1/ on a tangent, the most dangerous place to be is just over the heretical line , or just on the edge lots of attention focused there lots of tactics that work to destabilize people 1" into the acceptable zone, or 1/16" of an inch past the linehttps://twitter.com/waitbutwhy/status/1488875720008945666 …
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5/ ...then people will splutter and say "you're racist" and you shrug and saypic.twitter.com/5XqgUKtHtU
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6/ and they'll sputter some more and say "you're anti-democratic" and you smile and saypic.twitter.com/cSKrESlg9z
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7/ Part of the trick to building an anti-fragile life where you can just say things, is to work in an industry where there are no gatekeepers Academia, mainstream media, politics, etc are absolutely anathema to having effective free speech Even in tech, you have to work angles
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8/ After I got cancelled, back in the day, the search engine results for my name were pretty spicy and fun ...but as it turns out, employers do not look for "spicy and fun". They look for bland. So I got gigs via headhunters, under a false name. I used my middle name + last
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9/ during the entire application process. Headhunter middleman saw my real ID when I filled out the I-9 form, and didn't think anything of it. End client thought I was named "James", and I'd have answer to that in meetings. Wacky!
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