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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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2026-02-06 17:15:35 UTC

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@nprofile…u76z This is known, the wisdom has been passed down in sacred texts from the ancients.
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2025-11-08 13:35:38 UTC

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@nprofile…esw7 I keep coming back to a point Jamelle Bouie has been making: regardless of how you might be able to cobble together seeming textual support, any interpretation that results in an uncheckable Executive so contradicts the entire point of the Constitutional project that it simply *cannot* be correct.

2025-10-26 19:41:45 UTC

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@nprofile…664s And those peasants were not widely armed.

2025-08-26 00:15:35 UTC

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@nprofile…gu7x Folks at the top of the heap really forgot (or never did the reading) that all this regulation and taxation they hate *was* the compromise position.
And honestly really good deal compared to the way most aristocrats ended up getting alienated from their riches (and heads).

2025-07-30 03:36:26 UTC

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@nprofile…52zc 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.

2025-07-27 03:38:58 UTC

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@nprofile…de2h Fulda Gap was the one we had “fun” playing. (400 double-sided pieces to keep track of.)

2025-05-30 19:32:19 UTC

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@nprofile…q5wq Uh, 1992 was only 15 years ago. I’m quite certain.

2025-05-30 19:31:36 UTC

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@nprofile…9wrc Have your menu items changed?

2025-04-05 11:07:42 UTC

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@nprofile…fynq I’m a few generations removed from my Canadian ancestors, but I was also a young teenager when this hit. To this day I still use “42 metric beers, eh” despite almost no one knowing the reference anymore. 🇨🇦

2025-03-24 18:38:49 UTC

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@nprofile…9wrc @nprofile…76z9 “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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@nprofile…9wrc It’s not even This One Weird Trick.

2024-11-23 20:26:34 UTC

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@nprofile…9wrc @nprofile…jp0m And to the extent that’s *new* it’s the combination of a whole new magnitude of inequality and the absurdly low marginal costs of dumping and distributing idea “product” on the digital market. 2/2

2024-11-23 20:24:16 UTC

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@nprofile…9wrc @nprofile…jp0m All good points, and I’d largely agree. And to be clear I’m mostly reacting to the information environment where people can firmly believe (for example) that TFG did not say something that he explicitly did, repeatedly, on tape.
I think ultimately it has to come with a recognition that the “marketplace” is like a real one: easily overwhelmed and manipulated by monopolistic actors with wildly disproportionate access to resources. 1/

2024-11-23 20:05:05 UTC

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@nprofile…9wrc @nprofile…jp0m I think—at least right now—it underplays the current harms of
misinformation. To the extent we have data, it’s not just a paranoid fringe anymore m that holds fundamentally wrong understandings; it appears that a large cohort of Trumpist electoral support really is based on objectively false beliefs.

2023-08-10 15:56:09 UTC

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@npub15qw…3p2z “Based on my experience and training, you are not in a good place right now.”

2023-07-20 18:18:55 UTC

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@npub15qw…3p2z Thank you for your non-service.

2023-05-15 17:59:28 UTC

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@npub15qw…3p2z (*chants starting quietly, gradually building to a crescendo*) curtilage, curtilage, Curtilage, Curtilage, CURTILAGE!