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Computational linguist, artificer, λ(data). Syntactician with semanticist delusions. Theatre artist. Anti-Taylorist. Continuous everywhere, differentiable nowhere. Boosts are multivalent. He/they.

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2025-12-23 13:53:43 UTC

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https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/115/769/214/062/558/911/original/b58d513c292fcd55.jpeg

2025-10-26 20:23:14 UTC

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Media can’t override what people see happening to their neighbors and friends.

2025-10-26 19:41:45 UTC

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And those peasants were not widely armed.

2025-08-30 11:42:08 UTC

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You can’t get triple deckers in CA, NY, MD, IL, or CT without a club card.

2025-07-30 03:36:26 UTC

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It is also a cognitive hazard for people who read or hear it.
It strengthens the brain’s tendency to interpret text *shaped like* intentional thought *as* intentional thought, thereby weakening its ability to distinguish them.
And multiple studies have shown it happens even if you are aware of the effect.
Practice cognitive hygiene, or at a minimum don’t spread the contagion.

2025-05-30 19:31:36 UTC

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Have your menu items changed?

2025-04-09 02:42:00 UTC

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The real sign will likely be the NCLA suit on the tariffs. Firmly right-wing, taking Roberts’s “major questions doctrine” fabulism at face value. By its own terms it commands overturning the universal tariffs; if they do in fact apply the “only applicable to Democratic Presidents” clause they will have announced they are no longer even pretending.

2025-04-09 02:34:18 UTC

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I found this post (from 4 weeks ago!) from Josh Marshall articulated a lot of these threads coherently.
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/toward-a-theory-of-civic-sede-vacantism
There are far too many Aileen Cannons, but the vast majority of lower court judges are *judicially* conservative, and have been gradually signaling their displeasure at Robertsball. Also law schools have no idea what to teach anymore.
SCOTUS rulings aren’t self-executing, in the parlance of our times.

2025-04-09 01:40:21 UTC

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Agreed.
Hawai’i v. Wilson was a shot *inches* off the bow of the Roberts Court — and that was *last* year, before this lawless rampage. (Granted, Recktenwald is no conservative. But he’s not the only one pushing back. )

2025-04-08 20:21:47 UTC

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I don’t see how they possibly can. They aren’t briefed, argued, or fully opinioned. There’s nothing to build on.
(Whether this Supremacist Court is legitimate at all is a separate question.)

2025-03-24 18:38:49 UTC

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“the authors miss a chance to see how the inefficiency and administrative burdens they loathe in construction actually plague the welfare state too, something liberals are very much to blame for but also have no desire to fix.”
Yes!!!
Arguably even more significant impact than for building. (Though there the deadweight accrues mostly to developers and landowners, and so is harder to dislodge.)

2025-03-19 21:32:31 UTC

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It’s not even This One Weird Trick.

2025-03-04 21:40:50 UTC

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Yeah, that’s what I mean. If you can get the 2/3 needed to *expel* members, you can get to 2/3 to impeach. (And should do both.)
But you’re not expelling, you’re declaring they were never legally seated.
Alito knows damn well the difference between divorce and annulment. (He’s probably a sedevacantist, too.)

2025-03-04 16:31:55 UTC

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Though not simple in that you’d need 2/3.
OTOH, you’d arguably just need the same majority to conclude that they’re ineligible under the 14A. So they wouldn’t be *expelling* them so much as annulling their seating in the first place.

2025-03-04 16:28:37 UTC

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You could also do a “simple” expulsion of the members who are similarly disqualified, which would help the vote margin.

2025-01-28 12:06:48 UTC

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Just like Kleenices.

2025-01-14 12:20:53 UTC

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I think it’s still underappreciated the degree to which billionaires are rejecting the entirety of the social contract. The problem for them becomes, at some point, that that social contract includes the bits about the people not dragging them from their homes and guillotining them in the public square.
Which is, of course, why controlling the media is existential for them.
Historically, that bet has not paid off in the long run. Ask the Romanovs and Ceaușescus, for example.

2024-11-06 12:59:43 UTC

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I intend to make it as uncomfortable for them as I legally can.
I am not required to make nice with my abusers.

2024-10-02 17:31:56 UTC

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And a sense of superiority among the blessed caste.

2024-09-18 22:08:15 UTC

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To the extent people weren’t already considering Israeli tech potentially hostile, that’s on them.
For a nominally close ally, they sure do spy on us a lot.

2024-08-05 12:28:06 UTC

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I do, all the time. Then again, I’m an old Lisper, so I’m spoiled with production-grade metaprogramming facilities.