geneva conventions for thee, no stupid rule of engagement for me.

what if we build an artificial utility monster and make it happy?

how different is a counterfactual world in which everything else is the same — Donald Trump’s court cases proceed too slowly, he gets elected and they are quashed — but no broad grant of immunity issues from US v Trump?

what if running the global economy on the liquefacted corpses of ancient beings somehow cursed us?

war may be the health of the state, but we’re learning you can’t actually skip the ginning up public passions step for that to work.

we are richer than we ever were, but we can’t afford a society as generous as we used to afford.

they talk about bombing people into the stone age and they say they are christian and i want to ask if they ever heard of a doctrine called the golden rule?

was it normalized? did prior administrations treat reports of alleged double-taps as acceptable?

say what you want about the administration, but it really takes a kind of talent to make the iranian government seem like the good guys.

Like a heartbeat drives you mad In the stillness of remembering what you had And what you lost youtu.be/mrZRURcb1cM

so often optimization in narrow economic terms is the opposite of optimal.

“They also check, cheekily, to see if you have ‘Do Not Track’ switched on, but track you regardless (it’s just another part of the fingerprint to them).”

i mean, it’s kind of rude.

see www.swans.com/library/art1...

weaponizing interdependence was a bad idea. hat tip @himself.bsky.social @abenewman.bsky.social

pretty soon i fear the game that we will all be playing will be ”sorry”

wars are ipso facto very bad, and they rarely succeed at achieving positive aims. we should do all that we can to avoid them. that sounds trite, but look around.

we need to make it so so we can all afford not to be dicks even when our bosses are trying to make us and are threatening to fire us if we don’t do dickish, stupid things. “just say no” to sociopaths.

moon moses.

it’s a golden age AND we won the war!