I don't think it's ageist to say someone who keeps falling asleep during important *televised* meetings shouldn't be in charge of the nuclear arsenal of a global superpower

there is this almost miraculously interesting new technology, and in the span of that time, in the face of extreme intention to shift it toward something better, liberatory even, everything has consolidated into the worst versions of the systems of hyperscaler control.

Today’s Germans didn’t murder Jews, today’s Japanese didn’t bomb Pearl Harbor, and today’s Americans didn’t land on D-Day. Of course we all inherit the world made by those who did, but we can’t take personal credit or blame for it.

Exactly, you'd have exactly the same problem in a centrally planned economy with the same people. Really, what we should have learned from COVID was that now is the time to go all in on ventilation and disinfection infrastructure for any and all closed spaces, starting with public buildings.

In ancient societies, economic power followed political power. Under feudalism, they were the same thing. In capitalism, they're nominally separate. And where you guys are going, economic power dominates political power

The negative consequences of the tariffs were always obvious and foreseeable, the admin just didn't want to listen and now just wants to paper over the damage by throwing money at the most-politically-powerful victims