The most beautiful I have ever seen New York City was after the blizzards of 2006, 2010, and 1996. I remember people skiing down Park Avenue. Wish I was there for this one.

Where would we be without the manic depressives among us? Still in the caves, most likely.

ChatGTP has becomes more useless every update. It’s just vague bullshit

By now it should be plain to all that there is a global conspiracy of oligarchs intent on destroying the rule of law. If they succeed, if we fail, our children and grandchildren will live as serfs.

5 years ago, I posted this on Twitter: “We need to find a place to kill Russians.” Today:

The news has always been subordinate to business interests. Remember all those ads for Boeing aircraft 20 years ago? What viewer would be moved to buy one?There are endless examples of what were just bribes to the networks. Newspapers no different: “Go easy on our advertisers.” But..

Kids today are too addicted to their phones. They need to be sitting in front of the tv all day like their parents did,

Holy fuck. - people goin nuts over normal winter weather, acting like it’s the zombie apocalypse

This fucking Greenland shitshow should never have reached the international level. It reveals the disfunction of our government that it wasn’t nipped in the bud domestically.

Goddam, I love being alive! Best thing ever, made all the divine by there being a time limit.

Fundamentally, what we have here is the triumph of people who are stupid enough to think they are really smart. And they are angry, because all their lives people have dismissed their supposed brilliance, and now their hare-brained ideas are the law of the land, but they are just as stupid.

Remembering the Civil Rights struggle of the 60’s, the non-violent strategy of Reverend King was effective, but didn’t actually achieve results until the Black Panthers, Malcolm X, and others became the alternative. “You want the honey, or you want the sting?” You need both.

Tim Walz is a fool. ‘Safe and legal’ protests are not going to work. These people won’t stop until they are stopped.

I’m getting a Knights of The Golden Circle vibe, from this administration.

It might be time to start shooting back.

“Just because your slut mother shat you out on this side of an imaginary line doesn’t make you a better person than the guy you’re deporting.” Had to be said.

The Enshittification of Christmas Back before my time, Christmas was a drunken bacchanalian revelry, when the poor roamed wealthy neighborhoods demanding liquor from their social superiors, threatening to poop on their porch if they didn’t make with the hooch. It’s been downhill ever since.

Trump is looting the treasury and tearing down the country at machine speed. It reminds me of King Croesus’ reply to Cyrus after Sardis fell to Cyrus of Persia in 546 BC ‘Ha, see my men plundering your city,” boasted Cyrus. ‘No, my King, it is you they rob, your city they burn”, said Croesus.

The crudeness of our discourse, the bestial degeneration of our humanity to one another, the obscene concentration of wealth and attendant corruption, the intrusive surveillance, the targeting of an enemy within, are all inevitable outcomes of an unending state of war.

We live in a time of intentional obfuscation, when it is actually a time of revelation. When mounted beggars race their steeds to exhaustion, and leave them wet in the stables. It clarifies. Witness the revelatory exposure of the inversely proportional correlation between dignity and wealth.

It makes me laugh to hear the Trump regime portray Americans as the victims of the drug cartels. First, they don’t really give a fuck. But mainly because we’re not the victims we are the creators and sustainers of the cartels. Our insatiable demand for drugs has ruined those countries.

We have a government of sadists.

Even the Nazis didn’t shoot shipwreck survivors.

There are two kinds of problems: problems you can solve with money and those you can’t. We can solve the first kind by taxing the fuck out of billionaires. That’s about half our problems, so it would make a dent.

Ok, AI can do things in a second that might take me many hours. I’m thinking summaries, research, analysis. That seems very efficient, but I’m burning maybe 100 calories per hour, like 20 watts. AI is burning 100 million calories an hour at just one data center. So, is it really more efficient?

The pre-planned Project 2025 blitzkreig attack on our democracy has culminated, outrun the supply lines of public support. They’re going to try to consolidate their gains, hamstrung by incompetence, internal division, damaged by overreach. Strategic wisdom sees a successful counter attack in order.

It’s both funny and tragic that we could almost all our problems by simply not listening to really stupid people.

“Modernity is individualism and oil.” -Edmund G. Brown, Jr.

Remember, all the people you step on while you’re on your way up…you get to step on them again on your way down!

AI will make us collectively smarter. And individually dumber, very much like the internet. Not coincidentally, it will also continue the trend of making us collectively richer, and individually poorer. I could explain why, but it involves math, and nobody will pay me for it anyway.

The Oval Office looks like a 19th Century whorehouse.

Good God Trump is an absolute pestilence of a man. Disgusting

Spoiler: they’re not going to get those Epstein files.

Worst ever Trump defense “Well, Epstein was a Democrat, so it’s their problem..” So only Republicans can investigate other Republicans? That could backfire. Plus, I’m not sure anyone has pointed this out yet, but Trump was also a Democrat during most of that time.

We’re going to win this fight, and restore our democracy and the rule of law, as we have done many times before. They wont give up, of course, they never have, and in time yet another generation will be called upon to lay it all on the line.

Climate change will not end our civilization . Instead, it will continually lower our standard of living. This happens in an orderly society by inflation. Things cost more, people have less. When the price of essentials become too much, it gets disorderly. And then the 4 Horsemen ride. Heads up.

I can’t help but think that the erosion of the rule of law and the sense of impunity with which these motherfuckers murder fishermen and enrich themselves had some genesis in Obama’s decision to give a free pass to the torturers, finance scammers, and war profiteers of the Bush era.

Maybe we could distribute some of those thousands of pounds of food packs sitting in warehouses that were supposed to keep starving Sudanese children alive, now that they’re dead.

Contrary to all the commercials running now, I highly recommend just regular Medicare. No network, no pre-approval, everyone takes it. I’ve had it for for 8 years now and only got sick once, after eating some purple berries for 6 or 7 weeks, thinking they might keep me alive.

Raised on Heinlein, Asimov, Pohl, and Vance, I’ve been inspired by manned space exploration since Alan Shepard’s first flight. But advances in robotics, sensing, cameras, and AI, have made manned space exploration impractical. Our bodies belong to this earth. Our machines can own the universe.

I love my country, and damn it’s hard watching her being looted, stripped, and everything I’m proud of taken away. It’s a little bit like watching my mother get the shit kicked out of her by my father, ya know, it’s a painful memory…

I've built a socioeconomic system that depends on everyone to do useful work and act ethically except the people at the top, who get unimaginable rewards for being antisocial frauds and criminals. And I think it will stand the test of time

The world is heating up, the country has become an oligarchy, but this time of year something comes around that is so nearly divine that if only for a moment, it transcends the muck we wade in every day. And that is a perfectly ripe Bartlett pear, truly the Queen of Fruits.

Watched the great Canadian ad quoting Reagan and it’s a perfect illustration of what Democrats fail to do, over & over: take a position and EXPLAIN why it’s good policy, like Reagan did. Stop looking at polls and LEAD. On immigration as our greatest strength, wealth tax, diversity, rule of law.

I spent the morning knapping. Turning fine grey Texas flint into blades. I’m not very good at it, but it’s meditative. It struck me that our entire global civilization was bootstrapped from that flint edge, everything we’ve built, resting at the bottom of it all on that first tool.

Ferlinghetti lived to be 102. He wrote this in 2007, when he was 88.

Trump voting farmers getting hammered every which way from Trump policies, it almost seems like he’s purposely trying to put them out of business. They’re baffled. Maybe they’ll figure it out when the hedge fund guys are bidding on their farms at the bankruptcy auction.

People rightly blaming Republicans for ending health care subsidies and their rates going up to $1000 a month and more. But why are the insurance companies charging these ridiculous rates getting a free pass?

We are in the middle stage of a coup.