personalism is the antithesis of democracy, never an expression of democracy, no matter how popular the person may be.

please add a dash of (ideally a dollop of) azithromycin while you take your hot toddies. is this a “walking pneumonia” pandemic? just an “outbreak”? should we not use words like that, because they’ll take away our freedom to ensicken one another?

but GDP per capita!

this “walking pneumonia” is “walking” in the sense of “the walking dead”.

measure twice, cut once, tea steeping edition.

i mean, the french all have mistresses. it’s the same thing, right?

if the problem is we pissed off the plutocrats, the problem is the plutocrats, not the pissing off.

let them eat banana. uk.news.yahoo.com/crypto-boss-...

On the one hand, prioritizing everything is prioritizing nothing. On the other hand, we can walk and chew gum at the same time.

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now that’s a parade!

it should be subscriber’s choice whether it is a block list or a starter pack.

if spells actually worked, a very absolute First Amendment might prove ill-advised.

the private sector relentlessly talks itself up, so generally does a worse job than you come to think from its self-presentation. the public sector broadcasts contention and controversy, draws contestation and criticism, so generally does a better job than you’d think from the shouty conversation.

The United States “needs to build up bureaucratic capacities that it doesn’t currently have.” @himself.bsky.social www.programmablemutter.com/p/small-yard... // elon and vivek will get right on that, i’m sure.

when life gives you pears, make a parade!

what contemporary governments do you admire?

the nazis had false theories about everything, but they were perfectly capable of building extermination camps nonetheless.

“The ideal of freedom and equality is something like the modern world’s official ideology—so much so that conservatives are always pretending that they’re the ones who honor that ideal best, even as they work assiduously to undo freedom and equality.” @rickperlstein.bsky.social bit.ly/4eYMOVO

sanity is mental illness now but thank goodness we have ketamine for that.