2026-06-01T13:31:12Z https://yabu.me curtosis has moved (see bio) https://yabu.me/npub16ltpxtexq7s82lykaq4jy0f8tyhy06zmpxg2mnxf8hrhfnp9fa2qpqeag8 https://files.mastodon.social/accounts/avatars/000/041/045/original/071548f57100a29f.png https://files.mastodon.social/accounts/avatars/000/041/045/original/071548f57100a29f.png https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs9nndavuz75jjurzuuxjl88hp29v9hu55qsa2tu66cuswd5guzg6qzyrtavye0ycr6qatujm5zkg3ayavju3lgtvyeptwvey7uwaxvy484gag24y0 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs8zr6mqsl5yeesup4yu2rpyhfk8rltv9zr6nml8k4yzfh75yx7xcqlw0nyg'>nevent1q…0nyg</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/> <img src="https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/115/769/214/062/558/911/original/b58d513c292fcd55.jpeg"> <br/> 2025-12-23T13:53:43Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsqgf3dsql6l8q0kkz0swl370mgcecyz6fz6cr4p5y930vljxae6zqzyrtavye0ycr6qatujm5zkg3ayavju3lgtvyeptwvey7uwaxvy484g74hwy5 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqst4rekul2zsu67xcyv3jgx9389geme6js4dhw9ux2jdjawm34gn2q867ydg'>nevent1q…7ydg</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Media can’t override what people see happening to their neighbors and friends. 2025-10-26T20:23:14Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqspuxa7cmnp9vsu5er29whxvd3q7zwxevhujp7sqlz9pv84yh09y7gzyrtavye0ycr6qatujm5zkg3ayavju3lgtvyeptwvey7uwaxvy484gmn9hja In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs07fhv8yykvy8sxurtl7etf4x3jv85tfq4tkpn0yk2w9ljfetp9ggs6apca'>nevent1q…apca</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>And those peasants were not widely armed. 2025-10-26T19:41:45Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs9ncxwjygac96w3kvxedn2pfhth6aad8eyjnnylgnjf4vz2f0xedczyrtavye0ycr6qatujm5zkg3ayavju3lgtvyeptwvey7uwaxvy484gdd0zm4 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqspfgmp4hq9v22tc4nsm3k0ztev0a2kck2uw8phsefhtvzlsdvte9qdswckr'>nevent1q…wckr</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>You can’t get triple deckers in CA, NY, MD, IL, or CT without a club card. 2025-08-30T11:42:08Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsz6r8usfrwcexhp5wcvwklvdk3y89kvlrd6jzekf3g7p0kg4mkg5qzyrtavye0ycr6qatujm5zkg3ayavju3lgtvyeptwvey7uwaxvy484gwmml9s In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsqp0zmdr34w5tajy55ujdqckffk47q6vd3wng7hlxyp4vus0nkcxq2g0xtt'>nevent1q…0xtt</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>It is also a cognitive hazard for people who read or hear it. <br/><br/>It strengthens the brain’s tendency to interpret text *shaped like* intentional thought *as* intentional thought, thereby weakening its ability to distinguish them.<br/><br/>And multiple studies have shown it happens even if you are aware of the effect.<br/><br/>Practice cognitive hygiene, or at a minimum don’t spread the contagion. 2025-07-30T03:36:26Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsyjldw4um3pkk062mpmc6a02pxmn8xlxeaaft99as4e2az39c2mygzyrtavye0ycr6qatujm5zkg3ayavju3lgtvyeptwvey7uwaxvy484ggj80mf In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs95vgkl4azkswe0y8wfgqh7ay39x7wj9lughy99zj030pc9qa0h4cms0qw2'>nevent1q…0qw2</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Have your menu items changed? 2025-05-30T19:31:36Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsgv8elucrjjwkcg76hlhpng4afpp2jn5l7k28adajyd960j7u3ndczyrtavye0ycr6qatujm5zkg3ayavju3lgtvyeptwvey7uwaxvy484gts7ly9 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsps6xt3pp69eh7nqrgs66gp49xc5ragv66szmz0uatdxeggyx2vngg077ug'>nevent1q…77ug</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>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. 2025-04-09T02:42:00Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsps6xt3pp69eh7nqrgs66gp49xc5ragv66szmz0uatdxeggyx2vngzyrtavye0ycr6qatujm5zkg3ayavju3lgtvyeptwvey7uwaxvy484ghnn3v9 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsdecfv577t5wssvl5gzxe9zdvauc5lzlhhjq5v482qc5r6wcauc9sd7ne6e'>nevent1q…ne6e</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I found this post (from 4 weeks ago!) from Josh Marshall articulated a lot of these threads coherently.<br/><br/><a href="https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/toward-a-theory-of-civic-sede-vacantism">https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/toward-a-theory-of-civic-sede-vacantism</a><br/><br/>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.<br/><br/>SCOTUS rulings aren’t self-executing, in the parlance of our times. 2025-04-09T02:34:18Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsdecfv577t5wssvl5gzxe9zdvauc5lzlhhjq5v482qc5r6wcauc9szyrtavye0ycr6qatujm5zkg3ayavju3lgtvyeptwvey7uwaxvy484gw4l3eq In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs0hju4w7hxgukla234zmdhvwrf2p46rqz4h3fr9jqc6w8l3kh7fxgztncvc'>nevent1q…ncvc</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Agreed. <br/><br/>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. ) 2025-04-09T01:40:21Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqstv8gkqwcep6dakjska5wdtfv0ymun25teqmqkfgzv7vmu9kwlhaczyrtavye0ycr6qatujm5zkg3ayavju3lgtvyeptwvey7uwaxvy484gjjxq75 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs2qwqxh6r4jchsvu9ce2nxtg3su6fyn5kq77wuczwjm4v29e6hudqamsyhs'>nevent1q…syhs</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I don’t see how they possibly can. They aren’t briefed, argued, or fully opinioned. There’s nothing to build on.<br/><br/>(Whether this Supremacist Court is legitimate at all is a separate question.) 2025-04-08T20:21:47Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs2qwf5xn3xl9y7eh68u7zghvfc0vtrjj05a0m9ep2zggpkurmkkaczyrtavye0ycr6qatujm5zkg3ayavju3lgtvyeptwvey7uwaxvy484gmqdqua In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqspdyntvw9r2glffkhhqcjrgssrd4e85wann4xwrtykcn9qly8g4tqhk730p'>nevent1q…730p</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>“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.”<br/><br/>Yes!!!<br/><br/>Arguably even more significant impact than for building. (Though there the deadweight accrues mostly to developers and landowners, and so is harder to dislodge.) 2025-03-24T18:38:49Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsdqs47lj8f8aljy46x0y5hs3qex52486a295fmukk2fzq5p5fx44qzyrtavye0ycr6qatujm5zkg3ayavju3lgtvyeptwvey7uwaxvy484ghyzyrp In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqstjq2sftc5f9k7udvjhvh27z5t2exxg9vx9r62mcjcyx4lu4n7mpgkfxh3y'>nevent1q…xh3y</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>It’s not even This One Weird Trick. 2025-03-19T21:32:31Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsvy6fte0pyu0gfzst4kkpk5x89z2tflmuqmdnqjcrg24sryk48gjszyrtavye0ycr6qatujm5zkg3ayavju3lgtvyeptwvey7uwaxvy484gysx9gl In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqspxdwpflgngdpdc2zrkm3qyfn5l4du9aqyg8097a5zplhv99f2jsskx47md'>nevent1q…47md</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>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.) <br/><br/>But you’re not expelling, you’re declaring they were never legally seated.<br/><br/>Alito knows damn well the difference between divorce and annulment. (He’s probably a sedevacantist, too.) 2025-03-04T21:40:50Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqspxdwpflgngdpdc2zrkm3qyfn5l4du9aqyg8097a5zplhv99f2jsszyrtavye0ycr6qatujm5zkg3ayavju3lgtvyeptwvey7uwaxvy484gfcg0pd In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsfepnw20sdy57fn2papxtrk08qpa0yjtf48alv5a04vgxvjq0r5dsufhrxp'>nevent1q…hrxp</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Though not simple in that you’d need 2/3.<br/><br/>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. 2025-03-04T16:31:55Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsfepnw20sdy57fn2papxtrk08qpa0yjtf48alv5a04vgxvjq0r5dszyrtavye0ycr6qatujm5zkg3ayavju3lgtvyeptwvey7uwaxvy484gjtr7cg In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsfppmpu8z5hc78pwdzvy5903g92zjfwlx0vl6wrf9cvdgl6r33qgsnqfahy'>nevent1q…fahy</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>You could also do a “simple” expulsion of the members who are similarly disqualified, which would help the vote margin. 2025-03-04T16:28:37Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs9r4hm6kx8er7dwzndsjsnqw6mp829xjptmzc60cyhfn955pjflqqzyrtavye0ycr6qatujm5zkg3ayavju3lgtvyeptwvey7uwaxvy484gu4wf9r In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsvl950eyws4rqzpgrf83smz92hjuwccnj2kp86wmft6rprtzhkcws8n6z0s'>nevent1q…6z0s</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Just like Kleenices. 2025-01-28T12:06:48Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsz3mg0l67n4fq9w8ydd9h0jkam2ws3jvlec4lylcz42rzdq3e4f0szyrtavye0ycr6qatujm5zkg3ayavju3lgtvyeptwvey7uwaxvy484g4g34qy In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsqsy9ywgg805fwcv553tlk7crtgvfgu6asywnjenwhcwz2yj2s2tq2v598q'>nevent1q…598q</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>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.<br/><br/>Which is, of course, why controlling the media is existential for them.<br/><br/>Historically, that bet has not paid off in the long run. Ask the Romanovs and Ceaușescus, for example. 2025-01-14T12:20:53Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsrggacqupf7sglua5n0m7av89ljmlucrhk3j2lf9xhmhd7elqzv8czyrtavye0ycr6qatujm5zkg3ayavju3lgtvyeptwvey7uwaxvy484gggrz0v In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs2ht0gggsy4k6esfpzdt97qwqrxxsttlgr8qenrlth7k3xehd6knqj2v4f4'>nevent1q…v4f4</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I intend to make it as uncomfortable for them as I legally can.<br/><br/>I am not required to make nice with my abusers. 2024-11-06T12:59:43Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsxnuse6qr3j9d9kez3cs40f0vq8rz9xlv4435amp85xf30mh8m4eczyrtavye0ycr6qatujm5zkg3ayavju3lgtvyeptwvey7uwaxvy484g87fjl8 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs99jyvmvramp88mpu9ysppa3syfevn89gselhwx8gufdgnrzv3ytqu9ywlu'>nevent1q…ywlu</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>And a sense of superiority among the blessed caste. 2024-10-02T17:31:56Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsf5rs5h75hyd0kr263qahcmdma750urhy9a86ntc40gyjwlg0xh5szyrtavye0ycr6qatujm5zkg3ayavju3lgtvyeptwvey7uwaxvy484ggzf5d5 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsdkkwusd4agpgmt7rhltx29vsu3gjz6z3sq65zd9qnppm5dtulumgljd66r'>nevent1q…d66r</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>To the extent people weren’t already considering Israeli tech potentially hostile, that’s on them.<br/><br/>For a nominally close ally, they sure do spy on us a lot. 2024-09-18T22:08:15Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs8jc5k5d0vur0q7g75xhugvlptc29039ave7yajg4vqvpg8aca0rczyrtavye0ycr6qatujm5zkg3ayavju3lgtvyeptwvey7uwaxvy484g0xfs2d In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsf82mfm777y597ames9h4ml0cx9y6ekjf0wt66mh3a3cha208w9ycus63h8'>nevent1q…63h8</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I do, all the time. Then again, I’m an old Lisper, so I’m spoiled with production-grade metaprogramming facilities. 2024-08-05T12:28:06Z