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Identity Politics: They’re All Doing It

arkady2025-05-05Culture Politics

There’s been a lot of whinging about “identity politics” lately. From both major parties. The Democrats complain about how white, male, rural, evangelical christian the rhetoric of the Republicans is. Which is true, they do do that. And the Republicans…

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Reorganize This: De-engineering The Corporation

arkady2025-05-02Law

I’m going to step away from writing about the coup today, and talk about a better way to organize corporations. Because I wanna, that’s why. And because, when … this … is all dealt with, and we’re deciding how the…

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You Should Read This: Building A Delusional Panopticon

arkady2025-05-01Culture Law Read This Technology

Today’s links come via Schneier on Security. It’s time to look at what the coup has been doing with government data. TLDR: it’s not good. You should read these two articles: While both of them are absurdly uncritical about whether…

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What It’s For: The State Exists To Enforce The Law

arkady2025-04-30Culture Law

I realize that this is a bit of a minority view at the moment. But really, that’s what the State is for. It does not exist, as the current regime seems to believe, to pursue delusional fantasies cooked up by…

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You Should Read This: Ed Zitron Gets A Little Rude About The Generative AI Bubble

arkady2025-04-29Read This Technology

And “a little” is far less than the topic deserves. We should be getting a lot more rude about this nonsense. He opens his latest epic post on the topic with: I’m sick and god-damn tired of this! I have…

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Getting REAL: I Don’t Care About Showing ID To Vote

arkady2025-04-28Law Politics

Honestly, I’m kinda in favor of the U.S. having a national ID card and of requiring it to vote and whatever else. Heck, even Costco has a membership card. There’s a better argument for requiring an ID to vote than…

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Dueling Sovereigns: The Feds Are Arresting State Judges

arkady2025-04-25Law Politics

Well, this wasn’t what I’d intended to write about today. Oh, well. You go to blog with the jackbooted fascist thuggery you have, not the reasoned discussion of political philosophy you want to have. You should read that linked article,…

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Honesty: The Best (Government) Policy

arkady2025-04-24Culture Law

If lying to a cop is illegal, lying as a cop should be too. That seems only fair? But more importantly than fair, it’s rational. Because we should hold anyone who wields a State power to higher standards than we…

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Framing Religion: Freedom vs. Exemptions

arkady2025-04-23Law Politics

I said yesterday that Jonathan Larsen, of “The Fucking News”, is a better writer than I am. And this is true. He can usually get at the core of an issue more elegantly than I ever could, and structure his…

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You Should Read This: The Fucking News

arkady2025-04-22Read This

You really should read “The Fucking News“. For one thing, he’s a better writer than I am. I know I’m not a particularly awesome writer. I don’t do it to be awesome; I do this because the alternative is climbing…

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