How can you even say that when they made a movie out of Lara Croft already? /s

Let's get those wheels all the way off the Trump Train....

Trump approval falls to 35% as prices rating hits a record -46 Our new Strength In Numbers/Verasight poll finds the president's overall job approval at a new low, Democrats leading by 7 on the generic ballot, and a growing majority saying the Iran war is not wort

NEW Strength In Numbers/Verasight.io poll: Trump approval falls to 35% as rating for handling prices hits a record -46
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A face that says "help"...

It's BEN Onion. God.

Fascinating to ponder what that would actually look like in practice. Huge transition costs--you've got to go from thoroughgoing corruption of all polls and the entire media apparatus to completely "clean" in the span of a few days. That's....a very efficient conspiracy.

Voice of Gabriel Knight. That's all that matters. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabriel...

I always read it as a depressing potential callback to how Isildur refused to destroy the ring.

Will check that out too. Can't find PDF, but it's in this:

Fourcade, Marion. "The Will to Progress and the Twofold Truth of Capital." Destabilizing Orders: Proceedings of the Maxpo Fifth Anniversary Conference. Vol. 18. 2018.

Marion Fourcade called this academics losing control over the "means of their intellectual production."

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How different from this!

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Anybody else watched this (5 mins is the end of the intro cinematic)? Initial thoughts: (1) this is great soft-power for Ukraine. (See the "proudly made in" and the overall theme.) (2) Wow, what a DIAMETRICALLY opposite view of masculinity to the typical US AAA shooter...

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Got a ticket for an illegal left-hand turn after getting Chipotle there. 😥

And, as you rightly recognize, this is all governed by the special rules of candor/facticity/representation in our legal system. So, I guess, cutting to the heart of an issue in a way that's uncomfortable for people who want to spout off *is* what we do on bluesky?

But he *is* likely bad-faith bc as a law professor, he should obviously know better by dint of his training. And trollish ostensible argument (weaponized to *look* like purely rational discourse) thrives by being able to transform any question of sincerity into perceived ad-hominem.

I mean, that's not *just* a question about good/bad faith. It's *also* a question of whether you two share enough intersubjective reality to make a good-faith conversation even possible. So if he is *sincerely* convinced of the (false) claim that Trump won 2020, he is deceived, not bad-faith. 1/

Abbott's "Methods of Discovery" is really good on this.

Tourism on the rise, crime down in downtown Baltimore, State of Downtown report shows Tourism is on the rise as crime declines in downtown Baltimore, according to the Downtown Partnership of Baltimore's 2025 State of Downtown Report that was released on Thursday.

It’s Baltimore’s time ☀️

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My hometown, and beautiful place to grow up and to be. Love the place.

Also, that duality is central to lost of historical state formation theory.

An un-principal-ed agent.

AND that deputy is Joe Lotruglio, continuing his streak of implausibly-goodhearted-cops from Brooklyn 99!

Seen it. Camp masterpiece. He's healed by the power of love.

FWIW, I'm with Team Weber: the British state bureaucratized decisively around the same time as the American (mid-19th Century). Also, the main British reform (the Northcote-Trevelyan Act) was spearheaded by an "anti-corruption reformer" (Charles Trevelyan) who cut his teeth in India.

Ugh, *Sinews of Power*

My pet theory is that this is because Brewer overlapped with (and taught) Gorski and Ertman at Harvard, and they were two of the earliest to accept that flipped interpretation.

YES. Horribly neglected, but also has sort of been overrun by Brewer's "Sinews of War," which flipped the English case from a late bureaucratizing state (a la Weber's interpretation) to an early-bureaucratizer (in extremely limited pockets).

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