“Per capita wealth…should be limited to a maximum of $10 million.” // modern states are both extractive machines for war and domination and the enablers of social coordination at scale that make modernity possible. retaining coordination while restraining the assholes is an existential challenge.
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[tech notebook] Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah https://tech.interfluidity.com/2025/11/06/zip-a-dee-doo-dah/index.html
one of the difficulties mercies of existence is that no matter how profoundly you fail, not only are you permitted another chance, it is obligatory that you take it, the alternative is justly forbidden.
yes. no new contempting that i know of!
a lot of people should go to prison. but Bannon’s just a pundit. he didn’t break any laws. (at least that i know of!) the Doge kids, Musk, Noem and various ICE functionaries, have legit reason to fear return of the rule of law. Bannon just likes to make himself the hero by making himself the victim.
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next to nothing is much more valuable than a trillion dollars, then.
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the most interesting and important part of AI is generating the training data. we should just be better paid for it.
tasty AND aerodynamic!
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i think part of the worldview of the moderate Republican is it’ll be okay because the Democrats will clean up after our guys’ excesses. i’m not sure they’ve cottoned to just what a degree of catastrophic success they’re now, um, enjoying.
am i wrong that the path he laid is the one Marjorie Taylor Greene is now dallying upon?
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finally a “smart” something worthy of the name.
when transportation is fully electrified, there will always be hungry batteries i think.
if this is for real, it could be a genuinely huge deal.
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we're for meritocracy, except half the population shouldn't be permitted to compete.
the synthesis here is you want macro bailed-out while micro churns. productivity gains mostly happen via new entrants or at least new plant. a downturn should be an incredible opportunity for new entrants, as the worst of the old crash and burn! 1/
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but for it to be an opportunity for new entrants, end customers still need to have cash to spend, even while it is some of their employers who have crashed and burned. that's where state transfers, spending, and lending have an essential role. 2/
let losers lose, create conditions under which new winners can emerge. /fin
i think distinctions within the group that once identified as jewish have grown very stark, between tendencies one might identify as diasporist on the one hand and nationalist on the other. i think it's quite the fissure at this point, wider in the US than all prior divisions.
after we bring them into receivership, sure.
what is this fantasy football? let’s hold people actually in power responsible for a policy response.
my identity is increasingly diasporist. it matters less and less just who or what it was a diaspora of. diaspora is a situation, a circumstance all its own, one that reminds a person of how desperately essential it is to treat “the other”, any and every, as human with equal rights and dignities.