politics is polarized between people
for whom freedom is a good the state secures against people for whom freedom is a good the state threatens.

both valorize freedom, but with quite different implications.

@_dm (i don’t think Kamala’s actual campaign has joined in. which i hope they don’t. i think the general new joyful aggressiveness “these people are just weird” is great, when it is based on stuff they actually say and do. but it’s also kind of weird, and not in a very nice way, to totally make up a wildly improbable embarrassing claim about someone and intentionally amplify it to make it a prominent part of his public profile. who’s weird, and cruel, now, they might ask.)

the couch thing is really really funny, and there’s no way to control the jokes that randos on the internet make. but it also amounts to character assassination on the basis of an entirely fabricated allegation, which i fear will be pinned on “the left” as the essence of cancel culture and why we’re all terrible people.

i fear we are in a fuck-around phase.

“burn it down” sounds fun and righteous until you realize you and everyone you love live in it.

[new draft post] We have not been betrayed https://drafts.interfluidity.com/2024/07/25/we-have-not-been-betrayed/index.html

“Scala 3 Metaprogramming Learning Resources” @arturaz https://arturaz.net/arturaz/Scala-3-Metaprogramming-Learning-Resources-77288e4280c145e1b71ae47c862ab471 ht #ScalaTimes

#scala

I don't want to be mean, and I agree with the general point that there are many things commendable about Joe Biden's mien.

But this anecdote from a person entrenched decades on the New York Times opinion page, who enjoys a personal meeting with the President and leverages it into an opportunity for his wife to pitch her thing, perhaps does not make the point that Friedman hopes it does. Perhaps it even makes some less savory points.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/22/opinion/trump-vance-biden-speech.html

only idiots are smart.

@CarmePont for a hair dryer.

@marick i was a fan of NCSA, mosaic, the webserver, back in the day. hoohoo.ncsa.uiuc.edu. i never met any of them, but i used to chat sometimes over Twitter with Marc before he turned quite as weird and brittle as, at least from my perspective, he has now become. (our conversations were always cordial, but first whatever reason he blocked me years ago.) i’m glad Eric is perhaps less brittle.

if they’re together in a room and Kamala Harris laughs one of her famous, from the belly, laughs, and then Vladimir Putin simply bursts like a helium balloon pierced by a bright pin, I fear it might become a diplomatic incident.

"It matters that the average American associates the great software giants with the feeling of lost agency." #TannerGreer https://scholars-stage.org/uber-is-a-poor-replacement-for-utopia/

we are all made by our institutions more than we make them, but we still have to make them.

@admitsWrongIfProven @Stoned_Deva_ hi!

Elizabeth Warren has introduced a bill to chip away at a small piece of the mountain of damage the Supreme Court did this term. The bill would codify Chevron deference as Congress’ intent, that is that Courts should defer to correctly adopted rules by executive agencies where those rules represent a reasonable if contestable interpretation of the means intended by the statute they are enforcing. https://sensiblesafeguards.org/press/senators-should-support-bill-to-codify-chevron-deference-modernize-rulemaking/ ht @danielahanley

if Trump refuses to debate Kamala, then I have the perfect new MAGA hat design.

( image from https://www.pinterest.com/pin/pussyhat-project--210965563774978946/ )

@djc yeah, i agree, they are fine. it’s lots of commentators who have been a bit half cocked.

On fusion voting, #LeeDrutman https://leedrutman.substack.com/p/fusion-voting-roundup-a-new-report

first thing through my head is those fuckers are going to plan an “october surprise”. ht @elionwy@mstdn.social https://journa.host/@w7voa/112831672262491479

i feel like the Silicon Valley Superbaby has already been invented and perhaps too widely deployed.

via https://x.com/noor_siddiqui_/status/1815501693238579403