“for-profit benefit corporation”

Sunny and gusty is not what I’d expected at this point, here in the Tampa Bay area.

we need a “SWAT this user” option under the “…” menu here.

“you can call it ‘more art than science.’ Or you can call it ‘intuitive.’ Or you can call it ‘trial and error.’ But you can also call it ‘made up.’” @rickperlstein.bsky.social on polling americanprospect.bluelena.io/index.php?ac...

time to bring back america's mayor.

@poetryforsupper.bsky.social i feel like i could tie a message to a helium balloon and in a few days it would find you.

This storm’s closest projected passage is still like 10 hours away and already everything is so ominous.

"'Dead Internet' is not an inevitable outcome of the various technologies in question--generative A.I. among them--but a condition brought about by the particular arrangement of money and business models." @maxread.info maxread.substack.com/p/were-in-ou...

"What we need is a vigorous public sector reform…to increase…likelihood that, when elected officials want…govt to do X, X occurs in a…timely and cost-effective manner… the question of whether X is bad is fought out in electoral politics." @mattyglesias.bsky.social www.slowboring.com/p/shackling-...

It is very hard to affect that Israeli government's actions over the past year have been conditioned by any intention to ever find peaceful means of cohabitation with the Palestinian population that currently resides on the territory it controls. www.nytimes.com/2024/09/25/w...

“As Milanovic dismissively concludes, neoclassical models of distribution related ‘to life on Earth about as much as the theories that astrobiologists have developed about life on Mars.’” Simon Torracinta reviews Branko Milanovic’s “Visions of Inequality” www.dissentmagazine.org/article/ineq...

has the Netanyahu government timed its escalation-to-deescalate with Hezbollah in order to deliver an October surprise that might benefit Trump?

“focus on communities, not individuals, as the unit of change.” ~Raj Chetty www.nytimes.com/2024/09/20/o...

i was more proud of the United States back when we had already won the Civil War.

“But as Keynesian economists have long understood, the most important factor in trade flows is changes in incomes, not prices. Far from being fixed, demand is the most dynamic element in the system.” @jwmason.bsky.social jwmason.org/slackwire/at... ht @mjhaugen.bsky.social @sevier.io

do the people of missouri just not gaf?

famous people love having selfies with famous people so for a whole menagerie of famous people there’s a photograph with whatever famous sociopath is pathing the socios today. it was just a snapshot, they say. we barely met.

our supreme court are just horrible people.

you see, it’s not that they want to execute a man who may well be entirely innocent. it’s about states’ rights.