Zac Hill
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Co-founder/President, 39A. Newest stuff: Resilient America; In Pursuit. Professional Wizard in a previous life.
Washington, DC
Joined January 2009
Haven’t gotten enough of me yapping about David Foster Wallace, attention, and mortal terror on the internet for the last ~twenty years? Well, in my inaugural piece for Wisdom of Crowds, I keep up the trend.
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Another dimension of the Bush-coded ness of this whole operation (beyond ‘narcoterrorism’) is the outsize role of personal animus in driving these far-reaching geopolitical positions.
NEW from @nytimes: Rubio's longtime goal of crippling or toppling Cuba's leaders is tied to Venezuela. He has said that if the government in Caracas falls, Havana could follow. He and Trump are pressuring Maduro to abdicate — and could use the CIA or US military to force that.
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I agree that it’s counterproductive to be pedantic, but to me there’s a lot of value in being able to engage with claims at face value to decide where one nets out. ‘Vibes Epistemology’ seems to rely on a kind of consensus - when the whole issue is the existing lack of consensus.
I have in fact defended this kind of rhetoric. We all understand what the complaint is when somebody says that MAGA is fascist. I don’t at all see the point in pushing your glasses up on your nose and protesting that “ackshually that’s not the definition of fascism.”
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Most people want politics to improve their lives, but most *active participants* in political *discourse* want it to be a vessel for their participation in a meaning providing set of worldviews, institutions, and ideologies.
Cost of living is the #1 issue for every subgroup of voters imaginable - young people, people of color, women - *except* for the ~ 1% of the population that has donated to a Democratic campaign in the last year
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“Under the right conditions, attention can be more contagious than distraction.” -Jackson Arn in the latest @readliberties.
Haven’t gotten enough of me yapping about David Foster Wallace, attention, and mortal terror on the internet for the last ~twenty years? Well, in my inaugural piece for Wisdom of Crowds, I keep up the trend.
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We need more energy, not less energy. Less energy rather than more energy makes energy more expensive, which is worse for Americans and worse for American businesses.
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This is a hugely important dynamic. Much like the Hollywood meme that ‘everyone rich wants to be famous, and everyone famous wants to be rich,’ everyone powerful wants to be well-respected and everyone well-respected wants to be powerful.
"Trumpian populism may be the story of our age but I'm increasingly convinced that we're underplaying the tech-authoritarian elephant in the room." My Swamp Notes newsletter. Free to read.
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The understanding of the nature/value of equity versus debt amongst generally bright people (including generally bright founders) is always sort of wild to me. There are things called loans! One can use them to invest in dimensions of one’s business!
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Most of us I don’t think appreciate how big a deal CHIPS was/is, even accounting for the fact that we know we probably underestimate how big a deal CHIPS was/is.
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Evergreen tweet.
@Mekarrrr @IAPonomarenko Whenever your postulate is that you understand something that someone else doesn’t, consider the possibility that instead they understand something that you don’t.
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I feel like an underrated response to “wow there are a lot of bad things in overly processed food” is “eat less overly processed food” rather than e.g. “press ctrl+alt+delete on the entire food/drug/health system”.
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The actual informational value of art is underrated, and Grimes’ explanation of what dimensions of AI art are most powerful is an excellent objective correlative of how creators instill value in art generally.
I do sometimes feel that one of the great purposes of art is the transmission of emotional wisdom - as a kid I was able to model a lot of the human experience because of art. A song can make you understand what a broken heart feels like for just a second. Most ai art doesn't
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Every third post from antivaxxers is like: “You shouldn’t use vaccines; you should use [this other thing that strengthens your immune response].”
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In <s> Soviet Russia </s> Germany, <s> drones watch you! </s> you watch drones!
Amazing story of how German journalism students tracked thousands of drones over military bases and airports to ships linked to Russia -- using drones of their own:
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The Veep Bit Presidency continues…
When @dfriedman33 discovered a Goodreads page tied to the email of a top Pentagon official featuring books on “Asian wife sharing," he did what any reporter would do: ask the Pentagon questions. The next day, a threatening email from Jack Posobiec arrived.
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This is the part in Kayfabe Epistemology where the cable breaks and Owen Hart falls from the arena ceiling and people just needlessly die for no reason because we can’t be bothered to take ourselves seriously as the most powerful nation on Earth.
Read to the end. NPR asked why the Trump team ended a low-cost program that cured millions of tropical diseases w drugs donated by pharma. The spokesperson replied with an NPR headline—“Farewell to USAID”—and said: “What do you think farewell meant?”
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To have assertive moral opinions, you kind of need to demonstrate that you’re an assertively moral person.
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You can just [not] do things.
Hundreds of people are quarantined in South Carolina because of another outbreak of measles, something we had basically eradicated. Out of 111 people infected, 105 were unvaccinated. https://t.co/QkQXc8WSoP
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Hmm, interesting, seems bad, maybe we shouldn't do this.
Magaziner: How many US military veterans have you deported? Noem: Sir, we have not deported U.S. Citizens or military veterans. Magaziner: We are joined on zoom by a gentleman who is army combat veteran who was shot twice while serving our country in Panama in 1989. Earlier
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