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.

he could, um, remit it to the US Treasury to help pay down the national debt!

“When someone threatens to burn down your house unless you do as you're told, and then they burn your house down anyway, you don't have to keep doing what they told you.” ~Cory Doctorow pluralistic.net/2025/10/20/p...

in the West Wing part of my imagination, he wakes up badly hung over, realizes what he has done, and immediately has “i am a fucking idiot — Croatia ‘12” tatooed in a circle around the thing.

how is Russia supposed to stay part of the international manosphere after it has killed all its young men?

#MAGA

who knew 2030 would look so much like 1814?

🙁

yeah. i don’t substantively disagree. i just shiver.

i just don’t like the word “nuking” in this context.

i came up studying financial markets as information systems that allocate scarce social resources. i’m a scandalized true believer.

yes. it will take lots of small shifts over a good while, among which reducing the relative tax attractiveness of equity investment might be one, to get us out of the cul-de-sac we’re in.