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That's my infant son. Not posed, just a moment of perfect serendipity. At least, that's what we'll tell the therapist. He's 15. This picture was prescient.
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I've used this in class paired with 1984 for over a decade and it's remarkable to me how the way I receive and think and teach this quote has evolved in the 20 years since it was derisively uttered (by Rove?)
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us too
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us too
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curious where Shakir is?
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I really liked it and if Gladwell is something you like, they share a pretty large section of the Venn diagram
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and then, after plowing into the crowd, the vehicle also took out a gun and started shooting
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Have you read Range by David Epstein?
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I've read this and much of Gladwell. Like him and I actually really like criticisms of his work and the times he defends it and his process (I've seen him push back against accusations that he overly simplifies, for instance). Curious to read his return to Tipping Point
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goddamn those concourses though but it really won't matter if I can't afford the game
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except when a normie breaks the law
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hmm
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I thought that one of the things that would come out of covid, when schools literally fed kids and were a lifeline for everything, would be a renewed appreciation; hell we just accepted that their role as daycare needed to be assumed as central to the mission and, well thanks for the books bans
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the ocean through the superyachts
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worth considering but it seems like hopeium to me... but the internal salary cap thing pisses me off so bad that I might be incapable of anything other than bitterness right now
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was it by being born?
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this but way less masculine
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in a world where being a moral consumer is an impossibility, it's a simple conscious choice to aligning my doomscrolling with something other than Twitter; it's the same reason for avoiding Walmart and I really don't give a shit about the rest, thanks fer yer concern for my intellectual rigor doh
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too woke to be true
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who wants to explain parts of speech to her? not it
humanity too
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funny you should say that, eh @mikeduncan.bsky.social ?