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"It’s tempting to use the term intangible when what we really mean is that such things are hard to quantify in our modern institutional environment with the kinds of measuring tools that are used by modern bureaucratic systems."

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I posted about this earlier but while I have some strong disagreements with the prescriptive conclusion the diagnosis is really 100% correct aeon.co/essays/we-sh...

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“If God should tell me I had either to go to Hell or the Southern Confederacy I should ask for a week of deliberation.”

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the mysterious forces at play are only mysterious to you. i can understand them just fine

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Searching for good writing on the phenomenon of saying things like “if you look at the numbers [public fear] is just irrational” only to have to hastily find a reason to care about [public fear] once it becomes either politically hegemonic or obviously true

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Disappointing to see a good CJCS fired 16 months into a 4 year term (designed to shield the military from politicization), but civ-mil reminder that every senior officer serves at the pleasure of the president, & the president deserves a senior military team he’s comfortable with — for any reason.

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Trump is nominating a retired Air National Guard 3-star to be Chairman of the Joint Chiefs. Highest major command was Deputy Commander, CENTSOC www.af.mil/About-Us/Bio...

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FOLLOWUP: SECDEF Hegseth also firing the CNO, the USAF Vice-Chief, and somewhat unusually and ominously to do in the same breath, the senior JAGs of the Army, Navy, and USAF

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Wow: "Mr. Hitchens ... was summoned to Athens in 1973 because his mother, after leaving his father, had committed suicide there with her new partner. After his father’s death in 1987, he learned that his mother was Jewish, a fact she had concealed from her husband and her children."

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www.conquergood.net

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"[A]s Scarlett Johansson has explained, 'the Internet is a vast wormhole of darkness that eats itself.'"

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behavioral loops or well structured response to a regular stimulus, the point is people respond automatically or in robotic ways or in ways that many other people respond in that same way, but my takeaway is that we should see ourselves in the NPC, and not think of the meme as the lesser other.

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Scoop: The databases powering DOGE.gov are insecure, and people outside the government have already pushed their own updates to the site to prove it: www.404media.co/anyone-can-p...

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www.nytimes.com/2024/03/12/b...

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Senate votes to confirm Tulsi Gabbard as top U.S. intelligence official www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...

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Brain surgeon and helicopter medevac pioneer Valérie André flew 120 combat missions in Indochina and 365 in Algeria. Weighing less than 100 pounds, she could take two litters on her single-seat helicopter instead of one. Became France’s first woman general. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/w...

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good morning bsky

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The land is beset by a plague of engineers

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Online group reinvents social interaction from the ground up, but eventually adopts a weird kludge to course correct toward 'common sense,' usually bc group beliefs are tying members into knots. Here it's "boundaries." I feel like I've seen this in social justice, rationalist circles, too.

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Next week kicks off with St. Scholastica Day Riot Remembrance Day. What are you doing to promote civic harmony?

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good night blue sky

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Very sad to see the departure from the NYT of the writer of the 2020 classic in which she challenged Jeffrey Katzenberg’s suggestion that comparing Quibi to TikTok was like comparing apples to submarines by…comparing apples to submarines, very thoroughly. www.nytimes.com/2020/05/21/s...

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And... it's February! Nobody ever promised that the snow would end now. Here from the Tres Riches Heures of Jean, duc de Berry.

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