Que se passe-t-il dans ces abîmes reculés? (X)

Hannania: The North Korean model is the only thing that makes sense at this point. Trump will impoverish the nation to increase his own power.

Dolphins on tank. One on the back of the silver tank, one on the side of the silver tank. “As the image of the dolphin is to the silver of the tank, so is a real dolphin to the real sea,” “As the image of the dolphin (an advertisement or logo) is to the gasoline in the tank (a product for sale) so is the real dolphin to the real sea.” (Always passing the BP when the refueling truck is in.) “As the exterior is to the interior of the tank, so is a real dolphin to the real sea.” (I often find, on rereading something of mine that I’ve edited, that I’ve entirely misconstrued and didn’t understand at all the thing I’d believed in need of correction.) “As the image on the exterior is to the contents of the interior so is a real dolphin to the real sea.”

“The gas is within the tank, and the truck, taken entire, is like a dolphin, a dolphin in the atmosphere.” (no) “The tank is the sea: inside it the dolphin of gas and outside it the dolphin of air.” (no) “The driver is the dolphin, and the truck is his mammalian layer of fat.” (correct)

ergodic: of or relating to a literary work that requires nontrivial effort on the reader’s part to traverse.

Tweet: for all of the years and years and years of people deriding “Econ 101” and ridiculing economists, the past few years have really demonstrated the basic correctness of boring, basic economic concepts

Tweet: Lutnick wants to reshore everything. Bessent wants more fair trade deals. Navarro wants to burn it all down. Elon wants a robust free trade partnership. Which admin official is stating the actual policy?

Tweet: The stock market lost 10% of its value in two days because your Republican member of Congress 100% supports the tariff meltdown. They could stop it at any moment. But they want it to continue.

Tweet: more people need to realize that Congress can end the tariffs at any time.

Tweet: there are in fact policies that hurt big money and normal people at the same time

It is not good to be too free.
It is not good to have all one needs.

Pascal

tweet: One notion US economic suicide should put to rest: The country is not secretly run by Wall Street or corporations or the military-industrial complex. It’s run by the median safe-district high-propensity primary voter. There’s no one else waiting to grab the wheel.

desiderate — desire, long for.

skelm — a scoundrel, a rogue.

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No, I don’t think he means that. Or yes, maybe he does. Or — no, he does not precisely mean that, or yes maybe he does. Or yes indeed he does — so let us read this again. Or rather, let us read, at least, the preceding section or proposition. Rehearsing this again, basic: procedes, precedes, preseeds, pressed, proceedes, processes, rehearsing this, as in “the proceeds of this function will go to the charity.” Get back to Peter, to Simon, those clear examples. Let us return to that paragraph. I see: yes of course I don’t see, but, looking at the rest of the paragraph, I do think I must revert to my former opinion, which was what again?… what, again, was my former opinion…? Now supposing I were eventually to recall my former opinion, what was I just now saying was it’s significance again…. that I should revert to it? Yes, so what was that one?

… Where was I? Oh, Peter. One’s image, one’s idea of Peter, is always with you, always present. Good. But what about the case in which one was happy to see Peter in the past but would be sorry to see him in the future? Or what about the case in which one was happy to see Peter in the morning (because he was so cheerful and happy in the morning, affording a needed boost to your own flagging spirits) but was sorry to see him at night (when he was so tired and glum, furthering worsening your mood after all the setbacks you’d experienced.) Also, what had become of Simon? There is almost nothing said of Simon. In cases, like those, I believe, one would need to drill down into all the associations the mind may have made with the idea it has of Peter, accidental or efficient causes of our pleasure or our dismay, all of them, all of them more complicated than the situation which, to this point, we’ve been looking into.

In my running clothes, I walked.

Thought much of characters on social media: “they were the characters of whom I was the play.”
I read a long poem.

Avoided my neighbors as they worked on their yard but not as they stepped from their car. But again I avoided them when I chanced on them stepping out of their house.

I thought of business, cats, weather, others. I didn’t think of anything I’d consider deep or advanced. I’d had no inspirations this day or this week, except as regarded various sociological changes.

“A person doesn’t care,” I saw this and that person attesting, “a person doesn’t care,” of which the obverse I knew was, “a person minds his own business.”

Tweet: Spend some time on social media, you’ll find a nearly perfect correlation between antisemitism and anti-vaxx.

Tweet: putin knows the US won’t move against him, so he massively escalated his attacks on Ukraine’s civilians since the failed summit in Riyadh & Trump call.

Yglesias: “We have to pass the bill so people can find out what’s in it” was truly one of the most vindicated political takes of my lifetime.

Tweet: the “inverse lyceum” of Elon Musk.

Snopes on the claim that Hitler pardoned 8000 political supporters when he became Chancellor: not a one-to-one match but broadly analogous to Trump’s pardoning of J6ers.