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very cool that if you are working on behalf of right-wing culture warriors, you no longer need standing to have your claim adjudicated by the supreme court

Supreme Court: of course states can regulate, and restrict access to, medical procedures if there’s a compelling public interest

Colorado: (bans conversion therapy for minors)

Supreme Court: no not like that, we only meant abortion

Where I differ from this thread is I think we’re chillin, (mostly) the death of consensus reality is for sure upon us and we’re gonna have our 30 years war and the end of the nation state but I don’t think it’s much more apocalyptic than that

So called LoTR enjoyers when they have to live to see such times

I didn’t set the ball rolling, I just gotta live with it

And if we tank it it’s gonna be way better on the other side of it

Where I differ from this thread is I think we’re chillin, (mostly) the death of consensus reality is for sure upon us and we’re gonna have our 30 years war and the end of the nation state but I don’t think it’s much more apocalyptic than that

Read theory

Creating completely smooth product means there’s nothing to riff on

It’s the cmb for culture, but I don’t think that guarantees her immortality, she was the biggest influence but the culture fractal were gonna make in the decades to come will come out of the mid level stars from that period bc they have more to latch on to.

I think Taylor Swift is going to be forgotten by history to a shocking degree. She's going to be one of those names you'll see scrolling through old top 40 rankings going "the number one was who for how long?!?"

That tweet yest abt seeing what day today is and suggesting staying away from social media vindicated im afraid

Have you ever noticed that people who go to Dubai never come back saying what kind of cool museum they went to or what amazing cultural thing they actually saw? Even if you want amazing service, you can get better service at Claridge's. It just won't be a slave that did it.

Want to stay in the states? Inn at Little Washington fully cleans your room three times a day (more if you ask) and unpacks your bags for you and does your ironing and laundry. What they won't do is keep quiet if you rape the staff.

This is an observation about the present. But we're coming up close to a year since I wrote my original articles about how decentralized Bluesky is

dustycloud.org/blog/how-dec...
dustycloud.org/blog/re-re-b...

Some things *have* improved, and Blacksky is largely to praise for that. Still tho...

I’m sorry this is so funny to me “we invented stablecoins, go us! (And as a byproduct created a giant scam machine that took over the USgov)”

Corn dog

Honestly I find the idea of going to the Gulf states on holiday so instinctively repulsive that I forget how many people do. There are so much nicer and cheaper and less morally appalling places in the world!

So I need journalists to start asking for names when someone pulls this "some people are claiming"/"some experts disagree" nonsense. I get that would be asking access journalists to do work, but needs must here guys.

Police said that "family" was worried about her. But the only family member mentioned in the court records is her partner, who was arrested for abusing her and threatening her at gunpoint the day she took the pills, after which she left. He is the one who called the cops

On top of all of this, and separately: Since we published this story, the Sheriff I talked to and who has been the main figure in this has been arrested for allegedly sexually harassing his employees and for aggravated perjury for allegedly lying to a grand jury about it

Police Said They Surveilled Woman Who Had an Abortion for Her 'Safety.' Court Records Show They Considered Charging Her With a Crime Court records show that the narrative Flock and a Texas Sheriff's Office has told the public isn't the whole story, and that police were conducting a 'death investigation' into the abortion.

NEW: Cops in Texas told 404 Media in May they used Flock to find a woman who self-administered an abortion out of concern for her safety.

Documents now show police were conducting a “death investigation” and discussed whether they could charge her with a crime: www.404media.co/police-said-...

Variant of put the woke back

Ellison's CBS brought on the two editors that got NYT to publish Tom Cotton's 2020 op-ed calling for soldiers to shoot protesters in the streets. Hard to find a clearer editorial throughline than "anyone protesting murder by the state should be killed for it."

if they can bend their rules to keep Jesse Fucking Singal, they can bend their rules to get rid of Link. I'm sure there's a lesson here.

This is plausible imo and I think it implies we need leaders that are taking planning for conflict seriously, planning for contingencies, wargaming as in tabletop figures and rolling dice, etc

Maybe I’ll write an email

This but for a very literal definition of wargaming, if we’re to have conflict I think our leaders need to understand how it works

What would actually be much more useful from the comparative studies people than “it’s joever“ would be if they were compiling Pk tables of state security forces in different scenarios. Psychology of groups is one of the big unknowns here

i don’t think enough (any?) “serious” political thinkers and leaders are spending much time on the question “how do we make trump leave office if he refuses to go” and that worries me