@gooser3000 i guess i think he’s pretty unusually far along the spectrum of sociopathy.
what do the national guardspeople and marines, most of whom don't have Stephen Miller's view of the world, think of the role into which they've been thrust?
“don’t worry about NIH or NSF. our machines will do the science now and it will be amazing.”
they really believe this shit, some of them. you have to admonish yourself (i have to admonish myself) you can’t wish cancer on anyone, that kind of thing is bad for the soul.
Vanilla Ice was a strangely prescient name and lip-syncing seems now such a quaint kind of scandal.
@light why craft a category of “legal persons” if not to grant them legal rights?
from “Children of the Days”, by Eduardo Galeano. https://bookshop.org/ebooks/quotes/5a99a116-b75a-4266-b435-f7a67092a1e1
Text: It seems strange, this notion that nature has rights as if it were a person. But in the United States it seems perfectly normal that big companies have human rights. They do, ever since a Supreme Court decision in 1886. If nature were a bank, they would have already rescued it.
even when a course correction is urgently required, it may not make sense to blow up the plane.
1990s — X Files
2020s — Epstein Files
i don’t follow NYC politics all that closely, but i like that sometimes when i’m quickly skimming Mamdani parses as “Madman”.
we are so fortunate to have two stable geniuses.
“the only country that has both the resources and the capacity to make credible commitments regarding academic freedom is Norway.” @rajivsethi https://rajivsethi.substack.com/p/body-blows-and-brain-drains
@admitsWrongIfProven my guess is the solutions of differential equations are precisely what you contemplate when you are urinating.
the big inscrutable bill, apparently. https://mas.to/@FantasticalEconomics/114623017936090659
@light i prefer a considered preference for democracy and rule of law rather than a kind of sudden intoxicated devotion.
maybe someone should found a university that — i know this is novel — would be governed by its faculty.
do the “deep research”, “agentic” AI tools know how to avoid AI slop?
i prefer not to be anything pilled.
credit rating agencies, but for how much we should credit public figures' utterances.
@mlazz @drahardja see also Herfindahl-Hirschman Index https://www.justice.gov/atr/herfindahl-hirschman-index
@marick @GeePawHill @RonJeffries you are! takes one to know one! you definitely definitely are!