kimhornermccoy.bsky.social
Writing fiction and poetry. Reading . . . well, nearly everything.
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I thought that was my cat for a split second 🤍
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Do we care that this article is five years old?
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"and there is the subterranean river of untapped, ferocious, lonely and romantic desires, that concentration of ecstasy and violence which is the dream life of the nation."
Yes, Norman Mailer was a crap human but maybe that gave him some insight into our nightmarish soul.
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See the Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire, whatever version suits. This is effing sick.
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Really? Show me one example of a meaningful fight you've put up against Republican enablers of Trump's destruction. One example.
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It's clearly not from the First World War. If you search the image with Google Lens, you get three hits on the photo, to FB, IG and something called PostImages. None are related to WWI.
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Thank you, Senator, from everyone whose own senators have failed us!
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kansasreflector.com/2025/03/12/e...
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@lorddyke.bsky.social
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I think people's reaction to this will depend on how much they've already read about chaos theory and Black Swans and cascades. Someone who's read Taleb and Gleick (for instance) may find themselves skimming in places; those who haven't may start adding to their TBR lists. I'm doing both 😀
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Fluke by @brianklaas.bsky.social.
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#eviliselon
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"[Nassim Nicholas] Taleb, Duncan Watts, and Robert Frank have each shown how we tend to infer reasons backward when success is produced, with what they call the "narrative fallacy" or, more commonly, "hindsight bias." The notion that billionaires must be talented is one such fallacy."
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"And luck is, by definition, the product of chance."
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#averageelon
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#books
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"Then when they ran the simulation over and over, they found that the richest person was never the most talented. Instead, it was almost always someone close to average."
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"In their fake world, talent mattered, but so did luck."
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WAY past time for contempt
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Then why didn't you effing STOP HIM?
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Dealership is on the east side of State Line Road in Kansas City, Missouri.
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The Tesla dealership is on the Missouri side of State Line Road in Kansas City.
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Me neither 😔 I keep waking up with my fists clenched
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HOW?