you have to bite it to hold on, silly.

are not.

let’s see it!

sometimes casting about for alternative words to avoid duplication sacrifices clarity and just, well, complicates things.

grok didn’t refuse, but was unable to remotely complete the assignment, whether by innocent incapacity or sabotage intended by its makers.

authoritarianism is idolatry.

turns out some phenomena some of us attributed to ZIRP in fact survive ordinary interest rates.

“Granting that the banality of evil, as an explanation, has itself become banal…” ht @mitchsaid.bsky.social

it’s like the argument that it’s “institutionalist” for the Supreme Court to assent to whatever blatantly illegal thing the Trump administration wants to do, in order to forestall open defiance of adverse rulings, which would openly lay bare the powerlessness of the Court.

sometimes i think i am alarmist about the united states but then i look at how things have evolved, mostly in increments, over the last three years in israel/gaza and i recall conversations about what seemed like worst-case scenarios at the time and consider how rosy they now seem in retrospect.

(or worse. they wouldn’t have catoified their opinion section without the billionaire, for example.)

America is on meth.

“We and our 316 partners”

the one i know, yeah, definitely.

Okay let’s do this. One like, one eye roll silently calling into question your good taste.

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They are beyond the point where they can afford to lose power. A Democratic trifecta would reform this Supreme Court and begin to insist on accountability, what Biden failed to do. MAGA elites’ livelihoods + liberty are on the line. Roberts’ legacy requires that history will be written by fascists.