@scott i think it depends what one means by disappear. if it means murder, i think it's way too pessimistic. if it means transfer of a sizable fraction of the Palestinian population, i think the odds are pretty high. it might not quite be the modal outcome of my guesstimated distribution (usually a kind of muddling continuation of a status quo should be our predicted mode), but it's close.
"Centrists are the great noticers because their essential purpose is to resist the critiques of the left. Not every leftwing analysis will turn out to be correct, and not every prescription emerging from the left effective, but enough will be such that the passage of time will oblige centrists to accommodate and absorb many of those analyses and prescriptions." #DavidTimoney https://fromarsetoelbow.blogspot.com/2023/12/a-low-dishonest-decade.html
@admitsWrongIfProven too many seem to itch for them.
@noracodes your brother-in-law always makes the best ones.
@admitsWrongIfProven (i think the irony that i had in my was the antidecolonization people coming to identify as the true, indigenous academics whose authentic culture is being displaced by colonial woke interlopers.)
@libramoon oh believe me, as a Florida citizen i hold no brief for DeSantis. he is among the very worst.
@atomicpoet transparent aluminum!
(please don’t tell me it’s just plastic.)
what’s interesting about the Nikki Haley thing is what it reveals about how she thinks of the people whose support she is seeking. i like to think it’s not a fair portrayal of them. DeSantis of all people seems to think better of them than Haley does, or at least did on the spur of a moment.
@fb i don't think we'll be able to do that. i think we'll have to approach it from the other side: things that mean to be treated as authentic will need to have signatures and attestations attached. everything without will be presumptively fake.
@fb (thanks!)
@futurebird if you haven’t seen it, there’s a wonderful essay by Maria Farrell https://crookedtimber.org/2022/12/08/your-platform-is-not-an-ecosystem/
[new draft post] How to regulate AI https://drafts.interfluidity.com/2023/12/28/how-to-regulate-ai/index.html
reckless driving is quite the opposite of wreckless driving. the english language is so weird.
critics of decolonization call for the decolonization of academia by its putative proponents.
they have not yet embraced their identity as indigines, but the second law of sociodynamics (irony must always increase) suggests that it will not be long.
it was the end of history. but history always was unholy and it has joined the undead.
@22 it is never foolish to hope. it is permissible to hope even for the improbable.
@22 it’s a very beautiful and informative piece.
“History is not what happened. It is what gets written down in an imperfect, often underhanded process dominated by self-interested political, economic and cultural authorities.” from Silent Cavalry by #HowellRaines via #MartinPengelly https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/dec/27/howell-raines-silent-cavalry-civil-war
ht @jockr
"[N]ot all innovations are beneficial to society, with some corporations using tactics that undermine legal rights and increase worker exploitation… [R]obust antitrust enforcement between the 1940s-1970s channeled corporate resources into productive investments rather than employing unfair methods of competition." @danielahanley https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4586770
Worse than a crime, a mistake: Israel’s choices after Oct 7.
See @raph https://www.onesmalldetail.blog/justifying-the-unjustifiable-israel-had-no-other-option-in-its-response-to-october-7th/
ht @sumek