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20 May, 11 tweets, 3 min read
Just idly recollecting the time when I got to witness Chris Cuomo's sense of journalistic ethics up close.
(These were the first handful of a total of seventeen DMs he sent me over the course of three days because I called him a putz on Twitter.)
(And yes, he'd been being a putz.)
The conversation was quite a ride.
And if you're curious, this was the tweet that set him off.
For folks who are wondering, his tweet was one in which he'd suggested that Kamala Harris needed to provide "proof" that she was a citizen "to deal with the allegation" that she wasn't. thedailybeast.com/chris-cuomo-ap…
In response to that tweet, I'd pointed out that there was nothing for Harris to prove, since the allegation that she's not a citizen was based on a tendentious misrepresentation of the text of the Fourteenth Amendment.
Which text I helpfully provided for him in a followup tweet.
(I explained in further detail when he DMed me. It didn't help much.)
Like I say, it was a wild ride.
Just going to leave this here, since folks are still occasionally asking.

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12 May
And I'm not even sure that DOESN'T make sense! Risk mitigation has been a really important strategy for me this last year and change—understanding that you'll have to do some risky things, and want to do others, but that if you do fewer of them, your risk is lower.
A big lesson for me over the last year has been that "is this constellation of activities safe for me medically" and "is this constellation of activities sustainable for me psychologically" are deeply entwined questions.
This is something that safer sex advocates have known for decades, of course—that the choices we make about how to keep safe have to be informed by our deeper wants and needs, or they're not going to stick.
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Going over my 2020 online purchases in order to do my taxes, and wow. To see a chronological record of the whole year laid out that is quite a thing.
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And that's a perfect example of what I was talking about in the other thread. It took me two or three months to get that tooth fixed, but it wasn't until my first post-vax dentist appointment a month ago that I stopped obsessing about the state of my teeth on a daily basis.
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In literally the next tweet Silver notes the gap between what epidemiologists are doing and what they consider medically safe, but he can't quite put the pieces together. (Hint: Whether something is medically safe isn't the only influence on behavior in Year Two of a pandemic.)
I consider it pretty much safe to take the subway at this point. If anyone asked my opinion, I'd tell them it was fine to take the subway. I haven't yet taken the subway. There's no contradiction there, just me being a human being, muddling through.
And again, in spite of Nate Silver's framing above, that's not me being "risk averse." It's not a matter of risk. I spent a few hours hanging out with (a small group of) (fully vaccinated) friends in a (not-crowded) bar the other day.
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My mom called me yesterday and asked me to retweet this. So I'm retweeting this.
She asked if I'd seen it, and I said I had, and we had a little chat about it. We were both struck by the way that conservatives combine reverence for founding documents with aggressive ignorance about the circumstances in which those documents were written.
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Remember that the three-fifths compromise wasn't a compromise about the rights of enslaved people—enslaved people were considered zero fifths of a person under it, not three.

It was about how much extra power slaveowners would be given compared to OTHER WHITE PEOPLE.
Under the three-fifths compromise, a white person in states where slavery was legal counted as more of a person for the purposes of representation than a white person in a state where it was illegal.
Every once in a while one of my students will say "slaves only counted as three-fifths of a person," and I'll just stop the class dead and say "That's not true. The truth is actually much much worse than that" and then go on from there.
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So ... yeah. I tweeted the below on Pi Day, which is the day MIT announces admissions decisions.
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