we're for meritocracy, except half the population shouldn't be permitted to compete.

my identity is increasingly diasporist. it matters less and less just who or what it was a diaspora of. diaspora is a situation, a circumstance all its own, one that reminds a person of how desperately essential it is to treat “the other”, any and every, as human with equal rights and dignities.

i’ve become radicalized on crime, looking for some serious motherfucking tough-on-crime politicians, but tough on serious crime, the kind that causes massive rather than just particularized harm, the “nonviolent” (despite mass casualties) crimes of the rich and powerful.

this is quite a chart.

i wonder if it reflects a view that states will no longer act effectively against the use of cryptographic privacy to engage in criminal behavior.

“getting rid of anticircumvention laws only requires that governments control their own behavior – unlike taxing or fining companies, which only works if governments can control the behavior of companies that have proven, time and again, to be more powerful than any country in the world.” @pluralistic https://pluralistic.net/2025/11/01/redistribution-vs-predistribution/#elbows-up-eurostack

"The problem with AI coding isn't technical debt. It's comprehension debt." #PaulSangleFerriere https://www.cubic.dev/blog/the-real-problem-with-ai-coding

if you want a manhattan project pursuing life extension, persuade your rulers — so that they really believe it — that good people go to heaven and bad people go to hell.

if your theory of politics requires as “discipline” that people can not publicly say what they actually believe, what kind of theory of politics is that? what is its relationship to democracy in any meaningful or substantive sense?

Given what is happening to CBS News, I'l re-up this… https://drafts.interfluidity.com/2025/03/09/voice-of-a-maryland/index.html

there should be a whole genre of sloppish AI videos for Talking Heads’ “Television man”

🎵And everything is real / Do I like the WAYYY I feel. 🎵

@carolannie ( i’ve mixed feelings about their CEO… https://theintercept.com/2025/01/28/proton-mail-andy-yen-trump-republicans/ )

Any VPN recommendations?

(the main motivation is to present as a US client while overseas, for a whole family’s devices, i’d like someone i don’t feel shitty to do business with.)

Stein’s Law is the law now in America.

This is excellent, by #LeeDrutman

(i think the piece suggests fusion voting would not do enough more than that it’s a particularly hopeful way forward. but the analysis of where we are, and how futile much of our factionalizing is, has never been presented more clearly.)

https://leedrutman.substack.com/p/the-moderation-debate-fiddles-with

ht @ryanlcooper

you used to have to change the clocks, but now it’s like a treasure hunt to find a clock that hasn’t changed itself.

concentrating our forces off Venezuela and Nigeria will ensure our critical national security interests are protected.

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if you’ve written for a long time, you have to hope you don’t become a stereotype of yourself. it’s not an easy thing to avoid.

boo, y'all!

isn't he doing to grok what they did to HAL 9000?