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Mathematician applying systems thinking to politics. https://melconway.com/Home/pdf/UbiquitousConnectivity.pdf 1.Libertarianism doesn't scale. 2.Inequity is a natural consequence of high interconnectivity. 3.Libertarian Epidemiology is an oxymoron.
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this is an act of unspeakable violence. it benefits no one, it doesn’t move a number on a balance sheet. it only guarantees that every one of these incarcerated transgender people will be tortured.

submitted 3 hours ago • 82 comments

Tech-business capture: Once you build the beast you have to keep feeding it. That then becomes the primary mission.

submitted 5 hours ago • 0 comments

The February 15 issue of The Economist led with “Battle for the Pentagon”. It frames the problem that DOGE will be facing when it takes on the US Department of Defence [sic]. 1/13

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Most people probably aren’t tracking this but Senate Republicans just started an all-night voting marathon that will allow them to gut Medicaid and increase child hunger while giving handouts to billionaires like Elon Musk.

submitted 1 day ago • 684 comments

People on X are calling for AOC's arrest for posting this.... so I am posting it everywhere!

submitted 8 days ago • 1005 comments

This imagined scenario is entirely plausible to me: Russian Intelligence will soon be aware of, and might even have access to, a backdoor implanted in every US Government network penetrated by DOGE agents.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Today I read a post from somebody (I'm trying to find her now) that says that a major side-effect of the DOGE system intrusions is the insertion of hidden backdoors. 1/2

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

The measles outbreak in Texas is reminding me of the public letter Roald Dahl wrote about losing his daughter to measles in 1962, just before the vaccine was publicly available.

submitted 7 days ago • 410 comments

Elon Musk ridiculed a blind person on X. Then a mob went to work. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Spent a couple of hours today in a poetry workshop led by the inimitable Victoria Adukwei Bulley and I cannot tell you how much it firmed my conviction that one of the ways we fight fascism is by reading poetry, writing poetry, and talking about poetry www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/713670...

submitted 6 days ago • 3 comments

One thing I love about the @bostonglobe.com is that when an article is paywalled they let me unlock it for one dollar, that is the future and I need more media to follow suit. I can’t subscribe to every local news but I can buy a lot of individual articles!

submitted 8 days ago • 10 comments

The White House has designated Mr. Musk’s office, United States DOGE Service, as an entity insulated from public records requests or most judicial intervention until at least 2034 (Important reporting here by NYT Minho Kim) www.nytimes.com/2025/02/10/u...

submitted 10 days ago • 173 comments

🧵 Here’s the beauty of all this. The people attempting to change our Democracy believe they are above the law. They believe they have crippled our system of justice. If the courts hold strong, if the Justices of the Supreme Court realize the judicial system is in danger of being relegated

submitted 11 days ago • 18 comments

I am extremely freaking thrilled to announce that Bad Company is *officially* available for preorder wherever you buy books. (I am linking to Bookshop but buy it wherever!) I worked so, so hard on this book, and it would mean a ton to me if you ordered it. bookshop.org/a/109816/978...

submitted 11 days ago • 283 comments