as a peacemaker, i am perfectly willing to accept your absolute surrender.
the entrenchment of a gerontocratic political leadership globally suggests life extension research may have social costs its enthusiasts and funders have not reckoned with. for much of the world, the finitude of leaders’ natural lifespans represents the public’s best hope for change.
i’d like to hear more about generative AI tools developed and deployed outside of the United States or China.
massachusetts should just send their national guard off to tulsa without telling anyone and have them deploy in parks and pick up litter.
@Phil ( was a subtweet of this stuff https://xcancel.com/antoniogm/status/1974892099507220723 )
people think the president doesn’t care, but i think he stays up nights worrying the situation in gaza might become as bad as portland.
maybe the reason why you see fewer American and European young people traveling isn’t their lack of interest or adventurousness, but the fact the West has grown profoundly more unequal, and the tourist industry caters to dollars, not bodies, and dollars are disproportionately in older hands.
@gl33p Is it? I don’t really have any idea how the epub format works internally, I just send it to an ebook reader.
Are there “readers” for archived or zipped websites, distributed as a single file? (That is, without users having to overtly unzip and open the top directory’s index.html or whatever.)
For offline convenience or as a kind of samizdat, one might imagine passing around zipped sites rather than links.
“What appeals to me most about American traditions is the creedal nature of national identity, the Declaration’s insistence on universal equality, and the rights enumerated in our Constitution. Perhaps this is wishful thinking, but I consider innovation, productivity growth, and sustained material prosperity to be downstream of free expression.” @rajivsethi https://rajivsethi.substack.com/p/the-compact
@EvolLove i suppose, but perhaps the perception is subjective!
is CBS the new “newsweek”?
the word “subject”, referring to a person, is fascinating.
on the one hand it means a subordinate, a “subject of” someone who rules them.
on the other hand it means a locus of agency, a subject can act, not merely be acted upon (which is the role of an “object”).
subject in contrast to object, vs subject in contrast to king.
among the most selfish, but perhaps the least self-aware person in all of human history. https://xcancel.com/elonmusk/status/1974817165283893574
we’ve redefined meritocracy as a tournament to acquire the best “cheat codes”.
i guess they’re real guys!
Photo of a sign advertising “medbeds” and “stem cell activation” in Pinellas County.
“The lesson we should be taking from LLMs is the immense social value there is in having all kinds of material – all kinds of products of human intellectual labor – freely available online. They should be reminding us of the early utopian promise of the web.” @jwmason https://jwmason.org/slackwire/actual-intelligence/
[new draft post] A fertile corpse https://drafts.interfluidity.com/2025/10/04/a-fertile-corpse/index.html