Funny thing - many a reactionary screams out "words matter" ... I suppose, selectively.

tropology.wordpress.com/2026/03/10/p... Anxiety and our LLM friends We are caught up in and playing in a realm of fears and fantasies of long-standing. There ought to be some guardrails, on such claims and claimants.

My critiques lack a commercial frame, so pitchbot says to post this: “Hire me to help you navigate the thing that isn’t real.”

Making America great should never have been a weather vane and it should never have pointed backwards.

Texans love their superlatives, but sometimes it seems like they are more committed to the comparatives.

Too many em dashes? Too little confidence. Too little respect for your audience.

When we weren’t so fragile We supported and signed the Geneva Conventions (1949) etc From strength and confidence Now the administration and the ‘anti-woke’ decry such norms as pearl-clutching and dismiss them outright.

SEMIOLÓGIST SEIZES CADUCEUS, ASCLEPIAN ROD, AND MOSES’ SERPENT‑STAFF: FILM AT 11

Department of Perpetual Peace: Weaponizing Confident Doubt for the Regime www.linkedin.com/pulse/depart...

Meanwhile, back at the DAF: philanthropyproject.net/4-billion-sh...

I lived on the Boulevard, but it wasn’t so dirty and now I live on another Boulevard -- it’s even less so

Maybe the big thing is that this hype cycle looks like it will never end?

What’s the ‘Big Thing’ that’s happening? www.linkedin.com/pulse/whats-... Just so we get off on the right foot: I'm not here to hype LLM et al. At all.

Yes, dependency is the Business model ... and indeed we can extrapolate for some thinking beyond mere business/market power - it's part of a political model. but I would use other terms. Some social hellscape that quibblers will want a new name for. www.youtube.com/shorts/M1qg9...

Fresh from the Philip-Morris school: Instagram not addictive!

Your voice? hardly. Getting guidance on grammar and structure, etc., from your LLM? Great, but don’t just feed it your ideas and have it spit them back out in what it thinks of as “your voice” It isn’t your voice. It’s less honest. And it reads that way. tropology.wordpress.com/2026/02/21/y...

Danger? Far more dangerous than AI (LLM, et al.) is the hype machine around it driven in part by the finance engine which needs to extract something from the investment - and the careless deployment of the tools and the hype - of course our own ... tropology.wordpress.com/2026/02/16/d...

Pumping irony Pumping out content for brand and market quality will suffer Field will suffer Who do you want to be?

Public Note to FB: When there’s a wikipedia page for a person with a death date a few years in the past, that should be an acceptable and authoritative source for Memorialization of their profile.

 Case: A man I respected but had no concrete tie to --https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Lietaer

Tell your senators to rein in ICE NOW act.indivisible.org/sign/ice-out...

I remember when certain people were against "masks"

Solidarity with MN: www.iceoutnowmn.com

Every Nation in the World Should Reject Trump's Absurd and Dangerous 'Board of Peace' | "The so-called “Board of Peace” being created by President Donald Trump is profoundly degrading to the pursuit of peace and to any nation that would lend it legitimacy."

I've never seen a population more united. If people can hold onto that unity, if people can accept that different people will have different ways of confronting fascism, if we can remind NGOs and orgs that they can join but not control the resistance, then, well, people here will write history.

I've been here 24 hours, but already with what I've seen, well, I genuinely believe we're going to win. People here are well aware that what happens here impacts the entire country, that it sets the tone for resistance. ICE is angry, ICE is terrified, of how deeply unpopular it is.

But when I asked an organizer what they wanted to see out of press coverage, they told me they wanted people to see the beautiful things they are building here, and not just the worst stories of the worst of ICE's crimes. What people are doing here is beautiful. It's a tragic beauty, but a real one

Another friend put it to me like this: "ICE has made the classic Nazi mistake. They've invaded a winter people in the winter."

Today I talked with a 76 year old who'd been standing in the cold for hours guarding her neighbors. I was getting kind of chilly, even in the new winter gear i bought for this trip (and I live in the goddam mountains myself). She didn't even have a hat on.

Before I came, I asked a local friend if the cold (it's going to be -20 or so in the coming days) would stop people from coming out. "No, we'll be there. It's ICE who can't handle it."

It's genuinely a leaderless (or leaderful) movement, decentralized in a way that the state is absolutely unequipped to handle. There are a few basic skills involved, and so people teach each other those skills, and people are collectively refining them.

I have been actively involved in protest movements for 24 years. I have never seen anything approaching this scale. Minneapolis is not accepting what's happening here. ICE fucking murdered a woman for participating in this, and all that did is bring out more people, from more walks of life.

Trump administration likely thought: “Blue state, blue city, Black immigrants, soft target.” What they’ve actually done is mobilize one of the most civic-minded communities in America into mass resistance.

"Cut for time". SNL www.youtube.com/watch?v=uA8O...

‘Secret legal interpretation’ - kind of a red flag that the interpretation itself is illegal and that the formulation and promotion of it is conspiratorial, perhaps treasonous.

Urgent: Members of Congress are considering more funding for ICE & CBP. Send an email to your representative today to demand they oppose additional funding for ICE and CBP this year! icirr.quorum.us/campaign/153...

consider just this one line (from HCR's daily summary/analysis): Hours after Good’s death, Homeland Security secretary Kristi Noem appeared in Manhattan behind a podium emblazoned with the words: “ONE OF OURS, ALL OF YOURS.”

This -- will we let thinking matter - and will we trust people to exercise judgment in their roles ... www.linkedin.com/pulse/someth...

How we lean and where we stand We lean left because we’re better informed? Hogwash. We lean towards what you (some few, loudly and with well-funded megaphones and algorithms) speak of as left but it isn’t even left. If we leaned towards what one could reasonably construe as center we would be…

hell yeah

No Kings. No Kings. None. Zero. And so: No Kings, no Princes or Princelings No Duke, Count or Czar No Royals, Aristocracy or Caste No Hereditary Roles or Rule No Imperial Majesty, Empire or Emperor And no more ‘might makes right’

The “big, beautiful” bill ain’t beautiful—it’s bullshit. House Republicans just voted for the largest cut to SNAP & Medicaid in U.S. history—turning their backs on their own damn constituents: the working people they were sent here to represent. They don’t serve the people. They serve the rich.

This should anger every American. via HCR: “Habeas corpus is a constitutional right that the president has to be able to remove people from this country,” Noem said.

An Open Letter to Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Who Thinks My Daughter Is a Tragedy www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/an-...

It’s hard to believe we’re talking about Kings, Kingship and the rights of a sovereign in the USA not as backdrop to how and why we have the rights we do but with reckless abandon as power consolidates and our rights are abrogated.