Thanks; will be thinking about it all this weekend I suspect.

I think I have no real choice but to say that while I've moved in this direction, I don't have a long consistent record with it yet, and while I have some examples, the best I can do is lay out my thoughts and instincts and be ready to learn a lot.

I hope that's good enough.

The docs they sent over suggested I should be ready to talk about a lot of things and bring up examples from my career, and I've started to write little essays to help me work this stuff out and get ready, and it's made me realise how hard this might be (if I get the job). But.. maybe that's good?

It would be nice if Congress could manage to move towards stopping this. It'd take bravery, but it may help rebuild some of the burnt middle ground in Congress that needs to be made healthy again to fix the country.

Why is this news? It seems like stuff that should stay internal to a family.

Would be nice not to need to visit a webpage to do this, but that's always an alternative.

In such a case we literally would need a break with the current continuance of government, as much of a disaster as that would be, to fix everything that'd be needed to keep having rule of law and reasonable governance in the US. Maybe we're already past that limit because of other things.

I even say this as someone open to amending the Constitution to change it. The problem is not the content. The problem is that the President must not have the power to overwrite the Constitution on his word alone. If the Supreme Court lets him do this, there's no saving that institution.

Looks like a zombie earth

Ah, that's unfortunate. What is it some kind of mandatory pay-per-license thing or a proprietary information kind of thing?

It's embarrassing when drivers are a reason for limited hardware support. Hoping someone's working on that driver.

Hey, if you like donuts and are in NYC, I'd be happy to buy you some donuts from Dough and call it the Dough Peace Prize.

Hegseth should spend the rest of his life under arrest of some kind over this. It's murder. It's using our military to murder civilians who do not pose a military threat of any kind to the US. It's using murder as a way to avoid the courts.

Everyone involved in this should face trial.

In general if you're interested in policy, most law professors are great follows here.

Yourself included.

I'm guessing this is not Apple's Siri?

I know others may not have the same categories or rank them the same way, but this is how I think through these things.

The last type is a grab-bag of normal-process political change, and again there we're only hurting ourselves if we get it very wrong, and provided type C is retained we can also fix it through those processes. Technocracy and process will let us rebuild if we survive.

Rule of law, political pluralism and civics (beyond free speech) are still vital because they're locally how we make decisions, and if they're broken they'll remain broken for a very long time. But at least there we're only hurting ourselves.

Foreign policy next because those norms impact the greatest number of people, land transfers are relatively permanent, and there are hostiles and competitors out there where if we lose ground, we lose it for decades. Murdering people on the ocean creates long-lasting fear, as does threatening allies