[new draft post] Where am I? https://drafts.interfluidity.com/2026/01/18/where-am-i/index.html

you can abolish ICE and still enforce immigration law. it’s called e-verify + fines to employers of the unverifiable.

(i would like our immigration laws to be more hospitable than they are. but effective enforcement of our current laws does not require detention or violence.)

morons learn lessons.

the fundamental mistake the contemporary right makes is to confuse the product of successful institutions with personal characteristics of the people that perform them. since they think good outcomes are about good people, they happily dismantle the institutions under which people become good.

the credo of the contemporary US, articulated pretty directly by its political leader, is that to be smart is to cheat, if and as much as you can get away with it.

most of the country’s preeminent tech industry has this as the basis of its business model.

i myself am not so fond of Crown Prince Stephen.

Verifying you are human. This may take a few seconds… With you, it may take a bit longer.

doxxing is dickish, even of dicks.

if AI is so good and the US is the world leader, wouldn’t you expect us to act with more intelligence?

who do you have to kidnap to run Greenland?

“We have, in Western society, managed to simultaneously botch the dreams of democracy, capitalism, social coherence, and techno-utopianism, all at once. It's embarrassing actually. I am embarrassed. You should be embarrassed.” @apenwarr.ca https://apenwarr.ca/log/20211201

as i grow old, i live in fear of someone confronting me: “Have you no recency, sir, at long last, have you no recency?”

on the one hand it’s good to live a long full life but on the other hand the longer you are around the more the more is taken from you.

a thing about history is you can tell the same story a hundred different ways and all of them are true.

i condemn this knife in your back i have my palm wrapped around.

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I want to see a lot of public sector LLMs. In fact, I think most of what contemporary tech platforms do should be migrated to the public sector.

it’s weird how the current view from the right is most of us are lazy leeches and moochers but we’re not making enough of us.

the best laid plans of mice and men gang aft a-gley. but failing to plan at all is worse.

the best feeling is when you hit an "unsubscribe" link and it 404s.