a talent of the worst people is to shitpost until even angels look like the worst people.

I'm afraid I offer only tears.

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“And just like family members, our brands regard one another with mutual suspicion and malice.” theonion.com/heres-why-i-... ht @andrewducker.bsky.social

when politics is good television, it’s bad real life.

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i prefer the planets ignored by elon.

it's really gratifying to see meritocracy restored to the United States.

[new draft post] What does it mean to have no kings? drafts.interfluidity.com/2024/11/13/w...

it'll help when we understand better how this will work. part of this is on us — i mean to make a deep-deive into ATProto, but haven't yet, how the BlueSky app works, etc. but it'd be great to have some clearer explanations of what the fail-safes are.

without comment. from Luke Lattanzi americanmind.org/salvo/post-l...

rule of law? secured.

wow. www.axios.com/2024/11/13/t...

Like water.

"We can call the depression void-gazing. Everyone does it sometimes, but step two has to be wrenching your gaze away from the void and doing something. There's nothing in the void but more void" ~Nikhil Suresh ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/why-i-w...

you can make facile analogies with the Roman Empire and pretend there's fundamentally been no progress, but we really have advanced. they had to go through like two emperors before they got themselves a caligula.

handing control over one of the world's largest bureaucracies to a person who has zero experience with how jockeying for influence works managing inside this (or any) bureaucracy seems like a pretty big win for the deep state.

the innovation was realizing that even when it is picking pockets, the invisible hand can only act to the benefit of all.

if it takes careful, contestable social science to perceive an effect, it’s not a politically meaningful effect.

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