our phones are trying to make themselves our spouses, completing our sentences for us when we are half way through them.

sure. and bylaws. but industries typically don’t have anything analogous to a written constitution.

maybe the faces are finally having enough of the leopards.

any project dick van dyke played any part in… who says you are over-reading?

Goodhart's Law strikes again.

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#Kalecki

this is predictable. it is structural. the marginal voter has concerns orthogonal to the dimensions of contestation btw the parties. it's much more frequent just to care abt other things than to deeply care abt yet be perfectly balanced btw the candidates' issues. www.interfluidity.com/v2/7687.html

this is horrifying.

in bukele's now eternal contribution to the canon, "oopsie…"

right. though @hurricanexyz.bsky.social is linguistically right, i think we do want a bit more than mere convention before deploying what has become a rather grand word since 1787. enshrining conventions or institutions multiple, interlocking, complex do seem like good criteria.

should we use the constitution metaphor for all social phenomena that have shapes? is it useful to describe, say, our propensity to wear pants, that we drive on the right side of the road, as part of our unwritten constitution? or does that stretch it to uselessness. if so, what should bound it?

yes. i agree. (and very much support it!)

the idea that industries have constitutions is fascinating and seems novel. (should some of them have written constitutions? should we conceive of the body of regulations that governs them as that? would it be better then if they had more clearly encapsulated constitutions?)

what if you make your darlings an appendix?

me too! great minds! xcancel.com/interfluidit...

one strange characteristic of our moment is we’ve developed new forms of a “republic of letters” whose participants view themselves as an intellectual elite, while the actual content of that elite discourse is memes or, at best, several hundred character interjections.

a bit of irony is it’s the “progressives” or “squad” or whatever who want meritocracy rather than seniority to govern Congress, in opposition to the “centrists” or “moderates”. in ed reform, a different seniority vs meritocracy conflict has the sides reversed.