massachusetts should just send their national guard off to tulsa without telling anyone and have them deploy in parks and pick up litter.
people think the president doesn’t care, but i think he stays up nights worrying the situation in gaza might become as bad as portland.
maybe the reason why you see fewer American and European young people traveling isn’t their lack of interest or adventurousness, but the fact the West has grown profoundly more unequal, and the tourist industry caters to dollars, not bodies, and dollars are disproportionately in older hands.
Are there “readers” for archived or zipped websites, distributed as a single file? (That is, without users having to overtly unzip and open the top directory’s index.html or whatever.)
For offline convenience or as a kind of samizdat, one might imagine passing around zipped sites rather than links.
“What appeals to me most about American traditions is the creedal nature of national identity, the Declaration’s insistence on universal equality, and the rights enumerated in our Constitution. Perhaps this is wishful thinking, but I consider innovation, productivity growth, and sustained material prosperity to be downstream of free expression.” @rajivsethi https://rajivsethi.substack.com/p/the-compact
is CBS the new “newsweek”?
the word “subject”, referring to a person, is fascinating.
on the one hand it means a subordinate, a “subject of” someone who rules them.
on the other hand it means a locus of agency, a subject can act, not merely be acted upon (which is the role of an “object”).
subject in contrast to object, vs subject in contrast to king.
among the most selfish, but perhaps the least self-aware person in all of human history. https://xcancel.com/elonmusk/status/1974817165283893574
we’ve redefined meritocracy as a tournament to acquire the best “cheat codes”.
i guess they’re real guys!
Photo of a sign advertising “medbeds” and “stem cell activation” in Pinellas County.
“The lesson we should be taking from LLMs is the immense social value there is in having all kinds of material – all kinds of products of human intellectual labor – freely available online. They should be reminding us of the early utopian promise of the web.” @jwmason https://jwmason.org/slackwire/actual-intelligence/
[new draft post] A fertile corpse https://drafts.interfluidity.com/2025/10/04/a-fertile-corpse/index.html
"Postliberalism and the romantic lie" by @ynysdyn https://www.christiancentury.org/features/postliberalism-and-romantic-lie
kind of ironic that they used to throw around “soy boy” as an epithet.
which is worse, to hate or to be hated?
what if there were a Halloween Everyday 🎃 app where you could post the location anytime you see anyone in a cool mask!
1) you can just tell these people to fuck off.
2) work strategically to arrange things so you will continue to be able to just tell these people to fuck off despite the costs they will try to impose on you for doing so.
3) in any case, just tell them to fuck off.
the modern republican coalition is made up of people who are sure that any supposed connection between fuck around and find out is a fabrication of libs and pointy headed elites and the deep state.
Text: The single most important problem for pro-democracy forces is that too many people — especially in position of power — seem unable to truly believe that we are living in a consolidating competitive authoritarian regime. Perhaps they are too habituated to the "rules" of the system that no longer exists. Perhaps they still cling to the drug of American exceptionalism, which makes it difficult for them to accept that "it can happen here." Perhaps they understand it intellectually, but find it too difficult to make the necessary paradigm shift.
one thing about wind and solar is they may be less susceptible to accident or sabotage than fossil fuel infrastructure. (but what about large-scale batteries?)