Much of Trump/Musk's behavior is an attack on language, from how people talk about their own gender to how the country talks about its own history to how statistics are measured/defined (changing how you define a statistic is an act of linguistic authority/arianism). via @llyfrgellbabel.bsky.social
Gerald Roche People are going to die as a result of Trump's executive order making English the official language of the USA. www.languageonthemove.com/language-acc...
Mar 26, 2025 - 20:01:11
If I may, I do hope their show tech receipts or at least address the gap between Utopian [in the Terra Ignota sense] ideal and policy advice - a lot of their book's examples assume you have a late-series Cato around, which makes me ambivalent, as with the *attitude* itself I couldn't agree more...1/
Mar 26, 2025 - 20:04:52
This is where a few 100k's of targeted online ads and a mass email/phone outreach "tell this to everybody you know who has ever been touched by cancer" would be a great use of resources for an hypothetical opposition party. via @alongcamejones.bsky.social
Josh Marshall We are in the midst of what many consider the most promising pancreatic cancer cure research in decades. This is literally joining the War on Cancer on the side of cancer. It's happening in multiple departments. They're also attacking mRNA fax science which is the heart of the possible breakthrough.
Mar 26, 2025 - 20:20:58
I live in a country where "remove civilian leadership to protect the country" led to atrocities, but the US is currently at the point where "assume civilian leadership is an adversarial asset and firewall around them" is the professionally unavoidable assessment. via @willjennings.bsky.social
William B. Fuckley We’re all laughing because look, it is really funny, but yeah if I had a job where my safety or freedom was dependent upon this kind of information being handled responsibly, I’d want these people up against a wall.
Mar 26, 2025 - 20:37:19
/waves flag enthusiastically while pointing at this "If it's not monetizable it's not art" is a ghoul's creed. Some of the most beautiful, most *Impactful* things I've ever read have been fics, and, money aside, I've gotten as much pleasure writing them as any professional author from their work.
Sunny Moraine This is part of why I’ll die on the hill of fanfiction being a perfectly legitimate form of writing in and of itself. It’s not just practice for “the real thing”—it IS the real thing. It’s creative work, creative expression. That it isn’t being done as part of commerce does not mean it’s valueless