Show newer

There’s a critical mass of public policy people on Clubhouse now and quality discussions have gotten vastly easier to find

What gets me about the Clubhouse misinformation discourse is that Clubhouse is as structurally unconducive to misinformation as it gets—no sharing; all statements have limited shelf life; disagreements can be hashed out in real time. People mad about this are really mad that it’s harder to get people in IRL trouble for disagreeing with them.

It's remarkable how often QAnoners have these bohemian alternative lifestyles that affiliate them far more closely with New Age holistic wellness types than with anything recognizably conservative. Ashli Babbitt, the Capitol protestor who was shot by police, was in a throuple.

Just involuntarily misspelled “prolonged” as “prolongued” four times in a row

Curious about the story behind this random-seeming detour in I-78

@pee_zombie is there any way that instance admins can edit users’ handles? (I sort of want mine to begin with a lowercase letter instead)

What are some other good accounts to follow? My TL is a bit quiet

Surprisingly few direct bus services from Detroit to Indianapolis

Why do we say "Eastern Europe" but "East Asia"? Pure happenstance?

Vision may have regressed a bit. I'm consistently getting binocular ~20/40 or slightly worse when I'm not in direct sunlight. Also getting occasional flashes of clearer vision, not sure how or why

Still super dependent on ambient lighting: when not in direct sunlight my vision seems more like 20/40 or a bit better

Show thread

having the courage to choose your aesthetic convictions over profit is incredibly laudable
---
RT @moldbugman
I agree with the actions of the Japanese waiter and manager in this anecdote. The customer was wrong and they were right to insist they knew better.
twitter.com/moldbugman/status/

when a society finds itself sunk-cost-fallacying about why bright youngsters must be denied access to the sum of human knowledge is when it may be time to take a deep breath and pull the bandaid off (change funding incentives)
---
RT @alicemazzy
libgen/scihub are of such monumental social/moral worth that their illegality delegitimizes the law as a whole
twitter.com/alicemazzy/status/

Vision update: could get a 20/25 line and about half a 20/20 line with both eyes and with the right eye alone. (Left eye is a bit weaker, about 20/40). Blur-free visual range is 52-56 inches, suggesting nearsightedness in the range 0.70-0.77 diopters.

Show older
Mastodon

a Schelling point for those who seek one