Pseudospectre

Day in Trump's economy: > Wake up, check the news > BLS: "10 billion new jobs created" > Check my phone to see what today's tariff rates are. > Norway up 20%, Cambodia down 5% > Go to my iphone assembly line job where I make $7.25/hour > Spend next 4 hours putting chips inside phones > Take 15 minute break > Check my shitfartpisscoin holdings > Rugged > Watch the FOMC meeting > FOMC is just Trump > Trump goes on stage and announces he's raising rates from -10% to -5% > Also announces date of Jay Powell's public execution > AI manager scolds me for taking 16 minutes on my 15 minute break > It's only been 12 minutes > Call employee help line to complain > It's also AI > Go home frustrated > Complain to my girlfriend about my job > She's also AI

Can't prove it's not random

Canada says it will recognize Palestine… with conditions that simply do not apply to other states.

A demilitarized state adjacent to Israel. How’s that going to work out?

www.thestar.com/politics/fed...

Obviously not every vassal had a choice in this, both in the global south but also in places like Italy where America has influenced elections.

Formally independent states all around that face more or less ruthless forms of indirect rule.

As far as US empire goes, I feel like the best analogy for the current situation might be, like, the Delian League. A bloc formed and agreed to give the US certain international authority in return for its protection. Now the US is using its privileged position to engage in rent-seeking.

A little empirical paper on LLMs I worked on is now up on PNAS, studying LLMs' tendency to prefer goods and services pitched in LLM prose: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Chloe Bangs

It should have been the People’s Goats

My most niche strong opinion is that we should expropriate privatized shoreline road allowances

Resign

The First Planned Migration of an Entire Country Is Underway The Pacific island nation of Tuvalu could be submerged in 25 years due to rising sea levels, so a plan is being implemented to relocate its population to Australia.

The first planned migration of an entire country due to climate change is happening! Tuvalu, a Pacific island nation, is at risk of being submerged under rising sea level, so it has signed an agreement with Australia to allow 280 Tuvaluans to settle in Australia as permanent residents each year.

I am truly horrified at this not just from a "they have to leave their homes due to the decadence of other people" standpoint but also from a basic national sovereignty standpoint

I kind of just assumed chaos single-mindedness/emotion would get in the way of effective hierarchies

Lore, based on your answer

How hierarchical are the chaos gods’ disciples generally speaking?

this has been obvious since day 1 and people who denied it in January/February were out of touch but maybe understandably so. now that we have months of data, massive protests, a ream of polls, anyone still denying it is straight up delusional.

Georgian Amber Wine - 88pts - the little plastic top made it real special for the cat

Used my time machine to bring Socrates, Confucius, and Machiavelli together for a “Philosopher’s Dinner” but because none of us speak the same language I can’t explain what’s going on and the whole vibe has turned very “hostage situation”

doesn't make the headline for some reason but the Trump administration confirmed on the record that they are running an explicitly whites only refugee program, if you're wondering how things are going in the year 2025

Counterpoint: it is AI slop, the details were not considered

I think I might have already seen @peligrietzer.bsky.social quote this passage, but the preteen line is truly amazing

This footnote killed me lmao (from Struggle Unity Struggle by Zeavin for n+1)

I don’t know who knows these kinds of things, maybe @pwr2dppl.bsky.social?

Btw I think the most useful article a journalist could write on Gaza is what any of us can do with our money that actually gets people out or food in

Is it still possible to donate in a way that gets people out of Gaza or have we lost that option?

The only Honneth I’ve read are his essay on reification and some of his paper on Israel/Palestine, and I have so many questions for the guy

I wonder if you’ll get one of his classic 😢 responses if you post this on twitter

Apparently our MP preemptively closed their office when they heard we were going to protest it 😄

East Side Mario’s table cloth

Out committing crimes against the Italian people

A pigeon in a box watching a tiny tv. “The birds were rewarded with food pellets when they correctly identified episodes of Twin Peaks.” Photo credits Wassermann Lab at the University of Fucking Iowa

A secondary effect of Israel’s genocide of Palestinians is causing a massive global increase in antisemitism—the state of Israel and its defenders, like Bret Stephens, claim that to be Jewish just is to support the genocide of Palestinians, then object to the rise of antisemitism *they helped cause*