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privacy, security, and compliance; university administration; the liberal arts
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he's right: the only way to truly defeat the threat posed by genuine evil is to silently pick it up and throw it into a bottomless pit
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right, tech bro culture gives the appearance of being pro-science but it's more like the software world asserting dominance over all other technology, which makes it actually extremely scientifically and technologically regressive and masks the degree to which the US is *not* adopting new tech
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just flaunting how he doesn't have to care about nyt social media policies
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it's always useful to see when the country's most elite reporters reply to their commenters with sarcastic rage bait but ignore all the comments about the article's factual errors and failure to do the most fundamental source checking
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the people who want to stay silent and give up on him should visualize the scenario--unlikely as it may seem today--in which he gets released and comes home. how would they feel as everyone else celebrates the triumph of justice over the unambiguous evil they backed? how would it look for them?
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yeah between cuomo's briefings and the creepy success of LLMs, democrats have more than enough evidence that speaking directly to people substantively, authoritatively, and at length is an amazingly effective way to build trust totally independently of merit. prob still works when not used for evil!
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will always remain amazing to me that a democrat invented fireside chats and then the party apparently decided to never do anything like them again
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I think the main use of the slogan in the American context has been as a thought-stopping cliche, but it at least gestured toward there being a theoretical basis for constitutionalism. Now we just get to keep the thought-stopping cliche
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I keep being reminded of how Americans know the slogan "the people are sovereign" but have no concept of what "sovereignty" is, let alone what it would be like for the people not to be sovereign.
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people are saying
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la révolution dévore ses enfants
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it wouldn't be the end of a republic without the end of coherent politics based in ideology and its replacement by feuding warlords with no platform other than assigning the spoils of patronage systems to their own loyalists
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right wingers never ever sneer at "posting on your phone" because they know they have achieved complete dominance through posting on their phones
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it's interesting how only democrats still treat the online world as any less "real." meanwhile the republicans are in their second decade of being transformed into an org that caters 100% exclusively to its endless federation of niche freak internet communities with zero embarrassment or apology
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i remember feeling mildly alienated that one of the most annoying bands from the elephant 6 collective became the famous one, and i vaguely recall that another one messed up a scene in montreal (but not the one with montreal in its name)
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i feel like the way to synthesize these views is that if your opponent keeps saying "she wants to abort babies at nine months and even later" and you're too message-disciplined to reply "what the fuck are you talking about" then people start to believe your opponent is referring to something real
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I think avg percentile is more meaningful as the relative size of the subgroup in the overall pop gets smaller, but in any case, that number baffled me too until seeing that it's against total population, not workers or households. though that makes women's relative position in the 70s even *worse*
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fortunately there's a real income version! we're still looking at means but that's at least easier to understand
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the multiple layers of aggregation are confounding me too. Just observing the *mean* relative position of a subgroup (of unreported relative size) in the overall relative income distribution is very hard to make an interpretation from
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A better NYT article quoted a student predicting that a similar incident had created a precedent “where you can, under the auspices of free speech, more or less intimidate and harass a professor, and sic your incredible following on TikTok and Twitter on them for the purpose of chilling speech.”
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The way algorithmic routing spreads traffic out, forcing municipalities to adjust the road network to accommodate higher traffic on what used to be side streets, is a sort of real-world feedback mechanism that generates slop
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algorithms have ruined satisficing
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there's some interesting research on adding seaweed to cattle feed to reduce methane emissions, though
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I'm not an authority but I've always read the opposite. grass fed beef requires massively more land and plant material to produce the same amount of beef
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felt pretty obvious that cheney opposed trump because cheney is an Evil Empire guy to the core and was able to succeed at that within the existing framework and knew that actual empire-building is not served by a personalist regime that acts all chaotic and constantly weakens the regime
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even the much more attainable goal of demoralizing and shaming that fraction into staying home (since they'll never actually go out and vote for a democrat anyway) would do the trick. People act like you have to actively win them over, but just making them feel so bad they don't vote is half as good
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are those hand tattoos
is he supposed to be in ms-13
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unless there's some trivia about a previous use of Fenwick High School, I'm pretty sure there has never been one. Oak Park was fully settled and space-constrained fairly early. But also Austin may have had some higher ed when it was independent and more continuous with OP
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when I see prominent journalists talking about Biden being old, I don't see them engaged in actual self-criticism, I see them simply using another avenue to keep the Biden Old story going
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if you read Fox News and other right-wing outlets, you see a constant stream of prominent stories about washed-up liberals. Somehow there is always something new to say about Rosie O'Donnell, or a fresh twist on some Clinton story from three years ago. They obsessively reinforce preferred narratives
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even now the STL press must be spinning up stories about one time 150 years ago when a hometown guy totally *almost* got elected pope but somebody from Chicago somehow sabotaged it for them
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and we thought this issue had been rendered moot by Napoleon's abolition of the Republic of Venice
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storytellers tell stories about themselves. they iterate through narrative drafts until they develop interpretations that give satisfying meanings and arcs to their own lives. this is a normal thing that people do but is more pronounced in those who do it as a vocation
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since these are total figures, not per capita, the beer chart is also consistent with millennials--a larger generation than the ones before and after us--being especially into beer during peak drinking years. Now there are fewer people in their 20s and they drink that weird seltzer stuff
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part of why the AI results are so insidious is that you can't tell people to just skip them and trust the top regular search results, because those are still full of the same malicious SEO-abusing trash we were complaining about before LLMs took over
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dogs aren't wolves. one of the big genomic differences between wolves and dogs is specifically the ability to eat and digest grains
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Any vet strenuously insisting dogs have to avoid grains is way outside the mainstream though. I scroll right past the garbage AI answers, but plain old SEO is still pushing anti-scientific nonsense to the top of the regular Google results just like it has for years
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Not only that, but think of all the wildly conflicting "expert" advice you can find about human nutrition, and how much of it is overconfident, cultish, and obsessive. Dog nutrition has all the same problems. I'd worry more about the producer's food safety record; plenty of dogs live past 18 on Iams
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do bitcoin fans try to explain why you should hedge against depreciation risk by buying bitcoin and not, you know, actual currencies?
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I regularly have to review contacts with a data destruction clause requiring us to "overwrite the data three times with a secure wipe utility" and I marvel at how many layers that doesn't make sense on for an SSD storage array with a bunch of layers of encryption
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where the Delogu book is here
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yeah it's Escape from Freedom. One of the better psychoanalytic treatments of fascism imo. There's actually a pretty good gloss of it in a freely available book by C. Jon Delogu pitched at an audience not familiar with psychoanalysis
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I guess more precisely this is Frommposting; he wrote a whole book on the exact aspect of fascism Bouie is describing
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I've been seeing it as trying to resolve the Hegelian master/slave dialectic by just piling on more and more categories of slave, never realizing that just traps them more and more in an impossible search for selfhood that only intensifies the death drive (aka Butlerposting instead of Platoposting)
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I was going to protest that we should respect how actually gargantuan the 14th amendment is, but yeah they did still use two other amendments to fit everything in