too much algorithmic social media consumption is like receiving one of those serial killer notes written in clipped-out magazine letters and being like “hey, this ‘Q’ is from The NewYorker so what the note says must be true!”
a collage of a lie is not redeemed by the quality of elements collaged.
@paninid yeah, fine as far as i know! thanks for asking!
“what if we just gave the worst people in the world unchecked power for a while? that would shake things up.”
it’s weird that we pass when our body fails.
conjecture: the quality of life in its prisons is a pretty good measure of the success and level of civilization of a society.
(note “measure”, which does not make a claim of “cause”. there are Goodhart’s Law risks.)
i guess the other place you might see this is a voting booth.
photograph of a bathroom featuring an ersatz “Girl with Pearl Earring” painting, with the girl wearing a clothespin on her nose.
i periodically repost this one. never really know why. https://www.interfluidity.com/v2/7964.html
one nice thing about being in Europe is you get to see all the surveillance Substack is putting you through.
screenshot of “Cookie Preferences” that pops up on Substack in Europe, showing Google, Facebook, Twitter/X, and other trackers.
@Phil @realcaseyrollins they engaged in treaties under the Constitution with the United States there were no passports in common usage they were an ambiguous case and so it was legislatively clarified, exactly how our system is intended to work.
@Phil @realcaseyrollins i guess we have a lot of really really subgeniuses now.
@Phil @realcaseyrollins because their reservations were arguably sovereign territory, a much stronger not-under-jurisdiction case than migrants who are obviously under jurisdiction, they are arrested all the time.
@realcaseyrollins @Phil yes, but it’s consequential, it should be a reliable, reviewable, accountable someone. like a judge in a public process.
@Phil @realcaseyrollins someone has to determine that they have no right to be here and where home is. they sent that guy to jamaica for no particular reason, Venezuelans to CECOT on at best disputable claims of gang affiliation etc.
@Phil @realcaseyrollins justice only when it’s easy, then.
you know, for a small fraction of the tax cuts we really could hire hundreds of new immigration judges to provide people with meaningful process over a reasonable timeframe.
@realcaseyrollins @Phil i do care about the rule of law. and its application by human institutions under principles of fairness and equity. it is the law, in the United States, that you can break the law and mount an affirmative defense as to why under particular and exigent circumstances it was the right thing to do, for example. it is the law that a jury needn’t convict. good law is goes beyond did she or didn’t she, or to what category does she belong? mens rea is a principle of law.
@Phil @realcaseyrollins that one was not lawless. his father had paperwork to fill out for his citizenship he flaked on filling out. years later the child is literally stateless, a citizen of nowhere. not all that is lawful is just. a sane administration would have helped this guy fix the paperwork, but they are looking for deportation numbers, anyone they can get.
@Phil @realcaseyrollins dude, they revoked all Afghanis status under temporary parole, including many likely to be harmed or imprisoned for having helped our military. https://www.uscis.gov/humanitarian/temporary-protected-status/temporary-protected-status-designated-country-afghanistan https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/05/12/afghanistan-tps-immigration-dhs/
