Notices by Steve Randy Waldman (interfluidity@zirk.us), page 2

there is no hypocrisy under supremacy. a double standard is, from a supremicist perspective, simply correct.

you used to have to change the clocks, but now it’s like a treasure hunt to find a clock that hasn’t changed itself.

much more dangerous than being straw manned by other people, it is so easy to fall into a practice of straw manning oneself: getting cornered into defending a simplification or caricature of ones own views.

“Let me repeat that — social media silos are fighting against web links, the foundation of the open web. They do so to ‘encourage’ content and discussions on their own platforms, noble goals a stakeholder would say, except that now these platforms are filled with politics, rage, and AI slop.” @alexelcu https://alexn.org/blog/2025/10/13/outsourced-voices-outsourced-minds/

is CBS the new “newsweek”?

would you really prefer an immoral panic?

people who style themselves political realists have such unrealistic views about how swing voters behave. it's not the issues, or at least not the issues our two parties elevate as objects of political contestation. it's a sense of affiliation, or of shared resentments, or just personal respect.

i just had a call from a very polite gentleman running for state house in a state not mine, seeking a donation. good luck to him, but it’s getting a bit ridiculous.

one thing to say about Charlie Kirk is he had enormous emotional range. he could project — very effectively! — reasonableness, bonhomie, good will, even across deep social chasms. he could also spew bile, hatred, and bigotry in a way that left little doubt he meant it. 1/

@realcaseyrollins I mean… https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/charlie-kirk-ezra-klein-tanehisi-coates

@realcaseyrollins i mean READ THE PIECE. every quote is a link. you may dislike the author, i certainly agree he’s a partisan, but the text is well documented.

pretty convenient how quickly The Left has forgotten sandwich guy.

if AI isn't sentient, why do people talk about adopting it?

everyone needs a family.

TPUSA. CPUSA. Coincidence?

@realcaseyrollins https://www.cpusa.org/

it’s the authentic will of the people when they seem to agree with me.

it’s the way the system is rigged when it appears that they do not.

(hint: there’s no such thing as the authentic will of the people independent of the system by which it is ascertained or constituted.)

if ai comes and takes our jobs we could just hire people to give a fuck about one another.

were TED talks a net positive or net negative for our collective cognition and deliberation?

man yells at TV, most powerful military in the history of the world springs into action.

the only thing that could possibly displace the Epstein Files as a public obsession would be complete, unredacted release of the X Files.