🎪 it's a library of sorts

Put differently, the modules of the code may be part of the private legal order, but private law is imbricated with a constitutional order that has elevated subjective private rights to foundational principles¹⁰. A Private Code Law is the cloth from which capital is cut; it gives holders of capital assets the right to exclusive use and to the future returns on their assets; it allows capital to rule not by force, but by law.

Whether it was how the new company would tangibly improve customers' business lives, the value the company brought to the marketplace overall, or how they differed from the existing market leader, everything was positioned in the context of customers' specific emotional needs.

[...] interpretation of data given that, unlike a physicist, we are unwilling to notice that we may suffer from confirmation bias.” Or consider the argument within economics that depression about ecological issues is dangerous or absurd or impossible—how it can be all three without being a politicized pseudotarget eludes me, but the idea is again that “the science” doesn’t justify it: why on Earth would anyone want to impose a tax on goods entering or leaving the country unless one were some kind of “authoritarian” hostile to “free trade?”⁶⁴ Such reasoning is deaf to the nonhumans whose inclusion in thought compels one to think about, for example, minimizing or changing one’s energy use, perhaps by taxing things that have to travel a long way."