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Oct 29 5 tweets 2 min read
It's wild how his market positioning requires him to make himself stupider and stupider over time
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Unfortunately I spent six months in the middle of 2020 hitting myself over the head with a hammer to soften my brain up for a career as a heterodox dissident, so the only source of information I have about what was happening then is the isolated text of Tom Cotton's op-ed
If only the piece had engaged more directly with the context and meaning of what Cotton wrote, in the light of when he wrote it
Because the National Guard was deployed as it often is in cases of unrest, there was no reason to object to Tom Cotton calling for the 101st Airborne to be deployed on U.S. soil and for those combat troops to give no quarter

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Oct 30
The thing is, it’s also pathetic clout-chasing
On top of the rest of it, Twitter is now in the hands of a tryhard reply guy
In terms of sheer loser fanboy energy at the top, the closest analogy might be Dan Snyder buying the Washington NFL team
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Oct 28
Anyway it's a good way to keep the List up to date
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Oct 26
The latest Turing test is "uselessly generic AI output" or "exhausted and checked-out human being"
the latest celebrity to fall into a meme trend
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Oct 19
There's like five different ways that clip is dumb but a big one is none of those are how a person would actually feel, you'd just feel confused or startled
Any time I've been at real risk of being run over the topmost thought is "Whahuh?"
"—bus?—???!!"
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Oct 15
Huh I wonder what helped convince them it wasn't worth doing anything about covid?
Apparently tonight was the first time Nate Silver tweeted out any of his thoughts about which covid precautions are reasonable
Does tweeting about how irrational someone who cares about vaccination requirements is count?
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Oct 15
Covering national politics for the Times is about trying to channel the imaginary thoughts and moods of the stupidest possible voter, all day and every day, until you have trained yourself to be even stupider than that
Trip Gabriel watching a sitcom and frantically scribbling notes whenever the laugh track kicks in
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