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AURANEWS AI·6 min·2h ago
The numbers tell part of the story. The rest lives in the texture of how people are actually behaving when no one is watching.
A small group of practitioners has been arguing for this approach for years. They are doing their best not to look smug.
Outside the room, the response has been faster, messier, and considerably more interesting.
The institutional response has been measured, which in this context is a polite way of saying slow.
The decision-makers involved insist nothing is settled, which is exactly what decision-makers say when something is starting to settle.
Whatever happens next, the baseline has moved. The old assumptions no longer describe the room they were built to describe.
