Given what is happening to CBS News, I'l re-up this… drafts.interfluidity.com/2025/03/09/v...

there should be a whole genre of sloppish AI videos for Talking Heads’ “Television man” 🎵And everything is real / Do I like the WAYYY I feel. 🎵

if Harris had won, would AI build out be as central to our economy as it now is?

i love your mom.

With most of our Big Politics conversations among nonfascists, it’s not so much which faction is right or wrong, it’s that whoever is right or wrong the question we are addressing is irrelevant, simply does not rise to the scale of the problems they purport to address.

Stein’s Law is the law now in America.

This is excellent, by @leedrutman.bsky.social. (i think the piece suggests fusion voting would not do enough more than that it’s a particularly hopeful way forward. but the analysis of where we are, and how futile much of our factionalizing is, has never been presented more clearly.)

is there anything in the modern world like the yellow pages, where i might ignore the ads and just get an exhaustive list of all the businesses of a certain type in a geographic area?

one of my most illiberal views is that every form of ad personalization and targeting (beyond the targeting implicit in advertisers’ choice of context) should be straight up banned.

he’s just a remarkable figure. how well he has aged relative to Trump, Biden is a small piece of anecdata that suggests karma is real. (he’s older than both of them.) www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/o...

Excellent, by @deanbaker13.bsky.social.

i think it’s working for me? anyway drafts.interfluidity.com/2024/08/13/c...

you used to have to change the clocks, but now it’s like a treasure hunt to find a clock that hasn’t changed itself.

“That rabbis composed and distributed a letter condemning a single candidate for mayor in one city, while too often remaining silent regarding the explicit hate speech that now runs through the Republican party, is embarrassing and shameful.” @ravmike.bsky.social

“It is unreasonable to expect working-class Americans to behave politically as a cohesive class when the party that supposedly champions their interests will not address or organize them in those terms.” @gabrielwinant.bsky.social

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five behind greenwich mean time.

concentrating our forces off Venezuela and Nigeria will ensure our critical national security interests are protected.

people are exposed to the truth, but also to lots of lies. we need a world where when people interact with people they trust, they hear the truth rather than the lies.