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Nationalism is a tool for scaling oppositional tech. Nationalism put the first men in space and on the moon. But nationalism is a blocker to solving climate change. The thing to remember: proponents of tech + nationalism don’t want to solve climate change. They want to own the off-planet expansion.
Wednesday, November 13, 2024 →
When you shared that NYE photo - did you fully experience the event itself?
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Just Show Up.
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carpooling with Malcolm Gladwell sucks. Every morning he tells me my choice of route reflects my “hidden psychological biases”. Today he made me take 18 side streets to “explore the road less traveled.” We were 40 minutes late.
Folks if your thanksgiving this year isn’t deeply uncomfortable for everyone at the table you’re doing it wrong
If you send me a TikTok video, here’s how to interpret my reply:
“lol” - I didn’t watch it and I’m annoyed at you but for unrelated reasons “lol!” - I didn’t watch it but we’re cool “omg” - I didn’t watch it but I like you
There is statistically significant subset of white women who love:
Kamala Harris lost not because of some secret scheme but because enough voters made a choice — an uncomfortable, frustrating, and yes, frightening choice. The work isn’t to rewrite this reality as a conspiracy, it’s to face it.
The Star Wars prequels are an underrated political epic about a galaxy wide slide into fascism and my man George didn’t get the respect he deserved
ACAB actually means Assigned Cop at Birth and some of you jokers absolutely were
Underrated trade idea:
SEC investigation? bullish. prison time? bullish. cellmate named brick who wants my private keys? extremely bullish
people say “Oh You can’t solve ALL your problems with a shovel and a suspiciously cheap plot of land in the desert” but guess what. not only is that false, its also slander, and i will see you in court. and then also in the desert.
the best (???) thing about American politics is you get shit like the “Give Free School Lunches to Kids Act” and that sounds awesome but when it passes you find out it raised the cost of school lunches and somehow made it easier to buy an AR-15
when you see minimalism as inherently ethical and morally righteous you ignore how it becomes a consumer trend in itself
I made an X account yesterday in an attempt to break out of my own echo chamber.
Get a feel for what the other side are talking about.
Posted the exact same content I post on Mastodon / Threads.
Today my X account was suspended because of “a user report.”
seeing the inevitable chorus of folks blaming trans issues for harris losing.
without googling, name a single pro trans policy that Harris ran on.
lot of folks in tech want to identify with Galileo boldly challenging religion in the name of science but when it comes to trans rights they are literally on the side of the Catholic Church
Whole lotta quote tweeting the messenger going on rn if you know what I mean