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May 1 • 3 tweets • 1 min read • Read on X
One of the best photos of 2024 so far:

Fraternity brothers are pelted by anti-Israel protesters at UNC Chapel Hill while protecting the United States flag as it is re-hoisted following its removal by protesters.

Well done, gentleman. 🫡🇺🇸 Image
The Star Spangled Banner’s top soldier has a zoomer perm and a polo shirt.

God I love this country. This dude is awesome! Image
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Mar 10
Wharton statistician looks at Hamas’ casualty data and concludes they are likely falsifying to maintain a rolling mean & linear growth — and they don’t know how to avoid making anomalies obvious to Western analysts

Women:Children R2=0.017
Men:Women is *negative* with R2 = 0.835


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“Perhaps…the Gaza ministry is releasing fake daily numbers that vary too little because they do not have a clear understanding of the behavior of naturally occurring numbers.” Image
The utter lack of correlation between the deaths of women and children is especially strange.

Essentially, the split between women and children is different every day but the total always the same.

Classic sign of fake numbers!
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Feb 24
I've been thinking about 2 big trends:

-Layoffs in media, entire sites closing
-Huge mineral discoveries in California and Wyoming

Wouldn't it heal our country to work on a solution together? My idea is an FDR-style program for laid-off journalists to get jobs in mining 🧵


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As Taylor Lorenz recently pointed out, it's been a brutal time in the media business.

Nearly 20,000 layoffs in 2023. Just in 2024, Sports Illustrated and Vice have effectively shut down.

Long-term job security is... dubious. The business models just aren't the same. Image
Journalists have been trying to strike and protest the layoffs - which is not a very promising strategy.

It's understandable why they're upset: they know that work as a journalist is more precarious than ever.


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Oct 28, 2023
The Israel-Hamas war, anti-semitism, and free speech in America
My reflections after three weeks of arguing in my country.

In general I am happy about the state of discourse in America, but I wish to address some criticisms of me, both honest and dishonest.

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I absolutely stand by my actions collecting public pro-terror statements and identifying who made them.

Yet I noticed an unhealthy impulse by many people on my side to report minor transgressions or private criticisms as if they *were* endorsements of mass murder.

Not all are!
As I explained to the New York Times, it actually *is* possible to separate the two.

And as I also pointed out, I have raised my voice before in support of the sacred speech rights of anti-Zionists Image
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Aug 28, 2023
Thread:

Last summer, a trans-owned, trans-staffed coffee shop in Philadelphia shut its doors after its (trans) employees conducted a "radical accountability process" against the owners.

This is the bizarre story of Mina's World, which I wrote about on my blog. Image
They accused the owners of a lot of charges

Including wage theft.

But they separately complained when the owners tried to *stop* wage theft -- when tips were literally stolen from the jar by teenagers. Image
Other complaints were vague:

"Anti-blackness in a multitude of forms & occasions"

"Tokenization as a way to appear safe by association"

"Ableism in the form of inaccessibility, etc etc" Image
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Aug 26, 2023
The video below is Emily Wilson, the Homeric translator promoted by the corporate media, reciting Book 23 from her translation of the Odyssey

It is disturbing - a mockery of the great work

Imagine NPR but read by the worst middle school theater teacher of all time

Part 2:
NOW, compare that with the great performer Stanley Lombardo, who performed Book 23 of his own translation of the Odyssey - live WITH DRUMS on C-SPAN with Christopher Hitchens in 2000.

Lombardo has dignity where Wilson does not. He has a sense of what it means to tell a story.
You may notice the cover of Lombardo's translation:

It's the photograph Earthrise from Apollo 8. Christmas Eve 1968.

If that isn't a beautiful symbol of what it feels like to yearn for Ithaca, for your far-away home after an epic journey... Image
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Aug 26, 2023
1 month from today, Emily Wilson’s translation of the Iliad comes out.

In 2017, she became the first woman ever to translate the Odyssey into English

I want to be careful with my words here: her translation was abominable, a crime against the classics. Now she’s back

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I hesitate to use cliche, but “Woke Homer” wouldn’t be a *bad* description of Wilson’s work.

Before examining the translation, let’s look at her public comments and motive.

Here she is writing in the New Yorker:

“The Odyssey traces deep male fears about female power” Image
The New York Times Magazine interview with Wilson doesn’t leave any mystery as to her agenda:

“The classicist Emily Wilson has given Homer’s epic a radically contemporary voice”

Radical indeed. Image
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