why is cosmos rallying around terra as “part of the community”? sovereignty is also about exclusion. it was crap from the beginning. childish delusional grandeur.

has there been anything technical more eye roll inducing than AI scaling skeptics and “algorithmic stablecoin” fans in the last 10 years? bitter lessons: scaling works, and nothing is “stable” without community and guns.

if what it takes for a just system to prevail is rebranding “one man one vote” to “soul bound token” i’m all for it

is DoD telling us about ufos a psyop to attempt to unite the country/world together against a common enemy? bc if so that’d be some scary deep state maneuvering. maybe a good basis for a short story.

fuck clarence thomas. the other ones too.

i’m a communist for land/natresources and a capitalist for everything else. neo-georgism is the way.

this is awesome. maybe US could help on energy with some sort of green neo-marshall plan. good for us, good for europe, bad for russia/china.

Just in case you are still not informed. Ukraine has launched the greatest counteroffensive since World War II. Ukraine has regained/liberated over 1,000 km of land & cities. Ukraine is winning. Ukraine is defeating Russia (once thought to be the second most powerful military)!

so they’ve taken over the judiciary, state legislatures, have wildly disproportionate sway in the house and senate, and now they want to take over the military. legal doesn’t mean just. how do we defend our democracy from these psychopaths?

This poem by Maggie Smith doubles as good parenting advice. Research finds that when parents teach their kids the world is a bad place, it doesn’t protect them from harm, but leads to “dramatically less psychological flourishing." & worse mental outcomes: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

why is there no national office for open-source. countries should be convening and making agreements to ape in together like they do for other global issues like climate change. $1bn/yr would be peanuts compared to NSF $10bn/yr and would have an impact even assuming 90% wasted