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9 Sep, 4 tweets, 1 min read
Honestly, if I’d achieved this level of success, I’d take every last thing. Pop-up shop, billboard, action figure, you name it, I’d gobble it up. Remember that Jeffrey Eugenides billboard in Times Square? I’d take that too.
At the same time, I’d probably be off social media so I wouldn’t see the haters hating.
I got a Sally Rooney pencil when I picked up my copy of Beautiful World. Love it.
My only objection is that this can’t happen for more writers, more books.

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Have not gone for a run in 2 1/2 months, and I physically feel better than I have in years. Perhaps running is just not good for my body at this age. That said, I miss the mental zone out time running provided me.
I don't make that old man groaning noise when I get up anymore. I also used to not be able to drive more than 90 minutes without intense pain at the back of my knee because of the driving position.
Once the pandemic became apparent, my wife said we should get a Peleton and I was a huge skeptic, knowing our long history of briefly used, then abandoned fitness equipment, but I gotta admit, I'm a convert. I've done a Peleton-related activity 89 out of the last 90 days.
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8 Sep
I'm a weekly reader of the New York Times book review, but I do wish they'd cease the practice of putting their thumb on the scales so blatantly with their choice of reviewers.
When I'm aware of the tilt it requires me to read the resulting review through the scrim of obvious (yet often unstated) bias. Jesse Singal reviewing a book on transgender rights that just happens to reflect 95% of his own POV is an obvious slant that goes unstated.
I think Singal is a bad choice for that book, but I wouldn't definitively say he shouldn't do it except that I believe the writer/publication should be open and transparent with their audience. They should know the author's position relative to the subject
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8 Sep
I think this framing is a good illustration of the kind of potential flattening of the discussion that progressives (or at least this progressive) are worried about when we inject genetic research into education. Image
I consider myself pro-truth and pro-science, but those are not interchangeable things. We well know there are "truths" not revealable through science. We also know that scientific truths can shift under our feet. We also know that scientific truths can be used to do harm.
I think the vast majority of progressives (or at least this one) also recognize that genes play a role in our lives and outcomes. What makes my view progressive is that I don't care what someone's genes may indicate. I want them to have the best opportunity to achieve their goals
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31 Aug
Making my way through the forthcoming big biography of Led Zeppelin and was reminded of this snippet of Jon Brion from @soundopinions articulating the difference between songs and performance pieces and he's dead on about Zeppelin.
The Zep biography makes clear that from the first moments as a band Led Zeppelin sounded like Led Zeppelin. The songs were almost immaterial to the effect, but the effects are powerful. There's no albums I loved more in 6th grade than Zep I + II because of that.
Still love Zeppelin for those performances. I've been listening to the albums as I read the biography and the performances really are amazing, but take the songs away from the band and there's not much pleasure left.
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31 Aug
Tweeted earlier about what I think are some obvious structural limitations of @TheFIREorg's database as an indicator for threats to campus speech, but I also want to walk through a deeper dive on a specific incident to show the complications.
A single dispute at Stanford University over the Hoover Institution accounts for 11 of the 426 incidents logged by FIRE all by itself, and there's a bunch of things to notice.
First is that a report written by four Stanford faculty members criticizing some of the speech and actions of Hoover Institute fellows is at the center of the dispute. Here's the full text. activatestanford.org/actions/report…
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31 Aug
Surprise, surprise the FIRE database on campus speech threats defines threats in a way that excludes coordinate right wing campaigns threatening scholars from sources like College Fix or Campus Reform. insidehighered.com/news/2021/08/3…
You know what's not covered by @TheFIREorg's database? The kind of harassment that @hakeemjefferson has been facing over public comments.
As an @AAUP survey showed, scholars who are targeted by outlets like Campus Reform are highly likely to face significant harassment. None of this counts as a threat to speech according to @TheFIREorg aaup.org/article/data-s…
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