regardless of whether they ultimately kiss up or stand up to Trump, none of the mergers involving these media companies — Disney, Nextar — should be permitted to go through. even if they do the right thing, they shouldn’t be paid off with more consolidation.

i’m sorry, it sucks. but it is their loss much more than yours.

in these times, “the princess and the pea” becomes a dark parable. very sensitive, very powerful people are maybe not what you want.

(thanks!)

so, insensitive speech is intolerable, but it's just fine to tell people you wouldn't care if they died, if the plane they were on just crashed. i think i'm getting the hang of this.

it's true that discretion over the application of antitrust laws gives a corrupt executive tremendous leverage over big firms. it's also true that if antitrust laws were consistently applied to keep industries diverse+competitive, a corrupt executive cld not so easily exercise control over everyone.

look, you want to be originalist, but Charlie Kirk didn't exist in 1787, so some interpretive license is inevitable.

waiting for the supreme court, which has already insisted to us that money is speech, tell us that broadcast licenses are not.

tbf we haven't showered in a while.

nihilism is cowardice.

you got that right.

marginalia-search.com

i feel like it’s 9:11 twice a day.

all this makes me wanna learn to be funny. please laugh.

(thanks! i’ll check it out!)

proportional representation for deliberative minipublics — legislatures, parliaments, etc approval voting for single-winner positions we can do this under the current constitution. (you’d treat the house as a deliberative minipublic. Senate seats would be single-winner.)

look on the bright side, even really mild comedy is edgy again.

[new draft post] Too much murder https://drafts.interfluidity.com/2025/09/17/too-much-murder/index.html

are there good non-US alternatives to US online streaming services?

look. i’d be mad at you too, if you didn’t talk about the things you talked about.