a thing i didn’t know.

we have to build institutions that can survive attacks like this, though. someday, when we, um, build back better.

i’ve never seen government processes so opaque in my life as what DOGE is doing. i have lots more visibility into how state secrets, classified docs, black budgets, work than i have into DOGE.

everyone should be in favor of a democratic people’s republic. seems obvious. from xcancel.com/lexfridman/s...

we should have understood there’s no real moat around LLMs when Musk was able to stand up a near-frontier model so quickly. only the myth of Musk’s specialness allowed us to ignore homegrown evidence.

i mean, “Department of Energy”. it’s gotta be, like, radical left-wing windmills and stuff. surely there can’t be anything secret, anything dangerous, there, right?

i guess what the election decided is before we rise from the ashes, we will be ashes.

it doesn’t matter what the law says if the executive charged with enforcing it means instead to sabotage even the possibility of any enforcement. ht @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social

mastodon.social/@RealJournal...

“The idea that ‘fascism = strength’ is just a piece of propaganda unwittingly reproduced by critics of the fascism thesis.”

inoreader (my preferred RSS reader) now integrates BlueSky feeds. www.inoreader.com/blog/2025/02...

they are preboarding any guests with disabilities. isn’t that DEIA? doesn’t federal law prohibit that now? people should get the boarding priorities they paid for!

austerity is not the same thing as efficiency. in fact, often the correlation is inverse.

shh. the switch is in the basement of Comet Pizza.

mistake or malevolence? we are left to ask, rinse, repeat.

the irony is it’s the guy who (co)planted the deep roots of the identity politics turn in Democratic strategy he so decries.

without comment.

once a coup has proceeded to a certain degree, it becomes difficult to distinguish putting down the coup from a coup on behalf of different interests. once control of the state is up for grabs, what faction can claim to be above factions? all, of course, will try.

look. without NOAA, we won't have hurricanes. they'll just be rainy days if nobody is measuring wind speed.