from #ZacharyCarter, via #TimSahay https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/03/biden-economy-voters-polling-numbers-covid-recovery.html

“The problem with social media platforms is not just that they seek to hook us on their products, it’s also that they offer themselves as the answer to profound human desires, which they are ultimately unable to satisfy. We are promised well-being and even joy, but are instead enlisted into a form of life that yields burnout, unhappiness, loneliness, and cynicism.” @lmsacasas https://theconvivialsociety.substack.com/p/desire-dopamine-and-the-internet

“if corrupt acts help me, then obviously at least this kind of corruption serves the cause of meritocracy.”

if you are interested in tech things, and don’t follow @llimllib’s remarkably useful and interesting and concise notes, you are missing out. an amazing resource. https://notes.billmill.org/

“The problem with the requirement for each year to be more profitable than the last is that once you reach the peak, once it's not possible to actually improve your product any more, you still have to change something. Since you can't change it to make it better, you therefore will change it to make it worse.” @andrewrk https://andrewkelley.me/post/why-we-cant-have-nice-software.html ht @llimllib

// i’m reluctant to drive any car manufactured later than 2015, since they’ve all been made worse, at least from a privacy perspective

“For many decades, American Jews have built our political identity on a contradiction: Pursue equal citizenship here; defend group supremacy there. Now here and there are converging. In the years to come, we will have to choose.” @PeterBeinart https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/22/opinion/israel-american-jews-zionism.html

“Bruce Schneier has a name for this practice: ‘feudal security.’ That's when you cede control over your device to a Big Tech warlord whose ‘walled garden’ becomes a fortress that defends you against external threats… The keyword here is external threats. When Apple itself threatens your privacy, the fortress becomes a prison.” @pluralistic https://pluralistic.net/2024/03/22/reality-distortion-field/#three-trillion-here-three-trillion-there-pretty-soon-youre-talking-real-money ht @chasedmartin

is it too gross a kind of self-promotion to boost when people link to your shit?

I really enjoyed this mini memoir of @rbreich's friendship and dialog with the inimitable JK Galbraith. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/my-mentor-ken-galbraith

sometimes i pace my apartment searching for my glasses because they're so closely bound to my face i can't see where they are.

when it disputes your priors, you dismiss it as a corrupt shitlib rag.

when it reinforces your priors, you take it as evidence, "even the liberal xxx admits that..."

@Cyrus @xerophile don’t give them any idea$, please!

everything we do we all do together.

this has implications for your innocence.

it’s important we elect only superficial people to positions of political authority. we wouldn’t want anyone who understands how intolerable the human condition is to have access to the nuclear codes.

i want a button that says “maybe never”.

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