Plutocracy is an equilibrium.

Once who plutocrats pay determines who gets to be affluent—indirectly of course, via sinecures or lobbyists on "philanthropic research organizations"—politicians have to legalize getting paid (as the Supreme Court just did for "gratuities") or be left behind.

Govt action becomes a market good, like all market goods, subject to appropri8n at will by plutocrats, except when other plutocrats bid in competition.

Plutocrats share an interest in entrenching plutocracy.

"Developing Java Applications with Scala-CLI" #Yadukrishnan https://yadukrishnan.live/developing-java-applications-with-scala-cli

#java #scala

you have to own the mistakes you make even by following someone else's advice.

in ten years the word “automate” will most commonly be a noun, referring to a product whose immense popularity is somewhat bittersweet.

In 2016, the political science book you couldn't stop hearing about was "The Party Decides".

In 2024, the political science book you can't stop hearing about is "The Hollow Parties".

suddenly, i have ads from Gretchen Whitmer on the horrorsite. i don’t recall seeing those before.

the most amusing scenario is Biden drops out and endorses New York Governor Kathy Hochul.

"'Lab-grown' meat maker hosts Miami tasting party as Florida ban goes into effect" https://finance.yahoo.com/news/lab-grown-meat-maker-hosts-040331357.html

#Florida #freedom

[new draft post] Superdelegates https://drafts.interfluidity.com/2024/06/29/superdelegates/index.html

A really excellent rundown on the incoherent judicial gymnastics threatening the most important reform in higher-ed finance, like, ever, President Biden's SAVE plan. by @ddayen https://prospect.org/justice/2024-06-26-student-loan-rulings-unaccountable-judicial-power/

"This is the American story of the past 4 decades: accumulate tech debt, merge to monopoly, exponentially compound your tech debt by combining barely functional IT systems. Every corporate behemoth is locked in a race between the eventual discovery of its irreparable structural defects and its ability to become so enmeshed in our lives that we have to assume the costs of fixing those defects. It's a contest between 'too rotten to stand' and 'too big to care'" @pluralistic https://pluralistic.net/2024/06/28/dealer-management-software/#antonin-scalia-stole-your-car

what if Biden is just a morning person?

to be discreet is to have discretion but to be discrete is to have discontinuity.

“I was fortunate enough to get the opportunity to design large parts of a relaunch of medicare plan compare, the US government site through which hundreds of thousands of medicare recipients purchase their health care plans each year… I especially want to share this story because I want to show that quality software can get written under government constraints. It can! And if we all start believing that it can, we're more likely to produce it.” @llimllib https://notes.billmill.org/blog/2024/06/Serving_a_billion_web_requests_with_boring_code.html // a deep dive

I periodically — lately oddly frequently — repost this one.

Merge the Court https://www.interfluidity.com/v2/7964.html

the american zodiac is the presidency you were born in. i’m a nixon. explains a lot about how things have gone.

@_dm @Simplicator i think Trump did a good job of not being that bad.

he confabulated on abortion and professed moderatehood by supporting medication availability, completely dodged questions about kicking out stable, attached long-term undocumented and climate change, questions on which his movement’s actual answers would alienate tye public.

if the strategy was let the public see Trump and be afraid, i think it failed badly.

my theory is that the Biden Administration demanded an early debate precisely so there would be time for a change of course if his candidacy came to seem untenable.

i find this a bizarre, kind of gross invocation of Eugene Debs.

debates only for elections that don’t really matter, crest vs colgate? we are responsible for saving ourselves by conceding we face no real choice, shldn’t legitimize bad choices with a debate?

Debs ran for President from jail. Convicted felon, “opposed to the form of our present govt…opposed to the social system in which we live…I believe in the change of both but by perfectly peaceable + orderly means.”

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/06/debate-trump-platform-january-6/678818/

@pluralistic argues that, since Congress is gridlocked and half-bought by the beneficiaries of extraction and enshittification, the Federal government should use its leverage as a buyer, set procurement requirements that cleantech purchases (i would say all government tech purchases!) should be resistant to enshittification, and to just plain bricking when a supplier disappears. https://pluralistic.net/2024/06/26/unplanned-obsolescence/#better-micetraps