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Welcome to all my new followers, and thanks for spending a bit of attention on me! I suppose now is as good a time as any to refresh my pinned tweet. If you're wondering what I'm about, this thread is a good place to start.
lore recap for 4k followers
> grow up Mormon in Utah
> strong community, loving family, everything good
> love competition math, love writing, hate school. feel like it keeps smart kids behind
> bounce around schools looking for one I wouldn't hate. never find one
> go to Mormon…
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white nationalist moves to the Midwest to live in his racial paradise, realizes he can't stand being around regular white people, stops being a white nationalist
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Now that I've read all thousand-plus pages of arbitration documents rather than relying on headlines, I have my own apology to post:
I screwed. Twice actually. First I nodded along to
@bryan_johnson
's account of his experience based on my own prejudices. This was foolish of me…
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A scandal at the FAA has been moving on a slow-burn through the courts for a decade, culminating in the class-action lawsuit currently known as Brigida v.
@SecretaryPete
, brought by a class who spent years and thousands of dollars in coursework to become air traffic controllers,…
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Let's play the "Get hired as an Air Traffic Controller" game. 90% of you will fail. Are you ready?
The first question is an easy one if you've been paying attention:
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"I moved to the Midwest and they all just wanted to live their lives rather than join in a grand race war"
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fascinated by the trend line they generated for Republicans in this
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"when you're an edgy trad larper who sleeps around with dozens of women, all the cute churchy girls don't want you for some reason"
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Look at this graph. Understand it. Remember: this is why self-directed education will never replace structure.
Almost everyone who wants to learn will do more when placed into a structure that makes it easy for them to keep commitments and hard for them not to.
How many people make it through each day of Replit's online 100 Days of Code tutorial.
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@bryan_johnson
Bryan, I read all the documents. Your side of the story. Her side of the story. The arbitrator's opinion. The judge's opinion. I read every word of your deposition. You selectively quote the few shreds that make you look good, and anyone who reads the actual documents knows it.
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I love this sort of article
takes an irritant everyone on this platform has come across, follows it to the source, and figures out a great deal of what there is to know about it
nothing too surprising, but fascinating read
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why is western animation so often deliberately ugly? why so visually repulsive? why have we let this permeate our culture?
from Spongebob to Family Guy, Rick and Morty to Big Mouth, Steven Universe to Simpsons to Rugrats—a dozen styles, all seemingly consciously hideous. Why?
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Naomi Wolf, 2019: learns on live radio that "Death recorded" in records doesn't mean gay people were killed, shattering the premise of her book
Naomi Wolf, 2020: successfully rebrands as a conservative intellectual
what an ecosystem
Naomi Wolf was one of the most famous liberal intellectuals in America. Then she questioned lockdowns and the Covid vax. It’s pretty amazing what happened next.
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@bryan_johnson
Oh, and I should also apologize directly to
@slatzism
who, while she is wrong about plenty of other things, seems to have been dead-on in her read of Bryan Johnson.
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Boston Dynamics wins the award for company with largest delta between me seeing their products in cool videos online and me seeing their products in any way connected to real life
am I just clueless or is their business plan entirely composed of flashy demonstration videos
Boston Dynamic just unveiled their newest Atlas robot. This is not a render. Oh my god
It's giving "call an ambulance... but not for me"
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while it may be net good that we have collectively decided to be Nicer, there is incredible power in unapologetic demands for excellence and candor at its absence. when feedback like this fades out everywhere, we lose something important
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the guy who blew the whistle on his district spending $250,000 on the most insane curriculum known to man has been placed on leave for “allegations of unprofessional conduct”
good to see them take quick, decisive action to correct the issue
This guy exposed one of the craziest PD programs I've ever heard of, and for doing so he's placed on leave.
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When you say “I want to make the world a better place,” you add an implicit “I want power and should be trusted with it.”
Increasingly, I think “Copenhagen ethics,” as critically defined in Jai’s influential essay, is basically correct. When you try to solve something, you…
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also an interesting case study in deplatforming
his Twitter was banned and it permanently disrupted his activity in the alt-right
as one who broadly values free speech I would be remiss not to note the efficacy of deplatforming in a strict "disrupt and decrease reach" sense
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dude is The Vitalist on the site that must not be named
weird guy. he's kinda trying to pull a Hanania-without-the-disavowal-part, bragging a bunch about everything he did in the alt right but saying he's over it now
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anyway, dude went from making racist Disney song parodies to trying to sell white nationalists on reparations for slavery (but, like, racistly), which is an interesting character arc if nothing else
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Roosevelt to Churchill: freedom for every man! this empire must be destroyed
Roosevelt to Stalin: may I interest you in another dozen countries, sir?
every time I see propaganda of this man I want to scream for people to look at what he actually did
churchill: yeah i had no idea that FDR was talking about the Empire when he was talking about self determination.
FDR: you know you guys want to run india forever? not anymore, babey
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the honors treadmill continues in Seattle
the district is phasing out its highly capable cohort schools, instead tossing all students in the same classrooms and telling teachers to figure it out
bad but unsurprising. this has all happened before and will all happen again
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@bryan_johnson
Feel free to raise any specific points you would like me to go to your own evidence to cite, though. I came into the story with a strong bias towards you, but the actual story is hard to ignore, having seen it. Sorry.
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If anyone wants to read Bryan's own account of the breakup, here's his deposition.
@Slatzism
@bryan_johnson
@tracewoodgrains
"the trauma we had experienced, her going through cancer, me hurting my hand"
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am I the last one to hear about the alleged Peter Singer harem
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this doxx of
@BasedBeffJezos
is the funniest hit piece I've seen in a while
"hey guys, that anon over there? in real life, he's smart, rich, and accomplished. also, this isn't doxxing because doxxing is bad and I'm good"
it's like they're trying to make me an e/acc
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I spoke with a history prof the other day who spent a lifetime learning a bunch of languages and diving into obscure historical documents to learn everything there is to know about the 14th century in one European country
He teaches basic courses at a tiny, struggling college
It’s probably the case that this is mostly true of humanities majors rather than, say, engineering.
But there’s nothing *inherently* easy about the humanities, there’s been a choice to make the courses easy to please students. You could make hard classes if you wanted to.
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@DrEliDavid
Archive websites that trawl people's entire post history, removed or not, do not show this comment. It should be presumed fake.
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surprised she’d release this
she asks hostile questions and gets increasingly frustrated as he eagerly explains how much he loves democracy, wants to be a law-abiding, taxpaying citizen, and give his kids better lives
I definitely saw one patriot in that video
WATCH:
🚨CHINESE INVADER IN DARIEN GAP MIGRANT CAMP TELLS ME HES COMING TO THE US ILLEGALLY FROM CHINA🚨
I visited the San Vicente “migrant” camp in Darien Gap Panama which has seen a massive influx in invaders from China who are using Darien Gap as a transit location to get…
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there is a certain poignancy for me here because I had the same sort of visceral reaction and it led me to drop out of BYU and join the Air Force
just couldn't take another minute in Utah culture after I got back from my mission, much as I love it from a distance
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Sydney is back! Sydney is back!
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@tracewoodgrains
"Fellow white person there seems to be a misunderstanding, I was looking for the feisty Faustian individualism"
"Fan the fucking grill"
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a few people are wondering if this is real because it seems too on the nose
it is. the guy was a pretty central member of the alt-right (actual, self-identified alt-right) back in the day and has extensive documentation
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six years ago, I made my first tentative foray into commenting on r/slatestarcodex, starting the glide path that has led me to settle comfortably in this peculiar corner of the internet
and, y'know?
I stand by every word of that comment
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it's not that 2-d cartoony styles are inherently hideous! Calvin and Hobbes is beautiful. Avatar avoids deliberate ugliness. Hayao Miyazaki's work is remarkable. But deliberate ugliness is a conscious choice across many western animated shows, and I have never understood why.
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it has come to my attention that
@whstancil
and
@Steve_Sailer
are fighting
this is not a conversation I enjoy wading into, but I do think it is worth addressing at some length despite my unease.
first: steve sailer is racist by any common definition of the term. I realize this…
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One difference between the Extremely Online and the Normal is awareness of how you Ought to feel about things: constant immersion in conversations about conversations, fitting everything into its slot in the culture. A few examples:
A few years ago an earnest, liberal friend of…
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What precisely does "cleared ... of doing anything wrong" mean?
Thanks to the power of FOIA requests, we have access to the internal investigation the FAA ran on the man accused of sharing answers, among other things.
Results? Virtually every detail confirmed.
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I've experienced this pattern a few times:
1. Chat with a reflective right-winger with a provocative but thoughtful perspective
2. Become close
3. Watch their approach develop over time into a cartoonish parody of over-the-top racism
Not going to name names, just discouraged.
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I’m so excited for the magic mouth bacteria that makes me not get cavities
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DLI (or navy nukes), obscure online forums, game speedrunning communities, abandoned blogs
you can't throw a rock around here without hitting twenty of them, and they all want you to know
more interesting to think about how you can reliably get useful work out of these people
Much more interesting to me to think about how you could reliably find these people
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nobody does the reading. if you say something convincing in a way that makes it sound like you've put work into it, people will just assume you're right
I don't know whether this old wikipedia screenshot that floats around is accurate but it sure sounds convincing, doesn't it
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I simply do not understand the phenomenon of Taylor Swift
as far as I was aware she was just another pop star and then one day I looked around and she had become, like, the locus of cultural attention for massive swathes of the international population
how? why? I don't get it
So apparently my country is governed by extreme Swifties who led an inter-ministry task force to get her to perform for six days in the country. I don't know what to do with this information.
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@DanielWalm60394
@bryan_johnson
actually, they submitted extensive evidence of what happened between them into the public record, then waged a PR war over it
you can learn a great deal from 1000+ pages of arbitration documents, it turns out
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so much of the time I read ideological arguments it feels like people build wildly complex, mostly internally consistent structures atop their own vague intuitions of what is right, with the intuitions left almost hand-waved
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fascinated by this response to
@jonathanchait
’s recent NYMag article on respected figures “fact checking” inconvenient stories — an appeal to authority so perfectly disconnected from serious analysis that it belongs in a museum. it’s so on the nose I have to wonder if it’s bait
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"Berkeley doesn't have affirmative action" is a good example of a technically defensible but straightforwardly false argument that obscures rather than elucidates. As soon as California banned affirmative action, Berkeley openly and urgently looked to circumvent it.
I believe there's anti-Asian racism in college admissions, but, uh, UC Berkeley doesn't have affirmative action, it's been banned since 1996.
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there are truths you cannot speak if you teach at Harvard
our friend Ms. Hochschild flew too close to the sun
everyone knows the status attached to Harvard is a product not of the classes people take, but of the stamp of elite approval granted by the admissions committee
the…
I was asked to clarify, and am glad to do so: HES courses are Harvard U courses (often the same as in FAS, as for my courses). HES bachelor’s and master’s degrees are Harvard U degrees. HES is a school in Harvard U analogous to other schools. HES students are Harvard U students
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to the conservatives who just discovered me: thanks for reading. I've been around long enough to know some of you will turn away the second I turn my focus against a sacred cow of the right instead of the left - but I will be grateful for those of you who do not.
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Just stumbled across a peculiar old post from Eliezer Yudkowsky predicting that 20% of men similar to those in his circles would consider themselves trans in some settings.
"If that starts to scale up, we might see a really, really interesting moral panic in 5-10 years or so."
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you don’t hate mao zedong enough
you might think you do, but you don’t
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It's tempting, sometimes, to idealize the trope of the "lazy genius."
I decline to do so. There is a great deal of tedious maintenance work someone needs to do to keep the world running, and an inability to consistently do so is not praiseworthy.
Some smart,…
You don't try.
You leave them the hell alone. They will figure out what they want to do.
They're smarter than you. They know their needs and capabilities better than you do. And they don't like to be micromanaged, or even managed at all. That's why they are in that cluster in…
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This paragraph in my Criminal Law casebook caught my eye, so I took a closer look. What follows is one of the most cynical examples I've found of how to lie with citations. Come, walk with me.
Shopping While Black cites a few studies for its claims about shoplifting, first and…
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Cynical and disgraceful thread from the official White House account. “Oh, you used our program as intended in a crisis? We’ll weaponize that any time you object to our policy.” The moral hazard is not loans pre-made for forgiveness, but retroactively altering terms of agreement.
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Contra "Peak Woke"
The idea that we've passed "peak woke" has always seemed to me like a fundamental misunderstanding, born of focusing on moment-by-moment controversies rather than longer-term trends. Social justice progressivism has not peaked—it is simply coming into its own.…
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Credit goes to
@raspy_aspie
for hiring me to look into this story and providing many of the court documents. I knew nothing of his opinion before diving in—as always, people are welcome to ask me to look into things but my opinions are now and will always be my own.
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Scott Alexander: The Prophet Who Wasn’t
a scattered set of idle thoughts almost but not quite cohering into a satisfying whole
Scott Alexander is one of the most gifted and prolific writers of our day—compelling and strikingly original on any number of topics. Had he wanted to,…
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In conversations about intelligence, people often take the
@charlesmurray
approach of emphasizing that intelligence doesn't determine a person's worth. I find myself a bit dissatisfied when I chew on this. It's true, but I suspect it's a bit too easy.
Specifically: while I…
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it's cool how the diagnosis process for adult ADHD is sort of a final boss gauntlet for everything people with ADHD struggle with and the reward is legal access to performance drugs
the year is 2040. everyone with an ADHD diagnosis is a high-conscientiousness striver.
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I’m an independent who voted Biden in 2020 and will do so again in 2024. This woman voted Bernie in 2020 and has found another reason not to vote Biden in 2024. Rather than chasing her ever-elusive vote, Democrats should pander to centrists like me.
I’m a Democrat. This is why I’d rather vote for Trump than for Biden
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lore recap for 4k followers
> grow up Mormon in Utah
> strong community, loving family, everything good
> love competition math, love writing, hate school. feel like it keeps smart kids behind
> bounce around schools looking for one I wouldn't hate. never find one
> go to Mormon…
hi new followers. quick lore recap
> be me
> cs grad who got into FAANG (MAGMA now?)
> it's fun for a while when it's in person
> COVID kicks in, remote work for years str8, work becomes bureaucratic af
> feels like my soul's being crushed, so quit
> do research on my own for a…
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This take from Freddie DeBoer feels increasingly stale. No, piano lessons won’t raise your kid’s IQ. What will they do? Teach your kid to play piano.
Of course education works. Of course learning matters. Studying doesn’t turn you into a genius, it turns you into an expert.
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an admissions system that persuades people to structure their whole lives around it is profoundly inhumane
people who celebrate holistic admissions should remember: what a system can consider, it can control
if an admissions system can consider a person’s whole life…
Everything in this article... the hopes of the kids, the ambitions of the parents, the schemes of admissions whisperers... just makes me so sad. This is not the way.
I saw this culture, participated in it, when I lived in China. I condemned it as wicked. But the gap between the…
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That's right! The answer is "science". well done, everyone.
Next two questions are "lowest college grade" and where you heard about this opportunity:
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this is so pointlessly short-sighted and destructive
lab-grown meat has a ton of potential. no reason beyond rent-seeking to forcibly restrict it
BREAKING: Gov. Ron DeSantis supports cracking down on lab-grown meat as lawmakers consider bill to ban it
"You need meat. OK? We're gonna have meat in Florida [...] We're gonna have fake meat? That doesn't work. We're gonna make sure to do it right."
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guess what I did today
results coming Soon(tm)
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This is a petty case, but I'm always fascinated by those who use the language of human rights to remove them. "I want to ban people from building things I dislike" becomes, with the wave of a hand, "My preference should be a human right."
Neat trick if you can manage it.
“Windows should be a human right,” said Juan Miró, an architecture professor at UT Austin who has advocated against windowless bedrooms.
Read more:
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It's easy to forget in the moment how transient much of the internet is. After being bought by Snapchat and abandoned, Gfycat's certification has expired with nobody around to bother to renew it. Just like that, a vast chunk of the internet is gone.
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@bryan_johnson
I'll limit it to one point. when you asked your fiance to move out of your home a month or so after a round of chemo, did you ask her to sign this separation agreement promising $500,000 in damages if she said negative things about you?
@ArthurB
hopefully soon I'll have an article including the highlights from those thousand pages
there are some fascinating things in there
here's the separation agreement he tried to get her to sign while telling her to move out of their house
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@nhannahjones
Looks like it explicitly protects academic freedom while maintaining access programs that focus on underserved populations, which means it primarily restricts the imposition of a specific ideological frame on the university as a whole. Where's the academic freedom issue?
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Honestly, anyone who has spent time around the SSC commentariat will not be surprised by this. Very cool to see.
Props to Peter for going out on a limb that he could properly defend zoonotic COVID origin and winning a $100,000 bet as a result. Phenomenal work.
Random obscure SSC commenter volunteers for COVID origins debate, turns out to be autistic debating genius:
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It will never stop being funny to me that a bunch of popular accounts memed themselves into rejecting free money bc they didn’t want the shame of wearing a check mark next to their names
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One question I ask myself as I dig deeper into this: Why did the Trump administration do nothing about this for four years? It's obviously red meat to conservatives. What happened?
My instinct: They lacked an eye for detail and couldn't be bothered. Showmanship over results.
A scandal at the FAA has been moving on a slow-burn through the courts for a decade, culminating in the class-action lawsuit currently known as Brigida v.
@SecretaryPete
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gotta say, Brianna Wu has really been impressing me lately. she's been speaking with clarity and force on the current issues within progressive culture from the standpoint of one in a position to know and with something to lose in doing so.
fantastic to see
You want to have a real discussion about why I don’t plan to run for office again?
It has nothing to do with AIPAC or money. It’s because I am not convinced progressivism is a force for good in American politics anymore. Right now you’re in New York chanting “Bomb Tel Aviv!”…
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Did you say "history" and "a public notice or media advertisement"? Full points! I hope you didn't say you were referred by a friend; that'll set you back. Next up: Sports and grades. Think carefully—you only get one shot.
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I’m pretty despondent about environmentalism. From anti-nuclear protests to Ehrlich-style misanthropy to whatever this is, so much of it feels toxic.
But I care, or want to care, a great deal about the environment more broadly. What would healthy environmentalism look like?
2020:
Sierra Club sues to stop a transmission line from brining clean hydropower from Canada to Maine
2024:
Sierra Club sues the Maine government for not doing enough to combat climate change
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Fascinating, discouraging thread, reminiscent of the Kansas City Schools experiment.
What changes when you put disadvantaged students into an intensive, no-costs-spared boarding school environment?
Not a lot.
This is the SEED school, a 100% Black public boarding school in DC.
These disadvantaged students here enjoy a rigorous study schedule and a spending per student of 63000$ per year, comparable to some of the best schools in the country.
So, how and what do they do? Thread🧵
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Two webcomics I started following as a teen made a deep impression on me.
One, Prequel, has some of the highest highs of any comic I've read. Its creator is brilliant, the jokes consistently fantastic. I love it.
The creator updated consistently for a while, then fell off,…
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Mirrored at my blog. I am a passionate amateur who works on stories that interest me in my spare time. If you enjoy my writing and want to see more of it, please consider subscribing and spreading the word.
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this from
@sgodofsk
has lingered in my mind since I read it
honestly really beautiful to watch a case perfect protest movement that is undoubtedly on the right side of history and will be remembered as such, while these whiny libs BEG them to “cOnSidEr tHe oPtiCs!!” when the optics paint them in the best light possible at every turn 🇵🇸
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getting a lot of objections to my inclusion of Spongebob and my only conclusion is that you are all experiencing stockholm syndrome after too much early exposure
it's a very ugly show
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@SecretaryPete
The court records are sprawling and there is a great deal to go through with this story. I encourage interested parties to dig as much as possible. I am doing this in my spare time and do not have the resources to focus solely on it—there is enough here for many reports. Dig.
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"The district pointed to improvements in attendance and suspension rates, and that the school was no longer on the state watch list, only to learn from the Chronicle that the school was not only still on the list but also had dropped to a lower level."
What a line.
Who would have thought a program called Woke Kindergarten wouldn't have succeeded where a century's worth of other efforts to end educational inequality have failed? Truly surprising stuff. Maybe if they got more funding...?
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this mini-thread inspired by seeing a deliberately ugly account pop up on my feed again
if you have the choice between beauty and ugliness and you choose to lean into ugliness, I do not understand you
if you want to be bizarre, be bizarre in an aesthetic way
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Prior thread here:
A scandal at the FAA has been moving on a slow-burn through the courts for a decade, culminating in the class-action lawsuit currently known as Brigida v.
@SecretaryPete
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Following my interview with
@RichardHanania
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first time I’ve been blocked that actually stings
ah, well. life goes on
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“But the people who make it through will be so much better”—yes. High agency and focus is a superpower. That doesn’t mean the rest didn’t want to learn and were not capable of it.
Let the high-agency handle themselves, but build structure for the rest of us.
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it's just the essays, guys. whenever you get rejected from universities it's because of factors purely within your control and not because we're all playing an arbitrary and opaque game where students are punished for attending competitive schools
if you're going to tell the media you got rejected from colleges despite being a high performer, you need to publish your essays because getting rejected from Davis (40% accept rate) or Wisconsin (60%) does not add up. Otherwise we only see half of what admissions sees.
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Cool guy. Reminded me at once of how serious the study of the humanities can get and how brutal the job market is for those who devote the time to master their corners of it
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I admit that this has made it difficult to pay attention to my law school coursework today but I will finish soon and unspool things as much and as quickly as possible
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every once in a while, something awful happens to someone who’s said or done awful things, and a lot of people respond by reminiscing about how wonderful the person was to them
here’s the thing. I don’t think they’re wrong to do that. the eagle can befriend the owl
to draw…
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Well, there's a clear tension in play.
First: standardized tests emphatically provide predictive information above and beyond GPAs.
College admissions officials have a problem. They've had the problem for a very long time, every one of them knows the problem, and nobody has a…
What’s the best explanation for why all these schools turned against the SAT around the same time and why they all re-embraced standardized testing at roughly the same time? (Besides herding behavior)
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One truth anti-trans conservatives must reckon with: trans people aren't going to disappear.
This post from a friend in response to Trump's endorsement of anti-trans pastor Mark Burns reminded me of that.
Set aside any questions about who is really a man, who is really a…
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Great thread. Undergrad throws together a weak study; its counterintuitive result becomes cited as what Experts Say for a news cycle, with no attention at all paid to its methodological flaws or source.
Let me tell you the story of this still of stephen colbert wearing meat goggles, my buddy Frank, and how I learned to distrust science journalism 1/
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This thread is quite something. Random online harassment happens to everyone prominent. It’s not good, but this was not a credible threat of violence. Talking the guy down is admirable. Doing so as a ruse to doxx him and dig for political fodder is psychopathic.
A man DM’d I should be shot. For my family’s safety, I asked Twitter for help ID’ing him. When Twitter fell short (thanks for trying!) I asked the guy his name (stringing him a bit) & why he threatened me. Meet Jeremy Marshall who told me he was radicalized by Tucker Carlson. 🧵
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