“Americans who voted for Trump because of the putatively high price of eggs [have] now precipitated a political crisis in Scandinavia.” @anneapplebaum.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/internationa... ht @sharonk.bsky.social @prchovanec.bsky.social

This time everybody wants to be his friend.

no need. just a little bit of $TRUMP will buy that place.

unsurprisingly i guess, my sense is Redbook is shaping its algorithm to present China as great, Chinese people as welcoming, the US as a bit of a catastrophe morally + economically, but good Americans as welcome, especially those who express gratitude for hospitality, refugees from more than TikTok.

When the Supreme Corruption narrowed the definition of bribery to the most explicit quid-pro-quos, did you think eventually people wouldn't be driving truckloads of cash through the space they opened? Can media who play these games credibly do "news"? www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/01/cbs-...

"It's a win-win-win. Ron DeSantis gets something to brag about; Republican business owners aren't much affected; and undocumented workers are even more scared and docile. What's not to like?" @kdrum.bsky.social on Florida's immigration dickishness jabberwocking.com/florida-crac...

someone asked on redbook about Americans’ view of Elon Musk (and his mom), and it’s fun to see the infosphere clash, the Americans mostly dissing him while Chinese people note that he is widely admired there. xhslink.com/a/8xIo5fp1I343

certainly. again emphasizing that it’s manipulation and surveillance, not domicile of owner, that should be the target of regulation.

he’d be a 10x engineer if he were alive today.

sounds about right. he sang too, which was pretty cool.

i don't doubt they are active sources of sock puppetry. i do doubt they had the influence of $250M in PAC contributions + owning the most influential platform in American politics. did they use TikTok like Musk used X? who knows. both shld be regulated, on identical terms, to render that impossible.

what if China does to the next American election what Elon Musk did to the last one?

At least you think! 🙂

i would say the fiction is well written, if i myself were not just a character incapable of independent observation.

i love it when i click on a thing and get a message like the thing you clicked on does not exist. like what does existence even mean?

isn’t that always a certain kind of wizardry, if performed with flair?

in magic, words structure reality, so the easiest thing to transform a chemist into is a chemise.

An interesting piece presenting parallels between the Luigi story and the Abe assassination in Japan. unseen-japan.com/luigi-mangio... ht @glynmoody.bsky.social

@poetryforsupper.bsky.social you have an impersonator? see poetry4supper.bsky.social