john
@curiousjohn.bsky.social
outlier, not always in the direction I want
superforecaster, techie, expat
@john_henry elsewhere
generally delighted to receive correspondence at curiousjohn@letterboxes.org
superforecaster, techie, expat
@john_henry elsewhere
generally delighted to receive correspondence at curiousjohn@letterboxes.org
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In the campaign the pattern was that there was a fake, imaginary Trump the media created, and the more the real incompetent Trump faltered the more the fake competent Trump was inserted into stories, analysis etc bsky.app/profile/lilb...
Is, "Too big to ignore," possible at this point? His senility got too big to ignore when he had a mental breakdown during his 2024 campaign. Most media outlets ignored it.
July 10, 2025 at 5:54 PM
In the campaign the pattern was that there was a fake, imaginary Trump the media created, and the more the real incompetent Trump faltered the more the fake competent Trump was inserted into stories, analysis etc bsky.app/profile/lilb...
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"the government should try, convict and then kill the secretary of defense for the crime he very obviously seems to have committed" seems like a radical thing to say, but -- no, it's not. it's the actual penalty for what pete hegseth, a man who ordered death squads to murder civilians, has done.
December 5, 2025 at 7:24 AM
"the government should try, convict and then kill the secretary of defense for the crime he very obviously seems to have committed" seems like a radical thing to say, but -- no, it's not. it's the actual penalty for what pete hegseth, a man who ordered death squads to murder civilians, has done.
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like, just, by the odds, any social justice movement large enough to be useful will offgas irritating shit like this purely as a consequence of its existence
December 3, 2025 at 4:36 AM
like, just, by the odds, any social justice movement large enough to be useful will offgas irritating shit like this purely as a consequence of its existence
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yes, of course international law is massively imperfect and flawed: it is still a hell of a lot better than the prior situation, which was “you can do literally anything you want in warfare and nobody can really say boo about it beyond evoking religion”
December 3, 2025 at 12:57 AM
yes, of course international law is massively imperfect and flawed: it is still a hell of a lot better than the prior situation, which was “you can do literally anything you want in warfare and nobody can really say boo about it beyond evoking religion”
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may I humbly suggest that Woke 2 has a hermeneutics of…generosity?
The web is thoroughly coated in a “hermeneutics of suspicion” (from folks like Marx, Freud, Nietzsche, etc), but imo the superior choice in a LOT of situations is a “hermeneutics of generosity”
December 1, 2025 at 2:12 AM
may I humbly suggest that Woke 2 has a hermeneutics of…generosity?
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I'm trying so hard not to say that "This too, is a recession indicator" but... yeah...
November 30, 2025 at 8:28 PM
I'm trying so hard not to say that "This too, is a recession indicator" but... yeah...