sean illing
@seanilling
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Dad, Veteran, Author, “The Paradox of Democracy,” Host of The Gray Area. 👉 https://t.co/LaKarPNfqG
New Orleans (ish)
Joined February 2011
This is obscene and I cannot help you if you don’t get that
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I do not like these people
In a new podcast Sam Altman says: " When something gets sufficiently huge ... the federal government is kind of the insurer of last resort, as we've seen in various financial crises ... given the magnitude of what I expect AI's economic impact to look like, I do think the
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The streaming services have really kicked their Enshittification protocols into overdrive. Can we all just admit that the whole “cut the cord” thing was a scam? Is that clear to everyone now?
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This was conceptually arresting. I loved it. @seanilling this is one of your best episodes! Just ordered Determined. I will be thinking about this ALL the time :
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We all think of ourselves as authors of our lives. The difference between our happy ending and someone else’s tragic one are the choices we each make. But what if none of that’s true? Sean’s guest...
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One idea: Shut the fuck up about the football coach, repeal the sales tax, figure out the insurance crisis, and try to bring some jobs to a state so graduates don't have to flee to find work.
I want to reiterate I am not picking the next coach at LSU. As Governor, it is my responsibility to protect the hard-earned tax dollars our citizens pay to the state. Everyone recognizes the tremendous amount of money at stake—money that our citizens could be on the hook for. In
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I’ve been thinking about this David Foster Wallace quote more and more recently “The technology is just gonna get better and better and better and better. And it's gonna get easier and easier, and more and more convenient, and more and more pleasurable to be alone with images
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It's hard to think of an action more purely corrupt than a a president ordering the executive branch to pay him hundreds of millions of dollars. I cannot wait to read the MAGA defenses of this (and there will be many). They'll display Soviet levels of sycophancy.
Breaking News: President Trump wants $230 million from the Justice Department for investigating him, people familiar with the matter say. Any settlement might ultimately be approved by senior department officials who defended him or those in his orbit.
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Fascinating ep in which @doctorow and @seanilling shine a spotlight on all the various ways in which you are right to feel the Internet is becoming immeasurably worse. (Hilariously, for me, Apple Podcasts threw an ad for Amazon in there, right after a long anti-Amazon section.)
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The Gray Area won Gold at the Signal Awards (Thought Leadership category)! Very cool. Very unexpected. Very grateful. A bunch of people I look up to were finalists, which makes this even cooler. Big thanks to everyone who and supports the show. https://t.co/j4Mb2AkBTP
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All Winners from the Inaugural Signal Awards, where Podcasts are Everything
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I cannot believe how bad this interview is? 3 minutes and it just totally devolves. https://t.co/5FU7rJifBV
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We are, I regret to inform you, cooked
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The last 10 years of American politics have made it super duper clear that abstractions like “liberal democracy” and “rule of law” and “free speech” mean absolutely nothing to millions of citizens and that might be a bit of a problem moving forward
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Trump's ouster of the US attorney for refusing to prosecute his enemies is profoundly corrupt. But I encourage folks to also see this as evidence that his authoritarian designs are running into serious institutional resistance. Thoughts on this here: https://t.co/fhWGcP7TPC
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The president wants pregnant women who are in pain to take acetaminophen only if they can’t “tough it out”.
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This was a very difficult moment for people who’ve never encountered an event that in any way undermined their ideological priors but I’m proud of all of you for once again conquering the facts and walking away even more committed to your preexisting worldview
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Meritocracy has never existed and will never exist for the reasons well known communist F.A Hayek articulated. To have a society where people rose and fell by their merits rather than arbitrary circumstances would require enormous and continuous social engineering...
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More weekend warrior yahoos strutting around in Amazon tactical boots and prefab operator start-up kits is exactly what we need right now
Making sure leftards don't interfere with the Charlie Kirk vigil in Belton. Brought a few of my fellow veterans with me.
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I'm not sure some of these people even know if they're engaged in a suicidal trolling campaign or a heroic civilizational battle and I'm not sure they care either way
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