i place my life in the hands of NOAA every hurricane season, along with millions of other Floridians, Trump-loving and otherwise. This terrifies me.

(in general, drugs often have dose-paradoxical effects. alcohol is often disinhibiting, effectively stimulating, and modest doses, while it's more a downer at higher doses. the disinhibition is really a function of inhibitory systems getting inhibited first.)

it's a dissociative anesthetic. same class of drugs as PCP. it's not really a sedative. it can calm people, yeah in high doses render them unconscious. but not at recreational doses. users can lose feeling of their body without falling asleep. (thus cop stories of PCP users insensitive to attack.)

[new draft post] Might Elon Musk be personally liable? https://drafts.interfluidity.com/2025/02/08/might-elon-musk-be-personally-liable/index.html

i’ve switched to Tresorit. Dropbox feels like malware. I’ve had to keep a free account for integrations (things that dump into dropbox), but i don’t let Dropbox run permanently in the background, i briefly fire it up to download whatever’s been added, and move those files to where they belong.

“professional Twitter poster and Jeffrey Epstein confidant Elon Musk”

there was this theory, ca 2016, that Trumpism was basically a last gasp cri-de-coeur of old people, and (not to put too fine a point on it) we could just wait for them to die and be replaced with young liberals. oops.

“If we don’t resign, remote workers have been told they need to move to work in one of 9 cities by March 3, and we haven’t been told if we get to pick from among the 9 or if we will randomly be assigned to a city in which we don’t live or have any connections.”~Annie Porter slate.com/news-and-pol...

“Big, credible news media outlets are mostly unable to imbue their reporting…with the seriousness that is warranted: whether due to their proprietors, their finances, or other sources of obeisance towards Trump/Musk.” @katemac.bsky.social @70sbachchan.bsky.social buttondown.com/polycrisisdi...

maybe we can have the AIs fight out the civil war for us, claude vs grok or something. automate the unpleasant work.

not really. firms would do their best to source leads from other countries’ academics, private labs, etc. in aggregate, the loss of leads from their premier source, US academia, would bite sector profitability, but there’d be lots of uncertainty which firms still managed to source winners.

people say mastodon is some kind of lefty echo chamber, but i get some pretty wild stuff. clew.lol/notice/AqtFs...

vandals.

can they? they did a great job with Boeing. or with the banks before the financial crisis, the source of IBGUBG. does the valuation of NVIDIA represent a sober forward looking DCF exercise? Tesla?

if AGI is intelligence superior to human intelligence, we're testing the proposition you can achieve it by reducing the latter rather than raising the former.

the pipeline from basic research to profit$ takes some time. by the time there's nothing in the pipeline, IBGUBG.

elon musk is a one man swarm of locusts.

from @joemenn.bsky.social @jeffstein.bsky.social @ellenwapo.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec... ht @nathantankus.bsky.social // things most payment systems don't have to consider

me too! a 2002 book about the period 70 years prior couldn't be more current. no offense to your aunt, but i'd prefer it was your book that was current. i hope it will be very, very soon.