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Jan 21 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
"Last April, she beat up her own mother to claim the top spot among the females of her troop."
This monkey just gets better and better: "But as if that weren't enough, in her quest for dominance she violently overthrew Sanchu, the 31-year-old alpha male who had been leader of troop B for five years, in June." dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/ar…
"In 2011, during a previous breeding season, Yakei paired with 15-year-old male Goro, after he bit her in the face."
Okay, now I'm *gripped* to this monkey drama:
I could watch them for days.

I probably will.
Aw, look at this little guy!
I don't know how I made it to my age without realizing that there's *hours* of Japanese-snow-monkey-babies-cavorting-in-the-hot-springs-while-their-Queen-rips-off-her-rivals-faces footage to watch.
Their social lives are fascinating: en.jigokudani-yaenkoen.co.jp/contents/detai…

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Jan 16
So @ArunInParis wanted an agenda for the Twitter Space; here's the one I suggest, feel free to amend.
1. Polls. Who's up this week? Who's down? Whose poll do we trust and why?
2. The pandemic: How significant do we think this issue will prove? How are the candidates positioning themselves as pandemic-wranglers? Macron's "emmerder" gambit.
3. Parrainage: Will any candidate fail to get the signatures?

4. The primaire populaire de la gauche: Does this matter at all? Is there any chance of a left candidate emerging through any conceivable path?
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Jan 16
Reminder: We've been meeting weekly (except during the holidays) to discuss the French presidential race. (In English.) Who's up? Who's down? If you're interested in French politics, join us today at 3:00 pm French time. #FrenchElectionTwitterSpace
Any suggested reading prior to the Twitter Space, @ArunLeParisien @jclavel2003 @fredericg? (In French or English.) I'll post a few things that caught my eye on this thread.
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Jan 15
Do I have any Twitter followers who haven't yet signed up for @cosmo_globalist? Here's why you should: claireberlinski.substack.com
There's a severe crisis in journalism. For a variety of technological, regulatory, and cultural reasons, largely but not entirely related to the rise of the Internet, newspapers are dying. Foreign news coverage, especially, has all but disappeared.
You can read about this here: claireberlinski.substack.com/p/social-media…
The result is that whereas foreign news made up 40 percent of the broadcast news, during the Cold War, now it's less than 4 percent. And print coverage of events overseas has declined by 80 percent.
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Jan 10
Podcasters:
I have switched off your interesting-sounding podcasts after five minutes, over and over again, because you're so inarticulate.
If you have a podcast, please follow these simple rules:
1. Stop saying "like" and "you know."
2. Stop saying "um" and "uh."
3. Stop stammering.
4. Stop saying, "kind of," "sort of," "so," and, "I mean."
6. Don't say, "It feels like" prefatory to a declarative sentence.
7. Don't say, "and whatnot" at the end of a sentence.
8. Speak coherently: Subject, verb, object. Not "And I was like, you know," "So I go, um, you know"
Just stop that. It's maddening.
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Jan 6
If you know anyone who was swayed by Malone's obscenely mendacious appearance on @joerogan @joeroganhq, and if he or she isn't willing to look at the data in written form, you can show him or her this video.

But I'm deeply frustrated.
During this pandemic, a significant stream of anti-vax bullshit--and it is absolute, murderous horseshit--has come from Malone, @BretWeinstein, Steve Kirsh, Pierre Kory, and half a dozen other figures whom we see making these claims over and over again.
Every time, someone (many people) write articles and make videos in response, patiently explaining that the things they're saying aren't true, and are in fact very dangerously wrong.

But they don't stop.

They're not good faith actors. They're not merely mistaken.
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Jan 6
It's very common to say, "Trump is the symptom, not the cause," and I think I've even said it myself a few times, but I wonder if that's true. I wonder if that's something we tell ourselves because just as it's unbearable to think a nincompoop like Princip could have started WW1,
it's unbearable to think a buffoon like Trump could have caused so much damage to a great superpower.
But I think it may well be possible that Trump was a cause. Had he not run for president, one of the other candidates would have won the GOP primary,
and while they've all *in retrospect* shown themselves willing to follow Trump right off a cliff, not one of them--at the time--seemed vastly aberrant or committed to undermining critical American traditions. Without Trump, very little of what's ensued would have happened.
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