Peter Gratton

Peter Gratton

@petergratton.bsky.social

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Philosopher and the best investment guru in philosophy since Thales.

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Even Schmitt was like you have to at least decide on the exception. This is just simply without law all the time. And there is no way it doesn’t bleed into the whole executive branch—who are following an immune President. What about the Treasury and its spending?

Dahlia Lithwick: “Roberts cannot bring himself to even imagine the thing that actually happened.. Sotomayor can’t blind herself to it…she is viscerally affronted at the double denialism: What you saw with your own eyes didn’t occur, and what we have now authorized with our own pens can never happen”

What a July 4th tomorrow! Get the bbq going and then regale those assembled, as I do each year, with stories of the valor of an underdog army fighting under a Declaration of Independence calling forth a virile and energetic executive unbound by consent of the governed. Makes me misty already.

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The only two permutations of this that work are: 1) Biden stays in 2) Biden steps aside for Harris but remains in office Everything other permutation of this idea is either a fantasy or propaganda whose discussion is designed to get the Dems to lose the election and usher Trump into power.

The Roberts decision in Trump v. U.S.—just going off the most sickly men in the history of philosophy writing vitalist peons to power—must have been written by the most personally weak/impotent people in our government. Adjectives of force and energy throughout do the work that legal analysis can't.

What a time when this doesn’t even get above-the-fold treatment.

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/2 Motive being irrelevant means that the President can do a thing for expressly lawless reasons so long as the thing is within the extremely broad range of official acts. So question isn’t “can the President conspire to defraud,” it’s “can the President call a state official about an election.”

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there it is. if we all simply pretend that race isn't an axis of material disadvantage and that racial inequality has no bearing on any outcomes, then america is officially race-neutral and if you bring it up, you're the real racist

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you can make a few easy bucks on predictit right now btw. “will biden be the nominee” is 67¢.

I needed this to feel better about Biden. This man has the worst political instincts of anyone on the Times op-ed page (see his run for governor). www.nytimes.com/2024/06/25/o...

Opinion | President Biden, I’ve Seen Enoughwww.nytimes.com He must withdraw from the race.

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Very proud of America's Finest News Source™ tonight.

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Ah yes, the wisdom of the markets. Remember when the crypto guys wanted these to be our actual elections?

Real-time prediction markets seeing an utter disaster for Dems, with Trump opening up a 26-point lead

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Thinking of Aaron Swartz and the miscarriage of justice in light of this announcement.

Nothing is sacred anymore.

Thinking of @bonniehonig.bsky.social's work on public things as I read Sotomayor's dissent in SEC v. Jarkesy on the notion of "public right" dating to common law and in SC precedent starting with an 1856 corrupt customs officer case. www.documentcloud.org/documents/24...

DocumentCloudwww.documentcloud.org

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recently spent a lot of time thinking about carl schmitt and this column came out of it www.nytimes.com/2024/06/25/o...

Opinion | Why Republicans Are Talking About Biden’s ‘Dictatorship’www.nytimes.com The breathless catastrophizing of Trump and his allies is not an expression of ignorance as much as it is a statement of intent.

The FTC taking a stand on the notion of the soul is my kind of regulatory content. Take that pan psychists (and AI con sites).

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Under current law, you really couldn’t do much better than Biden’s FTC and NRLB. New Deal shit.

The Federal Trade Commission, of all entities, is out here writing absolute bangers about AI snake oil. www.ftc.gov/business-gui...

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Perplexity, the billion dollar AI-powered search startup, plagiarized an article @dmehro.bsky.social and I wrote about how Perplexity is a bullshit machine. IP law experts say the company could be open to defamation and infringement claims and be sacrificing Section 230 protections by bullshitting.

Perplexity Plagiarized Our Story About How Perplexity Is a Bullshit Machinewww.wired.com Experts aren't unanimous about whether the AI-powered search startup's practices could expose it to legal claims ranging from infringement to defamation—but some say plaintiffs would have strong cases...

Least enticing spam of all time.

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New from me: a long essay on the paradox of self-emancipation and the history of ideology theory. Open access at boundary 2 online: #PolTheory

William Clare Roberts–Ideology and Self-Emancipation: Voluntary Servitude, False Consciousness, and the Career of Critical Social Theorywww.boundary2.org This article has been peer-reviewed for boundary 2 online. William Clare Roberts--Ideology and self-emancipation: Voluntary servitude, false consciousness, and the career of critical social theory...

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“During the soft on crime Biden administration, the former president crime rate hit a historic high.”

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The only people who've ever held Trump meaningfully accountable over the last nine years have been ordinary Americans and they've spent that entire time being lectured to and berated by elites who've failed to do anything.

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Maybe you think that’s good, and how we *should* orient our political economy - how can we make fast food delivery as cheap as possible - but that is a very weird ideological project to join for someone who positions themselves on the left.

Some people have neighbors over for a bbq, others…

Inside the neighborhood clash that Justice Alito said prompted his wife to hang an inverted flag, one of two Jan. 6 symbols seen at their homes.

The Alitos, the Neighborhood Clash and the Upside-Down Flagwww.nytimes.com Inside the escalating conflict on a bucolic suburban street that Justice Alito said prompted a “Stop the Steal” symbol at his home.

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Son calls in to say his dad is missing. Same day, police mentally torture him into confessing to his dad’s murder—including by threatening to euthanize his dog. So much pressure that he attempts to die by suicide during a pause in the interrogation. The catch? THE DAD WAS STILL ALIVE!

To protect and to serve.... "'In my 40 years of suing the police I have never seen that level of deliberate cruelty,' says an attorney for Thomas Perez Jr."

Fontana pays nearly $900,000 for ‘psychological torture’ inflicted by police to get false confessionwww.pasadenastarnews.com Detectives grilled Thomas Perez Jr. for 17 hours, deprived him of medications and threatened to have his dog killed if he didn’t confess to killing his father, who was actually alive.

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I have extremely grim news for you.

I hate to reference Idiocracy at this point but it does feel like we've reached the "watering crops with Gatorade" threshold

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Occurs to me now, on AI regulation, that politicians are the most favorable constituency on the planet for the concept of having writing and research done for you and taking credit for it or pretending someone else's words are your voice.

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Blast from the past: Remember when all the Very Serious People told us that weak job growth was the result, not of fiscal austerity, but of a work force that lacked the necessary skills, making a return to low unemployment impossible?

I know irony died millennia ago at this point but…. www.nytimes.com/2024/05/14/u...

In Kyiv, Blinken Adds Rock Notes to a ‘Free World’ Messagewww.nytimes.com The secretary of state, a longtime guitarist, strummed along to a song chosen to underscore a central message of President Biden’s foreign policy.

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Just a cop in a black ski mask dragging away a department chair, a.k.a. “making the campus safe”

Noëlle McAfee, Chair of the Philosophy Dept at Emory University, is arrested by an Atlanta PD officer wearing a balaclava. The cop is dragging her forward by her restraints as she tells an Emory student to call Philosophy Dept to tell them about her arrest. video twitter.com/PatrickQuinn...

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