I liked your analysis! I'll give it another read

this kind of thing just makes me not want to be on bluesky because you can't make a conversational comment without some dude picking apart your words like a philosophy club meeting and i've had enough of that in my life

wow, that's presumptuous. maybe it's that i study elections and politics and probably should look at some portion of it eventually? maybe resist the compulsion to diagnose people on the internet and give unsolicited advice.

i like those kinds of books, and i usually like Parnes and Allen well enough! it's the ones politicians write that drive me up the wall.

no one said anyone had to read it. why is blue sky full of people who comment like this? it adds nothing.

there are plenty of good ways to design assignments, but AI avoidance as the guiding principle just destroys my soul.

i'm with you, unconvinced the benefits outweigh the costs, and it's a plague on education. like people are just no longer assigning outside class work. disaster.

i'm extremely done with willful bad faith reads of things, like if you're reading that post as my repeating Trump's mandate claims uncritically, you're really missing the damn boat (not you, but like, one)

apparently you can't fucking read

i'm really putting off reading this. and i'm not a harris-hater by any stretch. but politicians books are terrible and this one sounds exceptionally terrible.

fair :) . i mean, it's fine if people don't know my work. it's fine if they don't realize i wrote a blog post denouncing mandate claims as "obeying in advance" the day after last year's election. it's fine if they don't read the post i just wrote. just don't come giving me instructions

i mean, i did get properly shamed by the netflix warning the other day

yeah, i decided i didn't have a good enough read on that to say anything.

lol read the post?

thank you for this frank and clear thread. you are a terrific colleague and i'm very appreciative that you show up the way you are.

my personal read on the situation is that the extent of thermostatic politics is basically a civic failure, but i'm not sure if there are useful prescriptions there. and i think a lot of people are making good-faith efforts at useful, evidence-based prescriptions, but it's not easy or simple.

maybe it's economic populism. maybe it's snappier slogans. maybe it's door-knocking, maybe it's more charismatic candidates. the only proven strategy has been "wait until thermostatic conditions favor Democrats" and that's not very satisfying. but beyond that we don't really know

right. and something that seems to have fallen apart even worse in the last year than after 2016 is a sense of intellectual humility about what works against a multi-decade, multi-pronged disinformation campaign.