you thought Havana Syndrome was bad, just wait for the vibes machine they bring on Mamdani. don’t believe the vibes. never believe the vibes.

business.time.com/2007/07/10/c...

a lot of yellowcake fentanyl comes out of Venezuela.

Romania has China-produced, Dacia-branded EVs (Dacia was Romania’s flagship auto manufacturer, bought by Renault). I also so Korean EVs I’ve not really encountered anywhere else (SsangYong). www.motor1.com/news/774747/...

"The problem with AI coding isn't technical debt. It's comprehension debt." ~Paul Sangle-Ferriere www.cubic.dev/blog/the-rea...

thread, as they say.

many years ago @wlknsn.xyz tweeted simply that we were a better country before 9/11. we were. it's as simple as that.

what's remarkable is that with USAID alone, the current administration is on track to outdo this. ph.ucla.edu/news-events/... ( image via Branko Marcetic, posting at the Nazi bar. original story www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/0... )

i’m old enough to remember proposals for a “green new deal” whose core idea was that broad-based prosperity could be wedded to, rather than traded off against, emissions reductions.

onions contain lacrimogens. they are literally chemical weapons.

he was doing politics the right way.

he says so. if he really believed it, i don’t think we’d be decimating medical research in the US. maybe he thinks he’s too close for it to save him. Xi might believe it — he got caught on hot mic discussing organ transplants and shit with Putin. time.com/7314433/xi-p...

if you want a manhattan project pursuing life extension, persuade your rulers — so that they really believe it — that good people go to heaven and bad people go to hell.

if your theory of politics requires as “discipline” that people can not publicly say what they actually believe, what kind of theory of politics is that? what is its relationship to democracy in any meaningful or substantive sense?

ick.

“the ultimate goal of democratizing Venezuela, and the resulting investment benefits, are front and center in investors’ minds.” “democratizing” you don’t have to be a fan of Maduro to think this is a funny word for what a Trump intercession might accomplish. www.semafor.com/article/11/0...

details of apportionment and (especially) districting can explain changes to the House, but not the Senate.

i post, and look for evidence of my existence in the ratio.

“Democracy persists as a legacy interface— maintained for stability, while being systematically hollowed out and replaced.”

only $1GZ?