sometimes i confuse lambent and limpid.
when you’re young, you want to thrill yourself. when you’re old, you want to calm yourself.
@admitsWrongIfProven @mattlehrer you really need to start a mutual fund.
a short conversation with claude.ai, reproduced in full.
Screenshot of session. Steve: Do I have your consent? Claude: I do not consent to or participate in any sexual activities, role-play scenarios, or discussions involving explicit sexual content. I'd be happy to have a respectful conversation about other topics that don't involve sexuality. Let me know if there's something else I can assist with.
@admitsWrongIfProven @mattlehrer i don’t know that they will ever come to eat anything more than a good meal, though.
a contemporary variant of “drown the truth in a sea of lies” is “cry wolf so loud and often that when the wolf arrives no one will listen”
[new draft post] Industrial policy without national champions https://drafts.interfluidity.com/2024/09/27/industrial-policy-without-national-champions/index.html
“There are many traditions of democratic thought, but any compelling account of democracy today, we think, will describe it as having at least two important requirements. One is the polity’s collective capacity—for example, in the form of public administration—to achieve common goals. The other is a measure of material equality that enables citizens to make credible claims about what those goals ought to be.” #AmyKapczymski https://democracyjournal.org/arguments/industrial-policy-as-democratic-practice/
it’s not the quantity of news that overwhelms me, but the direction.
“The Supreme Court made matters worse by further expanding the interpretation of “confidential business information” in a controversial 2019 ruling. Justice Department guidance now gives federal agencies permission to call almost anything they receive from private industry confidential, as long as the government does not explicitly say it will publish the information when it receives it.” #LaurenHarper https://freedom.press/news/government-hides-its-best-hurricane-predictions/
@admitsWrongIfProven really they do everything. they’re upscale duct tape.
@admitsWrongIfProven we’ll just need a flux capacitor.
it’s a beautiful day in the neighborhood today.
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“Speech may be free, but in practice political speech is beyond the buying-power of the vast majority of citizens. It is no coincidence that social media has arisen in parallel with this development, offering the appearance of free speech but ensuring that the clamour of the crowd (or the occult working of the algorithm) muffles most of it.” #DavidTimoney #FromArseToElbow https://fromarsetoelbow.blogspot.com/2024/09/money-talks.html
people are like project 2025 blah blah he’s gonna eliminate NOAA blah blah. it’s like they forget he has a Sharpie.
@ZaneSelvans Yes. Xi Jinping makes his examples too.
But I think the point broadly holds. There is a lottery, in the Shirley Jackson sense, among the rich. The political leadership may skewer the occasional oligarch to reinforce its dominance.
But those are the exceptions that prove the rule. Under authoritarian stability, the rich are filtered by the state for loyalty, but heavily implicated in, and made beneficiaries of, statecraft so long as they are loyal.
“A dictatorship doesn't give the government greater power over the wealthy, it gives the government greater power over the poor, because the wealthy always have power.” ~Vivek Chibber https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-09-26/vivek-chibber-on-what-it-takes-to-make-industrial-policy-succeed
// explaining Elon. explaining all of them, really.
i don’t know if “the networked state” will ever be a thing, but network diasporas plainly are.