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    <title>Scapegoating the Algorithm—Asterisk</title>
    <dc:date>2025-08-09T20:55:43+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[But there are compelling reasons to be skeptical that social media is a leading cause of America’s epistemic challenges. The “wrecking ball” narrative exaggerates the novelty of these challenges, overstates social media’s responsibility for them, and overlooks deeper political and institutional problems that are reflected on social media, not created by it.

The platforms are not harmless. They may accelerate worrying trends, amplify fringe voices, and facilitate radicalization. However, the current balance of evidence suggests that the most consequential drivers of America’s large-scale epistemic challenges run much deeper than algorithms. 

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    <title>What Happens Next? - by Don Moynihan - Can We Still Govern?</title>
    <dc:date>2024-11-08T13:25:27+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I’ve spent a lot of time over the last four years operating on a couple of assumptions: a) that there was a good chance Trump could return as President and b) that his return would dramatically alter the administrative state. As someone who studies public administration, I figured there was some obligation to communicate those risks. Now that Trump will, in fact, return, I want to summarize what are the most likely outcomes based on my prior writing. Doing so also forces me to make predictions, which is a good practice for being explicit about expectations in the present, and being humble about what I will get wrong when I look back at these predictions at some point in the future. And trust me, I would really like to be wrong by overstating the damage to come.

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    <dc:date>2021-09-21T11:26:32+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The best books for understanding neoliberalism]]></description>
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    <title>[2008.07301] Computational timeline reconstruction of the stories surrounding Trump: Story turbulence, narrative control, and collective chronopathy</title>
    <dc:date>2020-10-15T10:26:04+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Measuring the specific kind, temporal ordering, diversity, and turnover rate of stories surrounding any given subject is essential to developing a complete reckoning of that subject's historical impact. Here, we use Twitter as a distributed news and opinion aggregation source to identify and track the dynamics of the dominant day-scale stories around Donald Trump, the 45th President of the United States. Working with a data set comprising around 20 billion 1-grams, we first compare each day's 1-gram and 2-gram usage frequencies to those of a year before, to create day- and week-scale timelines for Trump stories for 2016 onwards. We measure Trump's narrative control, the extent to which stories have been about Trump or put forward by Trump. We then quantify story turbulence and collective chronopathy -- the rate at which a population's stories for a subject seem to change over time. We show that 2017 was the most turbulent year for Trump, and that story generation slowed dramatically during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. Trump story turnover for 2 months during the COVID-19 pandemic was on par with that of 3 days in September 2017. Our methods may be applied to any well-discussed phenomenon, and have potential, in particular, to enable the computational aspects of journalism, history, and biography.
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    <title>Reconstruction’s Failure Has Lessons for Today - The Atlantic</title>
    <dc:date>2020-05-02T14:45:46+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Paeans to a more civil past also ignore the price of that civility. It’s not an unfortunate coincidence that the men Joe Biden worked with so amicably were segregationists. The civility he longs for was the result of excluding historically marginalized groups from the polity, which allowed men like James Eastland to wield tremendous power in Congress without regard for the rights or dignity of their disenfranchised constituents.

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    <title>[1812.05163] Declination as a Metric to Detect Partisan Gerrymandering</title>
    <dc:date>2020-01-27T23:32:12+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[We explore the Declination, a new metric intended to detect partisan gerrymandering. We consider instances in which each district has equal turnout, the maximum turnout to minimum turnout is bounded, and turnout is unrestricted. For each of these cases, we show exactly which vote-share, seat-share pairs (V,S) have an election outcome with Declination equal to 0. We also show how our analyses can be applied to finding vote-share, seat-share pairs that are possible for nonzero Declination. 
Within our analyses, we show that Declination cannot detect all forms of packing and cracking, and we compare the Declination to the Efficiency Gap. We show that these two metrics can behave quite differently, and give explicit examples of that occurring.
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    <title>Charles H. Kerr Publishing Company - Wikipedia</title>
    <dc:date>2020-01-10T15:56:53+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_H._Kerr_Publishing_Company</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The Charles H. Kerr Publishing Company was established in Chicago, Illinois in 1886 as Charles H. Kerr & Co. by Charles Hope Kerr, originally to promote his Unitarian views. As Kerr's personal interests moved from religion to populism to Marxism and he became interested in the labor movement, the company's publications took a similar turn. During the 1920s Kerr ceded control of the firm to the Proletarian Party of America, which continued the imprint as its official publishing house throughout its four decades of organized existence.
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    <title>Trump’s Not Richard Nixon. He’s Andrew Johnson. – Mother Jones</title>
    <dc:date>2019-10-11T12:59:10+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[At this point, it’s a cliché to compare President Donald Trump’s present predicament to Richard Nixon and Watergate—the pathetic desperation of the crime itself, the bungling attempt at a cover-up, the release of an incriminating transcript. Fair enough. But the best parallel to Trump isn’t Nixon; it’s Johnson, a belligerent and destructive faux-populist who escaped conviction by the thinnest of margins. Though popular critics like Kennedy have long framed the Johnson impeachment as a fight over something small—an act of legalistic nitpicking—the stakes could not have been bigger. It was about what kinds of transgressions and values were worth fighting over in a country that in many ways was still at war with itself. Sometimes the biggest crimes aren’t criminal at all.

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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:American-cultural-assumptions"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://werehistory.org/the-immortal-major-jack-downing-and-the-rise-of-american-political-humor/">
    <title>The Immortal Major: Jack Downing and the Rise of American Political Humor : We're History</title>
    <dc:date>2019-02-26T13:43:23+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://werehistory.org/the-immortal-major-jack-downing-and-the-rise-of-american-political-humor/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[This month marks the 160th anniversary of the publication of Smith’s My Thirty Years Out of the Senate. Regrettably, few Americans today have heard the name Seba Smith, let alone engaged with the escapades of Major Jack Downing. Although lauded as the greatest humorist of his era, Smith’s work quickly faded from popular memory. With the exception of a reissue produced in 1973, My Thirty Years Out of the Senate remains out of print. Even historians have largely overlooked Downing in their studies of Jacksonian popular culture. Given the current popularity of humorists such as Stephen Colbert, whose comic persona resembles that of Major Jack Downing, one can only wonder if future generations will remember the ways in which modern comics critiqued politicians and public policies through satire. Will the Colberts of the comedic world be studied one hundred years from now, or, like Smith, will they fade from popular memory? At the very least, modern Americans should acquaint themselves with Seba Smith and remember his greatest creation, Major Jack Downing, who tried for over three decades to “exert a salutary influence upon public affairs and the politics of the country.”

]]></description>
<dc:subject>politics satire history to-read public-domain</dc:subject>
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<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:fd46cf53c401/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2019/01/28/how-blind-reverence-science-obscures-real-problems/?noredirect=on">
    <title>How blind reverence for science obscures real problems</title>
    <dc:date>2019-01-29T11:01:06+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2019/01/28/how-blind-reverence-science-obscures-real-problems/?noredirect=on</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[In actual fact, “social justice” jargon wasn’t enough — as the hoaxers initially thought — to deceive, but sprinkling in fake data did the trick better than jargon or political pieties ever could. Like Ocasio-Cortez’s critics, who trust too easily in the appearance of scientific objectivity, the hoaxed journals were more likely to buy outrageous claims if they were backed by something that looked like scientific data. It’s not that the hoax was an utter failure, nor that we shouldn’t worry about the vulnerabilities it exposed. It’s that, ironically, scientism and misplaced scientific authority actually contribute to those vulnerabilities and undermine science in the process.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>scientism argumentation politics fascism conservatism social-norms cultural-assumptions</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:be2e5a22e08b/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://blog.practicalethics.ox.ac.uk/2018/10/evil-online-and-the-moral-fog/">
    <title>Evil Online and the Moral Fog | Practical Ethics</title>
    <dc:date>2018-10-20T11:49:50+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://blog.practicalethics.ox.ac.uk/2018/10/evil-online-and-the-moral-fog/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I see Evil Online as in the same tradition as Hannah Arendt’s crucially important book The Banality of Evil, which attempted to explain and characterize the behaviour of apparently ‘ordinary’ people – rather than probable psychopaths like Himmler – in the Holocaust. As Cocking and van den Hoven note, whether their idea of a moral fog is a development of the banality thesis or something entirely new doesn’t matter much, since even if it is a development they are taking it further and using the idea of a moral fog to elucidate the way that the online environment we are in can make us insensitive to moral facts we’re otherwise perfectly capable of recognizing. Certainly the particular mechanisms of totalitarianism identified by Arendt aren’t straightforwardly going to explain evil online, but the general issues at stake do have similarities. How is it that Eichmann and the non-psychopathic perpetrators of evil online come to ignore their duty, or arrive at such a distorted view of what duty requires?

The book is also in some ways analogous to Thomas Hobbes’s Leviathan, first published in 1651, in which Hobbes tries to explain how the natural state of human beings is amoral – a war of all against all – and how morality can be seen as a human creation enabling us to escape that state and build a civilization. The online world is something like a state of nature, but the difference between the Hobbesian situation and our own is that we already have a morality. The puzzle is how to disperse the fog, and it is a puzzle we need urgently to think about before it is too late and the fog begins to thicken and drift even further than it is already doing from the online into the real world.

]]></description>
<dc:subject>cultural-dynamics ethics internet politics to-read</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:7b7824a9f0a9/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://itself.blog/2018/10/07/on-civil-war/">
    <title>On civil war – An und für sich</title>
    <dc:date>2018-10-19T11:44:50+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://itself.blog/2018/10/07/on-civil-war/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The last time our country was on the brink of civil war, the slavers had a stranglehold on institutional power and the terms of debate and yet continually viewed themselves as oppressed victims — and as soon as an opposition president took office, they decided to blow up the country rather than accept his victory. Like contemporary Democrats, Lincoln was conciliatory to a fault, but the slavers would not take yes for an answer. Lincoln was, of course, actually able to become president in the first place despite the slavers’ opposition. If a Democrat won the 2020 election, would they even be able to take office? Would Republicans control enough state-level governments to steal the Electoral College outright? And then what?

]]></description>
<dc:subject>politics Civil-War</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:2c8779ccc621/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.jehsmith.com/1/2018/10/in-defense-of-hoaxes.html">
    <title>In Defense of Hoaxes - Justin Erik Halldór Smith</title>
    <dc:date>2018-10-08T12:56:06+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.jehsmith.com/1/2018/10/in-defense-of-hoaxes.html</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Whatever. Everyone's playing their assigned roles. But what I wanted to speak to here is the question of hoaxes in general. Quite apart from whether I think “Sokal Squared” has accomplished what its authors claim, I confess I am astounded, though I really should not be by now, by the moralism and the piety about rules and procedures that so many academics are expressing, as if hoaxing were always unethical and lacking in any potential salutary effects. These academics seem entirely unaware of the distinguished history of hoaxing, and to assume that it dates back no earlier than Sokal. They seem never to have read, e.g., Anthony Grafton on the importance of playful deception in the learned culture of Italian humanism. They seem unaware of the rich and fascinating 19th-century genre of the “mystification.” They seem unaware of the often high-minded theoretical ambitions of documentary metafiction and of the vague gradations between this broad genre of writing and outright fraud. They do not know about the French fraudster Denis Vrain-Lucas, who was eventually arrested, in 1869, for having passed off numerous falsified letters as authentic documents. Vrain-Lucas continued to defend himself, from prison, on the grounds that he had breathed new life into the carcass of history by making past characters, including Newton, Galileo, Vercingétorix, and Jesus Christ, more interesting than they actually were. They do not know about Ken Alder's ingenious piece in Critical Inquiry in 2004, which was a purported translation from the French of a prison letter by Vrain-Lucas. I learned more about the history and historiography of science from Alder's piece than from any other single text I could cite. ]]></description>
<dc:subject>hoaxes academic-culture politics history-is-a-feature-not-a-bug to-write-about metafiction paratexts</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:0ada93ed33c4/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://timharford.com/2013/08/do-you-believe-in-sharing/">
    <title>Tim Harford — Article — Do You Believe in Sharing?</title>
    <dc:date>2018-10-07T12:50:25+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://timharford.com/2013/08/do-you-believe-in-sharing/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Over time, Ostrom developed a set of what she called “design principles” for managing common resources, drawn from what worked in the real world. She used the phrase hesitantly since, she argued, these arrangements were rarely designed or imposed from the top down; they usually evolved from the bottom up.

These principles included effective monitoring; graduated sanctions for those who break rules; and cheap access to conflict-resolution mechanisms (the fishermen of Alanya resolved their disputes in the local coffee house). There are several others. Ostrom wanted to be as precise as she could, to move away from the hand-waving of some social scientists. But there were limits to how reductive it was possible to be about such varied institutions. Lin’s only golden rule about common pool resources was that there are no panaceas.

Her work required a new set of intellectual tools. But for Ostrom, this effort was central to her academic life because knowledge itself – when you thought about it – was a kind of common pool resource as well. It could be squandered or it could be harvested for the public good. And it would only be harvested with the right set of rules.

Ostrom’s research project came to resemble one of the local, community-led institutions that she sought to explain. In 1973, the Ostroms established something called the “Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis”. Why not a school or a centre or a department? It was partly to sidestep bureaucracy. “The university didn’t know what a workshop was,” says Michael McGinnis, a professor of political science at Indiana University and a colleague of the Ostroms. “They didn’t have rules for a workshop.”
]]></description>
<dc:subject>economics public-policy history-of-science capitalism politics</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:0b387e92167a/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.orderofthegooddeath.com/1918-forgotten-year-death">
    <title>1918: The Forgotten Year of Death | The Order of the Good Death</title>
    <dc:date>2018-10-03T11:34:51+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.orderofthegooddeath.com/1918-forgotten-year-death</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Wartime restrictions on communication had deadly effects, including in the United States. President Wilson’s Committee on Public Information and the Sedition Act passed by Congress both limited writing or publishing anything negative about the country. Federally-issued posters asked the public to “report the man who spreads pessimistic stories.” John M. Barry, author of The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History, writes in an article for Smithsonian Magazine about a particularly tragic consequence of this militant protection of morale. In Philadelphia, doctors pushed for the Liberty Loan parade on September 28 to be canceled, as they were concerned the concentration of people would spur the disease. “They convinced reporters to write stories about the danger,” Barry writes. “But editors refused to run them, and refused to print letters from doctors. The largest parade in Philadelphia’s history proceeded on schedule.” Two days later, the epidemic had indeed spread, and over just six weeks, more than 12,000 citizens of Philadelphia died.]]></description>
<dc:subject>epidemiology influenza propaganda social-dynamics politics public-health history</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:6a500eedc7e2/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/should-climate-scientists-fly/">
    <title>Should Climate Scientists Fly? - Scientific American Blog Network</title>
    <dc:date>2018-08-27T12:28:09+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/should-climate-scientists-fly/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[This is why climate action is about moral courage. Yes, we must have the courage to align our personal actions with our understanding of the science, through decreasing and stopping our flying. But, more importantly, we must have to courage to speak truth to power, despite how this might change our public or professional standing. Climate action is one of the most fundamental social justice movements of our time. No more and no less, our choices now to act as brave stewards of planetary life, despite political realities and institutional denialism, will change the trajectory of the planet forever. It is worth it.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>climate-change politics activism neoliberalism to-write-about social-justice</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:951058a67100/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.technologyreview.com/s/611806/how-social-media-took-us-from-tahrir-square-to-donald-trump/">
    <title>How social media took us from Tahrir Square to Donald Trump - MIT Technology Review</title>
    <dc:date>2018-08-15T12:16:15+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.technologyreview.com/s/611806/how-social-media-took-us-from-tahrir-square-to-donald-trump/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[To understand how digital technologies went from instruments for spreading democracy to weapons for attacking it, you have to look beyond the technologies themselves.

]]></description>
<dc:subject>social-media social-engineering networks public-policy politics political-economy</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:a5dec67dd850/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://hapgood.us/2018/08/04/a-note-about-cognitive-effort-and-misinfo-oh-and-also-im-a-rita-allen-misinformation-solutions-forum-finalist/">
    <title>A Note about Cognitive Effort and Misinfo (Oh, and also I’m a Rita Allen Misinformation Solutions Forum Finalist) | Hapgood</title>
    <dc:date>2018-08-09T11:46:25+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://hapgood.us/2018/08/04/a-note-about-cognitive-effort-and-misinfo-oh-and-also-im-a-rita-allen-misinformation-solutions-forum-finalist/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I’m not necessarily sold on the Pennycook and Rand version of this idea, but I’m interested in the broader insight. I know it doesn’t explain the worst offenders, but I’ve found with those I work with that cynicism (“Pick what you want, it’s all bullshit!”) is often driven by the cognitive exhaustion of sorting through conflicting information. This insight also aligns with Hannah Arendt’s work — totalitarianism wins the information war by deliberately overwhelming the capacity of a population to reconcile endless contradictions. The contradictions are a tool to increase the cost of pursuing truth relative to other options.

If this is the case, one approach might be to encourage people to be more effortful when looking at online media. (Meh.) But the approach I favor is to reduce both the real and perceived cost of sorting through the muck through finding cheap, good enough methods and popularizing them. Doing that — while fostering a culture that values accuracy — might cause a few more people to regard the cost of checking something to be worth it relative to other seemingly more economical options like partisan heuristics, conspiracy thinking, or cynical nihilism.

]]></description>
<dc:subject>cultural-dynamics politics reality-criticism affordances user-experience social-psychology argumentation rather-interesting to-write-about</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-WWw1wydwI">
    <title>DAVID GRAEBER / The Revolt of the Caring Classes / 2018 - YouTube</title>
    <dc:date>2018-05-13T12:48:32+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-WWw1wydwI</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The financialisation of major economies since the '80s has radically changed the terms for social movements everywhere. How does one organise workplaces, for example, in societies where up to 40% of the workforce believe their jobs should not exist? David Graeber makes the case that, slowly but surely, a new form of class politics is emerging, based around recognising the centrality of meaningful 'caring labour' in creating social value. He identifies a slowly emerging rebellion of the caring classes which potentially represents just as much of a threat to financial capitalism as earlier forms of proletarian struggle did to industrial capitalism.

David Graeber is Professor of Anthropology, London School of Economics and previously Assistant Professor and Associate Professor of Anthropology at Yale and Reader in Social Anthropology at Goldsmiths, University of London. His books include The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy (2015) Debt: The First 5000 Years (2011) and Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology (2004). His activism includes protests against the 3rd Summit of the Americas in Quebec City in 2001, and the 2002 World Economic Forum in New York City. Graeber was a leading figure in the Occupy Wall Street movement, and is sometimes credited with having coined the slogan, 'We are the 99 percent'.

This lecture was given at the Collège de France on the 22nd March 2018."]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="https://librarianshipwreck.wordpress.com/2018/02/13/be-wary-of-silicon-valleys-guilty-conscience-on-the-center-for-humane-technology/">
    <title>Be Wary of Silicon Valley’s Guilty Conscience: on The Center for Humane Technology | LibrarianShipwreck</title>
    <dc:date>2018-04-02T11:17:37+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://librarianshipwreck.wordpress.com/2018/02/13/be-wary-of-silicon-valleys-guilty-conscience-on-the-center-for-humane-technology/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Part of what makes the worldview particularly jarring is that the distaste for common consumers is juxtaposed with a hopeful adoration for those who work in tech. If consumers want this and that, then the “talented employees” who “are the greatest asset of technology companies…genuinely want to build products that improve society, and no one wants participate [sic] in an extraction-based system that ruins society.”[7] It is worth noting that CHT is simultaneously ignoring the level of agency that most people have (reducing them to consumers), while overestimating the power that “talented employees” have. Granted, this folds back into CHT’s foundational myth. If tech companies, make “amazing products” and if those products have “benefited the world enormously,” it’s obvious that “engineers and technologists” are noble people driven by altruistic purposes. But, if those companies make “shiny garbage” that has “warped the world in many bad ways” it breaks the halo worn by “engineers and technologists.” And it diminishes the view of the technologist as savior to point out that, throughout history, there are no shortage of “engineers and technologists” who thought their efforts would “improve society” when in fact just the opposite occurred. This is not to cast aspersions at all “engineers and technologists” – but do people want to work at Google because they’re idealistic or because it pays well (true, these are not mutually exclusive)? If those lining up to work at Google and Facebook truly buy the publicity spin put forward by these companies, it is a compelling reason to have less faith in these people – not more.

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    <title>The article removed from Forbes, “Why White Evangelicalism Is So Cruel” – Political Orphans</title>
    <dc:date>2018-03-15T11:18:21+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.politicalorphans.com/the-article-removed-from-forbes-why-white-evangelicalism-is-so-cruel/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[**This was originally posted to Forbes on Sunday, Mar 11. Forbes took it down today. This is the explanation I received from the editor. Here is the original article in full:

Robert Jeffress, Pastor of First Baptist Church in Dallas and an avid supporter of Donald Trump, earned headlines this week for his defense of the president’s adultery with a porn star. Regarding the affair and subsequent financial payments, Jeffress explained, “Even if it’s true, it doesn’t matter.”

Such a casual attitude toward adultery and prostitution might seem odd from a guy who blamed 9/11 on America’s sinfulness. However, seen through the lens of white evangelicals’ real priorities, Jeffress’ disinterest in Trump’s sordid lifestyle makes sense. Religion is inseparable from culture, and culture is inseparable from history. Modern, white evangelicalism emerged from the interplay between race and religion in the slave states. What today we call “evangelical Christianity,” is the product of centuries of conditioning, in which religious practices were adapted to nurture a slave economy. The calloused insensitivity of modern white evangelicals was shaped by the economic and cultural priorities that forged their theology over centuries.]]></description>
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    <title>Fashion IS Political, Period | Teen Vogue</title>
    <dc:date>2018-01-28T12:14:41+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.teenvogue.com/story/fashion-is-political-period</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[We all know politics is about power and as feminist theory famously posits, the personal is political. While our clothing reflects who we are, in many ways it can also determine our ability to gain entry into influential spaces. Yet when women express an interest in fashion, it is often weaponized as a means of denying us access to political conversations—as if these interests were mutually exclusive.
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    <title>[1712.05390] Partisan gerrymandering with geographically compact districts</title>
    <dc:date>2017-12-26T12:43:32+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://arxiv.org/abs/1712.05390</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Bizarrely shaped voting districts are frequently lambasted as likely instances of gerrymandering. In order to systematically identify such instances, researchers have devised several tests for so-called geographic compactness (i.e., shape niceness). We demonstrate that under certain conditions, a party can gerrymander a competitive state into geographically compact districts to win an average of over 70% of the districts. Our results suggest that geometric features alone may fail to adequately combat partisan gerrymandering.
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    <title>The Big Picture: Confederate Revisionist History | Public Books</title>
    <dc:date>2017-11-12T13:04:03+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.publicbooks.org/big-picture-confederate-revisionist-history/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Thus the Confederate revolt was not about states’ rights, it was about protecting the institution of chattel slavery from a remote future threat. Proof of the centrality of slavery to the Southern cause lies in the Confederate Constitution itself, in which the cryptic references to persons “held to Service or Labour” were replaced with explicit references to slaves and Negroes. Article I, Section 9, Paragraph 3, for example, stated that “no bill of attainder, ex post facto law, or law denying or impairing the right of property in negro slaves shall be passed” (italics my own). Apart from these substitutions, the Confederate Constitution was identical to the original US Constitution in all respects.
]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="https://status451.com/2017/10/27/radical-book-club-the-centralized-left/">
    <title>radical book club: the Centralized Left | Status 451</title>
    <dc:date>2017-11-12T12:44:48+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://status451.com/2017/10/27/radical-book-club-the-centralized-left/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Alinsky is kind of a curious cat. The Lefties who are most influenced by his methods often don’t talk about him much, and in many cases Lefties who do talk about him are critical. Here’s the dynamic you need to appreciate to understand this: Lefties, by and large, do not read older Lefty books the way Righties read older Righty books. A lot of Lefty training is done orally, and it’s not always hugely sourced. One Lefty friend of mine, for example, was shocked to realize years later that his college newspaper had literally been doing Maoist criticism/self-criticism sessions. They’d left any mention of Mao himself behind, of course, but they’d kept the technique.

That’s kind of what happened to Saul Alinsky. His methods are everywhere, but if you read organizing books you’ll be surprised how rarely he’s mentioned. Mainstream Lefties are actually baffled by how popular Righties think Alinsky is.]]></description>
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    <title>The GOP's Evolution into a True Fascist, White Nationalist Party Is Inevitable :: Politics :: Features :: Republicanism :: Paste</title>
    <dc:date>2017-10-08T12:50:47+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2017/09/the-gops-evolution-into-a-true-fascist-white-natio.html</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Led by Mitch McConnell and John Boehner, the party made the cynical decision to oppose Obama’s entire agenda in the midst of a harrowing and dislocating recession. They embraced groups like Americans for Prosperity, backed by those cardboard-cutout billionaire villains, the Koch Brothers, which in turn fomented the Tea Party movement. Supposedly these groups were about tax and spending issues and had no racial agenda—or at least that’s what the National Review would claim every time crowds showed up with overtly racist signs. The fearsome animus of the 2008 election, uncorked by Sarah Palin’s embarrassing tenure as John McCain’s running mate, forewarned of a malevolent turn in Republican messaging: Obama was alien, a foreigner, a radical, a socialist, a Muslim—whatever fit in the moment. As a sideshow, a dipshit reality show host injected the “birther” conspiracy theory with fresh life and media attention every time it threatened to vanish into the dumber corners of the internet.

The Republicans rode this backlash to a stunning victory in 2010. White Americans saw in Obama the very real changing demographic nature of the country. Each presidential election cycle, the potential non-white electorate grows by roughly 2%. The Census Bureau estimates that the minorities will become 56% of the population by 2060. Minorities will become the nation’s majority. Given this, perhaps a resurgence of white identity politics was inevitable, but the way it manifested in the halls of power could have been averted.

]]></description>
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    <title>Slavery and Moral Relativism – Liam Hogan – Medium</title>
    <dc:date>2017-10-04T15:30:44+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://medium.com/@Limerick1914/slavery-and-moral-relativism-1b6659ec1e91</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Judgement does not need to be shy. The various pro-slavery arguments that were deployed to justify these atrocities were nothing more than the rationalisation of self-interest and this temptation to excuse the crimes of the past with historical sympathy is the unconscious perpetuation of the arrogance of the oppressor, that serves to diminish the voices of slavery’s millions of victims.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="https://theintercept.com/2016/09/21/the-assassination-of-orlando-letelier-and-the-politics-of-silence/">
    <title>The Assassination of Orlando Letelier and the Politics of Silence</title>
    <dc:date>2017-09-26T14:56:46+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://theintercept.com/2016/09/21/the-assassination-of-orlando-letelier-and-the-politics-of-silence/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The answer to my question, I now believe, is that this is the way all countries work. Anthropologists call this phenomenon “social silence” – the most important aspects of how societies work are exactly the ones that are never discussed and most easily forgotten.

But it’s impossible to suppress the past completely – it inevitably leaks out around the edges, even if just as a generalized anxiety. I remember when my Bethesda friends and I went to see “Blue Velvet” when it came out in 1986 and how completely it made sense to us: Everything is polished, happy, and mundane on the surface, while underneath there’s an eternal, animalistic, merciless struggle for power.

Orlando Letelier is gone and he’s not coming back. We can’t change that. But we can break the social silence about his death, who we are as a country, and what we’re capable of doing.

]]></description>
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    <title>Congressional aides risk conflicts with stock trades - POLITICO</title>
    <dc:date>2017-09-25T12:48:47+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.politico.com/story/2017/09/25/congress-aides-stock-market-trades-investments-analysis-242692</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><dc:subject>Trumpism corruption politics finance</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://incisive.nu/2017/writing-well-about-terrible-people/">
    <title>Writing Well about Terrible People | Incisive.nu</title>
    <dc:date>2017-09-25T12:23:42+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://incisive.nu/2017/writing-well-about-terrible-people/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Informing the reader means finding ways to tie even short articles to the seething complexity—and even scientific facts—that underlie necessarily simplified and abbreviated quotations and paraphrases. Eschewing context means the reader must assemble it for herself or risk assuming that the various views presented in a neutrally framed article are roughly equal in reason and virtue. Offering too much context, even in a neutral framing, can make an article feel dry. Many journalists appear to fear the latter a bit more than the former, which results in conventions of coverage that drain important topics of their real weight and life.

This balancing act is an enormous challenge, and I’m grateful that my daily work doesn’t involve wrestling with it. But this article, and so many like it, fail to accomplish a centrally important aspect of making sense of the world, and I think that matters.]]></description>
<dc:subject>politics journalism writing criticism ethics representation worklife</dc:subject>
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<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:5510481e7897/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://radicalscholarship.wordpress.com/2017/08/10/exceptional-the-right-to-criticize-america-perpetually/">
    <title>Exceptional?: “the right to criticize [America] perpetually” | radical eyes for equity</title>
    <dc:date>2017-09-24T13:11:38+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://radicalscholarship.wordpress.com/2017/08/10/exceptional-the-right-to-criticize-america-perpetually/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Free speech in the U.S. is increasingly circumscribed by nationalism as a proxy for race—”Make America Great Again” as code for preserving whiteness.

]]></description>
<dc:subject>racism Trumpism politics protest</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:65e249de8bea/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/07/books/review/emily-katz-anhalt-enraged.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fbooks&amp;action=click&amp;contentCollection=books&amp;region=rank&amp;module=package&amp;version=highlights&amp;contentPlacement=6&amp;pgtype=sectionfront&amp;_r=0">
    <title>What the Greek Myths Teach Us About Anger in Troubled Times - The New York Times</title>
    <dc:date>2017-09-10T13:13:49+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/07/books/review/emily-katz-anhalt-enraged.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fbooks&amp;action=click&amp;contentCollection=books&amp;region=rank&amp;module=package&amp;version=highlights&amp;contentPlacement=6&amp;pgtype=sectionfront&amp;_r=0</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Ancient literature can certainly be eye opening, and it has a wonderful capacity to make us re-examine many modern assumptions that we take too much for granted. But I am very doubtful that it has any particularly useful direct lessons for us. It is slightly disappointing to find that, after many fine observations, the book’s central conclusion lies somewhere between a liberal truism (essentially: It is better to talk about things than fight) and a misleading oversimplification. As Anhalt more or less concedes, the final verdict on anger, whether political or personal, must come down to what we are angry about and how we act as a consequence. Rage, as shown in the “Iliad” and some modern geopolitical debate, can be petty and corrosive, but I doubt that Homer was advocating that we should live entirely without it. It is sometimes not only justifiable but necessary. Do we want to live in a world in which we don’t get furious at slavery, racism, or any number of other global injustices — or even at some of the dreadful truths of the human condition? When more than two millenniums after Homer the poet Dylan Thomas wrote of facing death with the words “Rage, rage against the dying of the light,” it was the kind of rage that many of us understandably cherish.

]]></description>
<dc:subject>history review politics anger to-read</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/02/opinion/sunday/stephen-miller-immigration.html?action=click&amp;pgtype=Homepage&amp;clickSource=story-heading&amp;module=opinion-c-col-left-region&amp;region=opinion-c-col-left-region&amp;WT.nav=opinion-c-col-left-region">
    <title>Stephen Miller Is the Enemy of My Dreams - The New York Times</title>
    <dc:date>2017-09-03T00:31:40+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/02/opinion/sunday/stephen-miller-immigration.html?action=click&amp;pgtype=Homepage&amp;clickSource=story-heading&amp;module=opinion-c-col-left-region&amp;region=opinion-c-col-left-region&amp;WT.nav=opinion-c-col-left-region</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Recently I’ve been following the social media hashtag #undocujoy. It’s a space where undocumented immigrants show up smiling, celebrating birthdays and graduations, despite the fear instilled by this administration. I scroll through the images and I’m delighted. “Miller would really hate this,” I think.

I’d much rather he wasn’t in the White House, but having him as my enemy gives me clarity. While he’s over there, destroying, I’ll be right here, creating. The math on how best to live is simple now. We need to protect one another and value each person equally, and anyone working against that? Well, he will have to face me.

]]></description>
<dc:subject>fascism humor kidding-not-kidding politics</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="https://qz.com/1056319/what-is-the-alt-right-a-linguistic-data-analysis-of-3-billion-reddit-comments-shows-a-disparate-group-that-is-quickly-uniting/">
    <title>What is the alt right? A linguistic data analysis of 3 billion Reddit comments shows a disparate group that is quickly uniting — Quartz</title>
    <dc:date>2017-09-02T15:17:29+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://qz.com/1056319/what-is-the-alt-right-a-linguistic-data-analysis-of-3-billion-reddit-comments-shows-a-disparate-group-that-is-quickly-uniting/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Over the last year and a half, these types of trolls have formed a central identity around Trumpism and have started to coalesce. Bored teenagers and gamers are becoming indoctrinated into hard-line anti-globalism, conspiracy theories, and Islamophobia, and it’s happening right before our eyes, on a publicly accessible forum.
The_Donald contains all of these different groups, marked out by their overlapping community memberships and the words that they (and only they) use. They’ve created an in-group language consisting of words like “MAGA” (Make America Great Again) and “based,” a word appropriated from rap culture. The latter is taken to mean “being yourself” and originated in the crack era. Then there is “centipede” (usually shortened to “pede”), a self-referential term originating from the viral video series “Can’t Stump the Trump,” which was popularized when the linked video was tweeted by Trump himself.
But the keystone of this vernacular is “cuck.” A shortening of “cuckold,” an old word used to refer to men who allow their partners to sleep with other men (and often find sexual gratification in the humiliation of it), its use has become the sine qua non of alt-right group membership.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>linguistics fascism politics social-norms social-psychology social-media</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/01/opinion/civil-rights-protest-resistance.html">
    <title>Waiting for a Perfect Protest? - The New York Times</title>
    <dc:date>2017-09-02T13:30:00+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/01/opinion/civil-rights-protest-resistance.html</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The civil rights movement was messy, disorderly, confrontational and yes, sometimes violent. Those standing on the sidelines of the current racial-justice movement, waiting for a pristine or flawless exercise of righteous protest, will have a long wait. They, we suspect, will be this generation’s version of the millions who claim that they were one of the thousands who marched with Dr. King. Each of us should realize that what we do now is most likely what we would have done during those celebrated protests 50 years ago. Rather than critique from afar, come out of your homes, follow those who are closest to the pain, and help us to redeem this country, and yourselves, in the process.

]]></description>
<dc:subject>protest American-cultural-assumptions civil-rights politics</dc:subject>
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<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:a0fbf9ba7873/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://newrepublic.com/article/144646/trump-already-wall-its-thin-blue-line">
    <title>Trump Already Has a Wall. It’s the Thin Blue Line. | New Republic</title>
    <dc:date>2017-09-02T12:51:07+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://newrepublic.com/article/144646/trump-already-wall-its-thin-blue-line</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[While the occasional story of an officer with neo-Nazi tattoos or apparent ties to white supremacist websites does surface from time to time, this is not a matter of individual officers going rogue. It is a belief system produced through the decades of American policing, a history that includes police collusion with white supremacist vigilantes in the South and elsewhere, as Vitale points out. There is also police overlap with militia groups like the Oath Keepers—in 2015, reporting for my book, I spoke with Sam Andrews, a former Oath Keeper who had left the organization over its refusal to endorse an open-carry march he held with black residents of Ferguson and the greater St. Louis area. For the police in the organization, he said, such a thing was a bridge too far.

]]></description>
<dc:subject>fascism police politics problems</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:1897d1af1882/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/09/how-america-lost-its-mind/534231/">
    <title>How America Went Haywire - The Atlantic</title>
    <dc:date>2017-08-27T13:41:20+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/09/how-america-lost-its-mind/534231/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The great unbalancing and descent into full Fantasyland was the product of two momentous changes. The first was a profound shift in thinking that swelled up in the ’60s; since then, Americans have had a new rule written into their mental operating systems: Do your own thing, find your own reality, it’s all relative.

The second change was the onset of the new era of information. Digital technology empowers real-seeming fictions of the ideological and religious and scientific kinds. Among the web’s 1 billion sites, believers in anything and everything can find thousands of fellow fantasists, with collages of facts and “facts” to support them. Before the internet, crackpots were mostly isolated, and surely had a harder time remaining convinced of their alternate realities. Now their devoutly believed opinions are all over the airwaves and the web, just like actual news. Now all of the fantasies look real.

]]></description>
<dc:subject>cultural-dynamics politics philosophy cultural-criticism to-write-about it's-more-complicated-than-you-think</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/is-america-headed-for-a-new-kind-of-civil-war">
    <title>Is America Headed for a New Kind of Civil War? | The New Yorker</title>
    <dc:date>2017-08-27T13:05:18+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/is-america-headed-for-a-new-kind-of-civil-war</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[In the eighteen-fifties, Blight told me, Americans were not good at foreseeing or absorbing the “shock of events,” including the Fugitive Slave Act, the Supreme Court’s Dred Scott decision, the John Brown raid, and even the Mexican-American War. “No one predicted them. They forced people to reposition themselves,” Blight said. “We’re going through one of those repositionings now. Trump’s election is one of them, and we’re still trying to figure it out. But it’s not new. It dates to Obama’s election. We thought that would lead culture in the other direction, but it didn’t,” he said. “There was a tremendous resistance from the right, then these episodes of police violence, and all these things [from the past] exploded again. It’s not only a racial polarization but a seizure about identity.”
]]></description>
<dc:subject>Civil-War politics history to-write-about Trumpism racism</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/how-silicon-valleys-workplace-culture-produced-james-damores-google-memo">
    <title>How Silicon Valley’s Workplace Culture Produced James Damore’s Google Memo | The New Yorker</title>
    <dc:date>2017-08-12T12:43:16+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/how-silicon-valleys-workplace-culture-produced-james-damores-google-memo</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[“What You Can’t Say” is by no means a seminal text, but it is the sort of text that has, historically, spoken to a tech audience. “Google’s Ideological Echo Chamber,” with its veneer of cool rationalism, echoes Graham’s essay in certain ways. But, where Graham’s argument is made thoughtfully and in good faith—he is a proponent of intellectual inquiry, even if the outcome is controversial—Damore’s is a sort of performance. His memo shows a deep misunderstanding of what constitutes power in Silicon Valley, and where that power lies. True, Google and its peers have put money and other company resources toward diversity efforts, and they very likely will continue to do so. But today, in mid-2017, men—white men—are still very much in the majority. It is still largely white men who make decisions, and largely white men who prosper. By positioning diversity programs as discriminatory, Damore paints exactly the opposite picture. He frames employees like himself as a silenced minority, and his contrarian opinions as a kind of Galilean heresy.
It is conceivable, of course, that Damore distributed his memo to thousands of his colleagues because he genuinely thought that it was the best way to strike up a conversation. “Open and honest discussion with those who disagree can highlight our blind spots and help us grow,” he writes. Perhaps he expected that the ensuing dialogue would be akin to a debate over a chunk of code. But, given the memo’s various denigrating assertions about his co-workers, it is difficult to imagine that it was offered in good faith. Damore wasn’t fired for his political views; he was fired for how (and where) he applied them. The memo also hints at a larger anxiety—a fear, possibly, of the future. But technological advancement and social change move at different velocities; someone like Damore might sooner be automated out of a job than replaced by a woman.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>politics bro-culture startup-culture-must-die</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
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<item rdf:about="https://status451.com/2017/07/11/radical-book-club-the-decentralized-left/">
    <title>Radical Book Club: the Decentralized Left | Status 451</title>
    <dc:date>2017-08-09T11:52:21+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://status451.com/2017/07/11/radical-book-club-the-decentralized-left/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[This failure of the mainstream has opened doors for more radical individuals to show value. The College Republicans and the Leadership Institute could have organized conservative students to peacefully disrupt Leftist speakers and Leftist activities in response to Leftist disruption, but they didn’t, so that opened a door for rougher guys like Based Stickman (on the off chance you don’t know, he’s a fellow named Kyle Chapman, who got internet famous when he was filmed breaking a wooden dowel over the head of a charging antifa at the First Battle of Berkeley; he has since worked to organize Righties as defensive streetfighters). Any number of mainstream Righty organizations could have organized Righty lawyers, but none did, so now Based Stickman is being aided in organizing the Based Lawyers’ Guild by Augustus Invictus, a former Libertarian congressional candidate who is — and I can’t stress this enough — absolutely garking insane.

]]></description>
<dc:subject>organization politics activism</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
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<item rdf:about="https://itself.blog/2017/07/21/better-skills/">
    <title>Better Skills – An und für sich</title>
    <dc:date>2017-08-07T11:20:17+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://itself.blog/2017/07/21/better-skills/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[It’s as though the Democrats are Chigurh from No Country for Old Men: you’re most likely going to die, but you do have the option of a coin toss. The Republicans don’t offer the coin toss. Which one is better? The Democrats, obviously! But if you were someone in a dying community that had been starved for jobs for a generation, the kind of place where everyone leaves if they can, would you bother getting up in the morning to pull the lever for that option?

]]></description>
<dc:subject>political-economy politics alas</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:aeca40495c5a/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2017/07/the-origins-of-hunter-s-thompsons-loathing-and-fear-1.html">
    <title>3quarksdaily: The Origins of Hunter S. Thompson’s Loathing and Fear</title>
    <dc:date>2017-07-23T11:55:03+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2017/07/the-origins-of-hunter-s-thompsons-loathing-and-fear-1.html</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[And I was thinking, God damn you nazi bastards I really hope you win it, because letting your kind of human garbage flood the system is about the only way to really clean it out. Another four years of Ike would have brought on a national collapse, but one year of Goldwater would have produced a revolution.]]></description>
<dc:subject>politics history fascism here-we-are</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:145ed8c628bd/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.vox.com/the-big-idea/2017/7/18/15992226/neoliberalism-chait-austerity-democratic-party-sanders-clinton">
    <title>“Neoliberalism” isn’t an empty epithet. It’s a real, powerful set of ideas. - Vox</title>
    <dc:date>2017-07-21T13:15:57+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.vox.com/the-big-idea/2017/7/18/15992226/neoliberalism-chait-austerity-democratic-party-sanders-clinton</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[You may not believe in neoliberalism, but neoliberalism believes in you
Why does this matter if you couldn’t care less about either the IMF or subjectivity? The 2016 election brought forward real disagreements in the Democratic Party, disagreements that aren’t reducible to empirical arguments, or arguments about what an achievable political agenda might be. These disagreements will become more important as we move forward, and they can only be answered with an understanding of what the Democratic Party stands for.

One highly salient conflict was the fight over free college during the Democratic primary. It wasn’t about the price tag; it was about the role the government should play in helping to educate the citizenry. Clinton originally argued that a universal program would help people who didn’t need help — why pay for Donald Trump’s kids? This reflects the focus on means-tested programs that dominated Democratic policymaking over the past several decades. (Some of the original people who wanted to reinvent the Democratic Party, such as Charles Peters in his 1983 article “A Neoliberal’s Manifesto,” called for means-testing Social Security so it served only the very poor.)]]></description>
<dc:subject>neoliberalism capitalism politics postnormality economics public-policy discourse</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:5d3dba02261f/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2017/05/23/there-are-bots-look-around/">
    <title>There are bots. Look around.</title>
    <dc:date>2017-06-03T10:59:35+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2017/05/23/there-are-bots-look-around/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[So we’re at a point in which our marketplace of ideas bears striking resemblance to the financial markets in the early days of HFT: deliberate manipulation, unanticipated feedback loops, and malicious algorithms are poisoning the ecosystem, introducing fragility and destroying confidence. But unlike in finance, it’s no one’s job to be looking at this. It’s no one’s job to regulate this.

]]></description>
<dc:subject>social-networks social-engineering propaganda bots politics truthiness</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:e7cc779b7c55/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:propaganda"/>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2017/05/bail-bonds/526542/">
    <title>Who Really Makes Money Off of Bail Bonds? - The Atlantic</title>
    <dc:date>2017-05-14T11:10:27+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2017/05/bail-bonds/526542/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[A new report from the nonprofit Color of Change and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) sheds further light on the country’s bail system. The report finds that around 70 percent of those currently in jail have yet to be convicted of a crime. Not unrelated: Between 1990 and 2009, the share of people arrested who were required to post money bail grew from 37 percent to 61 percent, according to the report.

]]></description>
<dc:subject>corporatism police politics racism legalism public-policy the-crises</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:d987773ecf5c/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:politics"/>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:legalism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:public-policy"/>
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<item rdf:about="https://newrepublic.com/article/141663/united-states-work">
    <title>The United States of Work | New Republic</title>
    <dc:date>2017-05-08T09:56:40+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://newrepublic.com/article/141663/united-states-work</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Anderson’s most provocative argument is that large companies, the institutions that employ most workers, amount to a de facto form of government, exerting massive and intrusive power in our daily lives. Unlike the state, these private governments are able to wield power with little oversight, because the executives and boards of directors that rule them are accountable to no one but themselves. Although they exercise their power to varying degrees and through both direct and “soft” means, employers can dictate how we dress and style our hair, when we eat, when (and if) we may use the toilet, with whom we may partner and under what arrangements. Employers may subject our bodies to drug tests; monitor our speech both on and off the job; require us to answer questionnaires about our exercise habits, off-hours alcohol consumption, and childbearing intentions; and rifle through our belongings. If the state held such sweeping powers, Anderson argues, we would probably not consider ourselves free men and women.

]]></description>
<dc:subject>corporatism via:bkerr labor politics political-economy cultural-assumptions worklife not-encouraging</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:0fb9e67d0d35/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://aeon.co/essays/why-foucaults-work-on-power-is-more-important-than-ever">
    <title>Why Foucault's work on power is more important than ever | Aeon Essays</title>
    <dc:date>2017-03-15T13:19:45+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://aeon.co/essays/why-foucaults-work-on-power-is-more-important-than-ever</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[For identifying and so deftly analysing the mechanisms of modern power, while refusing to develop it into a singular and unified theory of power’s essence, Foucault remains philosophically important. The strident philosophical skepticism in which his thought is rooted is not directed against the use of philosophy for the analysis of power. Rather, it is suspicious of the bravado behind the idea that philosophy can, and also must, reveal the hidden essence of things. What this means is that Foucault’s signature word – ‘power’ – is not the name of an essence that he has distilled but is rather an index to an entire field of analysis in which the work of philosophy must continually toil.

]]></description>
<dc:subject>philosophy cultural-dynamics power politics</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:6e3f07316c98/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://arxiv.org/abs/1608.02014">
    <title>[1608.02014] Assessing significance in a Markov chain without mixing</title>
    <dc:date>2017-02-19T12:07:59+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://arxiv.org/abs/1608.02014</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[We present a new statistical test to detect that a presented state of a reversible Markov chain was not chosen from a stationary distribution. In particular, given a value function for the states of the Markov chain, we would like to demonstrate rigorously that the presented state is an outlier with respect to the values, by establishing a p-value for observations we make about the state under the null hypothesis that it was chosen uniformly at random. 
A simple heuristic used in practice is to sample ranks of states from long random trajectories on the Markov chain, and compare these to the rank of the presented state; if the presented state is a 0.1%-outlier compared to the sampled ranks (i.e., its rank is in the bottom 0.1% of sampled ranks) then this should correspond to a p-value of 0.001. This test is not rigorous, however, without good bounds on the mixing time of the Markov chain, as one must argue that the observed states on the trajectory approximate the stationary distribution. 
Our test is the following: given the presented state in the Markov chain, take a random walk from the presented state for any number of steps. We prove that observing that the presented state is an ε-outlier on the walk is significant at p=2ε‾‾√, under the null hypothesis that the state was chosen from a stationary distribution. Our result assumes nothing about the structure of the Markov chain beyond reversibility, and we construct examples to show that significance at p≈ε√ is essentially best possible in general. We illustrate the use of our test with a potential application to the rigorous detection of gerrymandering in Congressional districtings.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>statistics Markov-chains random-walks stochastic-systems rather-interesting statistical-test algorithms to-write-about politics redistricting fairness</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:fd35bb1fbbb1/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:random-walks"/>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:rather-interesting"/>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:to-write-about"/>
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<item rdf:about="https://itsgoingdown.org/love-trumps-hate-liberalisms-false-opposition-trump/">
    <title>Love Trumps Hate? Liberalism's False Opposition to Trump - IT'S GOING DOWN</title>
    <dc:date>2017-02-18T12:23:40+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://itsgoingdown.org/love-trumps-hate-liberalisms-false-opposition-trump/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Love and hate are emotions that cannot appropriately be assigned to systems of power. The real problem is structural. It is the police, the law, political parties, and capitalism. It is 500 years of colonialism and anti-blackness and rape culture. None of what Trump is trying to do would be possible if these systems did not exist. What matters about Obama’s deportation of 2.4 million people is not his personal feelings for those folks. What matters is that he deported over 2.4 million people. Put another way, the boss does not exploit his workers because he hates them—he does so because his position in the economy demands it. Individual cops do not occupy and harass black neighborhoods out of personal spite (even if many enjoy it)—they do so because if they were to refuse, they would simply be fired and replaced. Power, freedom, and survival are what is at stake here, not just feelings.

]]></description>
<dc:subject>structural-problems systemic-evil politics sociology American-cultural-assumptions</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:260ef98453d7/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://status451.com/2017/01/20/days-of-rage/">
    <title>Days of Rage | Status 451</title>
    <dc:date>2017-02-17T11:08:05+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://status451.com/2017/01/20/days-of-rage/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Everything goes smoothly in Weather’s plan until the PFOC conference happens, which looks stunningly like what we’re seeing emerge in today’s Democratic party politics. The white leftist elites (Weather) are stunned to discover that the diverse radicals (black, American Indian, Puerto Rican) they’ve imagined leading actually have opinions of their own, and perfectly rational desires for their own power, and no desire to be ruled by Weather’s upper-crust radicals.

One of Burrough’s Weather interviewees notes that she was very upset and rattled to continually be called racist. This was before white leftists started to unpack their invisible knapsacks and bewail their whiteness as original sin. She couldn’t grasp it.

In the end, Weather was ignominously expelled from their own conference by a Communist who had been one of their former members. (Said Commie later got arrested himself by the Feds when he tried to start a bombing campaign of his own).

]]></description>
<dc:subject>history American-cultural-assumptions politics social-dynamics</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:e6ff9192506a/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://radicalscholarship.wordpress.com/2017/01/14/from-sports-fanaticism-to-plagiarism-this-week-in-what-is-wrong-with-education/">
    <title>From Sports Fanaticism to Plagiarism: This Week in What Is Wrong with Education | radical eyes for equity</title>
    <dc:date>2017-01-15T13:51:30+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://radicalscholarship.wordpress.com/2017/01/14/from-sports-fanaticism-to-plagiarism-this-week-in-what-is-wrong-with-education/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Higher education often wraps itself in claims of academic and ethical rigor, but Crowley’s dissertation and the ability of CNN to detail it when the awarding university did not are where we should be focusing now.

From student-athletes to amateurism to academic integrity (do not forget the University of North Carolina)—there is a colloquial way to explain how Swinney and Crowley reveal what is wrong with education: it is all bullshit.

Bullshit shoveled by the powers-that-be who are created by and profit from the privilege and inequity built into and perpetuated by institutions such as formal education.

]]></description>
<dc:subject>academic-culture politics the-rise-of-fascism American-cultural-assumptions</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:ddf5ef191196/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/nov/14/neoliberalsim-donald-trump-george-monbiot">
    <title>Neoliberalism: the deep story that lies beneath Donald Trump’s triumph | George Monbiot | Opinion | The Guardian</title>
    <dc:date>2017-01-15T12:44:18+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/nov/14/neoliberalsim-donald-trump-george-monbiot</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[As I warned in April, the result is first disempowerment then disenfranchisement. If the dominant ideology stops governments from changing social outcomes, they can no longer respond to the needs of the electorate. Politics becomes irrelevant to people’s lives; debate is reduced to the jabber of a remote elite. The disenfranchised turn instead to a virulent anti-politics in which facts and arguments are replaced by slogans, symbols and sensation. The man who sank Hillary Clinton’s bid for the presidency was not Donald Trump. It was her husband.

The paradoxical result is that the backlash against neoliberalism’s crushing of political choice has elevated just the kind of man that Hayek worshipped. Trump, who has no coherent politics, is not a classic neoliberal. But he is the perfect representation of Hayek’s “independent”; the beneficiary of inherited wealth, unconstrained by common morality, whose gross predilections strike a new path that others may follow. The neoliberal thinktankers are now swarming round this hollow man, this empty vessel waiting to be filled by those who know what they want. The likely result is the demolition of our remaining decencies, beginning with the agreement to limit global warming.

]]></description>
<dc:subject>populism neoliberalism politics worldview</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:17c621a8308a/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://notesonatheory.wordpress.com/2016/11/29/the-most-basic-fact-about-politics-is-slack/">
    <title>The Most Basic Fact About Politics is Slack | Notes on a Theory...</title>
    <dc:date>2017-01-10T13:38:33+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://notesonatheory.wordpress.com/2016/11/29/the-most-basic-fact-about-politics-is-slack/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The answer is both yes and no. Obviously, there are many institutions, like the Democratic Party, unions, advocacy organizations, which have resources which could be put toward mobilization. And while I’m not suggesting that no one is doing this, there is not enough of it. Telling them to do it seems pointless to me. If a union or candidate wants to hire me to give them advice, I will give them this advice. But if they don’t, they probably don’t care what I think, and odds are this applies to you as well.

But they can be pressured into changing their behavior. And the rest of us can put our energies into that, or mobilizing those around us. And it’s not like we don’t have some good ideas lying around to use–think, for example, about Medicare For All.

Is that hard? Yes. Anything worthwhile in politics is hard. And while resources are important, people power is one of the most important resources. Face to face interaction is the best way to move someone to action. And it’s the one thing that regular people have.

]]></description>
<dc:subject>politics fascism activism essay political-economy</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:226d25c72b9f/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://points.datasociety.net/why-america-is-self-segregating-d881a39273ab#.q3w2zcr2e">
    <title>Why America is Self-Segregating</title>
    <dc:date>2017-01-06T12:30:32+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://points.datasociety.net/why-america-is-self-segregating-d881a39273ab#.q3w2zcr2e</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[If we want to develop a healthy democracy, we need a diverse and highly connected social fabric. This requires creating contexts in which the American public voluntarily struggles with the challenges of diversity to build bonds that will last a lifetime. We have been systematically undoing this, and the public has used new technological advances to make their lives easier by self-segregating. This has increased polarization, and we’re going to pay a heavy price for this going forward. Rather than focusing on what media enterprises can and should do, we need to focus instead on building new infrastructures for connection where people have a purpose for coming together across divisions. We need that social infrastructure just as much as we need bridges and roads.]]></description>
<dc:subject>diversity politics social-norms social-dynamics our-dissolution</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:fcb2ae879b5d/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://niskanencenter.org/blog/defense-liberty-cant-without-identity-politics/">
    <title>The Defense of Liberty Can’t Do Without Identity Politics - Niskanen Center</title>
    <dc:date>2016-12-17T15:20:20+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://niskanencenter.org/blog/defense-liberty-cant-without-identity-politics/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Black Lives Matter has provided the first truly large-scale political mobilization against police violence and mass incarceration since the War on Drugs began. It’s perfectly true that many liberal (very much including libertarian) scholars and analysts have been calling for reform of police practices, an end to police militarization and civil forfeiture abuse, respect for civil liberties, and drug decriminalization or legalization for a long time. It’s true that it’s possible to offer those analyses in a race-neutral way. But given that the policies aren’t race-neutral, it shouldn’t surprise us that opposition to them isn’t either, and that the real political energy for mobilizing against them would be race-conscious energy.

If Black Lives Matter is “identity politics,” then identity politics has provided one of the most significant political mobilizations in defense of freedom in the United States in my lifetime. That doesn’t belong on the “to be sure” exception side of a rule that is driven by the politics of gender pronouns. It’s precisely the other way around.

If there is any feature of identity politics that has triggered a political backlash, I think it is far less likely to be gendered pronouns or the more exotic extremes of campus politics that Soave covers on a regular basis, and far more likely to be the high-profile Black Lives Matter. But on any plausible account of political action and political change—something liberals have sometimes lacked—the political energy provided by BLM is sure to be vital to any effective long-term solutions to the policing and incarceration crises.

]]></description>
<dc:subject>politics identity-politics introspection</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:422f45347ef4/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://thearchdruidreport.blogspot.com/2016/11/the-end-of-american-century.html">
    <title>The Archdruid Report: The End of the American Century</title>
    <dc:date>2016-12-12T23:45:13+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://thearchdruidreport.blogspot.com/2016/11/the-end-of-american-century.html</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The predicament the mainstream media now face is as simple as it is inescapable. After taking billions of dollars from their sponsors, they’ve failed to deliver the goods.  Every source of advertising revenue in the United States has got to be looking at the outcome of the election, thinking, “Fat lot of good all those TV buys did her,” and then pondering their own advertising budgets and wondering how much of that money might as well be poured down a rathole.

Presumably the mainstream news media could earn the trust of the public again by breaking out of the echo chamber that defines the narrow range of acceptable opinions about the equally narrow range of issues open to discussion, but this would offend their sponsors. Worse, it would offend the social strata that play so large a role in defining and enforcing that echo chamber; most mainstream news media employees who have a role in deciding what does and does not appear in print or on the air belong to these same social strata, and are thus powerfully influenced by peer pressure. Talking about supposed Russian plots to try to convince people not to get their news from blogs, though it’s unlikely to work, doesn’t risk trouble from either of those sources.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>media public-policy politics fascism ends-of-empire foreign-policy</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:902b3bf9f82d/</dc:identifier>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://thenewinquiry.com/essays/hillbilly-ethnography/">
    <title>Hillbilly Ethnography – The New Inquiry</title>
    <dc:date>2016-11-29T14:00:21+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://thenewinquiry.com/essays/hillbilly-ethnography/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Some on the left have taken liberal readers to task for their earnest gullibility: Vance is a conservative–albeit of the #NeverTrump variety–and he prescribes conservative values to rectify the Rust Belt’s “culture in crisis.” He takes great pains to insist that the decline of industry is not responsible for “a culture that increasingly encourages social decay instead of counteracting it,” that reacts “to bad circumstances in the worst way possible”: with hedonism, materialism, poor work ethic, lack of thrift, disregard for family obligations, and a victim mentality. Those sound like the pathologies conservatives have long attributed to black Americans, as Sarah Jones points out in the New Republic, because that’s exactly what they are. (“I have known many welfare queens,” Vance writes, “some were my neighbors, and all were white.”) Like all bootstraps narratives, Vance’s focus on self-improvement distracts from the structural causes of the suffering that plagues his hometown.

]]></description>
<dc:subject>cultural-dynamics critique class politics racism review</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:1171d91d66e2/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://crookedtimber.org/2016/04/29/neoliberalism-a-quick-follow-up/">
    <title>Neoliberalism: A Quick Follow-up — Crooked Timber</title>
    <dc:date>2016-05-02T10:16:24+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://crookedtimber.org/2016/04/29/neoliberalism-a-quick-follow-up/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[(Incidentally, if you think I was being unfair to Peters-style neoliberalism, I urge you to read this interview Peters gave to Ezra Klein back in 2007, where he reiterates the basics of the program as I outline them here and in my post, and says, forthrightly, “I think in many, many areas, the neoliberals, in effect, won.” That is, they changed liberalism (again, more on this below.) The only plank of the original program that Peters thinks needs to be pursued more forcefully is crushing teachers’ unions and means testing mass entitlement programs like Social Security and Medicare.)

]]></description>
<dc:subject>neoliberalism politics public-policy history-is-a-feature-not-a-bug</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:3d6870e9a1c9/</dc:identifier>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://crookedtimber.org/2016/03/25/national-hero/">
    <title>National Hero — Crooked Timber</title>
    <dc:date>2016-03-26T11:02:54+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://crookedtimber.org/2016/03/25/national-hero/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[What we now call radicalisation is simply the age-old desire of the young to believe in purity; to believe in it so completely that it comes above human life. But purity does not exist. Humanity isn’t good enough at any single thing to make it more important than the irreplaceable consciousness of just one of us.

]]></description>
<dc:subject>politics revolution cultural-norms history</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:7afc91de6a30/</dc:identifier>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="https://itself.wordpress.com/2016/03/25/how-to-destroy-a-state/">
    <title>How to destroy a state | An und für sich</title>
    <dc:date>2016-03-26T10:54:14+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://itself.wordpress.com/2016/03/25/how-to-destroy-a-state/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[This crisis is what I had in mind when I said yesterday that autonomous state-level government is a ticking time bomb. Essentially we have a situation where two guys have brought an entire state to its knees, with no popular mandate and no respect for any political norms. And the media is complicit, due to their knee-jerk assumption that any political gridlock must be the fault of “both sides” — when in reality, Rauner is a dangerous radical and is entirely, 100% to blame for creating this crisis. Indeed, it’s becoming clear that he never had any intention of signing a budget. Why would he waste his time on a compromise when simply doing nothing allows him to achieve his goal of destroying the public sector much more rapidly?

]]></description>
<dc:subject>politics fascism public-policy ruin</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:5be1822c75e9/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://understandingsociety.blogspot.com/2015/07/deliberative-democracy-and-age-of.html">
    <title>Understanding Society: Deliberative democracy and the age of social media</title>
    <dc:date>2015-07-05T11:31:24+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://understandingsociety.blogspot.com/2015/07/deliberative-democracy-and-age-of.html</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[So this is how social media seem to work if left to their own devices. Are there promising examples of more intentional uses of social media to engage the public in deeper conversations about the issues of the day? Certainly there are political organizations across the spectrum that are making large efforts to use social media as a platform for their messages and values. But this is not exactly "deliberative". What is more intriguing is whether there are foundations and non-profit organizations that have specifically focused on creating a more deliberative social media community that can help build a broader consensus about difficult policy choices. And so far I haven't been able to find good examples of this kind of effort.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>democracy echo-chambers social-norms social-media politics polarization rather-interesting open-questions</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:e8f981e0a1fc/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:politics"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://crookedtimber.org/2015/04/30/is-cosmopolitan-communitarianism-still-possible-was-it-ever/">
    <title>Is Cosmopolitan Communitarianism still Possible? Was it ever? — Crooked Timber</title>
    <dc:date>2015-05-05T12:28:22+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://crookedtimber.org/2015/04/30/is-cosmopolitan-communitarianism-still-possible-was-it-ever/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Of course, while capitalism is very good these days at expressing this kind of anodyne cosmopolitanism, it has never been so good at the communitarian portion of my post’s title. This is supposed to come from “the people,” via the second phase of Polanyi’s “double movement,” designed to tame a market economy that threatens to devour civil society and the family itself. But if the people are themselves riven by age-old fears of difference—some cultural, some economic, some, in context, entirely understandable—where will the communitarianism and its political cousin, egalitarianism, come from in the 21st century? In short, can nation who have constructed communitarian economies and cultures sustain them in the face of threats from cosmopolitanism? And can those—perhaps principally the United States—who have, in may ways, enviable, if still fraught, multi-ethnic/racial societies, ever attain the levels of communitarianism and egalitarianism reached by many European nations when they were, in fact, far more ethnically homogeneous than they are today?

]]></description>
<dc:subject>economics politics community good-question political-economy sociology the-Rawlsian-paradox</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:501c6fc9b466/</dc:identifier>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://thearchdruidreport.blogspot.com/2015/04/the-retro-future.html">
    <title>The Archdruid Report: The Retro Future</title>
    <dc:date>2015-04-19T11:56:15+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://thearchdruidreport.blogspot.com/2015/04/the-retro-future.html</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I’ve talked about two of these possibilities at some length in posts here. The first can be summed up simply enough in a cheery sentence:  “Collapse now and avoid the rush!”  ]]></description>
<dc:subject>collapse futurism politics political-economy sustainability oh-well</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:5c9bb8b9878a/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://al3x.net/2015/03/03/jacobin.html">
    <title>Alex Payne — Jacobin</title>
    <dc:date>2015-03-03T21:39:54+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://al3x.net/2015/03/03/jacobin.html</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Capitalism is an extremist ideology. We have forgotten this in America, where the economic system that’s stifled our democracy and bankrupted our communities is presented to us from birth as right, inevitable, enduring, and unquestionable.

]]></description>
<dc:subject>politics socialism via:nelson Jacobin</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:9dab898ab3e8/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://itself.wordpress.com/2015/02/26/the-case-for-faculty-self-governance/">
    <title>The case for faculty self-governance | An und für sich</title>
    <dc:date>2015-02-27T12:29:22+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://itself.wordpress.com/2015/02/26/the-case-for-faculty-self-governance/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[As Gerry Canavan has eloquently pointed out, the perpetual crisis mentality of higher ed is an indication that the very large and expensive management class that has taken over universities in recent decades is an utter failure. Well-managed universities should not need significant “flexibility” in their course offerings semester to semester, for example, nor should they be blindsided by demographic trends that were easily predictable decades ahead of time. Gerry notes, of course, that the apparent “failure” of the autonomous administration class actually reflects a success on another level: they want to destroy the traditional university, and using constant crises to force budget cuts is a great way to destroy anything.

]]></description>
<dc:subject>academic-culture education administration politics public-policy disintermediation-in-action</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:6bf781873eaa/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2014/12/what-us-intelligence-predicted-the-world-would-look-like-in-2015/384071/">
    <title>What U.S. Intelligence Predicted the World Would Look Like in 2015 - The Atlantic</title>
    <dc:date>2015-01-03T14:04:26+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2014/12/what-us-intelligence-predicted-the-world-would-look-like-in-2015/384071/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><dc:subject>politics political-economy futurism grim-meathooks-and-the-like corporatism rather-interesting</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:b46c8787c6db/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:futurism"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://lanl.arxiv.org/abs/1310.7134">
    <title>[1310.7134] Modeling Oligarchs' Campaign Donations and Ideological Preferences with Simulated Agent-Based Spatial Elections</title>
    <dc:date>2014-12-28T12:59:42+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://lanl.arxiv.org/abs/1310.7134</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[In this paper, we investigate the interactions among oligarchs, political parties, and voters using an agent-based modeling approach. We introduce the OLIGO model, which is based on the spatial model of democracy, where voters have positions in a policy space and vote for the party that appears closest to them, and parties move in policy space to seek more votes. We extend the existing literature on agent-based models of political economy in the following manner: (1) by introducing a new class of agents- oligarchs - that represent leaders of firms in a common industry who lobby for beneficial subsidies through campaign donations; and (2) by investigating the effects of ideological preferences of the oligarchs on legislative action. We test hypotheses from the literature in political economics on the behavior of oligarchs and political parties as they interact, under conditions of imperfect information and bounded rationality. Our key results indicate that (1) oligarchs tend to donate less to political campaigns when the parties are more resistant to changing their policies, or when voters are more informed; and (2) if Oligarchs donate to parties based on a combination of ideological and profit motivations, Oligarchs will tend to donate at a lower equilibrium level, due to the influence of lost profits. We validate these outcomes via comparisons to real world polling data on changes in party support over time.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>agent-based social-dynamics politics NetLogo economics nudge-targets consider:feature-discovery</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:13de59441018/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/12/2015-abortion-bills-state-legislatures">
    <title>The War on Reproductive Rights Will Get a Lot Uglier Next Year | Mother Jones</title>
    <dc:date>2014-12-20T13:36:41+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/12/2015-abortion-bills-state-legislatures</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Next year, Republicans will control 11 more legislative chambers than they did in 2014. Lawmakers in Texas and North Dakota are back in session, and there are no major elections to take up lawmakers' time or cause them worry about war-on-women attacks.

]]></description>
<dc:subject>antebellum-America the-South-will-rise-again conservatism politics it-was-a-good-run-while-it-lasted</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:2dc8f3097c06/</dc:identifier>
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    <title>The Archdruid Report: Dark Age America: The Sharp Edge of the Shell</title>
    <dc:date>2014-12-11T12:06:45+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://thearchdruidreport.blogspot.com/2014/12/dark-age-america-sharp-edge-of-shell.html</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[That may well happen again. Certainly today’s defenders of science are doing their best to shove a range of scientific viewpoints out the door; the denunciation meted out to Bill Nye for bringing basic concepts from ecology into a discussion where they were highly relevant is par for the course these days. There’s an interesting distinction between the sciences that get this treatment and those that don’t: on the one hand, those that are being flung aside are those that focus on observation of natural systems rather than control of artificial ones; on the other, any science that raises doubts about the possibility or desirability of infinite technological expansion can expect to find itself shivering in the dark outside in very short order. (This latter point applies to other fields of intellectual endeavor as well; half the angry denunciations of philosophy you’ll hear these days from figures such as Neil DeGrasse Tyson, I’m convinced, come out of the simple fact that the claims of modern science to know objective truths about nature won’t stand up to fifteen minutes of competent philosophical analysis.)
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    <title>[1407.0913] Voting Behavior, Coalitions and Government Strength through a Complex Network Analysis</title>
    <dc:date>2014-11-14T11:44:31+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://arxiv.org/abs/1407.0913</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[We analyze the network of relations between parliament members according to their voting behavior. In particular, we examine the emergent community structure with respect to political coalitions and government alliances. We rely on tools developed in the Complex Network literature to explore the core of these communities and use their topological features to develop new metrics for party polarization, internal coalition cohesiveness and government strength. As a case study, we focus on the Chamber of Deputies of the Italian Parliament, for which we are able to characterize the heterogeneity of the ruling coalition as well as parties specific contributions to the stability of the government over time. We find sharp contrast in the political debate which surprisingly does not imply a relevant structure based on establised parties. We take a closer look to changes in the community structure after parties split up and their effect on the position of single deputies within communities. Finally, we introduce a way to track the stability of the government coalition over time that is able to discern the contribution of each member along with the impact of its possible defection. While our case study relies on the Italian parliament, whose relevance has come into the international spotlight in the present economic downturn, the methods developed here are entirely general and can therefore be applied to a multitude of other scenarios.
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