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Be less stupid.
New York City
Joined February 2008
there's a very real sense in which this guy is keeping me here
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Dilbert is dead, long live Dilbert.
Hi I'm Scott Adams, creator of the 1990's workplace comic strip "Dilbert." Today I'd like to talk to you about how I would prevent school shootings.
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Felix Salmon, "Fusion Money," and Floating Upward
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What, why, and how he got paid what he did.
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Once again, Silvia published the weather review (of the day before's weather) on the correct day. Please applaud.
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A wide band of pale blue separated the sharp purple hills at the horizon from the frayed purple edge of the cloud sheet above. The hills stayed purple while the clouds became wrinkled and dimpled...
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All social media is poison, but Twitter is a particular type of toxin because it takes the lack of nuance that makes the Internet in general so abrasive and it dissolves it down to its ugliest essence.
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Six months ago I quit Twitter. It happened in a moment that combined the deepest loathing (both self- and other-directed) and the brightest clarity, and I have not looked back since. Apart from the...
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Everything that happens on Twitter is a nightmare, and every time you turn away from your screen and wonder why you feel like you want to die that’s why.
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Six months ago I quit Twitter. It happened in a moment that combined the deepest loathing (both self- and other-directed) and the brightest clarity, and I have not looked back since. Apart from the...
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Here's a good piece on how fuck hats saved peregrine falcons
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Saving an endangered species, one hat at a time.
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Hey look Silvia published the weather on the correct day (the day after the weather happened)
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The broken toe was aching with the damp, like an old established wound. There was just enough rain to scatter individual rings over the surface of the puddles. Its departure time was pushed back in...
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It’s easy to whitewash a ceiling, it’s not so easy to erase the true history of Haint Blue. https://t.co/e6FdgOjSaS
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The experience of Hart Island as a stranger to the cemetery will be familiar to those who have ever decided that a walk in Greenwood would be a pleasant way to pass a President’s Day. https://t.co/MXTRx1MGKb
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What makes the color Haint blue isn’t the color itself, but rather how it is used. https://t.co/QehbPqltMT
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“At 56, I look back at my 16-year-old self and think A) where did you get the balls? And B) You really had no idea that was such a risky choice, did you?” Keith Gordon @DavidOfromNJ @Awl
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How does a young, successful actor become a relatively unknown director of most of the television you watch? And what’s next?
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