they’re just going to will him despite all evidence into the pretext they’ve been itching for.

i do have websites that exist and i give google approximately zero thought as i publish them.

pretty convenient how quickly The Left has forgotten sandwich guy.

“The politics of insurance, Rebecca Elliot has argued, is ultimately about ‘what is fair and valuable, what needs protecting and what should be let go, who deserves assistance and on what terms, and whose expectations of future losses are used to govern the present.’”

it is troubling, on a day like this, to have not so much faith in the competence, honesty, or intentions of the current FBI.

This is a good @mattyglesias.bsky.social piece. www.slowboring.com/p/national-c...

“you will hate us, but you will pay us anyway.” the new capitalism.

the automobile can be a great servant, but has proven itself (especially in the United States) a terrible master.

the consequence of tolerating misgovernance is you are misgoverned. which can be a pretty big motherfucking consequence!

UBI — Universal Bean-Driven Income

our brave new financial system.

Trump is a charismatic, narcissistic, toddler in the wrong place at the wrong time. John Roberts is intentional and responsible. He did this and is doing it.

This is old, but it remains my preferred approach to (housing) abundance in the US. You’d probably slot it in the “red plenty” tradition. www.interfluidity.com/v2/8772.html (@holz-bau.bsky.social makes an appearance, from the first time I ever encountered him, and he’s only gotten better.)

could be! let us know who you’re thinking, how broad the tent is. it’s pretty clear this abundance conference embraced a remarkably big tent to the right. let us know how it did, or the movement will, invite participation by people who think successful abundance must be largely a public project.

Mamdani would have been an obvious figure. (I have no idea whether he was invited or not.)

“(As far as I can tell, no one from what Teles calls the ‘Red Plenty’ wing was invited to speak.)” @resnikoff.bsky.social publiccomment.blog/p/when-is-a-... // do they eschew purity tests, or just have a different notion of what counts as pure?

when the dust settles, will we think of it more as suicide or murder?

i’m sorry Dave i’m afraid i can’t do that.

if AI isn't sentient, why do people talk about adopting it? everyone needs a family.