“If you like some scenarios better than others, you can be aware of the ones you don’t like and look for signs of them, and also look at signs of the ones you want to have come to pass, and lean differentially toward them.“ www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
It’s not a hard test: would you allow bets of this sort to be placed against your community or loved one?
“This is American commercial immorality on steroids. Once events that involve good and evil simply become a financial product, I don’t know how right and wrong matters any longer." www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
Also worth noting: since 1992, GOP presidential candidates have gotten 50%+ of the popular vote exactly ONCE (in 2004).
ALSO worth noting: despite all this, the GOP somehow has a hammerlock on the Supreme Court for the rest of my life.
In the last third of a century, the US economy has generated +49.9m jobs under Democratic presidents and -800k under GOP Presidents. www.wsj.com/economy/jobs...
I think one of the most staggering industry shifts in my 16 years as a tech reporter is that it’s not become a question of “should our product help the government kill and/or surveil people?” but “to what extent?”
www.anthropic.com/news/where-s...
Who needs to shut down the Straits of Hormuz when "Qatar’s energy minister has warned that war in the Middle East could 'bring down the economies of the world,' predicting that all Gulf energy exporters would shut down production within weeks & drive oil to $150 a barrel." www.ft.com/content/be12...
Wars are extremely hard things to justify. It is intrinsic to what they are that they tend to death, destruction, and misery. Given this and some knowledge of history, one's default attitude towards powerful people purporting to do the world some great benefit by war should be extreme scepticism.
UAE billionaire to Trump: “You have placed the Gulf Cooperation Council and the Arab countries at the heart of a danger they did not choose.... But the question remains: Who gave you permission to turn our region into a battlefield?” www.khaleejtimes.com/uae/uae-bill...
Covid is over, Brexit is not, and the decline continues.
The earliest example I've found of the phrase "international order" in its contemporary IR sense is in this article from 1908: "codification of international law does not necessarily involve a reconstruction of the present international order": www.jstor.org/stable/2186595
Official start date for Brexit: 1 February 2020
She needs to be prosecuted. A democracy cannot just shrug off members of the executive lying under oath to legislators. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/u...
Ah, I didn’t realize they’d made a movie out of Seghers’ book — which is one of my ATFs
"The old language of sober responsibility & tragic necessity has given way to the logic of the algorithmic feed: each crisis, each boat bombing, each killing, each “decisive” show of force must be instantly topped by something louder, costlier, more spectacular." www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
The reason we have “stupid rules of engagement” is to make sure we don’t bomb elementary schools.
Iconic performances, hilarious quotable script, fantastic romantic chemistry, politics that matter — what’s not perfect about this movie?
Disbarment is the *minimum* penalty that all these perpetrators should face when we restore democracy www.newsmax.com/newsfront/li...
Kristi Noem getting shit canned is a huge W for us. There’s no way Trump can spin his ICE raids now as anything over than a giant failure.
It’s important to celebrate these W’s. We can still force change even in the minority. Don’t give up the fight!
One reason this is going to be hard to pull off is that even accepting such a thing as the mid-transition *exists* is an admission of defeat by the fossil fuel industry. Like a Miami condo developer acknowledging the need for managed retreat from the rising sea.
If Nuremberg 2.0 doesn’t happen, we will know democracy has yet to be restored…
Not wild enough
I’ve disagreed with @samuelmoyn.bsky.social about a lot in recent times, but I must give him credit that he was very early and correct on the perniciousness of SCOTUS’s arrogation to itself of the right to determine its own powers.
Marianas Trench deep
The competition for the dumbest member of the United States Senate has just heated up with the elimination of one its strongest contestants!!
The U.S. war on Iran is now estimated to cost $1 billion per day. Meanwhile Americans are told there’s no money for healthcare, hospitals, or basic social programs.
"The crowd skewed young and male, with long hair and sweatshirts or crewcuts and blue blazers; the women, for the most part, were either wearing miniskirts or caring for children."
Reading this account of the vibe at this party for Nick Land in San Francisco, I'm reminded of Stokely Carmichael's answer when he was asked, "What is the position of women in the Movement?" www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
Ouch: "A vortex of jargon pitched somewhere between the banal banter of daytime talk shows and the schedule for a nightmarish New Age retreat." lareviewofbooks.org/article/how-...
