Thoroughly depressing chart.

Hard not to conclude that actually caring about publishing standards and being editorially measured isn't all just a big dumb joke when what the people really want is "EVERY PERSON I TALK TO TELLS ME THE VACCINE CAUSED THEM TO GROW A SIXTH TESTICLE"
My heartfelt plea to anyone who supports either of the Weinstein Bros is: please stop. They don't deserve your patronage. They are griftpilled tinfoil take merchants who LARP as reasonable and science-minded intellectuals.
Why do I bother publicly denouncing the Weinsteins? Because they style themselves as sensible, reasonable, antitribalist voices—the very thing that is underserved in media—yet discredit and subvert that approach with everything they do. This matters to me.
This is what I'm talking about. Bret is not now, nor has he ever been, a leader of the "Coalition of the Reasonable." But the degree to which other people take him to be ends up desecrating the possibility of a genuine coalition of that sort ever forming.

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Seeing a lot of hot takes on this. Mine is lukewarm by comparison.

I think content that is packaged in the garb of, and aiming for, *persuasion* should be very careful not to take its rhetorical cues from academic/activist spaces.

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I think the advice in the initial tweet is generally good, but I'm poking at it a bit because I'm mounting an internal critique: the advice is somewhat in tension with a view of cancel culture as constituting an intolerable threat to people's livelihoods and reputations.
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