@delong i’m not sure it’s my favorite verse.

Enshittification as a macro phenomenon, @pluralistic riffing on #PavlinaTcherneva https://pluralistic.net/2025/11/07/postwar-social-contract/#a-defense-of-social-contracts ht @carolannie

@artlung it’s rough. you look at those further along the path and it is rarely reassuring.

@artlung (i’ve been very itinerant as an adult, within the US and abroad. i feel very similar, although recently — due to the times, but i think also my aging — am more sensitive to threat than excited by possibility. “home is no place” is very well put. i don’t think i’ve quite felt at home since my parents moved us from the house i grew up in, when i was 12 or 13.)

hate the post, not the poster.

@delong i am a cretin on these things, but reading the Tiberius Gracchus Wikipedia page, it is remarkable how current and parallel the crisis of his assassination seems.

the conflict between plutocrats and land reformers outstrips the willingness of partisans to work within republican norms and is ultimately resolved through murder. the republic, then, is doomed.

[tech notebook] Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah https://tech.interfluidity.com/2025/11/06/zip-a-dee-doo-dah/index.html

one of the difficult mercies of existence is that no matter how profoundly you fail, not only are you permitted another chance, it is obligatory that you take it, the alternative is justly forbidden.

@delong it works until it doesn’t, i suppose!

i think part of the worldview of the moderate Republican is it’ll be okay because the Democrats will clean up after our guys’ excesses.

i’m not sure they’ve cottoned to just what a degree of catastrophic success they’re now, um, enjoying.

we're for meritocracy, except half the population shouldn't be permitted to compete.

my identity is increasingly diasporist. it matters less and less just who or what it was a diaspora of. diaspora is a situation, a circumstance all its own, one that reminds a person of how desperately essential it is to treat “the other”, any and every, as human with equal rights and dignities.

i’ve become radicalized on crime, looking for some serious motherfucking tough-on-crime politicians, but tough on serious crime, the kind that causes massive rather than just particularized harm, the “nonviolent” (despite mass casualties) crimes of the rich and powerful.

this is quite a chart.

i wonder if it reflects a view that states will no longer act effectively against the use of cryptographic privacy to engage in criminal behavior.

“getting rid of anticircumvention laws only requires that governments control their own behavior – unlike taxing or fining companies, which only works if governments can control the behavior of companies that have proven, time and again, to be more powerful than any country in the world.” @pluralistic https://pluralistic.net/2025/11/01/redistribution-vs-predistribution/#elbows-up-eurostack

"The problem with AI coding isn't technical debt. It's comprehension debt." #PaulSangleFerriere https://www.cubic.dev/blog/the-real-problem-with-ai-coding

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?

Given what is happening to CBS News, I'l re-up this… https://drafts.interfluidity.com/2025/03/09/voice-of-a-maryland/index.html

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. 🎵