@artcollisions (i’m subtooting JD Vance referring to school shootings as “a fact of life”.)

i liked it better when “the facts of life” referred to sex stuff.

@mattlehrer i guess the argument would be (1) election day is the relevant date for determining eligibility — ie if you turn 18 the day before election day, you can vote; and (2) those dead on election day would be ineligible to vote on election day, so their earlier votes are the inverse of the almost-18-year-old, the convenience of early voting can’t overcome their ineligibility.

@realcaseyrollins i doubt enough to matter. it’s just a corner case i’m curious about.

if you vote early or by mail, but then die before election day, does/should your vote count?

netanyahu and sinwar have gotten exactly what they wanted all along. it’s only everybody else who suffers.

@Zamfr well, i just openly tooted on the subject now! ;)

Given the news about Tenet Media — a DoJ indictment alleges $10M in secret Russian funding to support people like Tim Pool, Dave Rubin, Lauren Southern, etc — has anyone looked into the possibility that Substack subscriptions to very lucrative newsletters may not reflect organic subscribers, but may be sock-puppeted by sponsors interested in financing sympathetic media personalities?

@debrashannon 🙁

A good piece on tensions btw democracy at a human scale and the mass/social-media circuses “Our Democracy” has become at a national level.

Person-to-person interaction is the core and essence of a democratic polity. Democracy is an ethos of mutual respect and curiosity. Inevitable institutional imperfections will be more than sufficient to break it if you don’t have that. “Professional” is to politics as it is to wrestling. by #WillStancil https://www.offmessage.net/p/what-i-learned-running-for-office-stancil ht @ryanlcooper

It’s only been 16 hours, AT&T. Np.

@jdp23 perhaps the French is «flopot».

reading lol is not as infectious as hearing you lol.

was it a pivot or a flip-flop?

in Russia as in the West, the people at the top of the social pecking order become obsessed with life extension research. people used to getting whatever they want still face mortality like the least of us. they do not like it. http://www.rferl.org/a/33104121.html ht @SocraticEthics

“Predicting the future is almost impossible, but one of the few predictions that I feel very confident in is that, a century or so down the road, people will look at modern car-centric America with the same disgust that we feel when we hear about old timey cities without modern sewage systems, where everyone just dumped their chamber pots in the street.” #HamiltonNolan https://www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/cars-have-fucked-up-this-country

@Zamfr (i wasn’t “subtooting” yesterday’s indictment, but i certainly agree that people like Tim Pool are bad faith actors regardless of whether they knew who was funding them.)

“All this is leading to the emergence of new economic divides between those who control the means of summarization, and those whose properties or livelihood risks being summarized into effective non-existence. Large swathes of our old political economy risk being torn up at the roots, as maps infect the territories they delineate.” @henryfarrell https://www.programmablemutter.com/p/the-political-economy-of-ai ht @ryanlcooper

we are always in collapse. we are always in renewal. it’s all about adjusting the relative pace.

[new draft post] Income driven repayment of fixed capital https://drafts.interfluidity.com/2024/09/04/income-driven-repayment-of-fixed-capital/index.html