Steve Randy Waldman
@interfluidity.com
so much of civilization is keeping one’s vexations to oneself.
December 26, 2025 at 5:49 PM
so much of civilization is keeping one’s vexations to oneself.
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I know everyone on this website hates AI but let’s not lose sight of the fact that stuff enjoying copyright protection for a century is preposterous
When the clock strikes midnight on January 1, creative works from 1930 & sound recordings from 1925 will enter the public domain in the US, like:
💄 Dizzy Dishes, first Betty Boop cartoon
🕵️♀️ First 4 Nancy Drew novels
🚂 The Little Engine That Could
🎩 Morocco
🍑 Georgia on My Mind
and many more!
🧵👇
💄 Dizzy Dishes, first Betty Boop cartoon
🕵️♀️ First 4 Nancy Drew novels
🚂 The Little Engine That Could
🎩 Morocco
🍑 Georgia on My Mind
and many more!
🧵👇
December 26, 2025 at 2:24 PM
I know everyone on this website hates AI but let’s not lose sight of the fact that stuff enjoying copyright protection for a century is preposterous
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watching people disembark from the plane you're about to board not wholly unlike sitting on a warm toilet seat, in that intellectually you know you weren't the first there but it still somehow feels wrong to be reminded of it
December 26, 2025 at 2:36 PM
watching people disembark from the plane you're about to board not wholly unlike sitting on a warm toilet seat, in that intellectually you know you weren't the first there but it still somehow feels wrong to be reminded of it
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"Life expectancy was significantly higher in compact counties than in sprawl. Compactness affects mortality directly [through less traffic violence] & indirectly through vehicle miles traveled (traffic fatalities) and body mass index, a contributor to chronic diseases." www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/15...
www.mdpi.com
December 26, 2025 at 1:03 AM
"Life expectancy was significantly higher in compact counties than in sprawl. Compactness affects mortality directly [through less traffic violence] & indirectly through vehicle miles traveled (traffic fatalities) and body mass index, a contributor to chronic diseases." www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/15...
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You can pretend to have your shit together if you want. They don’t really check
December 26, 2025 at 1:51 AM
You can pretend to have your shit together if you want. They don’t really check
“Enjoy what may be your last Merry Christmas!” is just over the top with menace.
December 26, 2025 at 1:49 AM
“Enjoy what may be your last Merry Christmas!” is just over the top with menace.
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Imagine you win the $1.8 Billion Power Ball jackpot and suddenly you're the only billionaire getting properly taxed
December 25, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Imagine you win the $1.8 Billion Power Ball jackpot and suddenly you're the only billionaire getting properly taxed
apartments don’t have to be small.
December 25, 2025 at 9:42 PM
apartments don’t have to be small.
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This is John Roberts' America.
The blatant selling of pardons is perhaps the clearest instance of criminal conduct authorized by SCOTUS. Pardons are a quintessential "official act." So, even when Trump takes a bribe to issue one, he is presumably above the criminal law.
The president’s own chief of staff was reportedly stunned by his pardon of a former Honduran president.
December 25, 2025 at 5:29 PM
This is John Roberts' America.
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As always worth reading John Handley's report on what US consumers get for being a 1/3rd richer than the UK consumer: big house, big car, a huge amount of extra nebulous spending on healthcare, and a bunch of miscellaneous stuff.
www.smf.co.uk/publications...
www.smf.co.uk/publications...
December 25, 2025 at 6:01 PM
As always worth reading John Handley's report on what US consumers get for being a 1/3rd richer than the UK consumer: big house, big car, a huge amount of extra nebulous spending on healthcare, and a bunch of miscellaneous stuff.
www.smf.co.uk/publications...
www.smf.co.uk/publications...
nowadays if you’re naughty he just farts into it because natural gas is cleaner.
December 25, 2025 at 4:21 PM
nowadays if you’re naughty he just farts into it because natural gas is cleaner.
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Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all you wonderful people! Better days are made from darkness. Never stop laughing at evil.
December 25, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all you wonderful people! Better days are made from darkness. Never stop laughing at evil.
we should drone-show Santa’s sleigh flying around Christmas eve in order to more thoroughly and marvelously mislead the children.
December 25, 2025 at 5:17 AM
we should drone-show Santa’s sleigh flying around Christmas eve in order to more thoroughly and marvelously mislead the children.
since AI is going to solve all the medical miracles now, we can dispense with the exorbitant patent rents, right?
December 25, 2025 at 4:48 AM
since AI is going to solve all the medical miracles now, we can dispense with the exorbitant patent rents, right?
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But I hope ONE LONG NIGHT clarifies just what is happening today. If we understand that what Congress has funded and the government is building are concentration camps, the stakes are obvious. The majority of Americans are, by and large, free to act and can undo this. It is more than possible. [2/2]
December 24, 2025 at 4:59 PM
But I hope ONE LONG NIGHT clarifies just what is happening today. If we understand that what Congress has funded and the government is building are concentration camps, the stakes are obvious. The majority of Americans are, by and large, free to act and can undo this. It is more than possible. [2/2]
“…stop framing our approach to China in terms of why it can’t last, what must go wrong, or when the contradictions will finally catch up with it. The system has worked. It has delivered. Waiting for its collapse is not a strategy; it’s a coping mechanism.” jiwankshetry.substack.com/p/must-read-...
[Must Read] Kaiser Kuo: China is here to Lead, not just Stay
The Great Reckoning: What the West Should Learn From China
jiwankshetry.substack.com
December 24, 2025 at 11:38 PM
“…stop framing our approach to China in terms of why it can’t last, what must go wrong, or when the contradictions will finally catch up with it. The system has worked. It has delivered. Waiting for its collapse is not a strategy; it’s a coping mechanism.” jiwankshetry.substack.com/p/must-read-...
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This is genuinely horrifying. Fact-free far-right agitprop given accolades by credible media across the political spectrum.
Congratulations to Stephen Macedo & Frances Lee, whose book In Covid's Wake has been recognized as:
⭐ A @newyorker.com Best Book of the Year
⭐ An @economist.com Book of the Year
⭐ A @wsj.com Best Book of the Year
Learn more about this eye-opening book: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
⭐ A @newyorker.com Best Book of the Year
⭐ An @economist.com Book of the Year
⭐ A @wsj.com Best Book of the Year
Learn more about this eye-opening book: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
December 24, 2025 at 5:00 AM
This is genuinely horrifying. Fact-free far-right agitprop given accolades by credible media across the political spectrum.
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So I posted this endnote yesterday, about this exact book, which is getting all these wild year-end accolades despite being so disconnected from the facts of the pandemic.
(www.wrecka.ge/landslide-a-...)
(www.wrecka.ge/landslide-a-...)
December 24, 2025 at 6:29 PM
So I posted this endnote yesterday, about this exact book, which is getting all these wild year-end accolades despite being so disconnected from the facts of the pandemic.
(www.wrecka.ge/landslide-a-...)
(www.wrecka.ge/landslide-a-...)
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trump admin sanctions are outrageous and purposeful:
1. ensure europe doesn't regulate their political allies on the right, enabling space for incitement, disinfo, propaganda.
2. promote muskian/big tech lawlessness
3. distract from its unprecedented domestic repression of speech
1. ensure europe doesn't regulate their political allies on the right, enabling space for incitement, disinfo, propaganda.
2. promote muskian/big tech lawlessness
3. distract from its unprecedented domestic repression of speech
The US State Department is now going to be deporting people and/or revoking visas over Benz, Taibbi, and Shellenberger’s “censorship industrial complex” hoax.
Let that sink in. This is what the Twitter Files pretext was actually about. Water boys for authoritarians.
www.state.gov/releases/off...
Let that sink in. This is what the Twitter Files pretext was actually about. Water boys for authoritarians.
www.state.gov/releases/off...
Announcement of Actions to Combat the Global Censorship-Industrial Complex - United States Department of State
The State Department is taking decisive action against five individuals who have led organized efforts to coerce American platforms to censor, demonetize, and suppress American viewpoints they oppose....
www.state.gov
December 24, 2025 at 6:33 PM
trump admin sanctions are outrageous and purposeful:
1. ensure europe doesn't regulate their political allies on the right, enabling space for incitement, disinfo, propaganda.
2. promote muskian/big tech lawlessness
3. distract from its unprecedented domestic repression of speech
1. ensure europe doesn't regulate their political allies on the right, enabling space for incitement, disinfo, propaganda.
2. promote muskian/big tech lawlessness
3. distract from its unprecedented domestic repression of speech
it’s all down to the chicken tax. 🐔
The interesting thing is profits are higher than ever since the bankruptcy. The dirty truth is it’s simply much more profitable to sell enormous gas guzzlers to Americans than it is to sell a bajillion tiny EVs to like the rest of the world.
December 24, 2025 at 6:37 PM
it’s all down to the chicken tax. 🐔
“Practically every elite institution selects for people like this now.” @ryanlcooper.com
“On the merits, the very idea of putting someone like Weiss at the head of CBS News is preposterous. Her prior journalistic experience would not have qualified her to run your average college newspaper.” prospect.org/2025/12/23/b...
Bari Weiss Is the Propagandist Donald Trump Deserves - The American Prospect
The would-be dictator would get a much better class of censor if his regime didn’t hoist the biggest morons in the country into leadership positions.
prospect.org
December 24, 2025 at 4:13 PM
“Practically every elite institution selects for people like this now.” @ryanlcooper.com
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I’ll just note that the US didn’t do this to China, which outright bans US social media websites
US bars former EU commissioner Breton and others over tech rules ft.trib.al/TgoG45B
US bars former EU commissioner Breton and others over tech rules
France hits out at visa sanctions as Washington targets what it calls the ‘global censorship-industrial complex’
ft.trib.al
December 24, 2025 at 11:12 AM
I’ll just note that the US didn’t do this to China, which outright bans US social media websites
“Stop asking whether Weiss is good at journalism. She is good at the job she’s actually doing: performing submission to power and recruiting others to the ritual. In today’s media oligopoly, that job pays.”
If someone keeps advancing despite demonstrable incompetence at public‑reason journalism, perhaps they are doing a different job than advancing public reason—effectively, and deliberately…
The "1984" Theory of Bari Weiss
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The "1984" Theory of Bari Weiss
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The "1984" Theory of Bari Weiss
If someone keeps advancing despite demonstrable incompetence at public‑reason journalism, perhaps they are doing a different job than advancing public reason—effectively, and deliberately…
braddelong.substack.com
December 24, 2025 at 3:19 PM
“Stop asking whether Weiss is good at journalism. She is good at the job she’s actually doing: performing submission to power and recruiting others to the ritual. In today’s media oligopoly, that job pays.”
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The leaders of the US auto industry had a difficult path towards relevancy, only by leaning on the support of Biden's IRA. They've decided to throw that away, juice some ICE profits for a few more years, and let their successors deal with the incipient crisis of global uncompetitiveness
December 23, 2025 at 9:19 PM
The leaders of the US auto industry had a difficult path towards relevancy, only by leaning on the support of Biden's IRA. They've decided to throw that away, juice some ICE profits for a few more years, and let their successors deal with the incipient crisis of global uncompetitiveness
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It's funny how us parochial Americans generally seem to perceive that the EV revolution is stalling or reversing when in fact it's accelerating rapidly worldwide. 25% of cars sold globally in 2025 were EVs!
It's mostly just the US that's being left behind
It's mostly just the US that's being left behind
December 23, 2025 at 9:17 PM
It's funny how us parochial Americans generally seem to perceive that the EV revolution is stalling or reversing when in fact it's accelerating rapidly worldwide. 25% of cars sold globally in 2025 were EVs!
It's mostly just the US that's being left behind
It's mostly just the US that's being left behind