the state is dominated by a politics whose impulse is “god’s infinite and unconditional love? let’s weaponize it.”

this is an important insight, given efforts by a Republican Congressman to ban dual citizenship. they can make you abjure whatever they want. other countries can still choose to grant you the rights and immunities of citizenship.

not just EV makers but also Apple are gonna really need to step up.

omfg.

“America’s utility vehicles—firetrucks, garbage trucks, dump trucks, etc., (along with most of our consumer vehicles)—are basically suburban-scaled vehicles. We’re missing the bottom half of the ‘scale ladder’ that corresponds to traditional urban spaces.” @ad-mastro.bsky.social

trying to look up some CDC data and sources. it's remarkable how much is 404-ed. sometimes the Wayback Machine will find it for you. sometimes alas not.

AI “alignment is not about imposing universal norms; it is about translation, pluralism, and respect for epistemic diversity. Machines must become fluent in multiple moral languages…to serve more than a single civilization’s idea of what it means to be human.”~Pranati Modumudi ^@glenweyl.bsky.social

cuddleball!

(what is the average prior 12m return?)

ouch, man.

as the calamity bears down upon us, we will have to live with the knowledge that it was we, all of us, who drove Larry and Olivia together.

sometimes people get off on technicalities, sometimes it’s the technicalities that get them on…

maybe it’s just like al capone’s tax evasion wasn’t categorically worse than other things he did, yet it nevertheless made some sense to focus on it?

24k gold pigskin coming right up.

this website is a nest of logoterrorists.

still have netflix, actively boycotting prime.

if i were better at video stuff i’d make a version of this replacing that weird screensaver backdrop with footage of caribbean boat strikes in a loop.

how many Americans are killed every year due to collisions involving foreign-produced automobiles? surely the President has the inherent authority to protect Americans and use the armed forces to blow up cargo ships full of these deadly machines. tariffs are for pinheads.

it gets hard to see the turf through the astroturf.

#providential