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Daniel Friedman Profile picture
@DanFriedman81
Nov 5 • 3 tweets • 1 min read Twitter logo Read on Twitter
What he actually said is that he installed accountability software on his son's devices to keep his son from using porn, and he put the same software on his own devices to show his son he wasn't using porn either. But Rolling Stone is a dishonest publication.
I think, if something like Rolling Stone's UVA rape story scandal happened today, they would stand by the story, because their standards of journalism have eroded completely, and they no longer care about factual accuracy, just the ideological valence of the content they publish.
The concern over “misinformation” is usually framed as people getting bogus news from randos on social media, but what doesn’t get acknowledged enough is how media outlets that used to be trusted, like Rolling Stone, the LA Times and NBC News, are now trafficking in propaganda.

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Nov 4
The reason a lot of young progressives are so mad at JK Rowling is that they read the books as kids, and they thought they were Harry or Hermione. But they grew up into people like Percy or Dolores Umbridge or Cornelius Fudge or Rita Skeeter. And they know it. And on some level, they’re ashamed.
I’m reading the fifth book with my niece and it’s kind of astonishing how well it tracks to contemporary controversies. And Rowling is on the same side now that she was when she wrote it. Which is the side of people who tell the truth, against people who suppress and deny the truth in service of their ideology.
Cornelius Fudge and the Ministry of Magic are unprepared to deal with the return of Voldemort, so Fudge simply decides it isn’t happening and endeavors to silence anyone who says otherwise, which sets him in conflict with Dumbledore.
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Oct 28
Media figures all seem to agree that Twitter has gotten much worse since Elon Musk took over. If you aren’t seeing what they’re seeing, it’s because your experience of this website has historically been very different from theirs.
Prior to Musk’s Twitter, a curated group of about 500,000 users out of Twitter’s 368 million users had blue check status. The message many of them broadcast was that this wasn’t very important, but it absolutely was, and it’s the reason they had a special experience on Twitter.
First of all, blue checks get — and have always gotten — significantly more favorable treatment from the algorithm that populates your timeline. You are more likely to see tweets from people you follow who have blue checks.
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Oct 27
One of the biggest let downs of doing research for crime fiction was learning what serial killers actually are. Real serial killers nothing like Patrick Bateman or Hannibal Lecter. A serial killer is just what happens when a psychopath has a particular sex fetish.
There are two kinds of serial killers: Killers who get off on torturing and causing victims to suffer, and killers who kill people to use their dead bodies or parts of their bodies or mementos or trophies to gratify themselves sexually.

They call the first kind “process killers” and the second kind “product killers.”
There is no such thing as an ideological serial killer. There is no such thing as a serial killer who believes he is transforming his victims into works of art. There are no Hannibals or Jokers. They’re all just perverts jacking off.
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Oct 16
Admissions rates at top universities have plunged, and extremely strong candidates are being rejected from what would have been safety schools a few years ago. That doesn’t mean admissions are more “competitive.” It means they’ve become arbitrary. .abc7news.com/high-school-gr…
When a high scoring student (nearly always Asian) racks up a bunch of rejections, advocates for subjective admissions note that several thousand students each year get high scores (out of about 3.5 million high school graduates) so, therefore students with perfect scores are unremarkable.
This presumes that the students who are admitted are similarly academically distinguished and also possess other remarkable traits or accomplishments. Sure, this guy is good, but if he got rejected, the candidates who got in must have been AMAZING. But they aren’t.
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Oct 15
This Washington Post puff piece on Artemis Langford, who identifies as a transgender woman and joined a sorority in Wyoming, is long article, and most people aren’t going to read all of it. So I just want to point out a few interesting elisions and narrative tricks in the text.

First of all, the only thing Langford has done to become a woman is identify as one, and sometimes wear women’s clothing. This is the most lengthy article ever written about this person, and there is no mention of treatment or assessment by any gender clinic, hormone replacement therapy or any sort of medical transition process. Sometimes, Langford wears facial hair.
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Second of all, not a single sorority member spoke in favor of Langford on the record, and Langford doesn’t appear to have any friends in the sorority. One friend of Langford’s gave quotes under her name and was photographed for the article, but she is not in the sorority. Image
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Oct 13
For years, pro-Palestinian demonstrators have chanted “From the River to the Sea, Palestine will be free,” and “There is only one solution, intifada revolution.” These are explicit calls for genocide. Yet we were surprised when activists celebrated that 260 unarmed people were massacred at a concert, that elderly people were executed on Facebook live and that babies were burned alive and beheaded.
Why were so many people surprised that activists who have spent years chanting for genocide were in favor of atrocities? Because we didn’t think they really meant the things they were saying. But they did.
Of course these activists and scholars couldn’t mean the bad, dumb things they were saying. If these were their actual beliefs, that would mean they were bad and dumb.

But it turns out that they are bad and they are dumb and they had no idea you weren’t taking them seriously. Image
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