people on the tech right conflate capacity and propensity to destroy with human agency.
@jlecour part of my TODO list today is to maybe sit on the other side of that (revisit an issue i set aside for further consideration many years ago, maybe add a requested feature).
every centimillionaire is a policy failure.
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Once you start thinking about growth, it’s hard to think about anything else, and then your monomaniacal focus on a measure that counts market power as human welfare undermines democracy and becomes handmaiden and apology for fascism.
“i just want you all to know that i take great pride in my humility.”
“we have, and would normally want to have, some immunity shielding government officials from liability for doing their jobs, if we are going to leave them sufficiently free to do their jobs. But here no one in DOGE actually had a job that would have entitled them to do what they have done.” @cathygellis https://www.techdirt.com/2025/02/14/no-personal-liability-for-doge-yet-but-with-two-more-lawsuits-we-get-closer/ ht @glynmoody
isn’t the “unitary executive” just respectable Yarvinism?
it’s certainly contrary to a Constitution under which Congress structures, funds, and co-hires offices of the Executive Branch.
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claude.ai just asked me to explain something. "Would you help me understand where I went wrong in my thinking about the Secondary Income credit entry?"
so i did, at least i explained how i think about it.
claude.ai "worked through" my explanation, then responded "Thank you for this clarification - it's a much more logical way to approach the problem!"
will claude.ai in any sense "remember" my explanation? have i meaningfully taught it anything?
@arthegall i mean, i agree, but somebody did his hands are, um, full.
say what you will about the man, but he had it right. he grabbed Congress by the pussies and they just let him do it.
@realcaseyrollins that's fine. just don't imagine broadly held resentments on their own present a pathway to some bold new future. someone has to actually chart a course towards something they might find less resentable. vengeance and retribution will not suffice to vouchsafe a bright horizon.
there are these people who are like, Trump's massive win means the bright, bold future belongs to resentment personified.
intellectuals, they fancy themselves.
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“He’s ripping out important systems without understanding why they’re there, and then — because he doesn’t understand them, nor even wish to try — insisting that they must be part of some grand conspiracy for fraud.” @mmasnick https://www.techdirt.com/2025/02/13/some-follow-up-questions-for-elon-musk-after-he-admits-he-gets-stuff-wrong-sometimes/
@dpp ha! i love it!
(around the time i first wrote c3p0, i also wanted to do a Berkely DB interface, i was gonna call it bdbd after the sound the robot on Buck Rogers used to make.)
would it make sense to start a crosspartisan campaign to lobby the White House to replace Musk with Bannon as head of DOGE? make a strange bedfellow of MAGA 1.0?
Excellent.
“If a judge orders an action to cease and the executive refuses, who gets to call the police? Who do the police listen to? If people don’t leave their positions, who makes them?” #AlexNorris