@Canevecchio @johnstonphilip it sucks we’re along for the ride, though.
moral of the Musk administration gonna be it’s hard to unscramble an egg.
i used to believe in the Loch Ness Monster, in sasquatches and chupacabra, in Republican congresspeople.
do we believe this "unitary executive" wouldn't abuse NSA's capabilities to routinely spy on domestic enemies? what constraints would prevent or even mildly discourage even the most plainly illegal surveillance?
a "unitary executive" is an untrustworthy executive. how are we expected to be candid on our tax returns if the IRS can't offer confidentiality? https://masto.ai/@unusual_whales/114021367350443443
they claim what they do is theater, but in fact it is only theater theater.
@dukepaaron (i think she's disagreeing. but i can't claim to be a bari-whisperer.)
in hell we'll all enjoy the irony.
Screenshot of Bari Weiss tweet. Bari Weiss, whose career has been spent mocking and deriding anything that might be excess of civilized impulse and who took enthusiastic part in the intellectual currents that elevates Trump says "No." in a tweet to Trump's Napoleonic-ish fascistic "He who saves his country does not violate any Law."
if the US shirks on flu surveillance and annual flu vaccines, for the rest of the world, are there alternative providers?
@Phil i don’t think it is my friend, in that community, who has been deranged by Trump.
“This is arguably the most important week in European history since 1991 or even 1945. It is conceivable that the NATO alliance is breaking down in front of our eyes“ #PhillipsPOBrien https://open.substack.com/pub/phillipspobrien/p/weekend-update120-the-us-changes
@Phil i have a friend who basically, and painfully, left evangelicalism because he couldn’t reconcile the support of his church for Trump with the values his family and church had always claimed to stand for. maybe some evangelicals are more reconciled to cynically using values claims only against political opponents, while finding an infinite reserve of grace for perceived allies. but #NotAllEvangelicals
evangelicals tied themself into pretzels about God and his imperfect instruments to embrace Trump. you'd think reconciling themself to Musk, with his transhumanist polymaternal marriage-less natalism, would be a especial challenge. but for now, there's no evidence they're having a hard time of it.
"TSMC and Intel rumors stoke Taiwanese fears of losing its 'Silicon Shield'" https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/tsmc-and-intel-rumors-stoke-taiwanese-fears-of-losing-the-silicon-shield
@admitsWrongIfProven@qoto.org basically, though some are still on the crypto side, and others make rockets and lead coups!
"TSMC and Intel rumors stoke Taiwanese fears of losing its 'Silicon Shield'" https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/tsmc-and-intel-rumors-stoke-taiwanese-fears-of-losing-the-silicon-shield
people on the tech right conflate capacity and propensity to destroy with human agency.
@jlecour part of my TODO list today is to maybe sit on the other side of that (revisit an issue i set aside for further consideration many years ago, maybe add a requested feature).