Daily Archives: 2024-03-08

Article note: Yes please. We know it's almost entirely ineffective and was simply imposed by post 9-11 panic, but it's turned into an extremely inefficient jobs program for the marginally-unemployable and a vast grift for rent-seeking security gadget and background check contractors, so it's become hard to kill.

Article note: Yeah, that sounds like academia. I have a recurring bit in my thesis where I make jokes about academia treating information from "stable pseudonyms on the Internet" as unreliable, even though, both from experience and study of structural incentives, it's way _way_ more reliable than any traditional academic output.