Medievalist. Futurist. Pointer. Looking at the long-term future of [something something something]
Washington, DC
Joined March 2007
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Kent's Law: There is no need to fear AI until spellcheck and autocorrect work flawlessly 95% of the time.
He is more valuable and effective dead than alive I have half—a-crackpot theory that someone on the right had him killed just for this reason. And to get with his wife. Vance has the motivation, but Miller has the malevolence.
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I'm not sad Charlie Kirk is dead and in America, that's allowed
I think Charlie Kirk was a bad person who hurt a lot of other people with bigoted words and in America, that's allowed
I don't want violence against anyone but the government can't require me to praise a bigot
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Both payroll employment (+73,000) and unemployment rate (4.2%) change little in July #BLSData #EmpSit bls.gov/news.release/archive…
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Payroll employment increases by 147,000 in June; unemployment rate changes little at 4.1% bls.gov/news.release/empsit.… #JobsReport #BLSdata
How come for years all the album cover art in my Apple Music on iOS has been wrong, and every 6 months when I look for a fix it’s still a long, laborious process that *I* have to do to correct it, rather than some easy fucking update that @AppleMusic could run? @Apple
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It's a good jobs report, and a big relief: The economy is going to hit Tariff-mageddon with a lotta momentum.
Payrolls +228k, well above expectations, and consistent with a remarkably robust and mature economic expansion.
Unemployment up a tick to 4.2%, but still LOW.
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Payroll employment rises by 228,000 in March; unemployment rate changes little at 4.2% #BLSData #EmpSit bls.gov/news.release/empsit.…
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🪡 Any English speaker who has ever studied a foreign language will have encountered, with varying degrees of enthusiasm, a palette of familiar grammatical terms - especially if those other language(s) belong to the same (huge) family as English (Indo-European) /1
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They hate Christianity in the Nietzschean way, which means that they hate it accurately for being a mercy to the poor and a command to be kind and honest even to the weak.
This is much more intelligent than New Atheists who hate inaccurate cartoon caricatures of religion.
JD Vance’s mentor, Peter Thiel, on Christianity: “Christianity, the main religion of the Western world, always takes the side of the victim. You should think of wokeness as ultra-Christianity or hyper-Christianity.”
Follow: @AFpost
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"For the amount of money it would take to extend the temporary provisions of the TCJA [2017 tax cuts] (not just over the next 10 years but permanently) policymakers could instead use the funds to keep Social Security solvent for generations." brookings.edu/articles/cut-t…
Elon Musk doing all the things the Right falsely said George Soros was doing. #unelectedbillionaire
Follow on question: If insurance cos. stop insuring things/people—how or why do they exist? I can see gov’ts saying, “you either insure, or we revoke charter/shut you down.”
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#OnThisDay 1980
Joy Division recorded 'Love Will Tear Us Apart' at Pennine Studios, Oldham.
The band later re-recorded the song at Strawberry Studios.
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📸 Daniel Meadows & AlanHempsall
@CenturyLink Your work crew knocked out my in-laws (your CUSTOMERS) Internet last week. Mother in law has been stood up TWICE by your repair crew and is now told no service until after Christmas?!? That TWO WEEKS without internet.
DO BETTER!
Hey @CenturyLink this is how things are going for you in Minnesota:
“Our promised repair visits have all been ‘misconnects’ - meaning no shows & now they are telling our provider they won’t even schedule again until Dec 26th.”
@CenturyLink
“Our provider is doubtful they will come then😡. He is reporting Century Link to the Federal Trade Commission & said he has been doing a lot of that lately.
He told me he hated to lose us as customers & suggested Comcast”
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Republicans are trying to shut down the government because they want to set up massive tax cuts for the rich next year while cutting Social Security and Medicare.
They know Americans don’t support that, so they’re holding the entire government hostage to try to force it.
No.