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But you’re making a sharper Vidal-style point: what if their Article V project does not trap us inside their country, but reveals that they have already constituted a different one?

That is a much stronger argument. [yeah, no shit]

Vidal’s 1987 piece is basically sitting right there grinning at this. He says the right, in trying to use a convention for balanced budgets, school prayer, abortion, pornography, drugs, and other items in what he calls a “Bill of Wrongs,” may have “set in motion the great engine” that could overthrow the Constitution they claim to worship. He also says that if there is to be a battle over freedoms, better to have it in the open than “backstage at the Supreme Court,” and he even suggests the Bill of Rights might be enhanced rather than destroyed.

That is the part I should have foregrounded. A convention is not only a danger. It is also a revelation machine.

If reactionary states convene around minority rule, forced birth, Christian nationalism, fossil sovereignty, federal paralysis, and judicial supremacy, then they are not merely proposing amendments. They are confessing their constitutional identity. They are saying: this is the country we want.

At that point, the democratic response does not have to be, “Oh no, how do we stop them from changing our Constitution?” It can be:

Fine. You have announced your constitution. Now we will announce ours.

That is not the same as trying to win their convention. It is using the crisis to make the latent split explicit. Not “please let us amend the old order by your rules,” but: we are the continuing democratic republic, and your project is the breakaway one.

🎉 Gitte 0.2.0 is out!

Highlights:
- Interactive rebasing from the log: reorder via drag&drop, drop, reword, edit, squash/fixup
- Remote ops (push/pull/fetch/clone) now use the git CLI for better credentials & protocol support
- Configurable diff font
- CLI args: gitte ~/repo
- Ahead/behind indicator, merge markers, double-click to switch branches

Plus: Ukrainian & German translations, AUR package, lots of bugfixes and a few easter eggs.

https://flathub.org/apps/de.wwwtech.gitte

#GNOME #git #gui #linux #rust

@lake peak knowledge transfer

love when i have to troubleshoot riso printer mechanical issues and then a comment like this on facebook saves me

New Nesta report: how will we pay for heat pumps in future? We think finance will play a crucial role in heat pumps reaching the mass market in Britain, like it does for cars. So we explored how different consumers actually want to pay for their heat pump...

Paying for heat pumps

U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent will meet Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, Finance Minister Satsuki Katayama and BOJ Gov. Kazuo Ueda when he visits Japan next week, a source familiar with the matter have said. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2026/05/07/economy/us-treasury-secretary-bessent-japan-visit/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #economy #scottbessent #sanaetakaichi #yen #forex

someone in micro 3d printing made a waveform to rick roll everyone:

https://www.reddit.com/r/3Dprinting/comments/1t5f6h9/you_have_just_been_micro_rickrolled/

#3dprinting

@jalefkowit

Highly overrated, would not recommend.

Thanks to Josh Comeau, I’ve finally got my head around incrementing counters on nested ordered lists.

#css

Cheers Josh: https://www.joshwcomeau.com/css/styling-ordered-lists-with-css-counters/

@CarmePont un dels motius per els que faig projectes informàtics és tenir les alegries quan aconsegueixo fites fent-los. I també per a forçar el cervell a resoldre problemes.

@lake

insanely jealous of your riso machine.

would love to see more of what you do with it, please.

UML, they must have their shit together?

> reference document titles use YY-MM-DD (not ISO 8601)
> reference PDF has no metadata for my Zotero to find

Raising teenagers is always interesting. Why, for example, wouldn't a pot lid be a better and more environmental option than plastic wrap for a watermelon?
#innovation #WatermelonPictures

Verkehrswende.social wird zum 01.08.2026 eingestellt. Bitte migriert eure Konten rechtzeitig auf eine andere Instanz.

PSA: you will be seeing the name of a beloved British naturalist a lot over the next week. Please do not be shocked when you see his name. He is still alive. He is about to turn 100.