Bill Clinton after Monica Lewinsky _____ have resigned or been removed.
61.8%
should
(21 votes)
38.2%
should not
(13 votes)
the ten-year old just came to me for help navigating a cookie consent pop-up with a sneaky "legitimate interest" section. he couldn't figure out how to leave its purgatory with everything rejected. what a weird world he's growing up in.
bluesky offers RSS feeds, but it doesn't attach linked media to those feeds or include quote-embedded posts, and norms there seem very quote-commenty.
so i nearly always have to clickthrough rather than read in-reader. which renders it basically too cumbersome to really follow blueskyers by RSS.
which is a shame because there's a lot of conversation there i'd like to follow. i'll still sample a bit, but it's very frustrating.
(mastodon RSS feeds helpfully include linked media!)
cc @costrike
@costrike i'm really not there. i just put a few bluesky feeds in my RSS reader (for a pretty crappy experience of them, BlueSky doesn't support media attachments inside RSS). but I'll add your feed to my reader now!
it’s just that he believes in Roko’s basilisk, so it’s all under duress. https://assortedflotsam.com/@politicsbot/112481170154731053
i have pretty mixed feelings about the whole thing.
q: what do you call an unauthorized road runner?
a: a meep fake.
"We need network societies, not network states" #DivyaSiddarth #GlenWeyl #AnneMarieSlaughter https://cip.org/blog/network-societies
"of all the DNA principals, Erwin Chargaff would have been the most interesting to have dinner with." #BobTheScientist https://blobthescientist.blogspot.com/2014/08/chargaff-rules-ok.html
@ouguoc i try to be a 5-HT2A receptor agonist if i can.
i have come to the conclusion that i am an amateur tagonist. a rank amateur.
@costrike what is your handle there? I have been kind of brokenly half-following people via the very limited RSS feeds they offer. I'll sure add you!
"Intuitions and models developed in a lower-density world - such as that which produced all our traditions of economics - likely underestimate the significance of externalities." #Metaphysiocrat https://concretepossibleworld.substack.com/p/externalities-scale-superlinearly
a good line from an obituary of Gene Lewis, one of the most remarkable teachers and mentors i was once fortunate to have. i only learned yesterday of his passing, and i am sad about it.
“He outlived Henry Kissinger but not Mel Brooks, and he probably would have been fine with both outcomes.”
tired: inventing the future.
inspired: reinventing the future.
Is NASA’s Artemis program really this bad?
see #MaciejCeglowski https://idlewords.com/2024/5/the_lunacy_of_artemis.htm
@politicsbot this is about an abortion ban, not an election ban.
“the monopolist is like a politician who wins power – whether through greatness or by deceit – and then gerrymanders their district so that they can do anything and gain re-election. Even the noblest politician, shorn of accountability, will be hard pressed to avoid yielding to temptation.” @pluralistic https://pluralistic.net/2024/05/18/market-discipline/
@sqrtminusone@emacs.ch it is right! i guess the feelz is a matter of opinion.
right but it feels so wrong:
scala> None.forall( _ => false )
val res0: Boolean = true