<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Reputation on Chez unrolls</title><link>https://threads.chez.work/en/tags/reputation/</link><description>Recent content in Reputation on Chez unrolls</description><generator>Hugo</generator><language>en</language><copyright>ChezRD</copyright><lastBuildDate>Sat, 16 Aug 2025 12:52:54 +0300</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://threads.chez.work/en/tags/reputation/index.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title>The 'Reputation Institute' in the Russian Opposition</title><link>https://threads.chez.work/en/posts/reputation-institute/</link><pubDate>Sat, 16 Aug 2025 12:52:54 +0300</pubDate><guid>https://threads.chez.work/en/posts/reputation-institute/</guid><description>&lt;div class="tweet-link-section">
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&lt;h2 id="hottentot-selectivity">«Hottentot» Selectivity&lt;/h2>
&lt;p>In any healthy political environment, the «reputation institute» is a mechanism of accountability. It is based on a simple principle: your words and actions have consequences that determine the level of public trust in you. It is a system of checks and balances that, like an immune system, rejects unethical, dishonest, and incompetent actors, preventing them from lingering in the public sphere. But in the Russian opposition, this mechanism has mutated into its opposite: it has become not an immune system, but an autoimmune disease that devours healthy cells while protecting cancerous tumors.&lt;/p></description></item><item><title>The Half-Life Chronicles</title><link>https://threads.chez.work/en/posts/half-life-chronicles/</link><pubDate>Mon, 11 Aug 2025 19:17:26 +0300</pubDate><guid>https://threads.chez.work/en/posts/half-life-chronicles/</guid><description>This text is not an investigation or an indictment. Rather, it is a personal attempt to reflect on what has happened and to understand how we got to where we are. It is an attempt to assemble a coherent picture from the fragments of facts and my own feelings, in order to stop deceiving myself.</description></item><item><title>I’m dismayed by speakers discussing the FBK and PBB story</title><link>https://threads.chez.work/en/findings/what-makes-me-sad/</link><pubDate>Mon, 18 Nov 2024 23:13:49 +0300</pubDate><guid>https://threads.chez.work/en/findings/what-makes-me-sad/</guid><description>Reflections on FBK’s actions and public speakers in the context of Leontyev, Zheleznyak, and Probusinessbank. This is not about politics, but about justifying crimes.</description></item></channel></rss>