Delver at contraptions.venkateshrao.com, running summerofprotocols.com, host of /gloom ☀️

Most people just don’t think deeply about anything and have no hard-edged principles.

If it fits a preferred narrative, they’ll make up rationalizations for any kind of violation. If it doesn’t, they’ll go to war over stupid shit like plastic straws.

Variant of Parkinson’s law for ethics I suppose

it’s really hard for me even still to understand how people let J6 slip. I just don’t get it

To what degree do you think pluralism has become a casualty of an algorithmically warped media diet designed to nudge user consciousness into conflict?