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One of the most interesting things I learned in researching my latest article is that bribery was not considered that big of a deal in US politics until the 1970s. It was generally frowned upon, but not viewed as a serious moral wrong in the way that it is now. It was rationalized as a normal part of the political process, the way that things get done. These norms didn't emerge until the post-Watergate era

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plane critters

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Systel I

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Its the whole gang!!

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i think every remaining monarchy should be torn down. completely forgotten. the king is just a guy now, no more notable than any other. if he wants to attain celebrity he can do it on his own; if he wants to buy a house on the outskirts of leeds and take up gardening and substack book reviews, he can do that. if, God forbid, he wants to go into industry, rise to the ranks to become the director of developer relations or the VP of sales or some other such neo-baron, the option is open to him, and he can apply to oxford and cambridge and the university of birmingham on a business track like anyone else. not out of any republican principle, not to free the people from the dead hand of a spectacle they're free to ignore, but to free the king.

can you imagine? you're born with the sole purpose of trying to outlive your parents. until then, you're a minor character in the tedious celebrity you and they were born into. if you die before them, which can happen, your life was a waste: born a side character in a drama that once was a kingdom, banned by custom from anything but the stage, you never made it to the stage. if you don't, you become... the king! the protagonist of the global media, shuttled from bournemouth to belfast to stand and be the king, your every object transformation kink sext with your lover printed in every tabloid in the world. to play the role of King forever, not for money, not for fame, not for fun—not for anything at all, but because you were born into it.

the windsors are not a family business; they're older than business, more inescapable, from a time of primogeniture, inheritance, and caste. the king is born a prince and if he lives he's crowned the king. even if he abdicates, like Edward the Married-to-an-American (for whom he left the throne), he's still the former king. he was still born into the royal family. you can't choose your parents. nor can you ever shake them off. he tried.

i'm not surprised that his painting looks like hell, you know? it must be hell. the american press will float, from time to time, stories about malia obama smoking weed, or some such tedious thing, but for the most part they have discretion: if you don't seek out celebrity, it won't come to you. not so for britain and its king. some people are born into things they didn't ask for and don't want, born into a life that must forge itself into an instrument in service of goals they neither want nor can escape.

there goes Charles the Odd, chief lolcow of the world. of course his painting looks like hell.

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so i was commiting my changes to github this afternoon and it kinda reminded me about how i could never commit to you. if i could do it over (git reset --hard), i would, faster than i could hit my carriage return key. anyways, you don't have to text me back, i just wanted to tell you. hope you're well, tell your mom i said hi.

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ILOVEYOU

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university of california academic workers have authorised a strike in response to uc action against pro palestinian protestors and solidarity encampments, especially at UCLA.

this includes 48000 workers across 10 campuses.

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I think i’m nearing the point that i just don’t believe in “the commercial space industry”. it seems that every company needs massive government contracts or billionaire babysitting to survive. maybe this will change with further falling launch but i honestly doubt it in the short term. even starlink (by far the most mass produced constellation ever, with exclusive access to the cheapest launches ever) seems to be strongly pursuing large govt contracts

so like idk when someone is pitching a company and talking about how they’ll be so strong on the market it’s like what market dude? what fucking market?

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mockley time it's mockley time will you have some mockleys of mine

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16 tap stereo spectral rhythm delay and comb resonator.

No percussion this time, instead the rhythm is enforced by a simple Rainmaker patch with a few resonant taps. The processed signal fades in, then out, then taps are edited. Voice 1 is Banshee Reach through Crucible, then QPAS with LP Stereo going to Rainmaker and SP Mono going to Erbe Verb. Voice 2 is Three Body through Waver then Magneto. Planar 2 is used to control PM and level of Voice 2 to keep things varied. Sequencing (of course, I swear something more interesting is coming soon) via Marbles. Simple patch to create a rich bed of sound.

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they put my boy in the planned obsolescence vault

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im no less than what i cant be

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Bruce Munro: ‘Waterlilies’ (2012) Location: Longwood Gardens, Pennsylvania

100 shining colorful waterlilies made of 65,000 recycled CDs float at Longwood Gardens in Kent Square, Pennsylvania creating a light installation.

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