@akkartik yeah. definitely the same genre, though i think a real weakness of that (excellent if somewhat repetitive) book is Scott's insistence on identifying the problem with "state" rather than hazards that come with action at scale, whether actors are private or public. people trying to organize large markets, for example, make the same tradeoffs of simplifying for eligibility, with the same hazards as state projects.
@MissingThePt i'm sure if we gave Gavin Newsom a call, he could find four or five uncounted points.
@akkartik we've had lots of theories extolling the situated. E.g. Hayek. The tricky thing is that the extolling in practice of disembodied theory from without, even if the disembodied theory celebrates the situated, very often has the effect of unsituating things. E.g. "market" economists interfering in everything for the sake of simplified abstractions, including Hayek's!
@akkartik I think information technology has just changed the balance. Most things were private and obscure, and so most decisions could be situated, by default. Now the disembodied eye, looking to hold everyone accountable for unsituated virtues, is everywhere.
[new draft post] Situated versus unsituated virtues https://drafts.interfluidity.com/2024/02/11/situated-versus-unsituated-virtues/index.html
@mosttoast not, Cash App was the payment processor / rewards-program-provider here. it’s a small local cafe, just two locations i think.
just used a credit card at a café. no other identification provided, just tapped the screen. it was enough to get me opted in to a Cash app rewards program and SMS list.
This is your final reminder.
i have so little to fear of death since my current condition so approximates it. who the fuck is usher?
@kentwillard Trump/Elvis '32 could be a killer Presidential ticket.
odds that the Democratic and Republican candidates in the 2024 General Presidential Election will be Biden and Trump respectively:
the facts are whatever justifies my conclusion, because i wouldn’t have come to my conclusion if it weren’t justified by the facts.
@admitsWrongIfProven meaninglessness can be very meaningful.
@admitsWrongIfProven everything will happen.
i might be an idiot, but at least i know i’m not useful.
Ignore this post and nothing will happen.
My sister’s new novel, “Help Wanted” — which should be out in a couple weeks! — is reviewed in The Atlantic. https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2024/03/help-wanted-book-review-adelle-waldman/677176/
@taoeffect@mstdn.io and that guy who went to Comet was just an op?
i don't know whether the articles i read years ago linked that mail, but they did describe obscure pizza-related references from the Podesta mails as the source of the speculations. there's nothing in that mail that is a surprise to readers of the dread MSM.