one of the better essays written about "unreality" i've read recently. was trying to explain this to a friend who studies comparative gov't: modern states are built on legibility & use of force, and this is anti-state power pooling around challenging that legibility. in other words, civil conflict
I wrote about the hurricanes, attention grifters, the limits of the term misinformation, and how it is more apt to call it a full cultural and political assault on any person or institution that operates in reality. (gift link)
What’s happening in America today is something darker than a misinformation crisis.
@shawnmerwin.bsky.social (to the best of my knowledge) coined "5E2E," which is what I use when I'm talking about just that one. But "5E14/5E24," which I'm sure I'm not the first to use, seems to work better in comparative contexts.
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WW84 earned $170M global on a $200M budget amid a pre-vaccine late 2020 moment with mostly closed theaters and was declared a flop. THE SUICIDE SQUAD earned $170M worldwide on a $190M budget amid a comparative recovery period, yet Gunn got the keys to the kingdom. That, to me, is the real outrage.
There are days I am glad for the comparative slowness of email. It gives me time to rephrase responses to stupid people doing stupid shit.
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Joy Factor: Redefining Leadership Excellence at Black in Marine Science through Joy-Centered Leadership Practices | Integrative and Comparative Biology | Oxford Academic
Synopsis. At Black in Marine Science (BIMS), the integration of joy-centered leadership principles has emerged as a transformative blueprint for empowering
This is a tension in so many fields of criticism—an understanding of the process and (the context of making) vs. the product. Even comparative religion has threads of this question—should the circumstances of the originators affect our understanding of the product?
Unsolicited comparative comment. The "financial difficulties" test that an employer would have to meet to make a fire-and-rehire dismissal lawful looks very much like the "company needs" cause for dismissal in Chile (at least in how the courts have interpreted it).
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There is a lot to say about the Employment Rights Bill which was introduced in Parliament earlier today. In many ways it really is transformative – its also long and detailed. My plan is not…
Yeah mines on 11ty too, currently using decap cms tho planning on making a comparative version that uses wagtail and a headless WP version to compare.