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    <dc:date>2026-04-08T20:15:00+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Official-science in exile...]]></description>
<dc:subject>our_decrepit_institutions via:aeo</dc:subject>
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    <title>The Epstein Files and Russiagate are the Same Thing</title>
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    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[--- This is depressingly persuasive.  For more on something Gutinsky mentions in passing, [https://archive.is/2026.02.06-235924/https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/02/06/epsteins-network-included-russian-tech-investors-with-past-kremlin-ties/]]]></description>
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--- Shorter Farrell & Newman: "you have no understanding of the consequences of what you do oh and one more thing you aren’t going to like what comes after America".]]></description>
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    <title>Teaching Computer Science in the age of Gippity : r/theprimeagen</title>
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    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[--- I haven't seen _exactly_ this, but I have seen things far too much like this.]]></description>
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    <title>The Based Ritual - Richard Hanania's Newsletter</title>
    <dc:date>2025-07-18T15:13:58+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.richardhanania.com/p/the-based-ritual</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>our_decrepit_institutions us_politics us_culture_wars have_read running_dogs_of_reaction vicious_parody funny:laughing_instead_of_screaming</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/donald-trump-ted-kaczynski-pittsburgh-b2789670.html">
    <title>Trump, 79, forgets who is with him on Pittsburgh trip as rambling talk includes unlikely Unabomber story | The Independent</title>
    <dc:date>2025-07-18T11:54:03+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/donald-trump-ted-kaczynski-pittsburgh-b2789670.html</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[--- I will admit that my gut reaction to reading this is to feel bad for our university president.  (That may be reaction may be misguided or even perverse.)  He strikes me as a decent man  and a faithful steward of institutions who felt he had to swallow something foul to avert the malign attention of the Eye of Sauron falling upon us, but I doubt he realized just how hard this would be to choke down.]]></description>
<dc:subject>have_read our_national_shame our_decrepit_institutions us_politics carnegie_mellon trump.donald</dc:subject>
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<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:a4c97490de38/</dc:identifier>
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    <title>Opinion | Is AI Enhancing Education or Replacing It?</title>
    <dc:date>2025-05-15T15:52:06+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www-chronicle-com.cmu.idm.oclc.org/article/is-ai-enhancing-education-or-replacing-it</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>large_language_models_(so_called) education shirky.clay have_read our_decrepit_institutions</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:aa583a7a87b7/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://benansell.substack.com/p/donald-trumps-anti-leviathan?triedRedirect=true">
    <title>Donald Trump's Anti-Leviathan - by Ben Ansell</title>
    <dc:date>2025-04-28T01:27:02+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://benansell.substack.com/p/donald-trumps-anti-leviathan?triedRedirect=true</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>have_read our_decrepit_institutions trump.donald us_politics the_continuing_crises</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
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<item rdf:about="https://thewalrus.ca/i-used-to-teach-students-now-i-catch-chatgpt-cheats">
    <title>I Used to Teach Students. Now I Catch ChatGPT Cheats | The Walrus</title>
    <dc:date>2025-03-16T18:58:03+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://thewalrus.ca/i-used-to-teach-students-now-i-catch-chatgpt-cheats</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[--- A lovely (if depressing) essay, but this to me is the heart of it:

"That moment, when you start to understand the power of clear thinking, is crucial. The trouble with generative AI is that it short-circuits that process entirely. One begins to suspect that a great many students wanted this all along: to make it through college unaltered, unscathed. To be precisely the same person at graduation, and after, as they were on the first day they arrived on campus. As if the whole experience had never really happened at all."]]></description>
<dc:subject>education academia large_language_models_(so_called) our_decrepit_institutions</dc:subject>
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    <title>How Twitter activism turned the fight against Boko Haram upside down - The Washington Post</title>
    <dc:date>2025-03-10T17:24:00+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/slacktivism-chibok-twitter-our-girls/2021/04/16/0e3b9fee-9e1f-11eb-8005-bffc3a39f6d3_story.html</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>have_read terrorism crime social_media social_life_of_the_mind our_decrepit_institutions re:actually-dr-internet-is-the-name-of-the-monsters-creator nigeria boko_haram tab_closure</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9780691267159/html">
    <title>In Covid's Wake</title>
    <dc:date>2025-03-02T14:53:02+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9780691267159/html</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The Covid pandemic quickly led to the greatest mobilization of emergency powers in human history. By early April 2020, half the world’s population—3.9 billion people—were living under quarantine. People were told not to leave their homes; businesses were shuttered, employees laid off, and schools closed for months or even years. The most devastating pandemic in a century and the policies adopted in response to it upended life as we knew it. In this eye-opening book, Stephen Macedo and Frances Lee examine our pandemic response and pose some provocative questions: Why did we ignore pre-Covid plans for managing a pandemic? Were the voices of reasonable dissent treated fairly? Did we adequately consider the costs and benefits of different policy options? And, aside from vaccines, did the policies adopted work as intended?
"With In Covid’s Wake, Macedo and Lee offer the first comprehensive—and candid—political assessment of how our institutions fared during the pandemic. They describe how, influenced by Wuhan’s lockdown, governments departed from their existing pandemic plans. Hard choices were obscured by slogans like “follow the science.” Benefits and harms were distributed unfairly. The policies adopted largely benefited the laptop class and left so-called essential workers unprotected; extended school closures hit the least-privileged families the hardest. Science became politicized and dissent was driven to the margins. In the next crisis, Macedo and Lee warn, we must not forget the deepest values of liberal democracy: tolerance and open-mindedness, respect for evidence and its limits, a willingness to entertain uncertainty, and a commitment to telling the whole truth."]]></description>
<dc:subject>to:NB coronavirus_pandemic_of_2019-- our_decrepit_institutions books:noted to_download</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.programmablemutter.com/p/were-getting-the-social-media-crisis">
    <title>We're getting the social media crisis wrong</title>
    <dc:date>2025-01-09T15:05:51+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.programmablemutter.com/p/were-getting-the-social-media-crisis</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[--- I think HF is mostly on target here (it'd be surprising if I didn't), but I think could be improved on.
(1) The distribution of output (# of posts) etc. over users is strongly right-skewed.  Even if everyone's content is equally engaging, and equally likely to be encountered, this will lead to a small minority having a really disproportionate impact on what people perceive in their feeds.
(2) Connectivity is _also_ strongly right-skewed.  This is somewhat endogenous to algorithmic choices [https://kieranhealy.org/files/drafts/performativity.pdf] but not entirely.)
(3) Volume of output, and connectivity, are at the very least not _negatively_ associated.  (I'd be astonished if they're not positively associated but I can't immediately lay hands on relevant figures.)
(4) People who write a lot are _weird_.  As a sub-population, they are, let us say, enriched for those who are obsessed with niche interests.  This of course continues HF's analogy to porn; "Proof is left as an exercise for the reader's killfile", as we used to say on Usenet.
(Someone sufficiently flame-proof could make a genuinely valuable study of this point by scraping the various fora for written erotica and doing automated content analysis.  I'd bet good money that the right tail of prolificness is dominated by authors with _very_ niche interests.  But I could not, in good conscience, advise anyone to actually do this study, since it'd be too cancellable from too many directions at once.)
(5) Consequence: even if the owners of the systems didn't put their thumbs on the scales, what people see in their feeds would tend to reflect the pre-occupations of a comparatively small number of weirdos.  HF's points about distorted collective understandings follow.
--- This conclusion could be avoided, maybe, if what those prolific weirdos wrote about tended to be a matter of deep indifference to almost everyone else.  I'd contend that in a world of hate-following, outrage-bait and lolcows, that's not very plausible.

--- Slightly elaborated: [http://bactra.org/weblog/inherent-distortion.html]]]></description>
<dc:subject>have_read kith_and_kin farrell.henry re:actually-dr-internet-is-the-name-of-the-monsters-creator networked_life social_networks social_life_of_the_mind re:democratic_cognition our_decrepit_institutions</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2024/05/the-nonprofit-industrial-complex-and-the-corruption-of-the-american-city/">
    <title>The Nonprofit Industrial Complex and the Corruption of the American City - American Affairs Journal</title>
    <dc:date>2024-06-18T17:25:18+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2024/05/the-nonprofit-industrial-complex-and-the-corruption-of-the-american-city/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[--- Of course the value here depends on the author getting the details right, and I am in no position to re-investigate (I'd almost say "re-litigate") every single controversy/scandal]]></description>
<dc:subject>have_read our_decrepit_institutions via:?</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/09/15/supreme-court-admissions-elite-schools-00116087">
    <title>Why Won’t Elite Colleges Deploy the One Race-Neutral Way to Achieve Diversity? - POLITICO</title>
    <dc:date>2023-09-21T17:08:04+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/09/15/supreme-court-admissions-elite-schools-00116087</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[--- Hostile, but not altogether unfair.
--- Back in the late Cretaceous, when I went to Cal for undergrad, they did admissions as a*GPA + b*SAT + so many points for each affirmative action category.  (Also, IIRC, so many points for being a legacy; which I was.)  This was transparent and had to be at least as fair as anything that's replaced it...]]></description>
<dc:subject>education academia our_decrepit_institutions affirmative_action transmission_of_inequality</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.propublica.org/article/how-navy-spent-billions-littoral-combat-ship">
    <title>How the Navy Spent Billions on Failed Littoral Combat Ship Program — ProPublica</title>
    <dc:date>2023-09-20T17:26:15+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.propublica.org/article/how-navy-spent-billions-littoral-combat-ship</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>military_industrial_complex have_read our_decrepit_institutions</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
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<item rdf:about="https://psyarxiv.com/sfubr">
    <title>PsyArXiv Preprints | Even When Ideologies Align, People Distrust Politicized Institutions</title>
    <dc:date>2023-05-02T20:14:27+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://psyarxiv.com/sfubr</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["In three studies (two preregistered; total n = 3,490 ideologically balanced U.S. adults), we examined attitudes toward 40 institutions, organizations, and groups of professionals (e.g., journalists, scientists, the Supreme Court, the World Health Organization, professors, police officers, doctors, the Catholic Church, banks, pharmaceutical companies, psychologists, Facebook), and tested the associations between (1) perceived ideological slant (the percentage of people in those institutions that lean politically left or right), (2) perceived politicization (the extent to which political values impact the work they do), and (3) public trust and willingness to support and defer to the institution’s expertise. Higher congruence between participant ideology and perceived institutional slant predicted higher trust and deference. And higher perceived politicization of institutions consistently predicted lower trust, often with large effect sizes. Similar patterns were observed between institutions, such that the institutions perceived as the most politicized were also the least trusted, with a very large effect, r = -0.76. Studies 2 and 3 found that perceived politicization also predicted lower support and willingness to defer to institutions’ expertise. Across studies, these negative relationships were observed among both participants who shared and opposed the institution’s ideological slant. In other words, even left-leaning participants were less trusting and less willing to support and defer to left-leaning institutions that appeared more politicized, and even right-leaning participants were less trusting and less willing to support and defer to right-leaning institutions that appeared more politicized. Studies 2 and 3 attempted to experimentally manipulate perceived politicization and failed to do so. We thus post this preprint in hopes of initiating discussion of these findings and identifying promising avenues for future research and possible interventions."]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.americanpurpose.com/blog/fukuyama/vetocracy-and-climate-adaptation/">
    <title>Vetocracy and Climate Adaptation</title>
    <dc:date>2023-01-17T03:26:12+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.americanpurpose.com/blog/fukuyama/vetocracy-and-climate-adaptation/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["One can argue that active citizen participation is critical to both improving legislation and to getting buy-in for difficult decisions. Dictatorships like China and Russia do not solicit citizen participation. But as my Stanford colleague Bruce Cain has argued in this 2014 book Democracy More or Less, there is a hidden flaw in the assumptions underlying the indefinite expansion of participatory democracy, which is that ordinary people will have the time, willingness, and knowledge to participate meaningfully in a complex decision-making process. The vast majority of people do not, with the result that participatory processes empower activist groups or lobbyists with a direct stake in the decision at hand. These groups do not necessarily represent “the people,” and tend to produce polarized standoffs where, for example, energy industry lobbyists face off against environmental advocates. Thus efforts to increase democratic participation may have the effect of leading to less democratic outcomes."]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="https://www-chronicle-com.cmu.idm.oclc.org/article/the-terrible-tedium-of-learning-outcomes">
    <title>The Terrible Tedium of ‘Learning Outcomes’</title>
    <dc:date>2023-01-17T02:26:20+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www-chronicle-com.cmu.idm.oclc.org/article/the-terrible-tedium-of-learning-outcomes</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>academia pedagogy our_decrepit_institutions</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:213473f3a9fa/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/31/opinion/southwest-airlines-computers.html">
    <title>Opinion | The Shameful Open Secret Behind Southwest’s Failure - The New York Times</title>
    <dc:date>2023-01-01T04:29:02+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/31/opinion/southwest-airlines-computers.html</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>our_decrepit_institutions institutions tufekci.zeynep have_read</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:7f6003488514/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:tufekci.zeynep"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:have_read"/>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.vice.com/en/article/n7z5jm/thank-you-for-your-feedback">
    <title>Thank You For Your Feedback</title>
    <dc:date>2022-12-29T02:50:26+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.vice.com/en/article/n7z5jm/thank-you-for-your-feedback</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The community feedback process is an inconvenient annoyance that brings out the worst in people. It is also at the heart of why U.S. cities can't build new housing or transportation."]]></description>
<dc:subject>our_decrepit_institutions have_read re:democratic_cognition</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:eabd9f937845/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:re:democratic_cognition"/>
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<item rdf:about="https://doi.org/10.1515/auk-2021-0019">
    <title>Post-deliberative Democracy</title>
    <dc:date>2022-11-21T03:16:40+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://doi.org/10.1515/auk-2021-0019</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Within any adversarial rule-governed system, it often takes time for strategically motivated agents to discover effective exploits. Once discovered, these strategies will soon be copied by all other participants. Unless it is possible to adjust the rules to preclude them, the result will be a degradation of the performance of the system. This is essentially what has happened to public political discourse in democratic states. Political actors have discovered, not just that the norm of truth can be violated in specific ways, but that many of the norms governing rational deliberation can also be violated, not just without penalty, but often for significant political gain. As a result, the level of noise (false or misleading communications) has come to drown out the signal (earnest attempts at deliberation). The post-truth political condition is the cumulative result of innovations developed by actors who adopt an essentially strategic orientation toward political communications."

--- We don't subscribe and I can't find an ungated copy...

--- ETA 2024: We now subscribe and I look forward to reading.]]></description>
<dc:subject>our_decrepit_institutions democracy re:democratic_cognition heath.joseph in_NB</dc:subject>
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<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:196e44c03990/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/01/opinion/democrats-2024-election.html">
    <title>Opinion | Fed Up With Democratic Emails? You’re Not the Only One. - The New York Times</title>
    <dc:date>2022-08-17T20:52:49+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/01/opinion/democrats-2024-election.html</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>us_politics partisanship_and_polarization our_decrepit_institutions putnam.lara</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:22250c0d2fb1/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/25/politics/partisanship-polls-americans-economy/index.html">
    <title>How partisanship is making polling Americans more complicated - CNNPolitics</title>
    <dc:date>2022-07-22T14:56:24+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/25/politics/partisanship-polls-americans-economy/index.html</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>have_read us_politics polling surveys us_culture_wars our_decrepit_institutions via:?</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:66d5822cd031/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/citizenship-in-hard-times/6F6F2EEE3979D61CD2C4B69362012917#fndtn-information">
    <title>Citizenship in Hard Times</title>
    <dc:date>2022-07-04T01:40:43+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/citizenship-in-hard-times/6F6F2EEE3979D61CD2C4B69362012917#fndtn-information</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["What do citizens do in response to threats to democracy? This book examines the mass politics of civic obligation in the US, UK, and Germany. Exploring threats like foreign interference in elections and polarization, Sara Wallace Goodman shows that citizens respond to threats to democracy as partisans, interpreting civic obligation through a partisan lens that is shaped by their country's political institutions. This divided, partisan citizenship makes democratic problems worse by eroding the national unity required for democratic stability. Employing novel survey experiments in a cross-national research design, Citizenship in Hard Times presents the first comprehensive and comparative analysis of citizenship norms in the face of democratic threat. In showing partisan citizens are not a reliable bulwark against democratic backsliding, Goodman identifies a key vulnerability in the mass politics of democratic order. In times of democratic crisis, defenders of democracy must work to fortify the shared foundations of democratic citizenship."]]></description>
<dc:subject>in_NB books:noted democracy political_science partisanship_and_polarization our_decrepit_institutions</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:0132fc6086c0/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://oxford.universitypressscholarship.com/view/10.1093/oso/9780197556450.001.0001/oso-9780197556450?rskey=nzm83v&amp;result=101">
    <title>Sustaining Democracy: What We Owe to the Other Side - Oxford Scholarship</title>
    <dc:date>2022-07-03T15:27:46+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://oxford.universitypressscholarship.com/view/10.1093/oso/9780197556450.001.0001/oso-9780197556450?rskey=nzm83v&amp;result=101</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Democracy is hard work. It can flourish only when citizens actively participate in the business of collective self-government. Yet political participation gives rise to deep political divides over core political values. In the midst of these divisions, citizens are required to recognize one another as political equals, as fellow participants who are entitled to an equal share of political power. Research shows that political engagement exposes citizens to forces that erode their capacities to regard their political opponents as their equals. In the course of democratic participation, we come to see our opponents as inept and ill-motivated, ultimately unfit for democracy. This tendency is especially pronounced among those who are the most politically active. Democratic citizenship thus can undermine itself. With this conflict at the heart of democratic citizenship, we must actively pursue justice while also treating those who embrace injustice as our equals. Sustaining Democracy navigates this conflict. It begins by exploring partisanship and polarization, the two mechanisms by which citizens come to regard their opponents as unsuited for democracy. It then proposes strategies by which citizens can mitigate these forces without dampening their political commitments. As it turns out, the same forces that lead us to scorn our opponents can also undermine and fracture our political alliances. If we are concerned to further justice, we need to uphold civil relations with our opponents, even when we despise their political views. If we want to preserve our political friendships, we must sustain democracy with our foes."]]></description>
<dc:subject>in_NB books:noted political_philosophy democracy partisanship_and_polarization our_decrepit_institutions</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:09e894c6ae6c/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://oxford.universitypressscholarship.com/view/10.1093/oso/9780197582268.001.0001/oso-9780197582268?rskey=PzGaKz&amp;result=254">
    <title>Tweeting is Leading: How Senators Communicate and Represent in the Age of Twitter - Oxford Scholarship</title>
    <dc:date>2022-07-03T13:50:51+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://oxford.universitypressscholarship.com/view/10.1093/oso/9780197582268.001.0001/oso-9780197582268?rskey=PzGaKz&amp;result=254</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Social media is changing the business of representation and lawmaker reputation building, and this book uses the US Senate to illustrate the constituent-driven nature of political communication. I offer a critical analysis of senators’ communication on Twitter, the forces that shape it, and the agendas that result. Senators strategically communicate a political image that reflects their unique political persona. They have to decide what they want to be known for, crafting communications that prioritize legislation, constituent service, and party politics in ways that meet the interests of their constituencies and foster promising electoral returns. Senators’ communicated, public priorities—what is termed in this book as the rhetorical agenda—offer a necessary tool for understanding how senators link their carefully crafted public image with potential voters. The rhetorical agenda uses more than 180,000 lawmaker tweets to challenge what we know about representation, removing the institutional and political constraints on congressional communication and giving lawmakers a messaging platform where individual discretion is high, the relative costs are low, and someone is always watching."

--- Last two tags reflect my evaluation and not the author's...]]></description>
<dc:subject>books:noted rhetorical_self-fashioning text_mining social_media networked_life twitter congress us_politics political_science our_decrepit_institutions re:actually-dr-internet-is-the-name-of-the-monsters-creator in_NB</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:f307ec0f3631/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://twitter.com/henryfarrell/status/1541802078175117313">
    <title>Henry Farrell on Twitter: &quot;1. A thread with trepidation - I'm no more a real expert on what works in retail politics than the next person. But the inability of Democratic leadership to do more than hand down nostrums about the Court's abortion ruling sugg</title>
    <dc:date>2022-06-28T17:48:22+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://twitter.com/henryfarrell/status/1541802078175117313</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>twitter_threads_that_should_be_blog_posts us_politics our_decrepit_institutions progressive_forces kith_and_kin farrell.henry</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:80f658b02903/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://retractionwatch.com/2022/05/19/after-we-tried-to-correct-claims-about-deadly-water-filters-in-flint-we-were-accused-of-scientific-misconduct-and-that-was-just-the-beginning/">
    <title>After we tried to correct claims about ‘deadly’ water filters in Flint, we were accused of scientific misconduct—and that was just the beginning – Retraction Watch</title>
    <dc:date>2022-06-28T14:19:55+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://retractionwatch.com/2022/05/19/after-we-tried-to-correct-claims-about-deadly-water-filters-in-flint-we-were-accused-of-scientific-misconduct-and-that-was-just-the-beginning/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[(The institutions, in this case, certainly include academic publishing and IRBs.)]]></description>
<dc:subject>science_as_a_social_process our_decrepit_institutions</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:856904c17fce/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/06/08/danielle-allen-run-office-massachusetts/?wpisrc=nl_ideas">
    <title>Opinion | Danielle Allen: I ran for Massachusetts governor out of anger and despair. I felt hope when I dropped out. - The Washington Post</title>
    <dc:date>2022-06-13T17:03:10+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/06/08/danielle-allen-run-office-massachusetts/?wpisrc=nl_ideas</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[--- The reason D.A. is a better person than I could ever hope to be, and why she _should_ be a public servant and I shouldn't, is that when she writes stuff like this, she means it.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>us_politics allen.danielle_s. our_decrepit_institutions have_read</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:269a728a0e79/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/R/bo163195227.html">
    <title>Radical American Partisanship: Mapping Violent Hostility, Its Causes, and the Consequences for Democracy, Kalmoe, Mason</title>
    <dc:date>2022-05-11T15:55:49+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/R/bo163195227.html</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Political violence is rising in the United States, with Republicans and Democrats divided along racial and ethnic lines that spurred massive bloodshed and democratic collapse earlier in the nation’s history. The January 6, 2021 insurrection and the partisan responses that ensued are a vivid illustration of how deep these currents run. How did American politics become so divided that we cannot agree on how to categorize an attack on our own Capitol?
"For over four years, through a series of surveys and experiments, Nathan P. Kalmoe and Lilliana Mason have been studying radicalism among ordinary American partisans. In this groundbreaking book, they draw on new evidence—as well as insights from history, psychology, and political science—to put our present partisan fractiousness in context and to explain broad patterns of political and social change. Early chapters reveal the scope of the problem, who radical partisans are, and trends over time, while later chapters identify the conditions that partisans say justify violence and test how elections, political violence, and messages from leaders enflame or pacify radical views. Kalmoe and Mason find that ordinary partisanship is far more dangerous than pundits and scholars have recognized. However, these findings are not a forecast of inevitable doom; the current climate also brings opportunities to confront democratic threats head-on and to create a more inclusive politics. Timely and thought-provoking, Radical American Partisanship is vital reading for understanding our current political landscape."]]></description>
<dc:subject>to:NB books:noted political_science polarization_and_partisanship our_decrepit_institutions via:henry_farrell books:suggest_to_library</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.poynter.org/business-work/2017/do-facebook-and-google-have-control-of-their-algorithms-anymore-a-sobering-assessment-and-a-warning/">
    <title>Do Facebook and Google have control of their algorithms anymore? A sobering assessment and a warning - Poynter</title>
    <dc:date>2022-04-13T03:00:11+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.poynter.org/business-work/2017/do-facebook-and-google-have-control-of-their-algorithms-anymore-a-sobering-assessment-and-a-warning/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Tab's been open on my phone for almost 4 years...  The headline (as usual) is rubbish, but Maciej (as usual) is talking sense.]]></description>
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    <title>The Trouble With Oligarchs</title>
    <dc:date>2022-03-04T03:36:12+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://blog.danieldavies.com/2002/09/trouble-with-oligarchs-answer-finally.html</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Interestingly, there is a corollary to this "monetary theory of kleptocracy". Note that most of the bad effects of the kleptocrats took place because they converted their (local currency) profits of theft into dollars, draining the economy of hard currency. Because of this, we can credibly hypothesise that there is one case in which you could hand the entire economy over to robber barons and it wouldn't really matter at all. That would be the case in which the local currency is the global reserve currency, so that the kleptocrats are happy holding their wealth in local currency. In other words, the one country in the world which has literally nothing to fear from becoming a gangster state is the United States of America!"

--- 2002, man, 2002.]]></description>
<dc:subject>political_economy dsquared post-soviet_politics our_decrepit_institutions</dc:subject>
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    <title>What Do Addison Rae’s Critics Have in Common With the Taiping Rebels</title>
    <dc:date>2022-03-01T07:00:18+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://foreignpolicy.com/2021/07/16/taiping-rebellion-addison-rae-meritocracy-exams-rebellion/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>meritocracy our_decrepit_institutions standardized_testing to_teach:statistics_of_inequality_and_discrimination</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.chronicle.com/article/the-guild-and-the-grifters">
    <title>The Guild and the Grifters</title>
    <dc:date>2021-11-22T16:55:11+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.chronicle.com/article/the-guild-and-the-grifters</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[An interesting essay worth chewing over; not sure what I think.  (I don't trust many of the people associated with this venture not to be blowhards.)

--- Making the baby Tim Brenners-Lee cry: The Chronicle's bloated website takes 192 kb, plus graphics, adds, etc., to deliver approximately 16 kb of text, _and_ won't render in Chrome unless I authorize all sorts of third parties to mess with my browser.  Fortunately it didn't block downloading the HTML source.]]></description>
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    <title>Facebook Is an Authoritarian State - The Atlantic</title>
    <dc:date>2021-09-29T23:53:56+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/11/facebook-authoritarian-hostile-foreign-power/620168/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[--- I like the way the illustration makes Facebookland stand in for Lemuria.]]></description>
<dc:subject>social_media our_decrepit_institutions re:actually-dr-internet-is-the-name-of-the-monsters-creator have_read</dc:subject>
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    <title>Subtle Tools | Princeton University Press</title>
    <dc:date>2021-09-23T15:30:02+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691215839/subtle-tools</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["In the wake of the September 11 terror attacks, the American government implemented a wave of overt policies to fight the nation’s enemies. Unseen and undetected by the public, however, another set of tools were brought to bear on the domestic front. In this riveting book, one of today’s leading experts on the US security state shows how these “subtle tools” imperiled the very foundations of democracy, from the separation of powers and transparency in government to adherence to the Constitution.
"Taking readers from Ground Zero to the Capitol insurrection, Karen Greenberg describes the subtle tools that were forged under George W. Bush in the name of security: imprecise language, bureaucratic confusion, secrecy, and the bypassing of procedural and legal norms. While the power and legacy of these tools lasted into the Obama years, reliance on them increased exponentially in the Trump era, both in the fight against terrorism abroad and in battles closer to home. Greenberg discusses how the Trump administration weaponized these tools to separate families at the border, suppress Black Lives Matter protests, and attempt to overturn the 2020 presidential election.
"Revealing the deeper consequences of the war on terror, Subtle Tools paints a troubling portrait of an increasingly undemocratic America where disinformation, xenophobia, and disdain for the law became the new norm, and where the subtle tools of national security threatened democracy itself."]]></description>
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    <title>News for the Rich, White, and Blue | Columbia University Press</title>
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    <link>http://cup.columbia.edu/book/news-for-the-rich-white-and-blue/9780231184670</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["As cash-strapped metropolitan newspapers struggle to maintain their traditional influence and quality reporting, large national and international outlets have pivoted to serving readers who can and will choose to pay for news, skewing coverage toward a wealthy, white, and liberal audience. Amid rampant inequality and distrust, media outlets have become more out of touch with the democracy they purport to serve. How did journalism end up in such a predicament, and what are the prospects for achieving a more equitable future?
"In News for the Rich, White, and Blue, Nikki Usher recasts the challenges facing journalism in terms of place, power, and inequality. Drawing on more than a decade of field research, she illuminates how journalists decide what becomes news and how news organizations strategize about the future. Usher shows how newsrooms remain places of power, largely white institutions growing more elite as journalists confront a shrinking job market. She details how Google, Facebook, and the digital-advertising ecosystem have wreaked havoc on the economic model for quality journalism, leaving local news to suffer. Usher also highlights how the handful of likely survivors—well-funded media outlets such as the New York Times—increasingly appeal to a global, “placeless” reader."]]></description>
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    <title>Opinion | What if the Coronavirus Crisis Is Just a Trial Run? - The New York Times</title>
    <dc:date>2021-09-01T18:17:16+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/01/opinion/covid-pandemic-global-economy-politics.html</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[This is terrific, and terrifying.]]></description>
<dc:subject>have_read tooze.adam coronavirus_pandemic_of_2019-- climate_change our_decrepit_institutions globalization political_economy american_hegemony</dc:subject>
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    <title>Henry Farrell on Twitter: &quot;1. A thread, responding to a series of complaints about political science by @BrankoMilan which seem to me to be generally quite wrong-headed. Note before beginning - while I've only the most tenuous personal acquaintance with h</title>
    <dc:date>2021-08-02T15:26:44+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://twitter.com/henryfarrell/status/1422187568188252163</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>our_decrepit_institutions progressive_forces political_science the_conflict_of_the_disciplines twitter_threads_that_should_be_blog_posts farrell.henry</dc:subject>
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    <title>What everyone misses about American elites - The Washington Post</title>
    <dc:date>2021-07-28T04:22:21+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2018/09/25/what-everyone-misses-about-american-elites/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>our_decrepit_institutions</dc:subject>
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    <title>Covid Proved the C.D.C. Is Broken. Can It Be Fixed? - The New York Times</title>
    <dc:date>2021-06-24T13:17:05+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/16/magazine/cdc-covid-response.html</link>
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    <title>The revolt of the public: Martin Gurri on a world without trust - Vox</title>
    <dc:date>2021-06-22T18:10:02+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.vox.com/platform/amp/future-perfect/22301496/martin-gurri-the-revolt-of-the-public-global-democracy</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>our_decrepit_institutions</dc:subject>
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    <title>The new journalism — and the PR firms behind it - The Washington Post</title>
    <dc:date>2021-06-13T04:48:30+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/media/checks-balances-journalism-pr/2021/06/04/df35c110-b3fa-11eb-9059-d8176b9e3798_story.html</link>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.insidehighered.com/views/2021/01/19/belief-if-people-only-were-better-educated-theyd-engage-less-unacceptable-behavior">
    <title>The belief that if people only were better educated, they'd engage less in unacceptable behavior is questionable (opinion)</title>
    <dc:date>2021-06-13T04:28:43+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.insidehighered.com/views/2021/01/19/belief-if-people-only-were-better-educated-theyd-engage-less-unacceptable-behavior</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The bulk of this essay is good and sound, but then at the end it under-cuts itself by saying "Of course if we just model _activist scholarship_ for our students, that'll help for sure".
]]></description>
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    <title>Rechanneling Beliefs: How Information Flows Hinder or Help American Democracy</title>
    <dc:date>2021-05-25T13:50:33+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://snfagora.jhu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Rechanneling-Beliefs.pdf</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>to_read kith_and_kin farrell.henry democracy our_decrepit_institutions networked_life</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="https://blogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/blog/2020/02/04/harvest-time-on-the-whirlwind-farm/">
    <title>Harvest Time on the Whirlwind Farm | Easily Distracted</title>
    <dc:date>2021-05-19T16:10:09+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://blogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/blog/2020/02/04/harvest-time-on-the-whirlwind-farm/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The bits about "compliance" are especially interesting.  Also: one can imagine a lot of people who were all "Networks, not hierarchies!" back in the 1980s and 1990s going "Not like that!"]]></description>
<dc:subject>our_decrepit_institutions class_struggles_in_america whats_gone_wrong_with_america organizations burke.timothy have_read</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/capitol-rioters-trump-defense-comes-up-again-and-again-will-it-make-a-difference">
    <title>Capitol Rioters’ ‘Trump Defense’ Comes Up Again And Again. Will It Make A Difference? | Talking Points Memo</title>
    <dc:date>2021-05-18T21:58:30+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/capitol-rioters-trump-defense-comes-up-again-and-again-will-it-make-a-difference</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Watkins, the “Q Shaman” Jacob Chansley’s attorney, said his client had Asperger’s syndrome and indicated that Chansley’s mental state — and the impact of Trump’s “propaganda” efforts — would play a role in his case. 
"“A lot of these defendants — and I’m going to use this colloquial term, perhaps disrespectfully — but they’re all fucking short-bus people,” Watkins told TPM. “These are people with brain damage, they’re fucking retarded, they’re on the goddamn spectrum.” 
"“But they’re our brothers, our sisters, our neighbors, our coworkers — they’re part of our country. These aren’t bad people, they don’t have prior criminal history. Fuck, they were subjected to four-plus years of goddamn propaganda the likes of which the world has not seen since fucking Hitler.” "
]]></description>
<dc:subject>the_continuing_crises our_decrepit_institutions crime us_politics</dc:subject>
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<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:b2c168dbf3e5/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.slowboring.com/p/the-masks-and-the-experts">
    <title>The masks and the experts - Slow Boring</title>
    <dc:date>2021-04-25T03:53:16+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.slowboring.com/p/the-masks-and-the-experts</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>coronavirus_pandemic_of_2019-- our_decrepit_institutions have_read</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:dd3101c2d400/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.chronicle.com/article/the-abiding-scandal-of-college-admissions?cid2=gen_login_refresh&amp;cid=gen_sign_in">
    <title>The Abiding Scandal of College Admissions</title>
    <dc:date>2021-04-18T18:52:42+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.chronicle.com/article/the-abiding-scandal-of-college-admissions?cid2=gen_login_refresh&amp;cid=gen_sign_in</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I think I would support the lottery idea.  Of course where to set the thresholds would be non-trivial.
(Also, how does this therapeutic-inquisitorial bent interact with the yield-management-software side of admissions?)

--- ETA: The essay does equivocate a bit as to whether the admissions process _really_ reshapes young people in its preferred direction, or just teaches them to _fake_ being like that.  I suppose this could be defended on "we should be careful who we pretend to be" grounds.]]></description>
<dc:subject>academia our_decrepit_institutions rhetorical_self-fashioning moral_psychology to_blog have_read education transmission_of_inequality</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/tv/story/2021-03-28/qanon-docuseries-hbo-who-is-q">
    <title>QAnon HBO docuseries asks who is Q? And may have the answer - Los Angeles Times</title>
    <dc:date>2021-04-08T13:48:48+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/tv/story/2021-03-28/qanon-docuseries-hbo-who-is-q</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[It's a good series.]]></description>
<dc:subject>conspiracy_theories our_decrepit_institutions psychoceramics utter_stupidity networked_life have_read</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/18/technology/timpone-local-news-metric-media.html">
    <title>As Local News Dies, a Pay-for-Play Network Rises in Its Place - The New York Times</title>
    <dc:date>2021-01-17T07:46:21+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/18/technology/timpone-local-news-metric-media.html</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>deceiving_us_has_become_an_industrial_process our_decrepit_institutions why_oh_why_cant_we_have_a_better_press_corps</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.waggish.org/2021/the-bloodsport-of-the-hive-mind-common-knowledge-in-the-age-of-many-to-many-broadcast-networks/">
    <title>The Bloodsport of the Hive Mind: Common Knowledge in the Age of Many-to-Many Broadcast Networks – Waggish</title>
    <dc:date>2021-01-12T20:49:01+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.waggish.org/2021/the-bloodsport-of-the-hive-mind-common-knowledge-in-the-age-of-many-to-many-broadcast-networks/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[This is good, so I'm going to pick nits.  What D.A. is really relying on here is not so much common knowledge (in the technical sense he ably explains) as _the appearance of popularity_.  (Notice his completely-correct point about how this appearance is slanted towards the loudest voices --- true and important, but not something that can happen when establishing actual common knowledge.)  The more apt presiding spirits here are Granovetter (1978) [https://sociology.stanford.edu/publications/threshold-models-collective-behavior], Lohmann (1994a,b) [https://www.jstor.org/stable/2118065] [https://www.jstor.org/stable/2950679] and Kuran (1995) [https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674707580]. ]]></description>
<dc:subject>us_politics our_decrepit_institutions networked_life social_life_of_the_mind re:actually-dr-internet-is-the-name-of-the-monsters-creator epidemiology_of_representations auerbach.david</dc:subject>
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<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:441993a87885/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://aelkus.github.io/politics/2021/01/08/pow.html">
    <title>Hard Power And Late Trumpism - Adam Elkus</title>
    <dc:date>2021-01-11T03:53:14+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://aelkus.github.io/politics/2021/01/08/pow.html</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>our_decrepit_institutions us_politics trump.donald</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:e88d30d2abfb/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.mischiefsoffaction.com/post/we-freaking-warned-you">
    <title>We Freaking Warned You</title>
    <dc:date>2021-01-10T16:46:14+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.mischiefsoffaction.com/post/we-freaking-warned-you</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>us_politics trump.donald our_decrepit_institutions political_science</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:dcf66f24a03d/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/a-cynical-ploy-like-hawley-and-cruzs-looks-harmless-until-it-isnt/2021/01/07/9ce6d10e-5091-11eb-b96e-0e54447b23a1_story.html">
    <title>Cynical election-fraud ploys aren't harmless - The Washington Post</title>
    <dc:date>2021-01-08T04:08:09+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/a-cynical-ploy-like-hawley-and-cruzs-looks-harmless-until-it-isnt/2021/01/07/9ce6d10e-5091-11eb-b96e-0e54447b23a1_story.html</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>us_politics our_decrepit_institutions kith_and_kin farrell.henry democracy saunders.elizabeth</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:35121ff9805a/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-raffensperger-call-georgia-vote/2021/01/03/d45acb92-4dc4-11eb-bda4-615aaefd0555_story.html">
    <title>Trump pressures Georgia's Raffensperger to overturn his defeat in extraordinary call - The Washington Post</title>
    <dc:date>2021-01-03T20:53:00+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-raffensperger-call-georgia-vote/2021/01/03/d45acb92-4dc4-11eb-bda4-615aaefd0555_story.html</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["But he continued to make his case in repetitive fashion, until finally, after more than an hour, Raffensperger put an end to the conversation: “Thank you, President Trump, for your time.”"]]></description>
<dc:subject>us_politics utter_stupidity our_decrepit_institutions trump.donald via:yorksranter</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.vox.com/platform/amp/future-perfect/22193679/who-should-get-covid-19-vaccine-first-debate-explained">
    <title>Who should get the Covi-19 vaccine first? The debate over a CDC panel’s guidelines, explained. - Vox</title>
    <dc:date>2020-12-23T15:15:53+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.vox.com/platform/amp/future-perfect/22193679/who-should-get-covid-19-vaccine-first-debate-explained</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[--- It's completely unrelated to the topic, but I want to note that my ad blocker stopped 445 distinct ads on this page (which is supposedly the mobile-optimized version), or about one ad per six words of content.  (Which may go some way towards answering the question in my last tag.)]]></description>
<dc:subject>coronavirus_pandemic_of_2019-- our_decrepit_institutions social_life_of_the_mind why_oh_why_cant_we_have_a_better_intelligentsia</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:2bf1940d74dc/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://zeynep.substack.com/p/is-this-a-coup-introducing-the-counter">
    <title>Is This a Coup? Introducing The Counter - Insight</title>
    <dc:date>2020-12-15T19:42:43+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://zeynep.substack.com/p/is-this-a-coup-introducing-the-counter</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[It's possible they're both right, i.e., we're screwed twice over!]]></description>
<dc:subject>us_politics our_decrepit_institutions tufekci.zeynep ceglowski.maciej</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:3ca4e543246d/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:tufekci.zeynep"/>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.vox.com/2020/7/29/21340308/david-shor-omar-wasow-speech">
    <title>David Shor’s tweet about Omar Wasow’s research reveals a key debate - Vox</title>
    <dc:date>2020-11-29T19:36:31+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.vox.com/2020/7/29/21340308/david-shor-omar-wasow-speech</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["All of which is to say that the situation in the real world is not nearly as dire as those who spend too much time marinating in the Twitter hothouse think. The Democratic Party is mostly run by sensible people, while the Republican Party is mostly run by Donald Trump.
"But the issue is not nearly so minor as the deflationists make it out to be. People with unsound views are able to get operatives fired and render them unhirable. They’re able to shut down discussions on listservs meant for tactical discussions. And most of all, they create an environment where lots of people feel they need to watch their words very carefully."]]></description>
<dc:subject>us_culture_wars our_decrepit_institutions yglesias.matthew us_politics</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:f6c116162046/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.the-american-interest.com/2020/07/07/criminal-injustice/">
    <title>Criminal Injustice - The American Interest</title>
    <dc:date>2020-11-29T19:03:27+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.the-american-interest.com/2020/07/07/criminal-injustice/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>police crime our_decrepit_institutions the_american_dilemma ford.richard_thompson moral_responsibility</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:3b6bd6e7c7c9/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.npr.org/2020/03/24/820601571/all-of-this-panic-could-have-been-prevented-author-max-brooks-on-covid-19">
    <title>Author Max Brooks On COVID-19: 'All Of This Panic Could Have Been Prevented' : NPR</title>
    <dc:date>2020-11-29T19:02:51+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.npr.org/2020/03/24/820601571/all-of-this-panic-could-have-been-prevented-author-max-brooks-on-covid-19</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>coronavirus_pandemic_of_2019-- our_decrepit_institutions</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.propublica.org/article/inside-the-fall-of-the-cdc">
    <title>Inside the Fall of the CDC</title>
    <dc:date>2020-11-29T18:43:00+00:00</dc:date>
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