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07.03.2026 09:19
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Law of war discourse reminds me of a perceptive analyst on Kenyan political corruption: given how permissive the formal rules already are, their persistent violation is real evidence of elite depravity.
This issue contains a chilling account of the latest disaster at Rubaya Mine in DRC:
Ombeni*, a survivor of previous Rubaya landslides, said the site had become a burial ground. “Some bosses don’t want the victims to be pulled out of the rubble for fear of having to pay for their funerals”
1/3 There is and End of Days feel about Western Hegemony right now. A half millennia in which the West hoarded much of the world’s wealth, plundering, colonising and burning through fossil fuels, is ending in a paroxysmal, Trumpian blunder.
www.thetimes.com/culture/book...
Me when I'm asked to find any kind of document at work.
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Thank you.
If being socially conservative was a good reason to kill people we’d be dropping JDAMs on megachurches
As long as there have been basically pleasant bureaucrats, probably, a chunk of them have wondered what it would be like to be sexy murder poets. The author of ”Sinuhe” clearly committed enough to write down his martial escape fantasy.
I suspect the basic (escape) fantasy is really old.
Oh we now we’re posting
Yes. If you‘ve seen a dog do like multimodal spatial reasoning (like maybe smelling and seeing its way back to where it started but by a different route) it’s just obvious that they’re conscious and intelligent
Straight out of apartheid apologetics—“they love it”, “it makes for good neighbours“, “different ways of life“—and I’m slightly surprised he was able to resist “separate development, each at their own pace“.
We need competent anti-imperialists
Roxanne L. Euben speaks with Good Authority about her new book, Driven to Their Knees: Humiliation in Contemporary Politics. Read the full interview here
I wonder if reviews & react content in general comes to an extent from atomized society. We treat reading or watching a work a full experience but what if the full experience is doing that AND talking about it with friends, experiencing it as a community. Reviews provide a simulacrum of this.
Indeed
A comic of two foxes, one of whom is blue, the other is green. In this one, Green is hanging up laundry, while singing Cherubino's aria from the opera The Wedding of Figaro. Blue peeks from behind a bedsheet, startling Green badly enough to prompt Green to shoot straight up through the ceiling. Blue: You sing when you do laundry by yourself? Green: Iaaah! Taken aback, Blue looks apologetically up to the ceiling. Blue: I didn't mean to startle you. Green: It's okay.
Like, the decimations of Iraq and Afghanistan weren't exactly high-points of liberal morality.
And to the Nazis, I say:
1) drop dead;
but until then, if engaging in amateur genealogy
2) *many* Americans have lightly Anglicized German names, which you are too dim to differentiate from Jewish ones even when that's possible, and often tracing ancestry is the only way to know (Platner, Gertner)
when Bill Kristol and Max Boot are dunking on your Persian Gulf War, man
a photograph of the Brazilian footballer Sócrates, at the 1986 World Cup, wearing one of the many headbands on which he had written political messages in favor of justice, in solidarity with Mexico following the terrible earthquake of the year before, and against war and violence
the real GOAT
A surprising result, to say the least
Excerpt here
in your heart. We are indeed made for something more. We are made for goodness. We are fundamentally good. When you come to think of it, that's who we are at our core. Why else do we get so outraged by wrong? When we hear of any egregious act, we are appalled. Isn't that an incredible assertion about us? Evil and wrong are aberrations. If wrong was the norm, it wouldn't be news. Our newscasts wouldn't lead with the latest acts of murder or mayhem, because they would be ordinary. But murder and mayhem are not the norm. The norm is goodness. You can see from the people we truly admire that we are attracted to goodness. We do not revere people who are successful. We might envy them and wish that their money were transferred to our bank account. But the people we revere are not necessarily successful; they are something else. They are good.
Other problems: counting those committed to preserving or restoring an extra-human order as conservatives seems to classify Desmond Tutu as a conservative
Radical-right behavior is increasing across Western democracies, often very fast. Previous research has shown, however, that political attitudes and preferences do not change this fast. How, then, can we make sense of these patterns? I argue that, to explain them, one needs to appreciate the crucial role of social norms as drivers of political behavior. Social norms can make one's behavior conditional on expectations of what others deem appropriate. In so doing, they can block the translation of preferences into behavior, and bring about changes in behavior even under preference stability. Building on a theory of how norms affect political supply and demand, I argue that growing radical-right behavior is driven by individuals who already had radical-right views, but who did not act on them because they thought that they were socially unacceptable.
Basically this, except that paying attention to empire was a cheap way of catching conservatism unfiltered.
