war is a continuation of policy by idiotic means.
you’ve got to admit he’s just rather definitively addressed affordability.
i know someone said this better a few days ago and i think i even reposted it but my god i’ll never get over the US sabotaging its renewables industry and doubling down on fossil fuel dependency only to force fossil fuel prices sky high. it’s like thanatos, a national death wish.
putting storefronts in every phone was about as good an idea as a technology that makes sure there is always a fresh, open bag of cheetos at hand in every room.
If accusations like the US intentionally destroyed a desalination plant prove true, elite accountability will become a national security imperative. Rehabilitation into multilateral security arrangements will require repudiation of the administration’s crimes, and imposition of a credible deterrent.
how much of it is policy uncertainty kneecapping investment and expansion? how much of it is AI-related labor minimization? what else?
Had US v. Trump not happened, would Trump have launched a full-scale war (arguably two) without some kind of Congressional fig leaf?
it’s not just a middle finger, it’s homeopathic homicide.
we imagined twitter might spark liberal revolutions in places like saudi arabia but instead what seems to be occurring is the saudification of everywhere.
maybe in an AI world most of our jobs should be legislator.
the coolest conspiracy would be if one of the other companies betting their future on AI bribed the administration to kneecap current-leader Anthropic via its own sanctimony.
(sanctimony which, by the way, i fully support!)
"They’ve genuinely identified the pattern I described in the Bonfire essay and then committed the most consequential intellectual error possible. They saw the fire and decided to pray to it." @elbowspeak https://syntropic.xyz/posts/2026-02-14-the-bonfire-in-the-cave/
// Josh pointed me to this essay but I flaked. ht @SteveRoth for pointing me again. It is excellent.
Anthropic should name their next model “Opus DEI” just to fuck with everyone.
snowballs are a gateway drug to cream pies. everybody knows that.
the internet of AI simulated loved ones will be called the deadiverse.
when you are not carefree, people who appear carefree are like a different species.
would you rather be part of something exclusive or part of something inclusive?
i worry, since they would lose any election in a wave, and they face significant criminal and business risks from a transfer of power, that they won’t see as their best bet manufacturing crises that they can argue foreclose the possibility of immediate term democratic transition.
i might dispute the branding of these ideas as YIMBY or “abundance”, but there’s a lot of policy wisdom in this by @resnikoff https://rooseveltinstitute.org/publications/lessons-from-yimbyism/ 1/
@resnikoff it’s never “deregulation”. there was regulation before the reform. there will be regulation after. it’s the character, not the “quantity”, of regulation that determines its virtue or vice. 2/
@resnikoff there is no such thing, and certainly no such desirable thing, as deregulation. there can fruitfully be reregulation. /fin
raising money is not a legitimate function of political leaders.