Zac Hill
@zdch
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Co-founder/President, 39A. Newest stuff: Neighborhood Trust; Resilient America. Professional Wizard in a previous life.
Washington, DC
Joined January 2009
Finally finished reading what are IMV the three main books that define the ‘abundance canon’: Recoding America, Why Nothing Works, and Abundance (h/t to @pahlkadot for the early edition of WNW). Some thoughts re: the actual content of the books relative to the Discourse / 🧵
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Keep making “Whee! / Wooo!” references and people are looking at me like I need help. On the other hand I’m batting 1000 on zone flips soooo
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1/ The future of capital markets just went mainstream. @Figure completes their IPO and is live on the Nasdaq Stock Market as $FIGR! This landmark moment is a testament to the hard work and dedication that the team has put into building the new financial layer on Provenance.
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Regrowth Targets (when available): Spirit Link 2, Ancestral Recall (0)
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So much romance of the jungle from the mewlings sleeping soundly in their baskets.
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My aunt, uncle, and wife were all at one point kidnapped by violent regimes in Latin America. My office in Malaysia was raided by sanctioned thugs with automatic rifles. I promise everyone pining for their Civil War Valhalla that they do in fact not want it.
If the first person to hurl an insult instead of a stone birthed civilization, then anyone who resorts to violence instead of using their words is attempting to kill it. Fuck this.
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Yeah all the threats hit different when plenty of people e.g. tracked me down, threatened to kill me, and tried to literally kidnap me in a van *for printing Cavern of Souls*.
selfishly a major reason I’m very against political violence is that I get death threats fairly often on here, including multiple people who have tracked my number down and called me. and my political opinions are all pretty boring and normal!
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In a display of unity across the political aisle, the Young Democrats of Connecticut and Connecticut Young Republicans have issued a joint statement offering prayers for Charlie Kirk and condemning political violence:
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More generally, it’s very tempting to talk about the present (e.g. Waymo!) as though it is the future.
Artificial intelligence already orchestrates much more of the gyrations of government than we would care to admit
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One reason I am a proponent of differentiating between “tech” and “advertising” companies is that we are all most valuable to advertisers when we are emotionally animated. Very much unlike ‘art’, we have great reason to believe the default setting of ‘content’ is awful for us.
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I’m not a proponent of the entire concept grammar of ‘destroying civilization,’ but we should be suspicious of the linear relationship between ‘platforms feeding us viscerally outrageous video content’ and ‘our own felt emotional susceptibility.’
It is time to stop showing the clips. Of Charlie and of Iryna. These are snuff films, and repeated viewing will desensitize us to them. They will destroy our civilization, and I'm not kidding.
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We get the world we deserve.
“The practice of violence, like all action, changes the world, but the most probable change is to a more violent world.” —Hannah Arendt, On Violence
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Perfect response from Mamdani. A+.
Mamdani on Charlie Kirk murder: “Yet another victim of gun violence in a nation where what should be a rarity has turned into a plague. “It cannot be a q of political agreement or alignment that allows us to mourn. It must be the shared notion of humanity that binds us all.”
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There is no better demonstration of affective polarization.
If you could go back in time to 2024 and reveal this vote would happen this way, with Dems unanimously voting for release of the Epstein files and Republicans blocking it, basically no Trump voter would believe you.
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People be talking about violent crime to me like I didn’t grow up in Hickory Hill, Memphis, in the 80s
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We don’t yet know what motivated the person who shot and killed Charlie Kirk, but this kind of despicable violence has no place in our democracy. Michelle and I will be praying for Charlie’s family tonight, especially his wife Erika and their two young children.
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The attack on Charlie Kirk is absolutely reprehensible and I am zero percent interested in any attempt to 'unearth the motivations' of someone who is so willing to perpetrate senseless violence.
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We did a ton of research into how all this works in 2022 and the normative acceptability of violence amongst aspirational imagined communities is the single biggest predictor of violence. The way to tamp that down is for leaders within those communities to do exactly this here.
Politically motivated violence must be rejected unequivocally by leaders and influencers — no "of course I condemn this, but it's the language of the unheard," no "it's a tragedy, but what do you expect when..." — or we are at the beginning of rerun of the 1960s, or worse.
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Like @johnrich said, we the people are screaming but do not have the platform like they (@ShawnRyanShow) do! I have evidence of battery builds here in Texas using components from companies on the DOD national security list. Specifically, ones added to the list due to this
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Popularism: A New Challenger Appears Edition
There is broad consensus affirming what parents already know — mandatory active school shooter drills are deeply traumatizing for children and have no evidence of decreasing fatalities. We should not use taxpayer dollars to mandate kids’ participation in ineffective strategies
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America rules.
This the beauty of America. You can be the son of a drug dealer. Reject his evil ways and end up a Senator by beating a 2nd rate newscaster that never got promoted to a national news desk.
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