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Jun 25, 2024
Sitting at the Apple Store in Brooklyn, I met a guy named Victor. He asked who I voted in the Dem primary when he saw my "I voted" sticker. I said @danielsgoldman. He told me he was a Trump supporter. He's Black, but said he didn't care about the racism or fraud bc that's life.
Breathed deep & prepared to do some retail.
"Biden gives too much money to Ukraine that he should give to Americans, and especially the homeless. Biden is old and turns right instead of left."

OK—got it, he's America First, and he saw that fake viral video. Good info.
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Jun 26, 2023
If there is such thing as a “potted history,” maybe we can talk about a “potted present,” also.

Here are excerpts from two very recent, highly visible essays that use a potted present.

The first about the state of confessionalism & the second is about the state of tourism.

1. Sunday televangelism by this description is obsolete. The present is live & live-streamed non-liturgical events feat Christian pop music in megachurch franchises— see Hillsong, James River, Lakewood etc. Pat Robertson just died. Falwell long dead. Falwell Jr finished.
2. “The Oprah Winfrey Show,” which didn’t work like this, went off the air 12 years ago.
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May 2, 2023
.@thedailybeast’s analysis of the shambles cross examination of @ejeancarroll by Trump’s lawyer Joe Tacopina has been fantastic.

Especially shrewd is Mitchell Epner’s point that Tacopina tried to use bullying motions as “brush back” pitches to get the judge to give him leeway.
But it must also be exceedingly rare to have a rape victim w/the verbal & mental acuity of E. Jean — a seasoned journalist, author, SNL writer. Tacopina is failing — but not just because he is unprepared. It’s because he’s outclassed. E. Jean is just much smarter than he is.
.@Dahlialithwick & I spoke to @ejeancarroll in 2019, just after she first alleged that Donald Trump had assaulted her in the 90s. The podcast was the most intimate & revelatory one I’ve ever been a part of. E. Jean Carroll called Trump’s crime rape for the 1st time.
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Mar 29, 2023
Starting to think that parents who don’t want their kids to suffer the indignity of learning, with all the shame that sets in when students realize they don’t understand the Krebs Cycle or polynomials of civil rights, should be given waivers right & left to keep their kids out.
George Washington: "I shall expect you will confine yourself to your studies; and diligently attend to them; endeavouring to make yourself master of whatever is recommended to, or required of you.”
GW: “Knowledge is, in every country, the surest basis of public happiness.”
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Mar 25, 2023
The great Gordon Moore has died at 94. nytimes.com/2023/03/24/tec…
Mark Liu, the chairman of TSMC, told me we should think of Moore’s Law as “shared optimism.” “

Moore’s Law is hope itself.

wired.com/story/i-saw-th…
Gordon Moore was the author of what is BY FAR the most influential article of the 20th century:

“Cramming More Components Onto Integrated Circuits.”

In Electronics Magazine, April 19, 1965.

Such a great headline.
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Mar 22, 2023
I got an interesting question about the #TSMC fabs, which are better-than-Class 100 cleanrooms (fewer than 100 particles of <.5 microns per cubic foot), and have the cleanest air I’ve ever breathed. The question from @marcaross: What does it taste like?
I’m curious what engineers who actually WORK in best-in-class cleanrooms say, but here’s my answer: Image
It’s interesting how much the coveted effects of speed/meth (used on the midcentury battlefield, say) can be attributed to the decongestant part. And presumably, air with such low particulate matter is more easily breathed, thus the speedy effect
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