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If multiple groups of troubled white people showed up at my luxury resort, I would simply shut things down for a week

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famously, the heroes of Office Space

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The two questions you have to answer to get a job in this administration: 1. Did Trump win the 2020 election? 2. Is Elon Musk funny and cool?

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It may not be cool or hip in some circles, but we legitimately do need a massive amount of people to run for office. Flood the school boards, councils, county seats, state legislatures, Congress, etc. Big changes at the top happen when the ground shifts at the bottom. And that can start now.

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Oh, look what came in the mail @benjaminharnett.com

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Trump take egg. Sheinbaum dar huevo

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You have died of procedural norms.

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Every day I wake up and visualize a happy outcome for this whole mess, and yes, it's the same one you are visualizing. Not sure which public square would be best, though.

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Just encountered for the first time in the wild an unbelievably extraordinarily evil antipattern: signing up for email updates as a radio button with no pair—that is, once you click it you can't unclick it. Jail for a thousand years for whomever created that experience.

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The Tories in England long imagined that they were enthusiastic about monarchy, the church, and the beauties of the old English Constitution, until the day of danger wrung from them the confession that they are enthusiastic only about ground rent.

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I always shock my students a bit when I tell them that quantitative data is just qualitative data that has already been interpreted numerically.

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Very much like the Iraq War, somehow "I thought Elon Musk was a genius until a couple years ago" is now considered the more respectable and serious opinion than "I knew he was a fraud for a decade and was never fooled by him."

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I made a big mistake when I decided this novel would have a plot and characters.

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Ah shit it turns out the problem with conservatism is that conservatives are all evil

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Today for @bloomberg.com, I have a review of the Palantir CEO's new book "The Technological Republic," which is both tedious and creepy. Karp wrote his dissertation on Adorno's critique of jargon, seemingly to reverse engineer it? www.unpopularfront.news/p/palantirs-...

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what the moment calls for is fighters instead of gormless boobs who should have retired 30 years ago. policy differences can be hashed out later, everyone can agree that Musk and Trump must be stopped and democracy restored

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“There is no better perch from which to execute Galbraith’s bubble-prolonging playbook than the shadow presidency.”

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A new season of the Americans is dropping

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Is the King Of The Hill reboot still happening? Will there be an episode where Hank worries that Chuck Mangione will suffer because of the actions of his nephew Luigi, and Bobby helps him to understand that Luigi is in his own way a sort of artist too?

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Sitting next to Trump with a big shit-eating grin while he was ginning up to destroy the entire country sure seems like a bad look in retrospect, eh?

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"The crowd again started shouting 'tax Elon,' 'tax the wealthy,” “tax the rich' and 'tax the billionaires.'" The county went 68% for Trump www.lagrandeobserver.com/news/local/r...

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We wanted to know what the average Black person thinks of Donald Trump. So we asked the communications director of the Houston Young Republicans, who grew up in a mixed race family in a majority white Long Island suburb.

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Republicans consistently elect persons who never ever vote for Democrats bills. Why does it feel so impossibly hard to find, let alone elect, Democrats who never ever vote for Republican bills?

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Medicaid is not for sale. NASA is not for sale. The Post Office is not for sale. America is not for sale. We have an obligation to resist kings. We outnumber them. And they can be overwhelmed.

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🧵Thread overview of ALL my publications related to "Cognition and Intractability" in chronological order: 🌟

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Guess OpenAI is a bunch of Nazis. Not shocked.

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Surviving footage of the Nuremburg rallies shows thousands of people making a provocative and controversial gesture.

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AI will not destroy jobs, it will actually create jobs. For every AI you have to assign 2 guys to monitor it because it's stupid and sucks ass

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okay, it’s time for me to finally weigh in: it’s probably a bad sign that guys are just doing sieg heils in public again

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Backgammon: for when you want to feel sophisticated but a bright six-year-old could beat you at chess.

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The only way we are getting out of this without generations of bloody work is a little “stroke” of luck.

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$100B is about 30% of all climate spending in the Inflation Reduction Act, the biggest (and only) federal climate law the US has ever passed

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