if you believe that AI will lead to a job apocalypse, i guess it’s unsurprising people are making up justifications for mass LIFO.

i’ve become radicalized on crime, looking for some serious motherfucking tough-on-crime politicians, but tough on serious crime, the kind that causes massive rather than just particularized harm, the “nonviolent” (despite mass casualties) crimes of the rich and powerful.

this is quite a chart. i wonder if it reflects a view that states will no longer act effectively against the use of cryptographic privacy to engage in criminal behavior.

i don’t want to be mammalian…

it’s worse than gold. people would just ogle.

I think it’s too little noted how, for all that is to be lamented about Biden’s inability to communicate what he was doing right (IRA, CHIPS, anti-monopoly), and for all he did catastrophically wrong (foreign policy), he and his party did much better with its public than Britain’s Keir-Starmer-ism.

Excellent.

“Stock market celebrates Mamdani victory.”

it’s a beautiful day in the neighborhood.

“He is one of the most unpopular presidents in American history, and Democrats need to push news organizations (along with other institutions) to stop treating his political supremacy as if it actually exists.” @mikethemadbiol.bsky.social mikethemadbiologist.com/2025/11/05/s...

also “gruff, but not actually a dick” turns out to be an appealing combination!

one big surprise after all this is how much everybody loves Curtis Sliwa now.

“what pundits forget is, by the midterms, the ballroom will be complete.”

“really it was all about the American public wanting to show support for the Cheney family, and a tribute to the former Vice President”

“what mattered most of all was the Democratic Party’s messaging.”

y'all look like The Beatles somehow! (lovely!)

🙁

“getting rid of anticircumvention laws only requires…govts control their own behavior—unlike taxing or fining companies, which only works if govts can control the behavior of companies that have proven…to be more powerful than any country in the world.” ~Cory Doctorow pluralistic.net/2025/11/01/r...

esq.social/@mikewas/115...

people are like, leadership never put together a pipeline. but here online i see a fair number of young gerontocrats! they don’t seem shy.