Who is the sufficiently charismatic, normal, well-spoken 40-50 year old candidate that runs for president on an anti big-tech, economic populist, infrastructure/housing platform?

So, an American president posted an AI-generated video of himself flying a plane dumping human feces on American citizens protesting. That's where we're at. Got it.

Good interview with Kafka. While it's a bit more useful than you give it credit for it's still nowhere nearly useful enough to justify the price. You should write something on the water use in the Phoenix data centers. Nuts! It's the f-ing desert.

Wow I'm stunned, there's a line!..at the state level anyways.

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The headlines drove me crazy during the election.

@chrislhayes.bsky.social Postman wrote in Technopoly: "any decline in the force of institutions makes people vulnerable to information chaos."

I can't help but see the connection here between this, your writing on institutional collapse, and how you describe the collapse of "attentional regimes"

"He's a once in a generation storyteller with a loose relationship with the truth."

Thinking about this line about Sam Altman from @karenhao.bsky.social on @chrislhayes.bsky.social pod as I read "The Gentle Singularity" from occupied Los Angeles.

@robertmays.bsky.social Small note from pod, you mentioned third edge being a problem for Giants -- they did sign Chauncey Golston (not implying you should view that as positively or negatively)

I'm manifesting positivity. In the wake of disaster and failure which will with certainty reach every day Americans -- 2026 will bring the midterm blue wave. Democrats reclaim the house and are able to effectively check the administration in ways abjectly cowardly congressional Republicans haven't.

Passage from Carl Sagan’s A demon-haunted world book.

Some folks are pretty good seeing things coming.