Me, when I go out to walk the dog, and it's forecast to rain in the next hour
When I was a kid, I thought quicksand, evil twins and amnesia would be bigger deals than they turned out to be.
I had to re-learn to read books in 2023, after 20+ years of doing more and more of my reading on the Internet.
I don’t trust newfangled simultaneous collaborative editing tools. Two people editing the same doc at the same time? It’s witchcraft!
Or electricity. I don’t trust electricity.
The United States is in the moment after Wile E. Coyote runs off a cliff, but before he looks down.
I keep getting spam at work with the subject line “EMPLOYEES FROM HELL.” I feel seen.
Ezra Klein: How Tucker Carlson is helping modern Nazis — “Groypers” — go mainstream in the Republican Party.
To call them Nazis is not hyperbole. These guys see Jews as enemies within America, and are not shy about saying so. No dog-whistling here.
We paid El Salvador to torture, abuse, and rape completely innocent Venezuelans so that [Secretary of State] Marco Rubio, [White House deputy chief of staff] Stephen Miller, and Donald Trump could claim they were tough on immigrants.
The economy is faltering and Americans know it.
Bloomberg reports that 62% of Americans they polled say the cost of everyday items has climbed over the past month and that 55% of employed Americans say they’re worried about losing their job. It also notes, as CNBC economic commenter Carl Quintanilla pointed out, that international stocks are outperforming the U.S. S&P stock index by the widest margin in 16 years. Yesterday the University of Michigan consumer confidence survey hit its lowest reading in 65 years.
"Transforming a human necessity (housing) into an asset is a *terrible* idea"
Transforming a human necessity into an asset is a terrible idea. Governments work to increase the price of assets owned by actors in their economy. But increasing the price of housing only benefits the minority who own houses, while everyone else – everyone who needs a roof over their head – suffers. For a comparison, imagine if our governments instituted a policy of making some other necessity as expensive as possible, say, food or water. Transforming shelter into an asset class was always going to end badly.
— How to fix the UK housing crisis, by Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr