3. Of course this still doesn’t get around the problem of a Congress and Supreme Court so supine that they fail to do their jobs and prevent the President from breaking the law by executing something else instead. Nothing can solve that problem but voters. If we vote for tyranny we’ll get it.

2. …rule-writing job of the agencies could actually be done by a vastly enlarged congressional staff writing what are now regulations into law, reducing the power of the executive branch to interpret the law and thus making less relevant the power of the executive to appoint who interprets it? 🧵

I just realized the real reason: you would sound awfully pretentious calling yourself “Doktor Professor“ if you didn’t have to write a separate thesis to earn each title! Just be glad they don’t make you write a third one before being allowed to use “Frau Doktor Professor.”

2 Naturally up into the mountains— where else?”

—Franz Kafka, being an introvert

…generated knowledge, and not myths, are what can help us understand and cope with the internet and AI. And if you really believe that there is no refusing any particular technology, then you live in a world where humans serve technology, not a world where technology serves humans. Seems stupid…? 🧐

There is no reason to believe that the myths that served us well during the Iron Age are also suitable for the AI age. And unlike Iron Age technology, Information Age technology is changing so quickly that we don’t have decades in which to let myths evolve, let alone generations. Scientifically… 🧵

Funny how our criminally corrupt and hateful right wing can no longer understand the subtle difference between “barely legal” and “barely illegal.” 🙄

5. …not destroying our home. And where our current culture, what Kingsworth calls “The Machine,” is leading us, is towards an ecological catastrophe and a population collapse.