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19 Mar, 4 tweets, 1 min read
So this — the headline, at least — is ghastly: politico.com/newsletters/po…
Seems like writing this McSweeney’s parody, except not as a joke, is a bad approach — but hell, what do I know. mcsweeneys.net/articles/winne…
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17 Mar
Just putting out there, in preemption, that “he’s a probable incel, not a probable white supremacist, shut up woke-ist!” is not the argument winner that a few people might think.
Also, Jessica is 100 percent correct.
(*blinks in ‘I’ve had plenty of bad days in the Atlanta area, come on’*)
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16 Mar
One of his sidemen: “I thought the last thing they would want to do would be farmers, wasn’t that a big problem for hundreds of years?”

me: (*stares in grandson of Mississipians*)
Hell, (*stares in son of a Mississipian*).

That whole crew looks as if the only corn it’s ever picked has been from between their teeth.
Another sideman: “How would you prove this, by the way — how would you prove that you’ve been discriminated against?”

I dunno, maybe in a court of law? esquire.com/news-politics/…
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16 Mar
Yale Law-credentialed, venture capitalist “hillbilly” gets the co-sign of the billionaire who brutalized Gawker and a couple of its top employees.

This dude had better not say word one about “cancel culture” while he auditions to be the new Josh Hawley.
People should note that the billionaire Mercer family, which is financing the resuscitation of Parler — infamous as a hub of 1/6 planning — and which financed Breitbart before that, is also putting its weight behind J.D. Vance’s potential senatorial ambitions.
“The family of hedge fund manager Robert Mercer also donated an undisclosed amount [to a Vance-supporting super PAC], and Lanza [a PAC advisor] declined to specify how much.” bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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25 Feb
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…
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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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