HANG IT IN THE LOUVRE

being able to think more transactionally is also what allows you to be more discriminating about who you want to have in an coalition as opposed to merely being a situational collaborator

people need to get used to the idea that a lot of transactional and short term cooperation can happen with people you don’t have long term trust obligations to. that is how the economy works

you can have a big tent that doesn’t include MTG in it. what you do is toss her a stick of dynamite or something and say “have fun!” she doesn’t need to be in the tent to throw it

Even when the bubble bursts, universities are going to struggle to get out from under the multi-year contracts and private grants that require them to push AI on students.

We deserve better than that. But also, to be a clear-eyed realist means to look at better examples of where this Administration might be steering us. 1970s Argentina, Hungary, Turkey, Duterte's Philippines, are all more instructive and useful.

Each contains its own horrors.

Their anti-trans policies are squarely aimed at making it harder to transition and harder to be accepted, to remove legal recognition of who we say we are. Assaults on our dignity. Make us use the wrong loo, make our IDs obviously wrong, encourage people to misgender us and insult us...

one of the things i've been trying to teach my kids is "there's no such thing as 'deserve,' so take that word out of your vocabulary."