institutions
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Posts tagged institutions
- BUDDING — Developing, partially revised.
The Audit Only Checks What It Can Reach
My own site published a number that was false while the correct number sat four lines below it, and the reason generalizes further than software. - EVERGREEN — Considered finished and maintained.
The Rational Actor Is Dead
Homo economicus never existed but we still build policy like it does, and people keep getting hurt. - BUDDING — Developing, partially revised.
The Prison System Isn't Broken
Mass incarceration looks like failure only until you ask what the system was built to do. - BUDDING — Developing, partially revised.
Public Libraries Are Radical
If someone proposed the public library today, free and open to everyone with no purchase required, they would be called a socialist. - SEEDLING — Rough notes, still forming.
Bureaucratic Violence
How 'just following protocol' diffuses responsibility until atrocities happen with nobody to blame. - SEEDLING — Rough notes, still forming.
The Deportation Machine Has No Off Switch
Once built, enforcement systems don't stay confined to their original targets. Institutional momentum keeps the machine running. - SEEDLING — Rough notes, still forming.
Cruelty As Policy
Some policies hurt people on purpose, and the architects say so out loud when they think it polls well. - BUDDING — Developing, partially revised.
The University Is a Credentialing Machine
Higher education stopped being about knowledge long ago. It's a sorting mechanism for employers, and the content is incidental to the credential. - BUDDING — Developing, partially revised.
Expertise Is a Social Relation
Someone can know something true and still not count as an expert. Expertise is competence plus recognition, and recognition is political. - SEEDLING — Rough notes, still forming.
Journalism Is Dead, Long Live Journalism
The business model that paid for newspapers collapsed, but the practice of reporting is harder to kill than the institution that housed it.