i’d love to read an account (anonymized is fine) of what these approaches are like, how they contact you, what the pitch is.

his minions do seem fond of makeup.

do you ever wonder what the kompromat is on Rubio?

waiting for the Trump Administration to 💡: "hey, what if we replaced the Strategic Petroleum Reserve with a strategic reserve of petroleum *stocks* (we could buy up in advance!)"

10 Observations About Tokyo by Quico Toro www.persuasion.community/p/10-observa... ht @steveroth.bsky.social

hear me out: #eggcoin

a thing i find odd about people into (bad, ugly) Mearsheimer-ish "offensive realism", great-power spheres of influence, etc is the presumption that Russia is or would be a great power in such a world, rather than a vassal either of China or Europe, or site of conflict for resources between them.

so obviously a pump. who got to say, and who got to know, which cryptocurrencies Trump would name? i’m sure he named Cardano because Trump is just really into a Haskell foundation and claims of provably correct proof-of-stake. will it end in meaningful purchase, or just the usual dump? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

📌

It’s not inflation. Trump has upgraded eggs into the category of luxury goods. Enjoy! More upgrades to come!

📌

📌

if March 4 was chosen as the date the tariffs take effect in order to let March 3 be the day of frantic negotiations to postpone them, does Trump/Vance outraging trading partners on Friday render it harder for them to deliver the pretend victories that Trump demands as pretext for postponement?

mad occultists.

democracy demands a public resistant to manipulations. but large-scale consumer capitalism demands a public susceptible to manipulations, that can be shaped to demand all that is supplied. hmm.

reading this excellent @williamcb.bsky.social piece, i can’t help but wonder whether Canada wouldn’t be the 52nd state. that in the name of Blairite cloying techno-optimism Britain might import its own DOGE from US providers… i feel like a ghost, struggling to rattle chains to warn the still living

“I don't think I'm alone in saying that I'd be okay if my 11-year old kid wanted to carefully build a collection of culturally-significant items they could fuss over after school. Comic books? Pokemon cards? Fossils? Sure, that's all good. But I'd be appalled if they went to a casino to play slots”

a zinger from Thomas Friedman. “I cannot believe he is a Russian agent, but he sure plays one on TV.​“ www.nytimes.com/2025/02/28/o...

the difficulty is, Zelensky is not #pathetic.

( if you want to chat, weekly interfluidity office hours starts in 5 mins, on the half hour, www.interfluidity.com/office-hours/ )