the Iranian people should overthrow the regime, then join the EU and impose a digital services tax.

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neoconservativism first time as tragedy second time as ???

as an ersatz version of the song “Barbara Ann” goes through my head, i feel like nothing has changed in my long lifetime.

“It isn't the people who use the term who are expected to be uncomfortable, after all… don't expect a report any time soon confronting the uncomfortable truth that white ex-public schoolboys are disproportionately involved in City fraud and suggesting that Eton and Harrow have questions to answer.“

so good to see that you’re well.

my man, this is what it *means* to be cool. james dean, john lennon, they were all just faltering steps on the road to *this*.

good on you.

“There is a popular myth out there that public agencies ought to be able to finance themselves with user fees. Unfortunately this principle is never applied consistently. It is used to target institutions disliked by the Right.” ~Max Sawicky sawicky.substack.com/p/get-on-the...

re-upping that i think what a lot of politics-knowers describe as “status quo bias” is not that at all, but rather an artifact of an electoral system that channels punishment for bad action much more effectively than rewards for good action. drafts.interfluidity.com/2024/12/24/w...

i’ll have to defer to your expertise. the one who seduced and controlled the neurotic scientist/doctor character.

after seeing a lot of videos, i’ve come to the conclusion that blonde chick from Battlestar Galactica was perhaps the most prescient take on AI.

for people who live there and love it, NYC in fact has a lot of market power. no matter how rich you are, there really isn’t anywhere else like it, particularly if you are an English speaker and your politics are antagonistic to European social democracy.

the resulting baby boom saves humanity from extinction!

it’s the only way to get away.

a democracy progresses less by factions winning fights than by forging agreements encompassing mixes of consensus and reciprocal compromise. i know that’s hard to imagine now that we’ve bifurcated into mirror image caricatures of ourselves.

maybe the reason for that spat with Trump is he was off his meds at the time.

suppose you cut medicaid, but create a “stabilization fund” to hold hospitals harmless, prevent rural hospitals from shuttering. all you’ve done is created income for hospitals without requiring—or even allowing—them to actually do the work of helping those who would have been medicaid recipients.

X should brand its stablecoin, all of its financial products, “Starship”.