@dpp @kentwillard there are definitely tradeoffs between the kind of coherence that can come from a small group of dedicated people, and the risk of capture that also comes with that! i am at this point happy to make the trade you are not happy to make. the court's ability to function coherently while Congress cannot is a real problem. it is Congress that must ultimately strategically shape the law, the Court's role should be more WTF fix this! than FTFY. But YMMV!
@Jonathanglick (that would apply both to saving the horses and killing them, right? re logical rigor, yeah. for the most part i treat any ethical or political claim grounded even in part on theology as lunacy, and don't spend much time trying to evaluate. perhaps that's biased, unfair. but though of course some theologically grounded claims are fascinating and wonderful, as a class i think what renders them exceptional is the ease with which they justify the otherwise unjustifiable.)
Is there still any indieweb energy behind decentralizing reviews? Unsurprisingly, Google seems to have ceased supporting the microformat-based review markup discussed by Aaron Parecki here.
I don't want to rely upon or care very much about Google. But I would like to converge on a shared practice with other people trying to desilo-ify the web.
@MartyFouts @pluralistic not sure what name we are talking about?
Merge the court. https://www.interfluidity.com/v2/7964.html
// I periodically for no particular reason repost this one. @kentwillard suggested now would be a good time. 🎵 Who am I to disagree? 🎵
@Jonathanglick You know a lot more about this stuff than I do, and I have to say I am less inclined than I ever have been (which, admittedly, has never been much) to study Jewish tradition, but wouldn't the predicate of that story (God spared the livestock of the righteous) call into question that very ugly conclusion?
“They portrayed him as a cog, but in the end a machine is made up of cogs and he was a willing part of that.” ~Rev. Beth Glover via @ddayen, re a 2013 Wall Street case https://prospect.org/justice/2024-05-31-juries-rule-trump-trial/
does rule of law imply a law of rules?
are you a hypocrite to claim you respect the rule of law if you don’t always respect the speed limit?
“Silicon Valley is the land of low-capital, low-labor growth. Software development requires fewer people than infrastructure and hard goods manufacturing, both to get started and to run as an ongoing operation. Silicon Valley is the place where you get rich without creating jobs. It's run by investors who hate the idea of paying people.” @pluralistic https://pluralistic.net/2024/05/30/posiwid/
@realcaseyrollins@noauthority.social @realcaseyrollins@social.teci.world (maybe my life doesn’t count as IRL TBH)
@BenRossTransit @dpp even the pundits pundit that the mar-a-lago documents case is a slam dunk. but a friendly judge has put that one likely past november. this being-in-office-to-squash-your-criminal-prosecutions trend is disheartening.
@dpp in the punditosphere this was a weak case, the one that seemed like a real stretch. if all the highly paid politics-knowers thought that, you’d think at least one of twelve would have been persuaded by the defense at least consider it somewhat marginal and have to mull over it a bit. i haven’t followed reporting on the presentation at trial closely, but the prosecution was apparently very persuasive!
@rst well, the hearts on rockets thing certainly was presidential!
@realcaseyrollins oh, in the new york times and associated podcasts ezra klein and ross douthat both advocated that. the good state of the union address calmed them for a bit, but recently i’ve heard (some random podcast probably, i don’t remember) it discussed again as the polling has gotten bleak.
@realcaseyrollins i wish i knew!
so much talk (however unmoored) about a withdrawal and an open Democratic convention. any such talk on the R side?
@Transportist well, i think this jury was compensated.
the speed of the verdict seems astonishing.
@Jonathanglick absolutely.