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25 Feb, 4 tweets, 2 min read
Listening to an @NPRCodeSwitch talk in a Twitter Space right now, and I have to agree with the approach apparent in Twitter’s announcements today: Clubhouse-style chats and Patreon-style memberships are more of a feature, in the end, than a product. nytimes.com/2021/02/25/tec…
(The Twitter space I mentioned, which is live now, is here: twitter.com/i/spaces/1DXxy…)
Between Twitter’s rollouts, nascent apps like Clubhouse & Dispo, continuing growth @ Substack, and stuff like the Hey email app’s experimentation w/ blogging as a feature (see below), 2021 feels like a year of good ferment in tech — and it’s only February. world.hey.com/jason/hey-worl…
Anyhow, I’m just musing after seeing “RIP Twitter” trend. I mean … look, people have reasons, good reasons, for calling this a hell site — but the return of a willingness to experiment is a better sign of health, in my opinion, than the years of stagnation we’ve all watched.

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Greg Greene Profile picture
25 Feb
the big geniuses of the ’90s: “well, that’s it! Soviet communism is over. we’ve reached the end of history”

history, for at least 20 years and counting:
I’ve said that the Balkan wars of the ‘90s prefigured the nationalist authoritarianism & ethnic conflict that have come to define our time, and I still believe that. “End of history”? Pffft.

This review of a U2 album, of all things, made me think of that: pitchfork.com/reviews/albums…
It feels funny recognize, in hindsight, that the ’90s — with a film called ‘Reality Bites’ and a band called Garbage — were as good as things seem likely to get, in my lifetime.

At least I lucked out and had that decade as my youth.
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25 Feb
I usually find myself in agreement with Ben Rhodes, but i have to take exception here.

AI is within its rights to withhold its ‘conscience’ designation from people with track records of ethnic divisiveness in their rhetoric — which is incontrovertibly true for Navalny.
I can root for his leadership of the opposition to Putin and acknowledge the presence of moral ambiguity.

We overlooked overtones in Aung San Suu Kyi’s rhetoric when she was a human rights icon—before the Rohingya genocide. We shouldn’t repeat that error. foreignpolicy.com/2020/01/16/mya…
Ehhh …

We lionized Suu Kyi — rightly, we thought — for similar courage and suffering. She rose to power in part on the wings of that reputation — whereupon latent ethnic nationalist inclinations led her to wink at the army’s campaign of ethnic cleansing.
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25 Feb
“Antifa did the Capitol riot,” some Republican officials say.

Meanwhile, here comes documentation of a suspected rioter doing full-throttle, undisguised fascism. bellingcat.com/news/americas/…
“Antifa did the 1/6 riot,” some Republican officeholders say.

Meanwhile, CNN brings news that one of the rioters who stormed the Capitol was a close associate of a first-term House Republican: cnn.com/2021/02/24/pol…
Greg Sargent is right: there is no path to a full account of the 1/6 riot, or to accountability for fomenting it, that involves treating Republicans in good standing as equal partners. washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/…
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23 Feb
.@ElieNYC, in my opinion, has spotted the jig: “Promoting women of color cannot be done in a bipartisan fashion. Republicans will not allow it. When Democrats look for nominees … Republicans will vociferously object to any woman of color put forward.” thenation.com/article/politi…
I’m old enough to remember not only what Lani Guinier went through when Bill Clinton attempted to appoint her to run the civil rights division of DOJ — but also how Tom Cotton held the nomination of Cassandra Butts until she died, just to make Obama feel bad.
Lani Guinier, for those not around in 1993, saw her nomination spiked over ‘radical’ views on race and voting rights. In hindsight, though — in the Trump years’ aftermath, and after the rise of #BLM — her basic analysis has pretty clearly won the argument.
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13 Feb
Bear in mind, as you consider the following: McConnell railed, this afternoon, that Trump was guilty as hell of what the House had accused.

Yet he *still* voted to acquit.

Republicans can’t be counted on to do the right thing even when they say what the right thing is. Enough.
People of the age of most senators should no more wait expectantly for bipartisanship, at this juncture in time, than believe in the Tooth Fairy. Talk of good-faith working across the aisle sounds desperate and ridiculous.
This should be obvious — that the threat to obstruct now merely stands in for the certainty of obstruction later. Yet here we are, saying it again.
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29 Jan
The wild part of Brooks’ attempt to conscript Black people for his argument is that Black parents — more than the general population — have accepted remote learning as a safety measure against COVID-19. ImageImageImage
The paternalism of insisting “we must reopen schools now, for the Black children!” — when it’s easy enough to listen to or learn about what Black people say they want, which is _not that_ — takes one’s breath away. washingtonpost.com/education/2020…
Yep. Black parents have agency over their decisions — and have preponderantly chosen to avoid exposing their families until in-person instruction is made safe.
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