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the term “espionage” spans quite a range of practices, from curiosity to sabotage.
my laptop is out for repair and it’s like a phantom limb, i am constantly about to get up and get it to do some thing or other and then i realize no, i can’t. there are ants crawling under my skin and only a stupid device can make them go away.
“The British left has long been bedevilled by the conservative tenor of its dreams of a better society, combining a pre-industrial rural nostalgia with the sober respectability of the self-improving working class. This tends to be heightened whenever there is the threat from the radical left, and the reaction invariably emphasises an aesthetic and moral critique over a material analysis” #DavidTimoney https://fromarsetoelbow.blogspot.com/2024/04/reclaiming-history-for-left.html
@aliceif @kura safari on desktop does it by default, as does at least one other browser — brave i think. it was having to dig to find the setting to turn truncated urls off in desktop brave i think that provoked the microrant. but i can’t check right now.
UPDATE: It looks like Brave on desktop does the right thing (does not truncate). Contrary to what I misremembered above, on desktop (MacOS), truncation remains uniquely a Safari pathology.
“Marjorie Taylor Greene Is No Neville Chamberlain” #KevinDWilliamson https://thedispatch.com/newsletter/wanderland/marjorie-taylor-greene-is-no-neville-chamberlain/
@aliceif @kura atm i’m on a phone. so blame ios maybe (this trend unsurprisingly began as an apple “innovation”). browsers are chrome, firefox, safari, brave.
url is https://drafts.interfluidity.com/2024/03/28/how-to-understand-approval-voting/index.html
UPDATE: for the impatient, three out of four truncate (firefox does not). thanks @kura
please connect while i try to hold you.
people who are sure what everybody else is consuming is propaganda have often learned that from propaganda.
@Alon I don’t know how I can persuade you of how unpopular Israel has become beyond a pretty hard political right in the United States, and how difficult a task even liberal Zionists accustomed to defending Israel face not just because others are raucous or antisemitic, but because it is hard not to concede that it is an exercise in defending the indefensible. It is a message you are extremely reluctant to hear, but it is true nevertheless.
“What has Biden asked from Israel?” #KevinDrum https://jabberwocking.com/what-has-biden-asked-from-israel/
Via @damonlinker, via #JohnGanz, these essays by #SamuelFrancis are a fascinating gateway into strands of the right (and sometimes small-is-beautiful left) that prefigure Trumpism.
“Beautiful Losers” https://chroniclesmagazine.org/web/beautiful-losers/
“Nationalism, Old and New” https://chroniclesmagazine.org/web/nationalism-old-and-new/
Both linked from this @damonlinker piece: https://damonlinker.substack.com/p/trumpisms-prophet (paywalled, i’ve only read the free intro.)
@phillmv “wag the dog” seems quaint. at this point all that’s left is the tail.
@phillmv (meanwhile, Israel attacking Iran, which NPR had been willing to confirm nearly an hour prior, didn’t merit a mention.)
@Alon i don’t think that’s informative. USians don’t have positive views of a cause they associate with Islamist terrorism. the issue isn’t Americans supporting the Palestinian national project or God forbid Hamas. of course we support Israel more. but we don’t support bombing trapped civilians or starving children, even for a cause we’d otherwise feel warmly towards. we increasingly resent becoming at best “complicit” in the moral catastrophe Israel has allowed itself to become.
i am greatly relieved by how restrained the Israeli counterstrike appears to have been.
i do hope that the matter can now be deemed concluded.
@peter i’d really like to see it clean a gas station bathroom.
@scottjenson the future is bright, if it weren’t for those darned naysayers.