@artcollisions ha! literally laugh-out-loud!
there are assholes.
small assholes cause small problems.
big assholes—the more powerful sociopaths—cause big problems, while calling your attention to small assholes, and blaming them for everything.
the buck stops with that guy, but i sure hope it works out for him. really, man.
all claims are “true” modulo punctuation.
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“Seeing like a software company” by #SeanGoedecke https://www.seangoedecke.com/seeing-like-a-software-company/
i’m not sure a word better characterizes MAGA than “abdication”.
we are all for abundance, except with respect to the things we ourselves produce, or own.
the math of time is weird, some kind of strange curved manifold or topological curiosity.
it is so much closer now in 2025 to 1863 than it was in 1999.
happy thanksgiving.
@mms it’s old school! back in the day, when i worked on desktop computers on fixed networks with leased connections to the internet, i ran webservers from my working machines. if your main machine is set up in that old-school way, with stable public IP addresses, why not? serving static sites isn’t usually resource intensive. (if you are serving applications, then, well, it would depend.)
Do you think democracy is a good idea? Why or why not? 1/
I ask because pretty much everyone I interact with seems to self-identify as on the side of democracy, but a lot of people express cynicism about the electorate and the public’s capacity to participate in reasoned deliberation. the most straightforward implication would be democracy is a bad idea. 2/
Do you support democracy anyway on purely negative grounds? (i.e. “it’s the worst system except for all the others that have been tried from time to time”) 3/
How do you reconcile the deficiencies of contemporary publics, as you perceive them, with a claim to being a stalwart for democracy? /fin
if you are troubled by vice they've invented a device.
Marjorie Taylor Greene is castigating the “two party toxic political system”.
Is she going to join, in some fashion, team electoral reform?
The best thing you’ll read about the great $140,000 poverty debate, and the fallaciousness of reasoning endemic to the kind of people who get off on calling out other people’s fallacies. by #DanDavies https://backofmind.substack.com/p/ways-of-vibing
i’m so jealous of how you’re free of envy.
only democracy can make the world safe for technocracy.
expiation. lustration. ablution.
pretty dumb of the United States to abandon its (however notional) commitment to universalism in favor of chauvinism at precisely the moment when a chauvinistic world order would render it an also-ran.
almost 150 years ago we invented the phone.
the latest innovation has been to uninvent it, by inventing the phone tree, customer service center, etc.
i now drive miles to talk to people whom, thirty years ago, i’d have conveniently phoned. it’s increasingly the only way to talk to a capable human.
the present is different than the past, but that doesn’t render it superior. its shape derives from path dependence and lock-in much more than it is the result of some ill-defined collective “revealed preference”.