it would be kind of funny if it was literally George Soros George-Soros-ing Argentina, just taking in all that Bessent cash with short sales.
“When someone threatens to burn down your house unless you do as you're told, and then they burn your house down anyway, you don't have to keep doing what they told you.” @pluralistic https://pluralistic.net/2025/10/20/post-american-internet/#huawei-with-american-characteristics
conjecture:
llm : friendship :: porn : love
you don’t have to hate anyone. not even the worst of them.
you do have to hold them accountable, which means punishing them, sometimes severely.
in sadness, not out of hatred or in anger. you can still wish the best for them, under the circumstances.
love the humans, each and every.
if it is a flag for some of the people, i’m against it.
if it is a flag for all of the people, i am for it.
“We have been committed to nothing so much as not producing anything.” @ddayen https://prospect.org/world/2025-10-14-china-trump-tariffs-rare-earth-minerals/
made a sign for tomorrow, but i worry i may be pushing at the bounds of free speech with this kind of radicalism.
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal," script from the Declaration of Independence, overlaid on an American flag.
i know we’re all supposed to hate the groups, but i say we start a group called “citizens united against citizens united”.
is anyone keeping a database of the black letter crimes that members of this administration seem to commit with some frequency, so that a next administration can finally take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed?
there is a line. you can be on this side of it or that side of it. the line is bad, but if you say so you’ll be placed on that side of it.
a touching, beautifully crafted, film and a straightforward depiction of where our current direction of travel leads. https://www.netflix.com/us/title/82040265
the 12-year-old just had me take a look at this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wu4hRYdhhg
No one should be remotely surprised, but this conversation between @sjshancoxli and #RobertBlack is remarkably deep and wide-ranging. Exceptional. https://creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/liberalcurrents/episodes/Liberalism-101-Liberalism-and-Limited-Government-e39cukv
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you ask a gen-alpha-er what they want to be when they grow up and they say “i want to be canceled when i grow up so i can be famous and make a lot of money and run the government.”
"The old world is dying, and its creators are pretty quiet about it." @Atrios https://www.eschatonblog.com/2025/10/the-world-is-flat.html
somebody’s going to make an algorithmic ai-generated porn app that examines users’ scrolls and pauses like tik-tok and modifies what it generates accordingly. some strange shit gonna evolve in that ecosystem.
much more dangerous than being straw manned by other people, it is so easy to fall into a practice of straw manning oneself: getting cornered into defending a simplification or caricature of ones own views.
“Let me repeat that — social media silos are fighting against web links, the foundation of the open web. They do so to ‘encourage’ content and discussions on their own platforms, noble goals a stakeholder would say, except that now these platforms are filled with politics, rage, and AI slop.” @alexelcu https://alexn.org/blog/2025/10/13/outsourced-voices-outsourced-minds/