@taber i use digital ocean and upcloud now. have used racknerd and linode too. all fine.
maybe antivax influencers are the result of a conspiracy by big pharma to replace efficient one-or-two shot cures with expensive chronic treatments that yield perpetual recurring revenue.
@Transportist Drutman in his book recommends Australia-style single transferable vote as the most straightforward path to proportional representation for the US.
i suppose we should have realized the (pre-Dobbs) Texas abortion bounty thing was a new pattern. where they cannot deny a right they dislike, they can render assertion or enforcement of that right difficult or dangerous in practice.
“Much as I might wish for a better party system, I’m operating with my values in the one that we have, not the one I wish we had. In a different system, I might think and feel differently. We all might. And that is precisely my point.” #LeeDrutman https://leedrutman.substack.com/p/doomier-and-loopier-why-our-two-party
[new draft post] A conversation with Kevin Erdmann https://drafts.interfluidity.com/2025/05/14/a-conversation-with-kevin-erdmann/index.html
"with the decline of local journalism and the rise of social media brain-poisoning, a large fraction of voters have never heard about IRA projects even in their own neighborhood." @ryanlcooper https://prospect.org/politics/2025-05-14-house-republicans-take-aim-red-state-economies/
“To save its insurance industry, Taiwan probably needs to intervene massively to keep its currency weak. To save its export industry from the threat of “reciprocal” tariffs, Taiwan likely need to step back from the foreign exchange market and let its currency appreciate.” #BradSetser https://www.ft.com/content/d71c34a0-4ded-4cba-be1c-82384915a8fd
one hopes there is hope.
Some thread openers from X:
“I cannot stress how important this is.”
“Everything changed today.”
“I present to you [XXX] that you will NOT believe are real.”
“9 wild prompts for image and video”
“10 wild examples + Try it now & Code”
“WAIT UNTIL YOUR ALONE, YOU WON’T LAST 20s THROUGH THIS THRÈAD”
"we don't need any kind of corruption law. that's what the ballot box is for, right?"
“Apple’s strategy in China has resulted in a transfer of technology and know-how so consequential as to constitute a geopolitical event” #PatrickMcGee https://www.thetimes.com/business-money/technology/article/how-apple-helped-china-become-americas-biggest-tech-rival-8f83tttv5 ht #BradSetser
@Phil There was an inflation that sucked, but was global post-COVID and milder here than elsewhere. I don’t know what he did that you think so arrogant, but he ran labor markets tight and revived industrial policy and factory construction. (His successor, of course, is scuttling that success.)
@Phil the Biden administration not selling out the country for personal gain. it was the only administration of my lifetime that was beginning to reshape the economy in favor of the domestic working class. with a degree of competence entirely lacking in the current administration.
This is fascinating. The claim is an enzyme has a domain unrelated to its main binding site that (accidentally?) regulates transcription of genes implicated in Alzheimer’s. Binding that domain with a small molecule can inhibit its role in advancing the disease. https://scitechdaily.com/scientists-discover-hidden-cause-of-alzheimers-hiding-in-plain-sight/ ht @nedhamson1
@Phil Hunter’s “career” has been pure sleaze, selling influence even if it wasn’t available for him to sell, no question. That Joe didn’t do what Jimmy Carter did to his brother is a moral blot, regardless of whether he in any way participated. But man, nothing alleged is even in the same ballpark in terms of scale and susceptibility to abuse as air force one or memecoins.
it’s like elite Republicans believe their “Biden Crime Family” propaganda, but what they experience is not faux outrage over corruption, but a challenge to outdo their rivals in competition.
the symbolism that it will be Air Force One is really something.
all those patriotically coded films, the President under threat or making hard calls from Air Force One.
brought to you by the Emir of Qatar adds a new spin.
i refused the cookies. i should have asked for a plane. https://www.interfluidity.com/posts/1257407150.shtml