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Dr. Gnu

@coeurdepyrite.bsky.social

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Geologist. Opinions represent no one. Selfie ≠ endorsement. Buy union. He/him. Mon pays ce n'est pas un pays. On est gone dans le sud avec une midsize tank. 📯🚂🚰

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Dr. Gnu @coeurdepyrite.bsky.social · 1d

If I’m a cartel I gotta say I’m good with this. Pretty handy to be able to roll up with a couple of masked dudes and grab a guy off the street and have the local cops back me up.

Dr. Gnu @coeurdepyrite.bsky.social · 1d

Alito to retire to become the antipope in Dayton

Dr. Gnu @coeurdepyrite.bsky.social · 1d

Turning and turning like a wind-blown bag
The MQ-9 operator cannot hear the JAG

Dr. Gnu @coeurdepyrite.bsky.social · 1d

also note that watching the video is apparently then Excepted Work

Dr. Gnu @coeurdepyrite.bsky.social · 1d

I haven’t seen anything on that EO at all. Now, it’s ostensibly about independent regulatory agencies, so perhaps it’s only intended to apply narrowly to them and everyone’s taking it that way? But the text certainly seems broad.

Dr. Gnu @coeurdepyrite.bsky.social · 1d

Further muddied by EO 14215, signed by Trump in February:

"No employee of the executive branch acting in their official capacity may advance an interpretation of the law as the position of the United States that contravenes the President or the Attorney General’s opinion on a matter of law"

www.govinfo.gov

Dr. Gnu @coeurdepyrite.bsky.social · 1d

Oh but we also need to disrupt the book.

Tech guy’s web site “why books don’t work”

Dr. Gnu @coeurdepyrite.bsky.social · 3d

[reggae beat]

Buffalo sliders

Dr. Gnu @coeurdepyrite.bsky.social · 3d

guy with Steelers season tickets a few rows behind us shouted shit like "C'MON GIRLS" every game for my entire childhood

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Dr. Gnu @coeurdepyrite.bsky.social · 3d

There's an "adaptive cycle" in ecology. The first phase is a sigmoidal growth curve where resources start out divided among many diverse species and are gradually locked into a few dominant ones.

Dr. Gnu @coeurdepyrite.bsky.social · 3d

Etsy Phrygian cap finally arrived! Just in time for No Kings followed by SmurfCon.

Dr. Gnu @coeurdepyrite.bsky.social · 3d

You have another thread on multi-party systems---that can allow coalition-building closer to individual decisions, and take the burden off everything being up/down with one political identity. I think reform of one or both of the electoral college and FPTP get you there.

Dr. Gnu @coeurdepyrite.bsky.social · 3d

Another aspect might be to push against agglomeration of power and resources. Stronger monopoly and market regulation, a more progressive tax structure, campaign finance reform all come to mind.

Dr. Gnu @coeurdepyrite.bsky.social · 3d

Like the ecosystem, you can get out of this by either catastrophic collapse or careful management. I'd prefer the latter (guess I'm a lib), which I think at least starts with making resilience legible, as counter to the kinds of metrics that drive short-term decision making.

Dr. Gnu @coeurdepyrite.bsky.social · 3d

This concept has been applied to social systems. And you can see the resource locking in things like defense appropriations and local police budgets, where the mission and budget keep expanding. And in markets, in the absence of meaningful regulation.

Dr. Gnu @coeurdepyrite.bsky.social · 3d

Careful management techniques (maintain diversity, manage connectivity, etc.) can be used to either maintain resilience to avoid the susceptibility or to ease the phase transition.

Dr. Gnu @coeurdepyrite.bsky.social · 3d

This necessarily reduces "resilience" (a term first used in that literature, actually): The ecosystem is more susceptible to fire, disease, etc., which then brings it back to the diverse phase of the cycle.

Dr. Gnu @coeurdepyrite.bsky.social · 3d

There's an "adaptive cycle" in ecology. The first phase is a sigmoidal growth curve where resources start out divided among many diverse species and are gradually locked into a few dominant ones.

Dr. Gnu @coeurdepyrite.bsky.social · 3d

or even better, one that has "come to represent the antithesis of status privilege"

www.canlii.org/en/on/onsc/d...

Dr. Gnu @coeurdepyrite.bsky.social · 3d

Can King Charles replace Donald Trump with a new governor general? Some solicitors disagree.

Dr. Gnu @coeurdepyrite.bsky.social · 6d

Dulce et decorum est is the better WWI poem anyway

Dr. Gnu @coeurdepyrite.bsky.social · 7d

“Jay Jones is soft” says the extremely soft spoken man in a suit steepling his manicured hands

Dr. Gnu @coeurdepyrite.bsky.social · 7d

This is making me very tens

Dr. Gnu @coeurdepyrite.bsky.social · 7d

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Dr. Gnu @coeurdepyrite.bsky.social · 8d

in my shirtsleeves, pondering o'er tweets nat'ral and compellant