the Venn diagram between what i take from the Jewish tradition and what ADL takes from it is just two circles, very very very far away from each other.
when “deep research” surfs the web for you, does it do the CAPTCHAs?
people with idiotic politics demand we deport people for having idiotic politics.
“the customer is always right” is a relic of that world before success in business meant establishing monopoly.
nowadays, the customer is always plankton.
[new draft post] Voice of a Maryland https://drafts.interfluidity.com/2025/03/09/voice-of-a-maryland/index.html
a romanian perspective. https://friendshipbridge.eu/2025/03/09/done-romania-crisis-en/
Text: And here I agree with the American Vice-President J.D. Vance who says that Romania and the United States of America no longer share common values. Yes, that is true. We no longer have common values to share. Romania is a European state, a democratic state, a state that respects freedom, respects the liberal-constitutional order, whereas the United States of America has abandoned these values and these ideals, sliding towards a form of authoritarianism and political oligarchism.
the phrase 'the west' becomes awkward if the westernmost part of the west is no longer in it.
if tech treated tech like government, it would have mocked computing relentlessly for crashing so much and sent its own industry to the wood chipper. manual typewriters would be a token of a vigorous masculinity.
you can persecute jews for not cracking down on anti-semitism hard enough.
my god they love this shit. they laugh and laugh.
a thing to understand about Democratic Party professionals, from Congressional leaders to NGO-ists, think-tankers, and consultants, is their material situation is not all that different from Big Law — they lead lives of comfort that can be undermined if they find themselves especially targeted.
you start out so lonely. so you resolve, you struggle, you make enough money to buy the whole fucking world. so you do.
then you find there is no place lonelier than a world that you own.
we blame government for being inefficient when it is under-resourced, so we strip it of resources to make it more efficient.
i love canada and wish my own country hadn’t turned sociopathic.
“I think Trump is modeling himself to be our Caesar, ending the Republic and creating an Empire. He would be far better off, as would we all, if he modeled himself after Solon, the forgiver of debt.” https://econcrit.blogspot.com/2025/03/trumps-address-to-congress.html
the unfair part is, if you want to raise a lot of revenue from tariffs, it means people will have to pay a lot, and markets won't like that. surely there's a way to raise a lot of tariff revenue without making anybody pay it. back to the drawing board! where's Elon?!
this is the “You’re fired!” presidency.
we are pioneering a new economic system: casino feudalism
i think all social media posts should begin with a land acknowledgment that blogs were here first and sincere expressions of contrition for colonizing the place and destroying the culture.
reagan: peace through strength
trump: peace through perfidy
this administration just DGAF about derelictions of commitments the United States had previously taken on, even when such derelictions are literally and quite immediately deadly. USAID stop-works, ending intelligence sharing with Ukraine including air defense assistance, all have body counts.