Steve Randy Waldman
@interfluidity.com
Got seduced by a literal fox? Human universals.
Steve Randy Waldman
@interfluidity.com
i’m not sure that makes me feel less old ;)
Steve Randy Waldman
@interfluidity.com
i almost envy gen z, gen alpha. the only world they’ve ever known is broken, corrupt. most times and places are. they can grasp for the reins, move forward. people my age are, one way are another, lost. grief, guilt, nostalgia. we knew a better world. we had our hand in breaking it.
Steve Randy Waldman
@interfluidity.com
what fraction of yourself is now at the mercy of waves made by madmen playing in the surf of what once was our civic life?
Steve Randy Waldman
@interfluidity.com
it's not having workable options for necessary goods that renders it truly
Steve Randy Waldman
@interfluidity.com
a piece with a sadly perfect ending.
Steve Randy Waldman
@interfluidity.com
A very good account of why "tech" (meaning not developers or tech workers, but high-level tech executives and VCs) and the US Democratic Party are undergoing an acrimonious divorce. by @himself.bsky.social www.programmablemutter.com/p/why-did-si... ht @ryanlcooper.com
Why did Silicon Valley turn right?
Link Preview: Why did Silicon Valley turn right?: The "pounded progressive ally" thesis has limits
Steve Randy Waldman
@interfluidity.com
i don't know how to do polls on BlueSky, so i just posted this as a question here. but on Mastodon it was a poll. my 'hood on Mastodon is an idiosyncratic and far from random sample, but still. kind of wow.
Screenshot of Mastodon poll: Suppose (inspired by recent Trumpery) that Canada, Mexico, and the United States were going to merge. One of the three existing Federal governments would incorporate the other countries states or provinces. The other two governments would be unwound. Which government would you favor to govern the combined territory? Canada: 66% Mexico: 31% United States: 3%
Steve Randy Waldman
@interfluidity.com
now we know why it’s not psycheanalysis i guess.
Steve Randy Waldman
@interfluidity.com
📌
Steve Randy Waldman
@interfluidity.com
As Nancy Pelosi famously explained (and then, because the algorithm is tuned to the most juvenile irony, watched her explanation of misinformation converted to misinformation) www.reuters.com/article/worl...
Fact check: 2017 video shows Nancy Pelosi talking about Republicans using ‘wrap-up smear’ tactic
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Steve Randy Waldman
@interfluidity.com
au contraire “luxury housing” is increasingly a tautology…
Steve Randy Waldman
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maybe we would have been safer with Huawei… www.nbcnews.com/tech/securit...
U.S. officials urge Americans to use encrypted apps amid cyberattack that exposed live phone calls
Link Preview: U.S. officials urge Americans to use encrypted apps amid cyberattack that exposed live phone calls: Officials from the FBI and CISA said it was impossible to predict when the telecommunications companies would be fully safe from interlopers.
Steve Randy Waldman
@interfluidity.com
An irony is that, in order to win the global influence game in the "global south", patrons need to be strict but also kind. Kindness is a strategic asset. 1/ see @katemac.bsky.social @70sbachchan.bsky.social www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/mar...
Marshall Plans | Kate Mackenzie & Tim Sahay
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Steve Randy Waldman
@interfluidity.com
Because kindness draws hope rather than blood, however, its deployment must be hidden from domestic constituencies whose own hope is in bitterly short supply. 2/
Steve Randy Waldman
@interfluidity.com
Rube Goldberg devices are invented merely to obscure the necessary kindness, but ultimately they sabotage it, and no one is helped, no one is satisfied. /fin
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❤️
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does the first amendment protect shouting fire in a crowded firing squad?
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if he pulled this off he’d basically have Greenland surrounded.
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Steve Randy Waldman
@interfluidity.com
he’s not sending our best.
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thanks! (i’ll point Chris to this — via your post — as well.)
Steve Randy Waldman
@interfluidity.com
The progressivity of the United States' Federal income tax system was forged during wartime. Chris Peel compares that experience to Ukraine, which began with and has so far retained flat income taxation throughout it's war. chrispeel.net/2024/12/02/h...
