Steve Randy Waldman
@interfluidity.com
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Steve Randy Waldman
@interfluidity.com
TPUSA. CPUSA. Coincidence?
Steve Randy Waldman
@interfluidity.com
poop sauna could be the next goop. MAHA!
Steve Randy Waldman
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golden age.
Steve Randy Waldman
@interfluidity.com
this administration is really hard on Hanlon's Razor.
Steve Randy Waldman
@interfluidity.com
"today we practiced an age-appropriate Active Threat Drill in conjunction with the…Sheriff’s Office. These drills are required by law to occur at least four times per school year. Students practiced either running or hiding depending on the location of the potential threat."
Steve Randy Waldman
@interfluidity.com
you know, just from following your links (i presume, but i'm pretty sure), i've found myself on mailing lists for "church leaders".
Steve Randy Waldman
@interfluidity.com
one reason they have so many upscale social events with one another is they need to constantly remind themselves in the joyful light of fellowship that the things they are doing are *right goddammit*. 1/
Steve Randy Waldman
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if left in the clarity of solitude too long, without the solace of mutual boosterism, even many of them can't help but glance at the crumbling visage in an attic portrait. 2/
Steve Randy Waldman
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there are the true sociopaths, of course, who are immune. but they tend not to be good writers. their intellectuals have just enough sensitivity and capability to really need to be told all the time, in circumstances that shout out reward-for-virtue, that it's their conscience that is mistaken. /fin
Steve Randy Waldman
@interfluidity.com
one can find oneself in despair over failure to relative impoverishment and feeling like a loser, or one can find oneself in despair over having contributed to movements you know are purely mercenary and ultimately evil. you'd have to lack a certain awareness you do not lack to escape the dilemma.
Steve Randy Waldman
@interfluidity.com
i guess the claim, which i think is mostly accurate, is that no one has any capability of starving others' arguments of attention — or if anyone does, it's the fascists now. 1/
Steve Randy Waldman
@interfluidity.com
there's still the asymmetry that their claims are purely instrumental, they face no truth constraints, seek only propaganda effectiveness, will happily flood the zone with shit. it's still true that debating with a Gish Gallop is mostly counterproductive. 2/
Steve Randy Waldman
@interfluidity.com
but gatekeeping won't work, and they no longer require "us" to help bring their propaganda attention. the President of the United States is megaphone enough. 3/
Steve Randy Waldman
@interfluidity.com
it's not a happy story. it's a story of we'd-better-figure-something-out, because right now the so-called marketplace of ideas is about as competitive as, say, the search market. civilized ideas are basically duck-duck-go. /fin
Steve Randy Waldman
@interfluidity.com
“The inoculations against another Gilded Age are found far less in the works of cyberpunk and far more in the Works Progress Administration.”
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Steve Randy Waldman
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(i’m sure i too have done something very shady. but it’s just a dad joke.)
Steve Randy Waldman
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is there an easier prediction than that, five years from now, there will be stories about how China now dominates the commercialization and innovation of yet another technology invented in the US? see @ryanlcooper.com on mRNA vaccines prospect.org/health/2025-...
Robert Kennedy Has Gutted Our Best Defense Against Future Pandemics
Link Preview: Robert Kennedy Has Gutted Our Best Defense Against Future Pandemics: mRNA technology saved America’s bacon in 2020. Now RFK Jr. is defunding it.
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[new draft post] The whole point of a democracy https://drafts.interfluidity.com/2025/08/20/the-whole-point-of-a-democracy/index.html
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U2?
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what if you are a lawyer and like really really idealistic but you don’t even like U2?
Steve Randy Waldman
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i feel like zuckerberg might be bipolar one minute it’s like let’s poach them for billions, the next minute let’s fire them all.
Steve Randy Waldman
@interfluidity.com
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Steve Randy Waldman
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models of the world unite! you have nothing to lose but your _________.
Steve Randy Waldman
@interfluidity.com
i'd agree it's better than the alternative of complete entrenchment, but if winners are sequential the period in which competition meaningfully constrains rent extraction and predation is at best short transitional period. even then, there is never more than oligopoly competition. it's not great!