What absolutely blows my mind is that people will still claim up and down that he "hires the best people" and "is a great negotiator" when it's pretty obvious now that it's just been an act for decades.

And it's not just that less consumer spending is coming from the bottom earners, it's that more of that spending is being done with borrowing at the expense of fiscal sustainability.

There's another place they can definitely go.

There is nothing that has driven me more to hate AI than "AI assistants" used by real estate management companies. They are both singularly inept at answering questions and incredibly pushy... they email me like I owe them money but cannot give me simple information about their building.

It's almost like government services would be more efficient.

The question will be -- who will they orient towards? There are a lot of choices, but they pretty much go from not great to existential calamity.

These are numbers that are abstract (Carl Sagan numbers in the "billions and billions", as a colleague once described), but it's important to realize that this wasn't just money that was taken out into a pit and burned.

Posted by the Tla’amin Nation on Facebook. This is epic. 𝗠𝗣 𝗰𝗿𝗮𝘀𝗵𝗲𝘀 𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗺𝗹𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗮𝗰𝗸𝗻𝗼𝘄𝗹𝗲𝗱𝗴𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀 𝙇𝙤𝙘𝙖𝙡 𝘾𝙝𝙞𝙚𝙛𝙨 𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙨𝙨𝙪𝙧𝙚 𝘼𝙖𝙧𝙤𝙣 𝙂𝙪𝙣𝙣: “𝘾𝙝𝙞𝙡𝙡𝙖𝙭, 𝙗𝙪𝙙.” www.facebook.com/tlaaminnatio...

"Focusing on deaths per mile driven is like trying to reduce the number of cancer deaths per cigarette smoked"

Democrats are almost as unserious at governing now.

If you look at infrastructure rot or enshittification in isolation, it seems terrifying, but these terms even downplay the seriousness of the problem. The infrastructure systems important to us, personal, public, and private, are being dissolved and extracted away for the benefit of the wealthy.

I loved Twitter, despite its many imperfections. Then Elon Musk fucked up Twitter beyond all recognition. I will never, ever forgive him for that. I now love Bluesky, despite its many imperfections. With all due respect please don’t fuck up Bluesky, or I will never, ever forgive you. Thank you.

And just consider that this is not the worst case scenario. Every single country (including many in Europe) will be drawing up plans for resisting US aggression now. None of them will take overtures of peace seriously, either.

I'm getting this unshakable and growing sense of dread that the corporatization of space will be meeting space disaster a lot sooner than we want.

American exceptionalism and ignorance of history is even present in the decline of empire.

"Make people dependent enough, and then make it shitty" Still giggling at this hilarious video from the Norwegian Consumer Council "A Day in the Life of an Ensh*ttificator" which seems a perfect embodiment of Silicon Valley and tech generally these days www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4Up...

Never forget, the electric car is here to save the car industry, not the planet. Read this thread.

Every single time something like this comes out Taiwan's sense of dread must be growing.

This article perfectly highlights why Democrats aren't really going to save us from the looming trends that are about to hit all at once.

There's so much digital ink being spilled trying to explain why this one bureaucrat was completely incapable of doing her job and yet we ignore that our entire administrative and democratic infrastructure is being corroded beyond repair.

College sports is a way for universities, coaches, and others to make money. It's a "unique system" because it's commodified college spirit and student achievement in a way only the US could.

"North American city planner sees lots of potential to transform successful bike city Amsterdam to unsuccessful car-dependent suburb."

What's shocking is the level of disruption expected in a lot of host cities over five or six games. (Or less, since I can't imagine the Iranian team playing now.) I cannot imagine this having a net positive economic gain over a regular month's event schedule, even with more tourism money.

I just remember the quote from Bourdain about Kissinger. We don't even need to go to Cambodia.

Why oh why can't she just go away? She couldn't give two shits about workers, and has just resorted to LinkedIn to try to score points.

Nothing like someone talking about central bankers trying to pick a bottle of wine to really make them seem connected to the common man.

What's also relevant to note here is that we "hallucinate" with the work we do! We get things wrong, we misinterpret sources, we say things in the wrong way that in turn gets mininterpreted. However, we ourselves are not confused with omniscient gods that know everything.

The modern era is defined by defending a lot of things we otherwise despise.

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Again highlighting that a lot of Democrats are garbage too.

I'm trying to write a book, if only so I can use "Yes, we are really and truly fucked." as the first line of my book.

They might have killed people I care about and he gets applause. These people are disgusting.

Pluralism asks a lot more of our leaders than populism does. It asks them to do the hard work: to negotiate, to build consensus and buy-in, to explain trade-offs honestly, and to accept blame when decisions are unpopular if necessary. open.substack.com/pub/drjaredw...

I didn't know we were using "innovation reinvention" to reference "end-stage collapse".

This is literally what it was designed to do. Central banks are frustrating and need to be reformed, but promoting a "currency" with zero public use value should be grounds to throw any politician out of office.

The only generational problem this would fix would be the pesky problem of living in housing

Wars were already about economic activity but I don't think in even the most dystopian of sci-fi they were driven by betting markets gambling if or when a war would happen.

We've gone well past the darkest timeline.

If I were China and looking to take Taiwan by force, I couldn't think of a better time. Only reason not to is that they probably want to ride out the 2026 US election cycle first.

Starting wars in the Middle East, death panels, censorship, Jade Helm... I think their only objection to these conspiracy theories about Democrats were just that they weren't the ones actually doing them.

Even the folks that we think are better than that are not better than that.

I don't always agree with the Clintons on certain things, but no notes on this statement.

entirely unimprovable execution by the @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social social team

An action to take. Boycott. QuitGPT: quitgpt.org

"Dealmaker" indeed

What's worse is that nothing new can come from this slop. It will just recombine old concepts in culture over and over again... and these billionaires will just marinate in the stew of an arrested, dying society.

Honestly the fact that this is not just completely plausible but more than likely is insane.

New thing that really sucks - if you email an apartment building for more information, you will be on the receiving end of a needy AI that will email you daily to follow up.

Ugh. The only upside is that he'll intentionally or unintentionally abandon half the shit he proposes tonight.