@LesterB99 I don't think Musk's social media outrages are motivated by any immediate "money domain". (I mean sure, moving to TX. but he's just venting a resentment.)
We are in a time of choosing, btw social democracy and a kind of plutocracy whose popular basis can only be fascism. Elon Musk, in his bufoonish way, is quite aware of that. And he is a strong partisan on one side.
It's not a Biden v Trump choice. That's related, but narrower and noisier. These times are a big social crossroads.
@LesterB99 his upside is the carnival, the emotion, bitterness, and rancor as along as it is directed towards anything but plutocracy.
@LesterB99 economic populists, who are most of the public but can be pitted against one another on cultural questions and opposing conspiracisms.
@carolannie yes, i think he almost revels in how stupid he can be and still cause mayhem.
musk promotes great replacement theory for the same reason netanyahu supported hamas.
it’s not that you support the thing per se, but it provokes division and disunity among adversaries who could threaten you if they united.
screenshot of musk tweet promoting great replacement theory.
what exactly money is can be pretty confusing.
(the part about whether you have it or you don’t can be jarringly clear, however.)
see @SteveRoth https://open.substack.com/pub/wealtheconomics/p/not-thinking-about-money
the numbers don’t lie, but they don’t tell the truth.
can’t we just go one day without anybody dying?
[new draft post] Nimble nationality will define state capacity https://drafts.interfluidity.com/2024/02/02/nimble-nationality-will-define-state-capacity/index.html
@artcollisions i mean, their shareholder value is our surveillance and manipulation, so i feel more prosperous, don't you?
apparently META is worth $200B more today than yesterday. sounds legit.
if it were *my* op, she'd be Tayla Scala.
@akkartik i run a markdown service, hedgedoc, already for office-hours "notes"! i could use that—i can make posts private—but i prefer somethg local-and-sync to somethg that requires a network. i've gotten a few good suggestions to try. craft, which i've been using in this role, is not terrible. i just got frustrated when i decided to rewrite rather than revise a post, and found cutting + pasting v, v flaky. (it was OK to display as markup and cut + paste from that, but not from rendered text.)
@akkartik (thank you for all of the thought you've been giving this!)
you changed the world. you just didn’t care how.
@buermann i’ve oddly managed to write some long first drafts straight on a phone. it surprises me too, but sometimes the convenience, or maybe just the psychological sense of “not really writing, just throwing down some ideas” outweighs the very real deficiencies.
@llimllib i love your notes. i’m a huge fan.
@akkartik oh my. i love the kind of bespoke, small use software you advocate, but it’d be silly to devote time to this.
i end up doing most of my markdown in emacs, but i like a WSIWYGish app that syncs between phone and laptop for getting started, a way to short circuit my pretty strong writing aversion by jotting a first draft anywhere.
i’ve been using the notetaking app craft, but i’m finding it quirky, somewhat disappointing recently. so i’m wondering if there are similar apps people love.
@buermann i do a lot of that in emacs!
but i’ve found it convenient to start first drafts in an app accessible on all my devices, then to export into emacs as markdown and go through my rounds of editing there.
i guess it’s an attempt to minimize the psychological barrier to entry of getting started. i can jot something on a phone app, rather than “sit down for a session”. my psychological barrier to opening up an emacs buffer is somehow lower for writing code than text.
What's your favorite writing environment that exports nicely to markdown?
