Resilience is a dimension of epistemology we (at least I) have too little considered. However we know what we know, how resilient is it to interests that seek to snow us, or leave us without what had once been our capacity to know?
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i think i’m suggesting a somewhat stronger claim. for this Supreme Court, many of its decisions individually can be attributed to benign or at least defensible reasoning that fails to adequately address “unintended” consequences. so in that sense, ignorance and malice are hard to distinguish. 1/
but i’m claiming though Hanlon’s Razor suggests we stick with ignorance or incompetence, with this Court the parsimonious explanation must be malice, that the adverse (from most of our perspectives) unintended consequences are in fact intended. 2/
the Court has a longstanding (Citizen’s United, voting rights) pattern of provoking such consequences through means many contemporaries perceive. 3/
which form of facially benign or defensible reasoning they apply they vary willy nilly but not randomly. they choose one that predictably will cause what most of us would take to be adverse consequences, while unpersuasively and ultimately mistakenly pretending they’ve addressed the concern. 4/
individually, each decision might be attributed to good faith mistakes, reasonable disagreements, a kind of legalistic blindness that puts certain procedural principles before outcomes, but in a neutral way. 5/
in aggregate, however, all of that is untenable. their behavior is not indistinguishable form ignorance. it is driven by malice outright, or a set of ideological views that most of the public would characterize as malicious if plainly and candidly stated drafts.interfluidity.com/2024/11/19/p... /fin
what’s the inverse of Hanlon’s Razor? i think that’s what applies to the current Supreme Court.
@ryanlcooper.com on elite impunity: “any country that completely gives up on accountability for its political class will eventually produce someone like Trump. Open the door to criminals, and sooner or later one will walk through.” prospect.org/politics/202...
Turns Out Appeasing Trump Only Emboldened Him
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plutocrats are the ultimate degrowthers, because serious growth requires unpredictable change, and plutocrats want to fix current hierarchies in amber. you see this now in the Trump Administration’s reinforcement of fossil fuels and suppression of solar / batteries / etc.
you’ll know evil when you see what people will do in the name of god.
more money is more thugs in masks and incarceration camps that require air conditioning. i’d be grateful of these fund’s were earmarked for quality of conditions rather than quantity, but i don’t think that’s the intent of ~10x-ing ICE’s budget.
if accurate, “we would spend more on ICE than Israel spends on defense” is quite something.
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“A method of legal interpretation that relies on this kind of historical inquiry only when it will yield the answer it wants is clearly far more opportunistic than principled.” ~Kate Shaw www.nytimes.com/2025/07/01/o...
Opinion | ‘A Culture of Disdain’: The Supreme Court’s Actions Speak Louder Than Its Words
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so many possible names — the “pollute the planet act”, “kill the poors act”, “rich get richer act”. but i think i’d go with the simple “gestapo act”
“Republicans are literally subsidizing dirty, cheap steel production in India and China.” @ryanlcooper.com prospect.org/environment/...
Is the Republican Party a Chinese Communist Conspiracy?
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does the “competitive” in “competitive authoritarianism” need scare quotes?
“Boasting about incompetence is signaling that you can be trusted to be corrupt.” @himself.bsky.social
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ADP infamously doesn't much predict the subsequent BLS report. But does it correlate more strongly with BLS numbers after revisions?
still unfair to the gators. but i agree, that captures the spirit of the place more accurately.
to bribes and gratuities, our growing menagerie of parsings of corrupt practices, we have to add supplications. of course the Supreme Court would see no problems with such a practice. our ball and strike callers. our Moseses who bear upon their weighty tablets the precious rule of law.
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the whole “alligator alcatraz” thing is unfair to the alligators.
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