Amazon is misnamed. It suggests courageous women rather than craven men.

it’s weird how you can’t see the back of the chyron.

it’s not just him! this is the lesson of the @semaforben.bsky.social piece, or of just interacting with MAGA-ists. they believe their memes! the “sophisticated” ones, if you call them on it, either challenge you or fall back JD-Vance-like on how creative license can call attention to a deeper truth.

which compels what ultimately might be a useful admission!

maybe the answer is your faction should always loudly accuse the press as being and enemy and out to get you. it seems to work. they go every extra mile to prove they are evenhanded and unfairly maligned.

don’t the officers participating in this risk criminal or civil liability for breaking black-letter law? sure, the President is your boss, but you have a duty not to follow illegal orders.

Wot?

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sure. (that’s more bylaws in the US, but same difference.) industries though are also entities that have complex characteristics somehow defined. i thought it interesting the idea that evolved practices and forms that guide industries can be thought of as UK-ish unwritten or dispersed constitutions.

never mind. keep munching.

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