let’s not nuke nuuk.

i’m gonna charge an apostro fee for that.

they know global warming is real, they just want the best beachfront properties for it.

affordable and abundance were both perfectly good words before consultants found them.

less than a year in and we’re talking about war with NATO. it feels untenable.

might be harassment. or violation of rights of publicity. or defamation. i think in the pre-AI era, publishing fake nudes or near nudes of a person without their permission would have risked lawsuits under a variety of theories? but maybe i'm wrong, Musk has asked his lawyers and it's fine.

not many NIMBYs among the penguins …

are there rare earths on antarctica?

so, will there or won’t there be lots of lawsuits over nonconsenual undressing by @grok on X? will or won’t those lawsuits succeed?

beyond a certain scale, ordinary speech becomes indistinguishable from harassment.

disagreeable even.

maybe if we are going to overtly subsidize fixed capital formation under competition—rather than let market power and the promise of difficult-to-limit rents encourage investment—well, we should! but maybe we should pick a an industry to develop that isn’t already obsolete and slowly killing us.

the credo of the contemporary US, articulated pretty directly by its political leader, is that to be smart is to cheat, if and as much as you can get away with it. most of the country’s preeminent tech industry has this as the basis of its business model.

i myself am not so fond of Crown Prince Stephen.

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limiting the influence of others may be distinct from increasing our influence. under this theory (it is only that), the motivation for invading Venezuela would have been breaking growing connections with China, Russia, Iran.

doxxing is dickish, even of dicks.

i wonder if the “donroe doctrine” isn’t the actual monroe doctrine (a limitation on influence by European or Asian powers in the Americas), but sold to the President by advisors and, oddly, to the public as crass resource imperialism, even tho that’s kind of fake but the President gets it, likes it.

we should have factional battles over which faction most squanders our energy by drawing us into factional battles.

if AI is so good and the US is the world leader, wouldn’t you expect us to act with more intelligence?