philipfrankenfeld.bsky.social
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Something's gotta gov.
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Amid externalities that are disutilites, complicated to detect and control, and amid glaring market failure, something's gotta gov.
I have always relied on the kidness of stricture. Govern or give in. My mama told me, you'd better chaperone. Referee or retrogress. Harnessed we is the best polity.
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I know is iterative game theorectic strategy.
By hollowing out federal agencies, the people will no longer recieve the protections. services agencies provide.
Then, Trump, his cabinet members, allies on the right can shriek that "government doesn't work!"
Self-fulfilling prophecy.
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Market failure and greed in complicated society.
Something's gotta gov.
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Public input is key to accountability. And countervailing tethers of account constitute checks and balances that are key to freedom from tyranny and harm.
And positively, to control our environment, outpus, outcomes. So that they comport with our wishes. And thus affirm our agency for free will.
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Every hen house has its fox.
A clear affront to Technological Citizenship and the social contract for the technoscientific society.
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That could be a job title. Salami brandisher.
My job title?
Parfait evaluator.
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That pathetically confused, self-verifying little boy needs to pay the consequences of his vicious assaults on people at companies that were exercising due diligence. And operating truthfully. In pursuit of fair elections.
Punish financially. Deter. Avoid moral hazard.
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Denial is a river that runs deep and long.
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Vought is a clear and present danger to the American Constitution and to the American social contract. Pact for the journey.
His efforts must be stopped in all ways possible. Courts. Media. Academe.Businesses if possible. NGOs. Foundations. We the People.
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Both Vietnam and Iraq confronted us with the sound of one quag miring.
How mired the quag.
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Senator Padilla was only trying to pruse accountability of illegal and unconstitutional acts. Accountability of acts that impact us is the essence of freedom. Unconditional power and lack of account constitute the very meaning of tyranny.
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Environmental Justice is a major instance of my model/ideal of Technological Citizenship and the social contract for the technoscientific society.
I am sorry to see EJ denigrated as a policy concept by the current regime. Is that one of the terms the Trump gov't has banned from use?
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He was voted most likely to be pardoned.
And. Most likely to move to Qatar to flee extradition.
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I have compsed several parody songs in the style of the Beach Boys.
Their style is nothing less than its own genre.
And a genre for which we are all tankful.
Even the Beatles used it. "Back in the USSR!"
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The faul, dear Brutus.
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It requires a lot of chutzpah to tell anyone from the Wrecking Crew what to do! They practially invented backup playing. But when you're 23 years old!
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NO KINGS
DIDN'T WE ONCE SEND A "DEAR JOHN"
TO DOUR GEORGE III?
A sign I may carry Saturday at the "No Kings" rally in DC. Far from the autocratic junta parade.
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Give Trump a tube of K-Y lubricant jelly. And instruct him to enjoy himself.
That would save money, MAGA cultists being whipped into a pro-autocratic junta frenzy, wear and tear in DC. Trump would still get his endorphin, dopamine rush. Before the Pareto optimality passes by.
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Please, let's rein in this charade.
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Attacks on science in public health benefit the attacks on all science. And bring less public protection governance for the fossil fuel industry.
RFK Jr.'s presidential campaign attracted contributions from all industries concerned with a structuralist assault on all science, governance.
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Eh?
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And yes.
The Seven Last Words of Christ on the Cross trully were "Judas you #$%&@! You are the kinkiest!"
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I have money on a colossall reconciliation.
You can't have a reconciliation that the base desperately craves unless you first have a split.
Reverse engineering.
Rig. Rip. Repair. Reap.
Cf. the tariff imposition/removal manipulation. And parallel stock trading insiders conducted.
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Cronyism. Self-"governance". With zero external, independent accountability.
Solipsism.
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Ideology and cronyism over merit.
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Teach----
Your children well--!
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Insolent, callow, entitled youth.
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We're in denial---!
We're in denial---!
We cope through strategy
That helps us get along!
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No-trial denial.
Weed 'em and reap.
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Natch. We invented the Solo cup.
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In situations of market failure--natural disasters--something's gotta gov. Federal government. By gutting FEMA, Trumpsters can then say this "proves" that "government doesn't work".
Self-fulfilling prophecy. Tens of millions will fall for it.
Because. They *want* to.
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The courts can stop this.
But then, iteratively, game theoretically, Trump, his oligarchs, autocrats can defy court orders. Per Erwin Chemerinsky, courts can only make orders *binding* via arrest of officials by U.S. Marshals. Run by DOJ. Under the POTUS. Catch-22. Game over. Rig? Rigged.
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Jaunty juxtaposition. Storage of physical stuff truly requires wise whys. Do people ever actually recover the junk? Then use the junk modularly, temporarily?
Cf. the New Yorker fiction piece by T.C. Boyle on a firm that seems bent on storing one's possessions, then selling them. For a fee!
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To ignorant, insecure voters, cruelty sells.
According to Musk, empathy is "civilization's greatest weakness".
I guess when you have over $400 billion.
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Do they matter?
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I guess he has never sung hurricane carols.
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Who put the kar in the karma-Darwin ding-dong?
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Something's gotta gov.
Because. Soft power saves lives.
And soft power makes the U.S. more secure.
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Psychotic, solipsistic little child, Vought.
Also, a bootlicker.
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Metaphor becomes reality.
And becomes worthy of recusal. Perhaps of censure.