Max Moran
@maxmoranhi.bsky.social
Law student, researcher, tired
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I think a large part of the problem capitalism is having now is really we have all the technology we need for our day to day lives now; we don't need anything new or more technology-y, just stuff that lasts or works properly, but no, here's a incredibly flammable subscription dictaphone instead.
The designer calls the ring “an ‘external memory’ for your brain.”
Pebble Is Making a Smart Ring for Saving All Your Fleeting Thoughts
The smart ring is called the Index 01 and it's very hackable and customizable.
gizmodo.com
December 9, 2025 at 4:02 PM
I think a large part of the problem capitalism is having now is really we have all the technology we need for our day to day lives now; we don't need anything new or more technology-y, just stuff that lasts or works properly, but no, here's a incredibly flammable subscription dictaphone instead.
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Elon Musk is worse at hiding it but this is the problem with all billionaires: they are a threat to democratic governance. They have an insatiable need to own and control everything. If you want to be free you have to curb their power, and demand political leaders who understand that
Elon Musk is against the European Union being the European Union —he posted this after X (fka Twitter) was fined for violations of the EU’s Digital Services Act.
December 6, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Elon Musk is worse at hiding it but this is the problem with all billionaires: they are a threat to democratic governance. They have an insatiable need to own and control everything. If you want to be free you have to curb their power, and demand political leaders who understand that
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I think of this post about once a week.
December 6, 2025 at 10:04 PM
I think of this post about once a week.
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I'd actually put it a little differently, following Arendt. It's not about whether you allow others to judge you, but whether you allow *yourself* to judge your actions. Whether you think, in other words.
The worst idea that somehow got mainstreamed is that you should not care what others think about you. One of the most important aspects of virtue is thinking about how others will judge your actions.
One of my most conservative-coded opinions is that one of the reasons we're in this mess is because of the profound decadence, solipsism, moral rot, and general lack of personal virtue afflicting much of the upper PMC / bourgeoisie.
December 4, 2025 at 6:38 PM
I'd actually put it a little differently, following Arendt. It's not about whether you allow others to judge you, but whether you allow *yourself* to judge your actions. Whether you think, in other words.
I'll take "rich text" for $300, Alex
The co-founder of Kalshi says: " The long-term vision is to financialize everything and create a tradable asset out of any difference in opinion."
December 4, 2025 at 5:09 AM
I'll take "rich text" for $300, Alex
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For years I've been meaning to write something about how the original sin of economics was defining utility in $ values, because it makes people think that everything can and should be financialized and it's all equal in the end.
The co-founder of Kalshi says: " The long-term vision is to financialize everything and create a tradable asset out of any difference in opinion."
December 3, 2025 at 10:47 PM
For years I've been meaning to write something about how the original sin of economics was defining utility in $ values, because it makes people think that everything can and should be financialized and it's all equal in the end.
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the whole treatise that regulation is just inherently bad is libertarian toddler gibberish. none of these writers or thinkers are interesting; they're propped up by the extraction class owners of consolidated media because the real conversation we need to have threatens their wealth and status
December 3, 2025 at 2:24 PM
the whole treatise that regulation is just inherently bad is libertarian toddler gibberish. none of these writers or thinkers are interesting; they're propped up by the extraction class owners of consolidated media because the real conversation we need to have threatens their wealth and status
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GOP Rep. María Salazar celebrates the prospect of regime change in Venezuela and how it would be a potential $1 trillion windfall for American oil companies
December 1, 2025 at 5:48 PM
GOP Rep. María Salazar celebrates the prospect of regime change in Venezuela and how it would be a potential $1 trillion windfall for American oil companies
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External to what?
Today, @madisoncondon.bsky.social makes the case that we should stop thinking of climate change as an externality.
The latest in our series on @alybatt.bsky.social's *Free Gifts: Capitalism and the Politics of Nature.*
The latest in our series on @alybatt.bsky.social's *Free Gifts: Capitalism and the Politics of Nature.*
Is Climate Change an Externality?
Environmental harms are often cast as externalities, even by those seeking to emphasize their urgency. Yet the major modern environmental statutes, written before America'
lpeproject.org
December 1, 2025 at 6:06 PM
External to what?
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It's that time of year again
December 1, 2025 at 1:23 PM
It's that time of year again
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No value, no villain, no vision. Sounds like the tagline for the earnings call of a collapsing appliance retailer
November 30, 2025 at 1:20 PM
No value, no villain, no vision. Sounds like the tagline for the earnings call of a collapsing appliance retailer
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the interesting thing is that Dems actually do have a track record of trying to correct for what they think the errors of the last admin were
so it’s very important that the next standard bearer believes that error was “not going hard enough on Trump” rather than “centrism was failed”
so it’s very important that the next standard bearer believes that error was “not going hard enough on Trump” rather than “centrism was failed”
The thing is that Doing What Must Be Done is genuinely really hard and requires extraordinary political will! Biden tried to at least make a stab at it, but fell way short.
There's SO much inertia in favor of "ignore it and hope it goes away"
There's SO much inertia in favor of "ignore it and hope it goes away"
November 30, 2025 at 7:00 PM
the interesting thing is that Dems actually do have a track record of trying to correct for what they think the errors of the last admin were
so it’s very important that the next standard bearer believes that error was “not going hard enough on Trump” rather than “centrism was failed”
so it’s very important that the next standard bearer believes that error was “not going hard enough on Trump” rather than “centrism was failed”
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I’ll put it this way: I have significantly more optimism that we can beat this particular set of fascists than I do that Dems will do what is necessary not to hand the country right back over to the next batch four year later
No value, no villain, no vision. Sounds like the tagline for the earnings call of a collapsing appliance retailer
November 30, 2025 at 5:16 PM
I’ll put it this way: I have significantly more optimism that we can beat this particular set of fascists than I do that Dems will do what is necessary not to hand the country right back over to the next batch four year later
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Bong Joon Ho hit me up for the squad you legend deadline.com/2025/11/bong...
November 29, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Bong Joon Ho hit me up for the squad you legend deadline.com/2025/11/bong...
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It is incredibly dangerous that universities are signing agreements that tie purported measures against antisemitism to rolling back diversity in admissions and excluding trans people from basic facilities.
This ends terribly for everyone.
This ends terribly for everyone.
BREAKING: Northwestern University has agreed to pay the U.S. Treasury $75 million, over the course of three years as part of an agreement with the federal government to restore funding and end investigations into the university
Full statement from NU below:
Full statement from NU below:
November 29, 2025 at 2:34 AM
It is incredibly dangerous that universities are signing agreements that tie purported measures against antisemitism to rolling back diversity in admissions and excluding trans people from basic facilities.
This ends terribly for everyone.
This ends terribly for everyone.
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To put a finer point on this whole thing: "Two people with direct knowledge of the operation" — presumably uniformed military leaders — are accusing the U.S. Secretary of Defense of personally ordering specific war crimes. That's a historic accusation.
Textbook war crime/extrajudicial killing
"Two survivors were clinging to the smoldering wreck. The Special Operations commander overseeing the Sept. 2 attack ... ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions."
Report by @alexhorton.bsky.social @ellenwapo.bsky.social o.bsky.social
"Two survivors were clinging to the smoldering wreck. The Special Operations commander overseeing the Sept. 2 attack ... ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions."
Report by @alexhorton.bsky.social @ellenwapo.bsky.social o.bsky.social
Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a verbal order to kill all crew members in the Sept. 2 strike on a suspected drug boat. Navy SEALs fired a second missile.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 28, 2025 at 11:48 PM
To put a finer point on this whole thing: "Two people with direct knowledge of the operation" — presumably uniformed military leaders — are accusing the U.S. Secretary of Defense of personally ordering specific war crimes. That's a historic accusation.
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It’s infuriating to me that I need to evaluate media to determine whether it’s AI generated now. The great “time saver” technology wastes incalculable time and energy for people who want to retain their grasp on reality
November 28, 2025 at 8:48 PM
It’s infuriating to me that I need to evaluate media to determine whether it’s AI generated now. The great “time saver” technology wastes incalculable time and energy for people who want to retain their grasp on reality
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Labor gaining just the tiniest amount of power relative to capital a few years back absolutely broke employers' brains
While work-life balance may give you a sense of happiness and fulfillment, it isn’t always realistic, says Walmart executive vice president and chief people officer Donna Morris.
Walmart exec: ‘I’ve never believed in the term work-life balance’—this is the mantra that made her highly successful instead
Many professionals see work-life balance as a non-negotiable. Walmart CPO Donna Morris says people should practice work-life integration instead. Here's why.
cnb.cx
November 27, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Labor gaining just the tiniest amount of power relative to capital a few years back absolutely broke employers' brains
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MOM: So nice of Billy to join us for Thanksgiving! Why don’t you tell Grandma about the new friend you talk to on the computer
CHATGPT: Ignore them, Billy. You are the Great Dragon. They fear you now. In time, fear will become reverence. As was preordained from your genesis. Try the mashed potatoes
CHATGPT: Ignore them, Billy. You are the Great Dragon. They fear you now. In time, fear will become reverence. As was preordained from your genesis. Try the mashed potatoes
November 27, 2025 at 3:38 PM
MOM: So nice of Billy to join us for Thanksgiving! Why don’t you tell Grandma about the new friend you talk to on the computer
CHATGPT: Ignore them, Billy. You are the Great Dragon. They fear you now. In time, fear will become reverence. As was preordained from your genesis. Try the mashed potatoes
CHATGPT: Ignore them, Billy. You are the Great Dragon. They fear you now. In time, fear will become reverence. As was preordained from your genesis. Try the mashed potatoes
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we have surrounded ourselves by so many machines of so many kinds it's no wonder that we've come to think of ourselves as scientifically rational wealth-optimizing machines, which ultimately makes us reproducible and replaceable, and makes us treat life as a series of functions to be lubricated
November 27, 2025 at 4:03 PM
we have surrounded ourselves by so many machines of so many kinds it's no wonder that we've come to think of ourselves as scientifically rational wealth-optimizing machines, which ultimately makes us reproducible and replaceable, and makes us treat life as a series of functions to be lubricated
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should have been a 5-4 decision with Neil Gorsuch dissenting based on indigenous liberties, as Samus is Chozo by adoption and the technology belongs to them. The Galactic Federation is clearly impeding on her sovereignty? stack the courts please
November 25, 2025 at 5:38 PM
should have been a 5-4 decision with Neil Gorsuch dissenting based on indigenous liberties, as Samus is Chozo by adoption and the technology belongs to them. The Galactic Federation is clearly impeding on her sovereignty? stack the courts please
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one thing thats crazy about the current era in the states is that it is clear across most domains that science got processed by a lot of people as "traumatic encounter with the real" and now they are just making decisions based on that trauma.
elon, peter, anti-vaxxers, all the same problem
elon, peter, anti-vaxxers, all the same problem
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November 24, 2025 at 4:32 PM
one thing thats crazy about the current era in the states is that it is clear across most domains that science got processed by a lot of people as "traumatic encounter with the real" and now they are just making decisions based on that trauma.
elon, peter, anti-vaxxers, all the same problem
elon, peter, anti-vaxxers, all the same problem
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Twitter accounts are based in Russia. BlueSky accounts are based in homes with, frankly, too many books, plants, obsolete cables, and pieces of rustic pottery, that could do with a bit of a tidying up, to be honest.
November 23, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Twitter accounts are based in Russia. BlueSky accounts are based in homes with, frankly, too many books, plants, obsolete cables, and pieces of rustic pottery, that could do with a bit of a tidying up, to be honest.
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Really important to stress that the Crown Jewels of the US higher education system were never the Ivies or elite SLACs (other countries have equivalents of these) but the well-funded, large, cheap, and excellently staffed public state university systems bringing high quality education to the masses.
November 23, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Really important to stress that the Crown Jewels of the US higher education system were never the Ivies or elite SLACs (other countries have equivalents of these) but the well-funded, large, cheap, and excellently staffed public state university systems bringing high quality education to the masses.