a bit surprising, and a challenge to @mattyglesias.bsky.social-style centrism, perhaps. a European context. perhaps the US is different. and this is within a sample that identifies as social-democrat persuadable or left, perhaps moderation on culture could bring in outsiders? read the full thread.

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is America a retrofuture?

i think the tech pronatalists ought to shift a few shillings from their life extension institutes fund a Manhattan Project in pursuit of male pregnancy.

we can bring back the semicolon! accuse LLMs of overusing them, say writing with a lot of semicolons is usually AI slop, then watch writers and editors race to deploy them to defend their honor.

what if grok is really Adrian Dittmann?

i want to start the rival "Party in the USA"

much more when Rs are in control than Ds! (although Obama was very proud of the fracking boom on his watch.) politically, the US is split, the voters are very sensitive to gas prices, but donors (oil interests) prefer high gas prices, so outcomes are hard to predict.

least popular, least charismatic plutocrat burns cash to start a new political party without attending to the structural (especially electoral) factors that cement two party dominance in America.

it’s more than a bit pathetic that a *Gulf petrostate* like UAE sees the writing on the wall and dives headlong into EVs + solar, while the “good ol’ USA” clings nostalgically to coal, oil, and monster trucks. see @katemac.bsky.social @70sbachchan.bsky.social www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/bri...

they call alchemy a pseudoscience, then they invent a machine that turns bullshit into gold.

spend money advocating for approval voting for “one-for-all” positions (President, mayor, governor, Senator) and proportional representation for participation in legislatures constituted as mini-publics. drafts.interfluidity.com/2023/04/24/t...

the profit motive can only be good when the state frustrates most means of achieving it. there’s an infinity of ways to provoke cash flows detached from or even negatively related to the production of social value. the state’s job is to foreclose those.

cc @poetryforsupper.bsky.social

we are governed by brats. ht @louisingenthron.bsky.social

love the humans, each and every.

it's really great to incentivize people to devote time to socially valuable work, like cycling through credit card offers and updating automatic payments as you hop banks for the free $500 deposit.

thank you so much, @bananapantz.bsky.social. i had a great trip!

everything that is "free" to users/consumers but a cost to business, consumers ultimately pay for. where do the revenues that pay the fees come from? i hate claims like "Google is free!" or even the darker "then you are the product!" corollary. it's not free! you are covering all their ad revenue!

it's ex ante precarity more than ex post deprivation that has us so collectively miserable.