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13 Sep, 4 tweets, 1 min read
The tech platforms were reluctant to intervene as explicitly in politics as they did by deplatforming Trump because once that Rubicon was crossed, everything that happens on them now happens with their sufferance and tacit permission
They resisted this responsibility through many attempts to thrust it upon them until they at last could find no way to continue refusing it, and now they are stuck with it
If Rose McGowan's allegations on Twitter were, hypothetically going to influence the California recall (no reason to think they will, but take it as a placeholder), well, Newsom's loss would then be a result of Twitter's inaction to "prevent spread of misinformation."
They are now the stewards of "democracy"

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16 Sep
The story is the same everywhere, though the particulars vary. Where it hasn't happened yet, it will soon.

"Others, including prominent historians, acknowledge privately that the project is riddled with errors and omissions but refuse to say so publicly." opera-historica.com/pdfs/oph/2021/… Image
It seems to me the relevant question is which of these rival characterizations of the error that the NYT Mag clarified is correct.

Was the seeking of a correction mere pedantic nit-picking, or was the claim one that would have resulted in failure on a high school history paper? ImageImage
What we know for sure is that the NYT consulted the historian Leslie Harris in the fact checking process. She told them the claim was false and should be omitted, and was ignored.
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14 Sep
Any practice yielding normally distributed outcomes favoring the top few percent has inherent opposition from the rest… amazing standardized testing lasted this long wctv.tv/2021/09/14/flo…
Standardized tests are good and getting rid of them is bad -- my point is that there is always a constituency opposed to them by virtue of the fact that the results are normally distributed
Not all standardized tests are good in the way they are designed and implemented of course -- high stakes testing from the NCLB era did a lot to make people dislike it
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14 Sep
Something so poignant about Mulholland Drive being the story of a failed actress’ descent into evil and madness that delivered a great and under-appreciated actress from obscurity and the brink of failure to much belated fame
I saw it in a theater with the woman who alerted me by email to an airplane striking the World Trade Center and it remains one of my vivid movie viewing experiences.

For some reason I can't quite fathom, I ghosted her soon afterward.
On repeated subsequent viewings, I think I consider it the best movie I've ever seen
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13 Sep
“The movement was over. We were not going to be the generation that changed the world.”

Premature words. Image
Didn’t realize that one of the three people Kathy Boudin and Dave Gilbert killed was “a popular young black policeman named Waverly Brown.” (Gilbert was recently released from prison in one of Andrew Cuomo’s last acts in office.) Image
You are the first black policeman in your department.

You are killed by privileged white ultra-radicals from who purport to be fighting on behalf of your liberation.

Shows that the dynamic @daily_barbarian wrote about here has been around for a while: patreon.com/posts/from-sec…
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10 Sep
Explaining woke doctrine to a regular person is like trying to explain the triune god to a non-Christian.

They immediately shoot it down with basic application of logic and say five things that would get them canceled in the first three minutes.
The takeover of the schools by various branches of the doctrine is meant to raise a generational cohort in which the new OS has fully replaced what allows the regular person to respond in this way.
In 2014, those who had downloaded the new system update constituted a small sliver of college graduates, who were able to utterly transform a series of liberal institutions from within.
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8 Sep
An Ontario school board held a "flame purification ceremony" of 30 books deemed offensive to indigenous tribes in advance of wider purge of 4,700 books at 30 schools.

“Symbolically, some books were used as fertilizer."

nationalpost.com/news/canada/bo…
Chant to the Aztec god of human sacrifice
Support book burning and ritual obeisance to ancients gods of human sacrifice or admit to being a white supremacist
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