Please stop saying “The Algorithm”
I know this is probably a war that’s long since been lost, but by god I’m not going to wave the white flag. An algorithm is just a process, a procedure, a set of defined steps taken in order to...
View ArticleHere’s the thing about Joe Biden’s age
The thing about Joe Biden’s age, you see, is that Donald Trump and the Republican Party have made it absolutely unambiguously clear that if they regain control of the executive branch they will put an...
View ArticleOn Campaign Finance
Now, I’m no expert on campaign finance law, or any kind of law for that matter. Maybe this is something that got loosened along with all the other guardrails preventing monied interests from outright...
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Against Revulsion
I’ve been thinking about how fascism is as much an aesthetic movement as it is a political one — the original fascists’ cults of modernity, mechanization, and efficiency; the marble-statue-avatar...
View ArticleOn McConnell
All else being equal, this is, of course, great news: “This will be my last term as Republican leader of the Senate,” McConnell said, his voice cracking. “I’m not going anywhere anytime soon. I will...
View Article30,000
It’s more than that, of course, probably at least half again that many. I think of how COVID deaths have also been chronically undercounted by as much as 50%, but then SARS-CoV-2 is a virus, a tiny...
View ArticleSupreme Court says States are not allowed to obey the Constitution
Surprising no one — any residual belief that their function has anything to do with law rather than working backward from preferred outcomes having long since been shredded in everyone who pays even...
View ArticleLeaving WordPress (dot com)
Not right away, I still have to do a lot of research on hosting options, but Automattic corporate has been making choices that make staying untenable. I’ve been using WordPress.com’s free tier since I...
View ArticleThe Problem of “The Border”
The main problem of “The Border”, in my estimation, is that virtually any time a public figure says the words “The Border”, they are not actually talking about any of the internationally-agreed-upon...
View ArticleI miss my bar, Pt. V: Four years of this
Someday I would love to not have to make these anniversary posts anymore. Four years ago, Saturday, March 14th 2020, was my Last Normal Day. The day before — Friday the 13th! — I’d gone by Winter Hill...
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