2/9069.html

he works harder than any other president, he says.

we talk so much about making the world safe for democracy; we should talk more about making the world sane for democracy.

maybe we should amend the Constitution to repeal Article 2, and leave it to the legislature to establish executive agencies.

perhaps… not quite as much as you might recall.

that you support a thing doesn’t mean you support every implication of the thing. i support highway speeds faster than 40 mph, which may well imply more traffic fatalities. but that doesn’t mean i am for traffic fatalities.

“They seem to have confused masculinity with childishness — petulance, aggression and self-obsession being their idea of maleness.” @edwardluce.bsky.social

An amazingly rich and thorough long read on rent control as an institution and the importance of security of tenure to the formation of public goods like vibrant and secure neighborhoods, by @filipamv.bsky.social. One of the best things I’ve ever read on rent control and the issues surrounding it.

it’s a place i love that, with the help of this gentleman, has broken my heart.

patronage, partisanship, and misgovernment. a talented person who devotes his talents to resentment, ego, and the purchase of political support. a tale too small to be tragic, too destructive to be comedic. ht @dianabhenriques.bsky.social

i guess one way to concisely state the theory of Trumpism is that money is meritocracy.