"supreme court gives president permission to starve millions of citizens" feels like one of those entries in the historybooks before the chapter called The Troubles

There is a lot of evidence that social norms effect behavior! It is probably one of the best demonstrated social science findings. Here's one paper: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...

among the performance targets is increasing Tesla's stock price by nearly six times over its current level

that would be something like a 20% yearly growth rate maintained for 10 years straight

I dunno like if you call that shot and hit it you probably should get a lot of money

We must note that all the condemnation of Tucker Carlson platforming Nick Fuentes has been about anti-Semitism and there has been an alarming and revealing silence around his anti-Black racism and white supremacy. When the head of the Heritage Foundation apologized, he only cited anti-Semitism.

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A hill I’ll die on:

“Criticism” has leaned too far into finding/fixing fault without acknowledging/enforcing merit, & this impacts some editing for the worse.

Positive feedback provides confidence & directional guidance towards strengths.

It is CRITICAL (ha!) to a functional critical partnership.

You may not like Arsenal, but this is what peak performance looks like Arsenal are now four points clear at the top of the Premier League and certainly look like the best team in the division.

Looked at some numbers to not merely board but absolutely get on top of the Arsenal hypetrain Mumbai local style. For @thetransferflow.bsky.social:

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Trump's advisors are manipulating him, of course, but the reason they can do it so easily is that he's fine with them doing it.

He just wants to raise tariffs, throw tantrums, build a dictator palace, look tough on TV, and let his subordinates work out the details of all remaining policy matters.

"If something evil is popular, is it still evil?" is basically the defining social question of our time.

worth applying to politics as well. when you're criticizing an action people take "taking the better action next time" is only one of the alternatives people will consider, and worth remembering that "not bothering at all" is another.

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I would laugh if this wasn't so true 😭

I am low trust of random individuals and high trust of institutions.

It seems that when people talk about high trust/low trust they implicitly mean of institutions, but many in the 'low trust' group have very high trust in specific charismatic individuals.

Amazing twist at the end

Yeah this is what makes is so bad. The insitutions that are supposed to combat this have decided it’s a secondary concern to other priories! It’s like if the NAACP was giving Klansmen a pass if they were willing to let Nigerian govt do whatever it wanted.

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From the article referenced below: tldr esp. in authoritarian systems, mediocrities and worse tend to go into the secret police b/c those with better performance have better opportunities elsewhere, so secret police gets the dregs who are extra-dependable because the thing they can offer is loyalty

*screams*

The greatest player of all time is wrapping up the best season in MLS history and virtually everyone — from league diehards to general American sports fans to the broader soccer world — just straight up doesn't care. This is (a) sociologically interesting and (b) an utter catastrophe for MLS

Law & Order and its various spinoffs have done more to erode the Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, and Eighth Amendments than the Supreme Court

Oh he was very good. The scene where Pootie Shoe came to his house was very good.

this is just the final form of 538

Shame management is a real challenge— disintegrative shaming (stigma, humiliation) can actually lead to more shamelessness, and even provoke violence. Reintegrative shaming (respect for the offender, inclusive, humble) otoh can be one of the most powerful tools available.

I think Bezos had a somewhat lukewarm commitment to the idea of doing traditional industrial baron patronage, but ultimately lacked the real incentive and personality to do the sort of Andrew Carnegie thing

wow. bezos has destroyed this paper.

legal academia is a weird mix of some of the best and most immediately actionable policy research about the impact of specific laws and procedures, and also bizarre poorly executed historiography/political theory by way of literary criticism, by people trained in none of those things

broadly I think a big question with Bari CBS is to what degree her job is to be Regime Media for Trump, and to what degree her job is to create Bari Content laser-focused on her peculiar gripes about the world (pro-Palestinian politics, DSA, trans rights, elite academic cultural styles)

The ability to "be natural" in front of, let alone toward, a camera lens is a freakish artificial skill and the demand for it almost certainly has left scammers and sociopaths overrepresented in political leadership; probably not great that we've now organized everyday society around it too

All I want in life is to persuade everyone, when encountering politics & culture, to ask, "why are we talking about this?" I mean that very literally: anything you encounter on your screens reflects a choice. Someone covered that, talked about that, rather than the many other things out there. Why?

THANK YOU. THIS IS WHAT WE MEAN WHEN WE SAY EVERY BILLIONAIRE IS A POLICY FAILURE. IT'S THE INSTABILITY LARGE CONCENTRATIONS OF POWER CREATE. NOT THE LOST REVENUE.

I'm always struck by the analogy between the tech/rationalist community and AI and the Evangelical Christian community and the end times. In each case, they, on some level fear what is coming, are obsessed with the topic, and are also constantly drawn to making catastrophe more likely.