Convolver
@convolver.bsky.social
What good is seeing-eye chocolate? What good is a computerized nose? What good’s Sanskrit read to a pony? Not much, I guess, not much at all.
The /abstract/ of the paper literally screams “Evidence that hiring and promotion decisions are based on non-meritocratic assessments of personal attractiveness” and yet they derive precisely the opposite conclusion from their data.
November 6, 2025 at 9:43 PM
The /abstract/ of the paper literally screams “Evidence that hiring and promotion decisions are based on non-meritocratic assessments of personal attractiveness” and yet they derive precisely the opposite conclusion from their data.
Congress has the power under the Elections Clause to set the "time, places and manner" of elections, which has been interpreted expansively (e.g., see below from Smiley v. Holm, 285 U.S. 355 (1932)). Not to say SCOTUS couldn't toss stare decisis on this, but there's a lot of precedential scope here.
November 6, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Congress has the power under the Elections Clause to set the "time, places and manner" of elections, which has been interpreted expansively (e.g., see below from Smiley v. Holm, 285 U.S. 355 (1932)). Not to say SCOTUS couldn't toss stare decisis on this, but there's a lot of precedential scope here.
I see they chose those operators capable of going low profile and blending in with the target population.
October 7, 2025 at 10:09 PM
I see they chose those operators capable of going low profile and blending in with the target population.
Let’s go to the tape!
October 2, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Let’s go to the tape!
Real “tag yourself” energy in the audience there.
October 1, 2025 at 1:19 AM
Real “tag yourself” energy in the audience there.
So, uh, I guess Trump is just going to use Truth Social as interoffice mail now?
September 21, 2025 at 3:03 AM
So, uh, I guess Trump is just going to use Truth Social as interoffice mail now?
Say what you want, I think it’s a brave choice to appoint FromSoftware as your fashion designer.
September 20, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Say what you want, I think it’s a brave choice to appoint FromSoftware as your fashion designer.
Judge striking the pleading:
September 19, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Judge striking the pleading:
Good game, glad to see he remembers it.
September 19, 2025 at 4:08 AM
Good game, glad to see he remembers it.
Remember, folks, it’s a great idea to go out of your way to alienate the career LEOs who will be in charge of investigating you when you’re no longer sitting in the org chart above them.
September 18, 2025 at 4:22 AM
Remember, folks, it’s a great idea to go out of your way to alienate the career LEOs who will be in charge of investigating you when you’re no longer sitting in the org chart above them.
I really do not understand this new anti-civic cult religion of the MAGA GOP, which has co-opted the symbols of Christianity to beatify a podcaster in the same way Christianity co-opted Imperial and pagan religious forms, or the Imperial cult co-opted state religions of far-flung Roman provinces.
September 14, 2025 at 9:14 PM
I really do not understand this new anti-civic cult religion of the MAGA GOP, which has co-opted the symbols of Christianity to beatify a podcaster in the same way Christianity co-opted Imperial and pagan religious forms, or the Imperial cult co-opted state religions of far-flung Roman provinces.
Cage fights are Presidential now, I guess.
September 6, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Cage fights are Presidential now, I guess.
Please join us in funding the Jesse Singal Center For Pundits Who Don’t Post Good.
September 1, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Please join us in funding the Jesse Singal Center For Pundits Who Don’t Post Good.
America, your Freikorps:
August 28, 2025 at 9:22 PM
America, your Freikorps:
Really, I’m going to be disappointed if there isn’t in the next year or two some Spider-verse analog of Zohran as Spider-Hizzoner, with Cuomo and Adams in his rogue’s gallery.
August 25, 2025 at 3:17 AM
Really, I’m going to be disappointed if there isn’t in the next year or two some Spider-verse analog of Zohran as Spider-Hizzoner, with Cuomo and Adams in his rogue’s gallery.
Their time has come!
August 23, 2025 at 4:37 AM
Their time has come!
Please enjoy this North Korean-style hagiography of The Leader from the AP. A whole “descending from Mount Paektu” style of literary sycophancy here.
July 13, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Please enjoy this North Korean-style hagiography of The Leader from the AP. A whole “descending from Mount Paektu” style of literary sycophancy here.
This agent theory strikes me as specious and working against the text of the statute, though I increasingly and unhappily think the result is probably right though disastrous (under the dual enlistment theory in Perpich v Dept of Defense), even though the reasoning here seems unsound to me.
June 20, 2025 at 4:51 AM
This agent theory strikes me as specious and working against the text of the statute, though I increasingly and unhappily think the result is probably right though disastrous (under the dual enlistment theory in Perpich v Dept of Defense), even though the reasoning here seems unsound to me.
