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What if... both of those things are true?https://twitter.com/pewresearch/status/1391060839051010049 I guess given a choice I’d pick “be careful...” because I’d rather focus on the thing I can control. But it’s a
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I think a lot of disinfo flourishes by hitting a sweet spot: Too complicated to shoot down in a couple sentences, too obviously absurd to people with real expertise to
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One reason this belief is sticky is that press (understandably) keep saying there’s “no evidence” of fraud. What there actually is, is a huge amount of terrible “evidence” of fraud.
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I can’t figure out whether this was that rarest unicorn—a hearing question sincerely aimed at gathering information—or if he somehow believed she wouldn’t actually be able to list many things.
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The truly perverse thing about the current electronic voting security freakout, motivated by a desire to deny the results of the presidential election, is that for DECADES this really was
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That’s... so obviously false I don’t even know where to start. Apple doesn’t even have majority market share in the markets it competes in.https://twitter.com/rollcall/status/1313617543656017922 The idea that Facebook has a
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Here’s an irrational thing about the assault on §230 that I haven’t seen emphasized enough. You can’t actually forbid platforms employing their judgment to curate (or “censor”) content. That’s protected
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My favorite Hitchens story, apropos “cheap booze”: He was holding court at a Reason party shortly after Hunter Thompson’s suicide, which comes up in conversation, and I suggest a round
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1. Mattis and Kelly are obviously either direct sources for these stories or have authorized friends to relate their accounts. 2. They’re already tacitly confirming them by silence. They could
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So, years ago I quite accidentally injected the phrase “epistemic closure” into political discourse. This became a buzzword for five minutes, but a lot of people misunderstood it as effectively
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Realizing Trump is an idiot savant version of the protagonist from the early Neal Stephenson novel Interface.https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-media-needs-to-stop-rationalizing-president-trumps-behavior/ In the book, a politician get
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Wait, is the offense they’re threatening people’s jobs over just... the inclusion of this cartoon? A satirical published commentary on a currently contentious issue? What pathetic, mewling little snowflakes.https://twitter.com/joegamal
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