new postcard from the anthropocene bsky.app/profile/bnon...

once again i propose that the culture on x is simply just...there's a gas leak in my home but i refuse to leave/will just wait it out

Every legal story now is either

Ancient Circuit Judge Delivers Crystal Clear 100 Page Rebuke To Trumpist Overreach

or

In Unsigned Shadow Docket Decision, 6-3 Majority Declares Trump Can Hunt People For Sport

the law is real until it gets to SCOTUS at which point it becomes fake, which doesn't bother the six reactionaries at the top but does undermine literally everyone else in the profession

I also think they have become utterly convinced that Democrats will never be willing to meaningfully check their power in any fashion or seriously try for reform

and, well, that's a pretty good bet given what we've seen so far but it's also one of those things that's true until it suddenly isn't

it is amazing how so much tech gets unremittingly worse year on year at whatever you once used it for and less pleasant to use and more bound up with creepy politics as well as personal and environmental harms and yet also still less productive of actual goods and these are somehow great visionaries

trump has basically been robbing a bank in broad daylight, apparently hoping that the brazenness of the act will scare everyone away from sounding the alarm. but if anyone ever says "hey, wait a second!" - well, now he's suddenly just a guy robbing a bank in broad daylight. good luck with that, bozo

trump's ability to commit astonishing, unprecedented crimes in full public view was self-sustaining: the failure of anyone to impose consequences was a demonstration of his impunity and convinced amoral pragmatists he must be accommodated

but if a few guys go "hm, seems risky to help," uh oh