it is troubling, on a day like this, to have not so much faith in the competence, honesty, or intentions of the current FBI.
This is a good @mattyglesias piece. https://www.slowboring.com/p/national-conservatism-is-un-american
“you will hate us, but you will pay us anyway.”
the new capitalism.
the automobile can be a great servant, but has proven itself (especially in the United States) a terrible master.
the consequence of tolerating misgovernance is you are misgoverned. which can be a pretty big motherfucking consequence!
our brave new financial system.
Screenshot, incoming mail from Gemini, "TON and FARTCOIN Are Now Available On Gemini", 1:42 PM.
This is old, but it remains my preferred approach to (housing) abundance in the US. You’d probably slot it in the “red plenty” tradition. https://www.interfluidity.com/v2/8772.html
(@holz_bau makes an appearance, from the first time I ever encountered him, and he’s only gotten better.)
“(As far as I can tell, no one from what Teles calls the ‘Red Plenty’ wing was invited to speak.)” @resnikoff https://publiccomment.blog/p/when-is-a-tent-too-big
// do they eschew purity tests, or just have a different notion of what counts as pure?
if AI isn't sentient, why do people talk about adopting it?
everyone needs a family.
"to be immersed in the digital stream is to drink from the waters of Lethe, and daily we drink for far too long like the unwise souls in…the Land of the Dead. The most powerful tools of externalized memory, by a straightforward logic, have induced a profound forgetfulness." @lmsacasas https://theconvivialsociety.substack.com/p/the-waters-of-lethe-flow-from-our
just as a matter of rhetoric, i don't understand the appeal of "this is not normal."
it's not persuasive, if you are not already settled in your view of "this".
it's not inspiring if you're already on-side.
it's not blistering if you're on the other side.
okay. i’ll take your word for it.
“But you probably want some good news and I have it for you: This post is for paid subscribers”
This product contains ethanol.
When I write plaintext mail, I want plaintext mail. I may have formatted things carefully.
Apple Mail now does a very stupid thing. It “inserts links” into plaintext mail, so if I write “interfluidity.com” what I get is “interfluidity.com <http://interfluidity.com/>” (lots of bad assumptions in that conversion!)
To stop this, as far as I can tell I have to right-click each occasion and explicitly select “Remove Link”. I can’t find a general setting to prevent the behavior.
Anyone know a way?
just a reminder that we are still in, perhaps even pretty early in, the fuck around stage of the current administration.
from Zephyr Teachout https://the-antimonopolist.ghost.io/the-pro-monarchy-google-ruling/
Text: What if, instead of fretting about the “messiness” of breaking up a monarch, the court embraced the older American wisdom Justice William O. Douglas articulated in 1948: “For all power tends to develop into a government in itself. Power that controls the economy should be in the hands of elected representatives of the people, not in the hands of an industrial oligarchy. Industrial power should be decentralized—scattered into many hands—so that the fortunes of the people will not be dependent on the whim or caprice…of a few self-appointed men.” Clinging to cloaks of legalism instead of confronting power, that's a bad habit recently among Democratic Party elites too. There are plenty of anti-Trumpers who like the concentration so long as their side holds it. But refusing to directly address power is bad for democracy and bad politics.
in my logs, i see a lot more organizations than in the past apparently indexing my sites, organizations quite far afield from search engines.
i'm tempted to interpret these as organizations experimenting with training their own LLMs, though it's just a conjecture.
so, do we fire the new guy?
actually, scaling by moore’s law at constant cost was lots more hopeful and exciting than scaling by a hockey-stick graph of compute expense.
well, they’ll say. at least it wasn’t a wedding.