This post broke the internet.

i wanted to joke like a sweaty person meme saying the temperature is a SCAM! except that’s not a joke at all that’s literally the position on climate change.

@admitsWrongIfProven @jeffcliff @Hyolobrika @PippiPunkstrumpf @VeroniqueB99 @renardboy @the_etrain @Alice @CorvidCrone social media are full of people ready to attack and undermine contestable positions, particular more optimistic ones. “giving up”, or at least appearing to on social media by portraying a world-weary hopeless cynicism, is defensive, self-protection, a kind of online fetal position.

@admitsWrongIfProven @jeffcliff @Hyolobrika @PippiPunkstrumpf @VeroniqueB99 @renardboy @the_etrain @Alice @CorvidCrone i think we need to develop realistic but anticynical media, informed by a kind of Pascal’s wager. (i admit in many of my posts i fail to live up to this suggestion.)

AI business will truly take off when you can replace not only your employees with markdown files you call “agents”, but also your vendors and customers.

"'Hegemony' is neither a birthright nor a permanent condition; it is a practice, fragile and perishable, dependent on the continual renewal of both material capabilities and the legitimacy of leadership." @delong https://braddelong.substack.com/p/a-note-on-the-closing-of-the-path ht @dhnexon

Two essays (the second via the first) on America's now somewhat entrenched trajectory towards global marginalization, culturally and industrially. (But how about financially?)

"Left Behind" by @profmusgrave https://musgrave.substack.com/p/left-behind

"Labubu and the Decline of American Cultural Hegemony" by #MirandaWilson https://uscnpm.substack.com/p/labubu-and-the-decline-of-american

[tech notebook] Using Tailscale to proxy traffic to the US https://tech.interfluidity.com/2025/07/27/using-tailscale-to-proxy-traffic-to-the-us/index.html

age is the punishment we get for thinking our parents were old.

it's ironic that the "golden age of science fiction" has become a dead hand of the past, trying to force us into now very outmoded retrofutures.

the neoliberal Obama administration thought markets are forward-looking, and growth in future profits indicate prosperity, not extraction. so they measured their economic policy announcements by stock market responses.

the Trump administration doesn’t believe any of that, but does the same anyway.

@admitsWrongIfProven sometimes too easily. sometimes with great difficulty.

authoritarianism is idolatry.

sometimes i think i am alarmist about the united states but then i look at how things have evolved, mostly in increments, over the last three years in israel/gaza and i recall conversations about what seemed like worst-case scenarios at the time and consider how rosy they now seem in retrospect.

America is on meth.

is my perception unfair that, while all software has bugs and vulnerabilities, Microsoft software has a particularly bad history of enabling really catastrophic exfiltrations?

is that mostly a matter of its ubiquity, or is it genuinely more vulnerable on a per server basis than eg linux based systems?

given now decades of experience with both, if the differential vulnerability remains uncorrected, should we maybe make less use of the less secure technology? https://mastodon.social/@zackwhittaker/114902819647440751

“We and our 316 partners”

capitalism without single-price markets is market feudalism.