kind of the flip side of “every accusation is a confession”, often virtues they attribute to themselves are unpersuasive appropriations of the work of others.

“Both the attention theory and moderation theory share the same fundamental flaw: they accept the existing conflict terrain as given and static. The moderation data nerds and shutdown commentators are bringing the same one-dimensional view.” @leedrutman.bsky.social

“The vision of politics—technocratic experts pulling just the right levers to secure just enough votes—is not just sterile + unappealing. It…has…consequences…contributing to the…sense…strategists + politicians don’t really care abt what they are saying… The poll-tested candidate looks like a phony…”

radical centrists are utopian in the sense that they’re always nowhere at all.

hospitals. famously cyclical.

a minimal prerequisite of sovereignty. it’s shocking how many states just bleed data and fees to US companies.

kind of wanna get my account suspended now.

right. and some of those people do list at the prices they’d like but won’t very quickly receive, generating inventory. i think that my intuition is closer to yours than the original poster, that this is more a demand than a supply story. but it’s fun because you can tell both!

does inventory cause price or does price cause inventory? (usually causal arrows go both ways, but is the inventory-causes-price story true enough it can reliably guide policy?)

i just try to write it!

"Being an Apple customer is like being in a 24/7 BDSM relationship…without a safe-word. Maybe you like the control Apple exerts over your life most of the time, but if they ever start to hurt you, there's no way to make them stop" ~Cory Doctorow pluralistic.net/2025/09/28/w...

image/meme-based communication may be something quite different, i don't know. short-form video is also something distinct, but does seem closer to classical orality and gossip, although the differences may matter too.

we can just lord it over them into our nineties then.

maybe!

maybe we as a society decide we don’t want increased orality. maybe we put our thumb on the scale in a variety of ways for an internet of text.

nevah!

the process of persuasion between now and then would likely be ungentle.

have you brought any gold statuettes to my office?

only on toast!