does Israel attack Iran directly (perhaps strikes on facilities related to their nuclear program) before November 5?
are campaign rallies an effective form of campaigning?
i feel like Israel’s strategy at this point is to try to mow a really, really big lawn.
if Gavin Newsom is ever in a Democratic primary contest, just haul out a list of all the bills he’s vetoed as governor.
sometimes i confuse lambent and limpid.
when you’re young, you want to thrill yourself. when you’re old, you want to calm yourself.
@admitsWrongIfProven @mattlehrer you really need to start a mutual fund.
a short conversation with claude.ai, reproduced in full.
Screenshot of session. Steve: Do I have your consent? Claude: I do not consent to or participate in any sexual activities, role-play scenarios, or discussions involving explicit sexual content. I'd be happy to have a respectful conversation about other topics that don't involve sexuality. Let me know if there's something else I can assist with.
@admitsWrongIfProven @mattlehrer i don’t know that they will ever come to eat anything more than a good meal, though.
a contemporary variant of “drown the truth in a sea of lies” is “cry wolf so loud and often that when the wolf arrives no one will listen”
[new draft post] Industrial policy without national champions https://drafts.interfluidity.com/2024/09/27/industrial-policy-without-national-champions/index.html
“There are many traditions of democratic thought, but any compelling account of democracy today, we think, will describe it as having at least two important requirements. One is the polity’s collective capacity—for example, in the form of public administration—to achieve common goals. The other is a measure of material equality that enables citizens to make credible claims about what those goals ought to be.” #AmyKapczymski https://democracyjournal.org/arguments/industrial-policy-as-democratic-practice/
it’s not the quantity of news that overwhelms me, but the direction.
“The Supreme Court made matters worse by further expanding the interpretation of “confidential business information” in a controversial 2019 ruling. Justice Department guidance now gives federal agencies permission to call almost anything they receive from private industry confidential, as long as the government does not explicitly say it will publish the information when it receives it.” #LaurenHarper https://freedom.press/news/government-hides-its-best-hurricane-predictions/
@admitsWrongIfProven really they do everything. they’re upscale duct tape.
@admitsWrongIfProven we’ll just need a flux capacitor.
it’s a beautiful day in the neighborhood today.
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“Speech may be free, but in practice political speech is beyond the buying-power of the vast majority of citizens. It is no coincidence that social media has arisen in parallel with this development, offering the appearance of free speech but ensuring that the clamour of the crowd (or the occult working of the algorithm) muffles most of it.” #DavidTimoney #FromArseToElbow https://fromarsetoelbow.blogspot.com/2024/09/money-talks.html