plutocrats building apocalypse bunkers is maybe a great example of the iron law of institutions.
A person who would also be 'swaldman' but with a different first name than me seems accidentally to have signed up an email address that's mine to Trump mailing lists.
I've found it fascinating. The public conversation from Trump is all resentment and grievance, but the inside pitch to supporters is "I love you, I chose you, I need you" It's about making the supporter feel special, essential, part of the family.
I've redacted the S-beginning first name that isn't mine.
Screnshot of e-mails from the last few days, transcribed here as we are all the hare.
Photo: Tortoise Jonathan at Plantation House Saint Helena 1886 and in 2020
we think of dracula as this bad guy, but among his kind he is revered for offering a product that is organic, ethically-sourced, free-range.
how on earth did Microsoft do this, and not face any meaningful consequence?
i mean all software has bugs, sure. but if you are selling high-consequence software, when you are notified of security issues, you address them. is there no criminal liability in selling a product for money when you know it to be extraordinarily dangerous to your customers, making no good faith attempt to mitigate the risk?
by #ReneeDudley #DorisBurke https://www.propublica.org/article/microsoft-solarwinds-golden-saml-data-breach-russian-hackers
ht @pluralistic
"There's an implicit bargain that every monopolist makes… I will be a benevolent dictator who spends…windfall profits on maintaining product quality and security… [M]onopolists always violate this bargain. When faced with the decision to either invest in quality+security, or hand billions of dollars to their shareholders, they'll always take the latter. Why wldn't they? Once they have a monopoly, they don't have to worry abt losing customers to a competitor" @pluralistic https://pluralistic.net/2024/06/14/patch-tuesday/#fool-me-twice-we-dont-get-fooled-again
[new draft post] State capacity and authoritarianism https://drafts.interfluidity.com/2024/06/15/state-capacity-and-authoritarianism/index.html
people ask “why is the world silent?”
i quietly wonder, who imagined the world could speak?
Q: What does George W. Bush say at the sweaty end of a session of lovemaking?
A: Emission accomplished.
sometimes you miss gender people when you mister gender them.
maybe musk wouldn't pay himself so much if he faced a 94% marginal tax rate.
just spitballin' here!
tbh there'd be a lot fewer hallucinations than if he wrote it himself. https://jabberwocking.com/trump-says-ai-wrote-one-of-his-speeches/
Re this bump-stock decision, I can't help but ask, are the conservatives on the Supreme Court accelerationists?
is the word "respectfully" ever used more ironically than at the Supreme Court?
a response that flatters your priors is called a "debunking".
“Expect Recall to be baked into Enterprise versions of Windows, and your boss spying on your in an incredibly intrusive way soon enough.” #quoderat http://www.technologyasnature.com/recalled/
“the much-heralded and certainly welcome bottom-50% en-wealthification was miniscule in both absolute and relative terms. And it was heavily skewed toward the (wealthier) homeowners in that group.” @SteveRoth https://wealtheconomics.substack.com/p/another-look-at-the-bottom-50-wealth
[new draft post] Yimboree https://drafts.interfluidity.com/2024/06/13/yimboree/index.html
FEES the “No Hidden FEES Act” is a recursive acronym like GNU. https://prospect.org/blogs-and-newsletters/tap/2024-06-12-fighting-corporate-pricing-schemes-good-politics/ (excellent article by @ddayen)
@admitsWrongIfProven or perhaps “abstract”.