i thought i’d made a mistake but i was mistaken.
@ZaneSelvans “There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.” ~probably misattributed to Lenin
Nevertheless, we are in the weeks my friend.
entirely orthogonal to the question of whether it's right or wrong, AGI-ism behaves precisely as a millenarian cult. much can be dispensed with or tolerated, because ultimately all that matters is what we know will come.
Back in the day, in arguments about somehow unshackling ourselves from the oppressive, miserable, anti-circumvention provisions of the DMCA, there was a lot of pessimism that the skein of global trade treaties internationalizing those provisions had effectively locked them in, US domestic politics would face a battle so uphill it’d be a cliff. 1/
At least in many respects, that entire treatyworld now seems a dead letter. Does that mean we should be more hopeful we might get at least this one nightmare off our backs? /fin
it seems like everybody is indexing now. tons of different organizations look like google in my logs. are others seeing this? is everyone training their own LLMs, despite claims about scale meaning it’s useless to run an also-ran?
i confess that sometimes late at night, like now, i wish i were not so woke.
they are achieving ever greater shares of the ecosystems they’re destroying.
under its newly ascendant "unitary executive theory", i suggest we refer to it as the Supreme Court Royale Of The United Monarchy".
(sorry.)
the left-right spectrum is a dumb way to orient your thinking about contemporary electoral politics. the people for whom it matters are already placed and not persuadable. swing voters swing and vote based on other things.
“moderating” in this sense doesn’t broaden the tent. you have to do something else.
have we learned anything about the people who’ve been killed in the several US military operations against boats alleged to be operated by “narcoterrorists”?
there is no one more pathetic than one’s murderer.
regardless of whether they ultimately kiss up or stand up to Trump, none of the mergers involving these media companies — Disney, Nextar — should be permitted to go through. even if they do the right thing, they shouldn’t be paid off with more consolidation.
in these times, “the princess and the pea” becomes a dark parable. very sensitive, very powerful people are maybe not what you want.
“Don’t say the word pretext so loud. There has never been a pretext even once. We certainly don’t know what you mean. Just be quiet. Don’t say ‘We have to speak up now, because there will always be an excuse when the troops descend on the city or the strike hits the boat or the vans roll up and start shoving people inside.’ I’m sorry I said excuse. I’m sorry I said pretext. I should have said reason. I should have said nothing.” #AlexandraPetri https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2025/09/jimmy-kimmel-suspension-censorship/684267/?gift=jQN1t1D1nkO2TQodBiz5KJnoBWCrK2FN2bZjkw7xXCA&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
nihilism is cowardice.
all this makes me wanna learn to be funny.
please laugh.
[new draft post] Too much murder https://drafts.interfluidity.com/2025/09/17/too-much-murder/index.html
The way Google prioritizes links to TV stories when I search for newsy things has my conspiratorial dander up. TV news is the medium most susceptible to capture and control. Google, instead of linking to the text-based web—the medium most open to diverse viewpoints—privileges what can be controlled.