To offer an alternate perspective, it seems to me that what is offered here is context and perspective from someone who knows how things work, rather than a defense of the institution. "It's more complicated than that" is something much of bluesky, and indeed social media, often needs.

Ok boomer

Do you see the words "guards against" in there?

Here's another you could try:
youtu.be/u5hzmwGW4Ac?...

Bash the metric system!

This is a good list to keep around if you're ever worried about interviewing and rejecting various well qualified candidates for anything

I think it's incidental - if the AI picked up on the average of human employee-to-manager workplace communication across decades, it's very possible that it is exactly hypocritical and sycophantic.

Hilariously wrong hot take but if anyone here is actually curious about this topic there's an excellent episode of @k8lister.bsky.social 's betwixt the sheets with fascinating anthropological facts open.spotify.com/episode/73tu...

Karen's new book is Intraterrestrials: Discovering the Strangest Life on Earth.

press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

Sorry to be the bearer of bad news but you should know the US is one of the very few countries with citizenship based taxation, meaning you have to pay US taxes no matter where you live...

What a sad day to see one of the few remaining websites I legitimately visit almost daily sold to ones I actively avoid for their junk clickbait and poor writing...

Thanks for the tip, will try this out asap

how about aspiring to have written

Mew took advantage of a busted drawer and found the stash of gummy snakes we were hiding from her because she loves to chew on them and they're not healthy. I caught her trying to steal one!

They are simply workshopping the response to this in real time to see what sticks

the way they talk you'd think there hadn't been a republican president or administration in decades

Aren't comments also community notes? At the meta (no pun intended) level, the fundamental question of social media remains how do you elevate the most meaningful, good faith(!), and truthful discourse out of the deluge of noise...

This is what it looks like from Europe