#pathetic

“He’s ripping out important systems without understanding why they’re there, and then — because he doesn’t understand them, nor even wish to try — insisting that they must be part of some grand conspiracy for fraud.” @mmasnick.bsky.social www.techdirt.com/2025/02/13/s... ht @bananapantz.bsky.social

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they really should take place in Yalta. (perhaps not the safest place for it just now, though.)

see www.reuters.com/world/indias...

i wonder, is Trump himself is actually experiencing Leopard-eating-face now? is it in his nature to be so deferential to a person who upstages and humiliates him? maybe he’s just deferential to people with that much money. who was that guy JD again? the pope subtweeted him, right? #pathetic

funny like a funny bone. (or worse a funny bone hurts but doesn’t kill.)

yes!

“It’s the task of everyone who believes in democracy to make Musk’s story of hubris end in the traditional way that the Greek playwrights dramatized so well.”

my so-called “main blog” at www.interfluidity.com is wordpress, but for the past couple of years i’ve mostly written at drafts.interfluidity.com , which is my own static-site generation / newsletter project i hope to take a bit farther then invite other people to play with.

thanks! you’re in my reader. i look forward to reading!

#pathetic

woke Mitch.

mastodon.laurenweinstein.org/@lauren/1139...

can we ask your blog url?

he writes up a storm through it all! i often disagree, but i sure as hell admire his work.

i’m so glad to see this. ht @bananapantz.bsky.social

would it make sense to start a crosspartisan campaign to lobby the White House to replace Musk with Bannon as head of DOGE? make a strange bedfellow of MAGA 1.0?

“Whether Trump realizes that Musk is faking it is less clear. But as Tuesday’s event showed, it’s not clear whether Trump matters at this point.”

virtue is woke, so we're embracing vice. mastodon.social/@benroyce/11...