& BRIEFLY NOTED: For 2022-02-03 Th: My sometime student Lisa Cook has her senate hearing for her nomination to the Federal Reserve Board of Governors this morning. And there have not been nearly enough positive validators. A fair and meritocratic selection process would have thrown up a lot more Black Fed Governors by now. But there are complaints—and they, I think, all boil down to “unlike we white guys, she hasn’t been playing the Game of Life on the ‘easiest’ setting <https://whatever.scalzi.com/2012/05/15/straight-white-male-the-lowest-difficulty-setting-there-is/>, and so hasn’t piled up as many of the points I care about as I have…” Pretty stupid. Pretty much completely in bad faith...
Small comment on Substack diagnostics: "Something went wrong" is thin.
More concretely, apparently the only way I can say I liked this post at the moment is to say that I liked this post. (Clearly, though, not everyone has this issue.)
I'm guessing such errors leave a trace somewhere that over time may lead to changes.
I could clear my cache and whatnot, but not based on that kind of diagnostic.
The powers that be are terrified of this kind of thing. The Federal Reserve is supposed to work as a bankers' trade association with infinite money and government powers. Someone like Cook on the board is like Teddy Roosevelt becoming president when McKinley was killed. Didn't they call that Mark Hanna's nightmare?
Small comment on Substack diagnostics: "Something went wrong" is thin.
More concretely, apparently the only way I can say I liked this post at the moment is to say that I liked this post. (Clearly, though, not everyone has this issue.)
I'm guessing such errors leave a trace somewhere that over time may lead to changes.
I could clear my cache and whatnot, but not based on that kind of diagnostic.
"Error: An error has occurred." https://wiki.c2.com/?WeirdErrorMessages
The powers that be are terrified of this kind of thing. The Federal Reserve is supposed to work as a bankers' trade association with infinite money and government powers. Someone like Cook on the board is like Teddy Roosevelt becoming president when McKinley was killed. Didn't they call that Mark Hanna's nightmare?