"Fittingly, this takes place in Judea…" #KevinDrum https://jabberwocking.com/what-do-i-mean-there-are-no-good-guys-in-the-middle-east/
@BenRossTransit i'd contest the characterization "big part", though all my information is journalistic and anecdotal, as i suspect is yours (even if first-hand it might not be representative), so we'll not have any grounds to settle the dispute. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/26/opinion/columbia-student-protests-israel.html
the moral high ground is the only territory whose defense is sustainable.
“To even admit you are acting out of a perception of potential liability is thought in some circles to create a risk of liability. But this thinking in some cases creates enormous risk because the people who are articulating risk only think along one line of vulnerability, the one they understand—or because their logic is easily bent towards a pre-determined conclusion by ideologues prepared to manipulate it.” #TimothyBurke https://timothyburke.substack.com/p/academia-on-the-inside
tired: what do you do for a living?
wired: what’s your grift?
@akkartik It’s a classic for sure!
[new draft post] Out of the spotlight https://drafts.interfluidity.com/2024/04/27/out-of-the-spotlight/index.html
@akkartik my automatic notification engine waits for it to be stable an hour! i last edited like 5 mins ago, and don't anticipate another read through, so... (thank you for your enthusiasm!)
@akkartik (i'm a big liar. i've reset the clock with a one-word change.)
i'm sorry i know this is meant in earnest and offensive but i just find it very funny.
from #RichardHanania https://www.richardhanania.com/p/too-gay-to-rebel
Text: there hasn’t been much attention focused on what it means for our elites to become so overwhelmingly gay. This is because we are in the earliest stages of this transformation, as LGBT identity among youth didn’t begin to skyrocket until the last decade or so. Thus, there hasn’t been enough time for this trend to remake society, though today’s college students are part of the gayest generation we have ever seen.
@LesterB99 better to black queen.
[new draft post] The quality of what is coordinated https://drafts.interfluidity.com/2024/04/25/the-quality-of-what-is-coordinated/index.html
@dangillmor merge the court https://www.interfluidity.com/v2/7964.html
cloud native? https://youtu.be/GpBFOJ3R0M4
god save me from the people who claim to speak in my defense.
who knew a kind of contract called "noncompete agreements" might run afoul of a laws prohibiting anticompetitive behavior?
every day is a new surprise.
huge kudos to FTC for placing sanity above the reality distortion fields emitted by money and the people who hoard it.
see @pluralistic https://pluralistic.net/2024/04/25/capri-v-tapestry/
in general with media, the art isn't getting them to say what you want. the ones who are credible resist that, the ones who succumb smell like tankies.
the art is to let them say whatever they want, but to manage the topics they're talking about.
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(lifted from a conversation with @Alon i thought it worth its own post)
@hamishb yes! that is in the general sense the question!
and within that broad landscape of potential arrangements, controversies over the role (or nonrole) of states loom very large.
@Alon i doubt it is in fact, i don't actually believe in this degree of competence in whatever the relevant organs would be, but if the latest round of disruptive university protests were some covert op it'd be the most effective "hasbara" since 7oct.
in general with media, the art isn't getting them to say what you want. the ones who are credible resist that, the ones who succumb smell like tankies.
the art is to let them say whatever they want, but to manage the topics they're talking about.
A fundamental question that cross-cuts left and right is whether the fight for human flourishing is a fight against the state, or a fight for the state, over who and what values control it.
leftish anarchists and right-ish libertarians share the fight-against frame. social democrats on the left and social conservatives on the right share the fight-for frame.