americans decided they would test the proposition “nothing matters.”

though i understand how the evidence for the proposition sometimes appears considerable, i remain skeptical it will ultimately prove correct.

an automated system demands your urgent attention.

i don’t think this plan
to force a divorce between yin and yang
is going to work out very well.

virtue shames our leaders and is therefore a crime against the state.

i agree the gilded age analogies are overwrought. the era we are living through is much worse than the gilded age.

We know better than this, but we’re doing it anyway.

@admitsWrongIfProven@qoto.org “intellectual capital” is one of those words. interpret it as you see fit!

what would an intellectual capital strike look like?

one great thing about the full Reagan speech is that he emphasized the anticompetitive / tariff-protected-industries-make-low-quality-high-price-goods aspect of tariffs.

x.com has democratized the car wreck you can’t look away from.

Since China increasingly owns the global automobile industry, maybe we can revise our built environment so we are not isolated and helpless without constant access to that product.

I mean we should have anyway, but maybe declining domestic lobbying clout and geopolitical exigency will help.

the Wayback Machine as a very personal, very fragmentary, time machine. https://web.archive.org/web/19970419013806/http://boo.media.mit.edu/

why is it a “legitimate interest” to give me RSI?

if i make fake video of fake video does that make it real?

it would be kind of funny if it was literally George Soros George-Soros-ing Argentina, just taking in all that Bessent cash with short sales.

“When someone threatens to burn down your house unless you do as you're told, and then they burn your house down anyway, you don't have to keep doing what they told you.” @pluralistic https://pluralistic.net/2025/10/20/post-american-internet/#huawei-with-american-characteristics

conjecture:

llm : friendship :: porn : love

you don’t have to hate anyone. not even the worst of them.

you do have to hold them accountable, which means punishing them, sometimes severely.

in sadness, not out of hatred or in anger. you can still wish the best for them, under the circumstances.

love the humans, each and every.

if it is a flag for some of the people, i’m against it.

if it is a flag for all of the people, i am for it.

“We have been committed to nothing so much as not producing anything.” @ddayen https://prospect.org/world/2025-10-14-china-trump-tariffs-rare-earth-minerals/