A Quarter of a Billion Dollars

15:46 Monday, 12 October 2026
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Musk has flooded Republican campaigns with more than a quarter of a billion dollars.

But it's ok, because Gruber doesn't see any politics in his timeline.

File this under "Surmounting our problems"?

FML

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Further to the foregoing...

15:04 Monday, 12 October 2026
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I wonder if Gruber ever watched The Good Place?

Life imitating art much?

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Situational Ethics

14:53 Monday, 12 October 2026
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That is to say, little or no ethics.

Since Apple has returned to Twitter, er, I mean, X, and has taken some heat for doing so, John Gruber has decided that Twitter, er, I mean, X, is a benign environment. Just a wonderful place for people to gather. And by "gather," I mean, "support."

The culture on X today is remarkably friendly and inclusive. It is a cheerful place. That cheerfulness is another differentiator. If you believe the world is falling apart and doomed only to get worse, that our obvious and real problems cannot be surmounted, X is not the platform for you. If you think the world is full of fun and amazing people and things, that humanity’s defining feature is our collective ability to solve any problem, that the only time better to be alive than today is tomorrow, it might be.

Well, gosh.

You know why our problems cannot be surmounted, John?

It's because people like you always find a way to look away, and in doing so you become a part of the problem.

But hey, as long as you're comfortable.

Never mind the damage, the suffering, the deaths that Musk caused with his performative "DOGE" vandalism. All water under the bridge. What's past is past, right?

X is not the platform for me, because I see the problems, and X is one of them. Only one of many, to be sure. But it most assuredly is one of the problems. And we are doing nothing to "surmount" our problems.

Gotta get those eyeballs, attract those sponsors, harvest that attention. And the best place to do that is a shit-hole that's been painted and papered over to look like, I don't know, "the happiest place on Earth?"

The meaning of our lives is found in the sum of our choices.

And the only power we have is the power to choose.

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