@felix that was you!
are you a monthly active user?
@sqrtminusone@emacs.ch that’s why i need infinity. the whole space gets crowded, polluted. only fleeing somewhere orthogonal to everything will suffice.
@sqrtminusone@emacs.ch when i retreat, i don’t want to share the same plane (or hyperplane) with what i am retreating from.
the conversation about supreme court recusal is a bit bizarro world.
in theory, recusal asks justices whose circumstances might prejudice their judgments to stand aside.
but our actual conversation about recusal takes as known and given the prejudice of justices. we look for pretexts to advocate that those whose prejudices we disagree with might be forced to step aside.
it’s repurposing of a vestigial mechanism.
one requires a universe of infinite dimension so there is always an orthogonal direction to retreat to.
@phillmv @Rickperlstein yes. there are people i felt politically kin with a decade ago who have podcasts and now i don't feel kin with them at all, even if we'd all be described as having leftish commitments. i think farming the emotional engagement and actually moving the overton window stand strongly in tension. it's not the people you already agree with who have to open their horizons of the legitimate.
@phillmv @Rickperlstein no state can function without the credible threat of violence. the best states function in such a way that the threat of violence is rare and distant. no coalition member can have influence without the threat of exit. but coalitions function best when the assumption is it won't come to that, and negotiate in good faith so that it doesn't. in a marriage one doesn't frequently threaten divorce, although the existence of the possibility may discipline both parties. 1/
@phillmv @Rickperlstein in US politics, i think Bernie Sanders is an exemplar here. on the one hand, he never overtly threatened, after shitlibs moved heaven and earth to defeat him, to quit the party and take his voters with him. on the other hand, he and Biden negotiated a settlement, under which Biden became in domestic economic matters the best US president since LBJ. the threat of defection was always present in those negotiations, but i suspect tacitly rather than wielded as a cudgel./fin
does the writing on missiles thing mean she’s angling for VP?
“the authoritarian ratchet grinds ceaselessly on, with anti-authoritarians helpless to stop it whether we ‘win’ in Washington or not, with the way one group of anti-authoritarians accuses another group of anti-authoritarians of being complicit ‘shitlibs,’ and with that group accusing the first group of sole responsibility for every loss to the Republicans since the time when convention power brokers smoked backroom cigars.” @Rickperlstein https://americanprospect.bluelena.io/index.php?action=social&chash=f21e255f89e0f258accbe4e984eef486.2734&s=ce07d2b5feef04b26a83a61bce292370
let them eat freedom.
"the best military is the one that’s strong enough to deter a challenge, which gives room to critics to ask why so much is spent on a military that does nothing. " #BranislavSlantchev https://slantchev.wordpress.com/2024/05/28/war-economy-what-is-it-and-why-we-will-not-transition-to-it/
the cruelty is a prerequisite.
[new draft post] Masculine virtues https://drafts.interfluidity.com/2024/05/28/masculine-virtues/index.html
yesterday i went to the beach for the first time this year. homeymoon key, just north of clearwater fl. it felt like the gulf water usually feels in late august. https://x.com/PaulFox13/status/1795531338050867515
can LLMs do standup comedy?
@admitsWrongIfProven Hello, World!
I spent much of the weekend adding support for update histories with links to prior revisions and diffs to my static site generator.
I'm not quite sure why I did this. Neuroticism is neuroticism. But if you care I am fishing for feedback so I can pretend it made any sense to do this. Here's an example. https://tech.interfluidity.com/xml/iffy/index.html#major-updates
what would be the bigger injustice, outright confiscation of 99% of every centibillionaire’s wealth, or how half the world lives every day?
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