much like fretting over AI’s potential godlike powers is a tacit endorsement of its marketing, AI companies want nothing more than for you to ponder the broad sociological impact of their technology rather than looking at it and saying “this shit sucks and doesn’t work at all and is fake”

By contrast, cutting higher education to the bone to 'save costs' strikes me as penny-wise and pound-foolish, sacrificing a lot of future productivity for meager savings today, mostly out of a block-headed anti-intellectualism rather than any real economy.

I don’t want to hear about norms, I don’t want to hear about looking forward not back, I don’t want to hear about “bipartisanship”

I want the filibuster gone, the court packed, new states, and a top to bottom cleaning of the federal government that ends with a lot of people in jail