"When prevention works, the catastrophe doesn’t happen, making the prevention itself seem (retroactively) unnecessary." @jakescottmd.bsky.social quillette.com/2025/08/08/r...

i mean, you can just ask!

we are people of a certain age, my friend, as are matt stone and trey parker.

I guess even with a constitutional amendment social security benefits cannot be reduced then? “I am promised…” “can’t be taken away” Article III, including life tenure, is not about personal entitlements of judges. Life tenure is granted to serve a purpose it evidently is now failing to serve.

a meeting of minds implies the existence of minds.

man yells at TV, most powerful military in the history of the world springs into action.

one of the many, many deficiencies of our current leadership is a complete incapacity to exercise any degree of magnanimity. apnews.com/article/air-... ht @kevincarson1.bsky.social

populism.

then you already have!

“the asylum”

(i’d agree with that.)

“the US offers nothing more than AI and various types of gambling and volatile tariffs, whereas China has offered massive advancements in science and technology and a future that people can actually believe in.” @kyla.bsky.social kyla.substack.com/p/how-ai-hea...

democrats, not beloved as a political party even as the Republicans are unpopularly overtly fascists, should make blowing up the two-party system the central reason why people should vote for them.

remember the ending of The Sixth Sense?

to talk about RFK Jr, we need a word for murder, but where the deed performed is like ten years in advance of the predictable deaths that result and there is a thin patina of plausible deniability.

social.coop/@cwebber/114...

i think @peterfrase.com pretty much called it when he coined the term “exterminism”. jacobin.com/2011/12/four...

so, is it China or Germany or India or who else that’s going to the next century’s biotech / biomedical powerhouse? who’s gonna pick up the mRNA mantle, along with all the others we’re casting off?

tell it to anyone who ever took a plea bargain.