i don’t get why the humans tolerate the indignity of shitting, nearly every day.

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if ai comes and takes our jobs we could just hire people to give a fuck about one another.

foreign rule is not a problem in a world of independent territorial states. the age of overt empire is past (at least for now). the problem of “foreign rule” now is a problem of failing states, where some residents are disenfranchised while others rule. that is a problem made of ethnonationalism.

whining ineffectually about norm violations does not constitute enforcement of norms.

by doing it stupidly, he’s giving ammunition to dogmatic neoliberals, who always claim defying market logics (as they define them) can only yield disaster. Trump’s narcissistic heterodoxy will make that seem right!

capital controls can be! i’ve written many words in favor of well designed capital controls. ad hoc, discretionary vigs are not that. this is just stupidity masquerading as toughness.

there are lots of good reasons for a state to take the lead in ensuring production of necessities and strategic goods. not so many good reasons for demanding tolls to avoid punitive regulation. that both practices defy neoliberal marketism doesn’t render them similar.

it was the dawning of the age of the sociopath.

So dumb. Either there’s a national security issue or there isn’t. If there is, 15% of revenues isn’t going to purchase any adequate defense. If there isn’t, why the vig?

“The Homeless have to move out” // kind of by definition, they already have… can’t wait to hear about those places to stay.

as countries deploy immigration as a weapon, adroitness at integration becomes a matter of national security, a capacity that can not only neutralize the weapon, but even turn attacks into opportunities.

Now Comes the Hard Part, by Charles Hugh Smith charleshughsmith.blogspot.com/2025/08/now-...

did they? (i'm not a regular reader.)

perhaps you are being accurately informed of the broad state of things by your motor, in the only language it has available.

lateness is only truly perpetual when you are no longer living at all.

we have a disagreement! mastodon.social/@jawnsy/1150...

were TED talks a net positive or net negative for our collective cognition and deliberation?