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26 Aug, 4 tweets, 2 min read
Back before "Biden is sundowning" was a GOP talking point, it was a thing a handful of lefties talked about during the primaries, sometimes privately & sometimes on Twitter. I'm sure all the tweets have been deleted tho. Anyway, @jshieber is our bet still on?
@jshieber How many people besides me remember this chatter from the primaries about how people close to Biden knew he was in bad shape on the campaign trail? This was definitely A Thing, especially before his poll numbers picked up.
@jshieber There were some tweets from some larger accounts to the effect of "when are we gonna talk about how our frontrunner is sundowning. This is the thing everyone knows but is scared to discuss." I actually developed my impression of his problems /from lefty chatter/.
@jshieber This is one of those things that I really really wish I had saved receipts for. But I don't even remember who was saying this. I just dug up this one, but there were much stronger statements out there from even the center-left.

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27 Aug
The problem for the military that this video highlights is the same problem all institutions have right now in the age of social media -- universities, professional guilds, orgs of all kinds: you can't have randos in your ranks speaking to the world on behalf of your group.
In an earlier, saner era, no member of the military would be able to spend institutional creidibility by donning a uniform & address the general public on whatever random matter. No MD or nurse would be able to spend hospital or uni credibility by doing the same, etc
Any public-facing comms where the person even appears to speak for the institution or is associated visually in any other fashion with the inst. would have to go through a press office & be vetted, & delivered by trained professionals.
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26 Aug
Both the dogs we recently rescued are super mega cute & we're now having second thoughts about letting someone adopt one of them b/c we kind of want both. It's nuts tho because then we'd be a five-dog family (2 outdoors + 3 indoors). 😮
We're pretty sure the one standing up (girl, ~2yrs) is the mother of the one laying down (boy, ~10months). She's extremely attached to him & protective of him.
The current Stokes menagerie contains:
- 5 dogs (3 existing rescues + the 2 new rescues)
- 2 bunnies
- 3 horses

That's a lot of critters, at least for me it is.
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26 Aug
Not surprising, given that they've been running full out and their order book is way backlogged. I should've seen this coming when Apple mentioned they'd see shortages in high-end semis affecting their product availability in the fall.
Most of the HN thread on this is lazy "blame crypto" takes from butthurt nocoiners, but this is a great comment: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=283146…

That last sentence is exactly what I worried w/ my talk of a possible "semiconductor industrial crash" months ago. jonstokes.com/p/significant-…
This line specifically: "the guy who posts here all the time saying he works for the company that makes the machines that makes the chips and they can't make more machines because they don't have the chips that go in them." Circular dependencies abound.
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24 Aug
I want to say something that I think is important & overlooked about the low vaccination rates in some southern states, like my home state of Louisiana:

It's widely known that in these states, folks don't trust government & won't vote into being a robust public sector. But why?
The std answer is that they're all a bunch of racists, & they don't vote for public sector benefits because THOSE people might also benefit & we can't have that. (This is the line, say, @MonicaBPotts, feeds the yankees in the NYT.) Racism is real, but it's not the whole story.
The bigger piece is that the governments in these states are terrible, so nobody has ever had any experience with even functional government, much less good government. And unlike in, say, CA, there's no massive wealth to paper over the dysfunction & graft with taxpayer dollars.
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24 Aug
Counterpoint: every ancient coin had the head of some deity or deified ruler on it. Money has always been explicitly about authority, morality, divinity, the sacred. The idea that it could be amoral -- mere plumbing or infrastructure -- is an innovation (& a good one!).
The closest thing the ancients had to a bank was the temple. Disaggregating the sacred and the commercial is one of the great benefits of secularism. And the rollback of that innovation via Woke Capital is yet another example of how fundamentally illiberal woke ideology is.
Cryptocurrency is actually about preserving this liberal separation between money and morals, and advancing it. This regulatory fight matters. We either go forward or backward from here.
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23 Aug
I think it would be super helpful to have a standardized test for "ability to visualize things in your mind, based on minimal input." B/c in my experience it's hard to work with ppl on a visual design project if they can't visualize & you don't know it. nytimes.com/2021/06/08/sci…
I worked w/ a guy like this once, & I prepped him repeatedly before showing him some black-&-white wireframes from the designer, that we were just doing information architecture & would actually do the design later. So he looks at them & says some nice things about them...
... and I can tell he wants to say something negative but he's trying to figure out how to package it so as not to be too harsh or offend me, then he finally says, "but Jon, these are not in color. It is important for the website to have colors." 🤦‍♂️
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