proclaim policy so extreme and destructive it’d be the dog catching the car if actually implemented. then walk it back declaring some misunderstanding or bullshit victory. 1/
you never have to face or be held accountable for the consequences of your proposals. you thrill your partisans. you leave your opponents bewildered and preoccupied. they come off as overwrought, nervous nellies. /fin
from @jbouie https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/18/opinion/democrats-trump-opposition.html
democrats are always trying to be “generic democrat”. no one is mad at generic democrat, no donor is alienated. generic democrat polls pretty well!
but generic democrat is an empty suit. we need people to lead, or, right now, to brawl.
Text: At the heart of all of this - whether it comes from congressional leaders, ordinary lawmakers or top pollsters - is the idea that Democrats can float above the fray and reap the political rewards of any chaos and dysfunction. Besides, voters say they want compromise - and what else can Democrats do but follow the polls?
[tech notebook] Baby DeepSeek on a Mac laptop https://tech.interfluidity.com/2025/01/28/baby-deepseek-on-on-mac-laptop/index.html
i wonder if banks will discount frozen grants.
some people prefer the negative income tax and others prefer the universal basic income, so they compromised on the negative basic income.
i feel like my kid's fifth grade teacher really dodged a bullet. they covered the geography of the US southeast, including the Gulf of Mexico, like a month ago. it'd be a no-win situation if she had to teach it now.
If Trump passed an executive order claiming "yuge" the official spelling of TWFKAH (the word formerly known as "huge"), would @merriamwebster just comply, maybe listing the h-version as an alternate or archaic spelling?
But Google, Google, isdoubleplusgoodd. https://mstdn.social/@GottaLaff/113903238775301885
yes, of course the shit they do is outrageous. but they love to be raged at. they thirst for our anger.
the shit they do is also stupid, pathetic, and hilarious.
they don't love to be laughed at. we love to laugh.
win-win!
You just earned 18 points.
i think we should commit to $2T Made-In-America AI capex, just to prove to China we can't be bowed.
Galaxygate, mofos.
@jonshell the occult applications of generative AI are badly underexplored.
May I speak to the person in charge of your cleaning services?
@jonshell i can see that!
maybe i’m still not sold on the lambo minivan though.
it’s a paradox, but ads subtract.
“To predict the consequences of an invasion and seizure of Greenland is unthinkable because it’s like asking ‘what would happen if gravity smelled like Roquefort?’ And yet!” @profmusgrave https://musgrave.substack.com/p/the-green-dawn-scenario
@landley do small services have to have anything to do with cloudflare?
How expensive would it be to run a full-size DeepSeek-R1 on ones own hardware or rented server?
Instead of paying giant service providers, could small communities of people affordably run their own, for privacy and ideally customization?
you know you are strong when everybody hates you.
You'd think before sending repatriation flights, someone would make a phone call? It wouldn't be, like, "Hi! We're here! Can we come in?"