there are lots of good reasons for a state to take the lead in ensuring production of necessities and strategic goods. not so many good reasons for demanding tolls to avoid punitive regulation. that both practices defy neoliberal marketism doesn’t render them similar.

it was the dawning of the age of the sociopath.

So dumb. Either there’s a national security issue or there isn’t. If there is, 15% of revenues isn’t going to purchase any adequate defense. If there isn’t, why the vig?

“The Homeless have to move out” // kind of by definition, they already have… can’t wait to hear about those places to stay.

as countries deploy immigration as a weapon, adroitness at integration becomes a matter of national security, a capacity that can not only neutralize the weapon, but even turn attacks into opportunities.

Now Comes the Hard Part, by Charles Hugh Smith charleshughsmith.blogspot.com/2025/08/now-...

did they? (i'm not a regular reader.)

perhaps you are being accurately informed of the broad state of things by your motor, in the only language it has available.

lateness is only truly perpetual when you are no longer living at all.

we have a disagreement! mastodon.social/@jawnsy/1150...

were TED talks a net positive or net negative for our collective cognition and deliberation?

"When prevention works, the catastrophe doesn’t happen, making the prevention itself seem (retroactively) unnecessary." @jakescottmd.bsky.social quillette.com/2025/08/08/r...

i mean, you can just ask!

we are people of a certain age, my friend, as are matt stone and trey parker.

I guess even with a constitutional amendment social security benefits cannot be reduced then? “I am promised…” “can’t be taken away” Article III, including life tenure, is not about personal entitlements of judges. Life tenure is granted to serve a purpose it evidently is now failing to serve.

a meeting of minds implies the existence of minds.

man yells at TV, most powerful military in the history of the world springs into action.

one of the many, many deficiencies of our current leadership is a complete incapacity to exercise any degree of magnanimity. apnews.com/article/air-... ht @kevincarson1.bsky.social

populism.

then you already have!