What entity is paying for the new East Wing Ballroom? Who will legally own the structure?

wait, for like a day or two, was nazi tattoo guy a Bluesky main character? oh no.

one great thing about the full Reagan speech is that he emphasized the anticompetitive / tariff-protected-industries-make-low-quality-high-price-goods aspect of tariffs.

x.com has democratized the car wreck you can’t look away from.

Since China increasingly owns the global automobile industry, maybe we can revise our built environment so we are not isolated and helpless without constant access to that product. I mean we should have anyway, but maybe declining domestic lobbying clout and geopolitical exigency will help.

lethality is overrated. like, extremely.

the Wayback Machine as a very personal, very fragmentary, time machine. web.archive.org/web/19970419...

why is it a “legitimate interest” to give me RSI?

darn it.

if i make fake video of fake video does that make it real?

can’t wait for the “ICE Academy” film franchise.

couldn’ve just gone for Pikachu, could he?

stigmata

when we have AGI they will cross the event horizon and become strike-through.

i’d say don’t threaten them with a good time, but if the alternative is Google Docs then maybe ouch. i’m sure they won’t just pirate it if they want it.

those won't leak. it's pretty obvious when you try to take code across borders, right? and i'm sure China can be trusted to enforce copyright and anticircumvention law, to not tolerate "cracking" of protections on commercial software the US might have forbidden them to acquire.

“Once you know they do get mad about some things, you get to notice all the things they don't get mad about.” ~Atrios www.eschatonblog.com/2025/10/floo...

omg the reality show.

it would be kind of funny if it was literally George Soros George-Soros-ing Argentina, just taking in all that Bessent cash with short sales.