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Futures of work. Writing, researching, teaching, lefting. Ruthless everything, existing. http://dmgreene.net
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The airport won't stock itself!
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If someone had just given Elon a jitterbug he wouldn't be president. He'd still be an asshole, but he wouldn't be president.
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I think we're seeing what happens when one side builds a coalition around collective outrage, and the other side mistakes the appeal of collective outrage for the appeal of particular policies.
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"Yeah you can hang out in Evidence as long as you want. I'm here all the time. Some of the boys around here call me Batman."
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I think a lot less--there's rarely lettuce in the house
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No absolutely not. I'm reporting you for spamming my and others replies, weirdo.
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Absolutely. Ours also love hearing how high their fees are relative to other schools, and that they're the thing keeping athletics from being $20m in the red.
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“We need not suppose that appeal to emotion belongs to those who strive in the direction of fascism, while democratic propaganda must limit itself to reason and restraint. If fear and destructiveness are the major emotional sources of fascism, eros belongs mainly to democracy.”
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Yes. I try to explain the budget and the different types of workers they see in their classrooms.
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That the postwar intellectuals had this all completely figured out should be a chastening realization for the misinformation research types--but of course they don't read books.
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Indeed this is one reason why their own parties fought so hard against them--people were too excited.
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For all their flaws, this is one thing Sanders and Corbyn understood. You need a story, and it's ok to identify enemies in that story--the billionaires--because people want to fight, they want to be excited.
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This is also exactly right: "On the left, we don’t know how to appeal to people’s deep passions. We think we’re very smart and very critical. But where’s the radical imaginary by which people will be passionately absorbed?"
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That happened even earlier! 1900, 15% are women, 1950, 30%, 1970 40%, 2000 56%.
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In the US, it's this and logistics--but that's someone else's circus.
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Now do gender!
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I suspect a lot of it is producer meddling. There's probably a decent story in there somewhere but after ten rewrites and three reshoots and then VFX, it's less a single writer's idea and more brand excretion. Big tension in the strike.
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Idk this is one of those things that I'm probs too close to but my own feeling is that there's far too much AI critique, most of it is exactly the same, very little of it touches the thing itself. But it's from the lit folks who know the thing--Rita & Matt especially--that I've learned the most.
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That makes perfect sense, thanks
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And nobody tests unless something is wrong! So we're probably undersampling and the variation for hormones, genitals, chromosomes, etc etc is higher than appreciated
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"Promising" probably a stretch
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This is very good. Is it entirely homebrewed?
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Aretha!?!