still loooking if you have any suggestions!
"ARNOLD PALMER: Well, if he isn't embarrassed, I won't be embarrassed for him. (Laughter)."
Friendly Advice to new Bluesky users: do not buy copper ingots from Ea-nāṣir; they are of poor quality and he is extremely rude.
Apropos of a recent conversation with @alexstephenson.me, are there any formal models of bureaucracy or institutional capacity and subcontracting?
One Billion Judges: The Case for Thinking Bigger
AI scrapers do not give a crap about this and will mask their scrapers behind fake accounts, VPNs, etc. The purpose of this is to scare off researchers from trying to analyze tweets to see, e.g., just how much hate speech is on X and how heavily the site promotes it.
Thinking, as I often do, about the mismatch between capacity to wage war and end states achievable via war. open.substack.com/pub/atherton...
Starting the story of the Forever War in 2001 misses violent understanding of domestic politics enjoyed by its architects in the 1990s.