Ceci n'est pas… ht @epicureandealmaker.bsky.social

the name for this practice is Jerry-rigging. (i'll show myself out now.)

"Those in power may pretend not to know where the present political trajectories are taking us, but they seem to sense that they’ll have to hide." @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social www.bostonreview.net/articles/a-y... ht @jamellebouie.net

that's… a bit too concise. i'd prefer the tale longue.

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it was referring to the heroic effort.

(other than the augmentation, it’s not mine, it’s someone else’s very concise and clever coinage!)

One common definition of democracy (I’m sorry I don’t offhand know the attribution) is “democracy is the system under which political parties lose elections”. I think that needs to be augmented, “along with free entry of political parties able to meaningfully contest elections”.

an irony of the Iran War is it was perpetrated in hopes of a color revolution but by governments who’d drained all color from everywhere else in the world and mocked any hope for it as folly.

you think he must have all the answers but if he made us in his image than he too must be in a state of existential confusion.

we are made worse people by every bad thing we know about, but treat as just the way it is. yet it is far from clear that we and the world wouldn’t be made even worse by the more obvious things we might try to do about it.

“Americans have to reacquaint themselves with constitutional thinking — with the idea that we, the people, make constitutional meaning.” @jamellebouie.net

incentives matter. that's why we need to dramatically reduce them.

Higher education would be better if the people who participate in it, both as students and as educators, were there, on the terms they are there, because they affirmatively choose it rather than in order to pursue instrumental derivative goals.

just waking up and looking around.

The humans are always stirring up trouble with one another for really dumb reasons.

i say we build data lefts.

sometimes the absence of a thing is more real than the thing itself.

paying so much you get little enjoyment or value from the purchase certainly is!