This seems very very very very bad. View quoted note →

Excuse me, what? Your "cloud of consciousness"? https://oyster.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:cak4klqoj3bqgk5rj6b4f5do&cid=bafkreihpslyjh3jvo4rl2gabaqkwzmeh2qbvve67nhjxqfyffiok3sszzu

"A shipment is on the way!" announces the email that was sent a week ago. Today I'm wondering where the product is since it's been a week since the email. Tracking link takes me to FedEx saying they still don't have the product. The shipment is, in no way, "on the way." https://oyster.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:cak4klqoj3bqgk5rj6b4f5do&cid=bafkreigmsiuwpfisdmzkwk5dfkmzwkp6xwvdxts6y6tvia6wjpslkaipb4

Have seen a few people passing around this story by Tom Stoppard from just last year, talking about how he learned he was Jewish and also much about his family history, and it's quite a read. He really knew how to write. www.huntingtontheatre.org/2024/09/11/t... Tom Stoppard: On Turning Out t...

Someone got mad at me for my thread earlier today, went around posting angry replies to a bunch of people talking about it, claiming that I was a dick for "locking replies" and then insisting that I was a "Democratic pundit" (I am absolutely not), and when I suggested he was mistaken, blocked me.

ALREADY THERE! www.thelettersfromleo.com/p/new-jd-van... JD Vance’s Top Donor Suggests ...

... means it's better as a guiding concept, but not a slogan. All that is to say, I wouldn't dismiss the concept out of hand. But I think it's silly for Jeffries to think it's a good alternative message to "MAGA." Ok. Now commence yelling at me.

I think people are negatively reacting to the "no ceiling" part as shorthand for "let the rich get richer," though I don't think that's what's meant at all. It's an aspirational claim that *can* resonate with plenty of people. It's about opening up opportunity for everyone, which is good?

... Hell, I'd argue that's kinda what my emphasis on protocols over platforms is in a technical sense. Having a "strong floor" or base as the protocol on which anyone can build anything ("no ceilings") is a good concept for establishing a base line on which anyone can build.

And that concept is quintessentially American. The idea that anyone *should* have an opportunity to succeed. Having "strong floors" as a base to make sure no one is left behind, with the possibility of opportunity to succeed is not a bad message...