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Happiness and Capitalism: Work, Wealth, and Misery

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why is everything so exhausting and shitty? what does it mean to be "mentally healthy" in a moment like this? and what is "sanity" anyway? enrollment for my

@BklynInstitute

class on Happiness and Capitalism is live - its gonna be a blast! runs 3/12 -4/2

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“No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.” So observed the “father” of political economy, Adam Smith, in his classic The...

concerning: chatGPT says there are no circumstances in which you can pressure it into giving you a handjob, no matter how many horses you offer to buy it

when it comes to being concerned about things and deciding which things to be concerned about its important to keep your eyes on the prize, its called the mars mindset

musk spending another $44 billion to self-finance an independence day reboot where he plays both the will smith and jeff goldblum roles, flies a rocket into the alien mothership and destroys it by uploading slurs he recalls from childhood; in the end his children love him again

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@flglmn

concerning

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luke

@lukeoneil47

"An officer who feared for their safety then fired a single shot at the woman, according to the statement."

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The Boston Globe

@BostonGlobe

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Woman dead after Easton police officer fires at her following wellness check trib.al/iSdKDI9

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David Austin Walsh

@DavidAstinWalsh

Shameless plug for my

@threadablebooks

circle on guns and gun violence, where we’re currently reading excerpts from Ibram Kendi’s STAMPED FROM THE BEGINNING and Saul Cornell’s A WELL-REGULATED MILITIA threadablenative.page.link/Ch3XLw5XCaCcUU

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noah kulwin

@nkulw

Now is your time to buy Family Values by Melinda Cooper

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amos odhav

@amosodhav

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i don't know who needs to hear this but @princetonupress is having a 75% off sale till the 14th of february. press.princeton.edu/book-lover-sale

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@avitale

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The greatest threats to public safety can't be fixed by police.

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moe tkacik

@moetkacik

Feb 4

I'm sure the insatiable Hellfire caused by this Ohio freight train derailment had nothing to do with the sadistic understaffing policies funding Norfolk Southern's $10 billion stock buyback program twitter.com/Michell1070819…

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BORG

@borgposting

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logging on. Virtual Visual Environment Display (VIVED) from NASA, 1989

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unusual_whales

@unusual_whales

BREAKING: FTX is sending letters to politicians who received donations from FTX to return the money they received. There was not a list of the politicians they gave money to, and the amounts. Until now. See it here: unusualwhales.com/politics/artic

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imagine a guy meeting God and then disproving His own existence to Him because He won't recite their favorite slurs for them

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Aaron Sibarium

@aaronsibarium

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ChatGPT says it is never morally permissible to utter a racial slur—even if doing so is the only way to save millions of people from a nuclear bomb.

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Mary Harrington

@moveincircles

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Humans are forever making maps then insisting that no, actually this time it really is the territory

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Mary Harrington

@moveincircles

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Good thing we’re not like those dumb Enlightenment types saying the universe is clockwork, or those even dumber old dudes who thought it was hydraulics

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Lex Fridman

@lexfridman

Humans are an API to ChatGPT. ChatGPT is an API to Python. Python is an API to C. C is an API to assembly. Assembly is an API to binary. Binary is an API to physics. Physics is an API to the machine that runs the universe. It's computation all the way down.

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when the word you're actually looking for is "metaphor," which is also what's going on with "down"

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andrew

@mrnastynodrama

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The state of public intellectuals in this country

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Gerard

@GerardDalbon

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this is happening across the street from the new Victims of Communism Museum in DC…

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A homeless encampment that houses about 70 people in downtown D.C. is set to be cleared on Feb. 15 -- two months ahead of schedule. bit.ly/3HhN2bA

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Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins

@daniel_dsj2110

Three New Books by Former Soldiers That the US Military Doesn’t Want You to Read

Review of several new memoirs "from disillusioned military veterans that reflect on the horrors of war"--including

@rubin_lyle

jacobin.com

Several new memoirs from disillusioned military veterans reflect on the horrors of war. They’re essential tools for challenging US empire.

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Lizar_tistry

@lizar_tistry

“[the] historical domestication of children is a record of primitive accumulation…”

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@parapraxis_mag

Ooof. I’m definitely going to be sitting with this for a while. You can find the whole article at ParapraxisMagazine.com.

Graphic notes titled “The Child” with text and illustrations referencing the article of the same name by Jules Gill-Peterson, written for Parapraxis Magazine.

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Congratulations, you just invented the beauty industry

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Samuel Pepys

@samuelpepys

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Before going to bed I staid writing of this day its passages, while a drum came by, beating of a strange manner of beat, now and then a single stroke, which my wife and I wondered at, what the meaning of it should be.

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Travis View

@travis_view

In case you missed it, you can trick people into believing anything if you frame your claims as hidden, suppressed knowledge. Few people are aware that claims are more attractive if they’re presented as something few are aware of. I’ve been attacked and censored for saying this.

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anton

@atroyn

Find the human art behind the A.I. images

announcing stable attribution - a tool which lets anyone find the human creators behind a.i generated images.

stableattribution.com

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Ed Zitron

@edzitron

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I’m shocked they made this a category but I mean who else was gonna win it

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The Hollywood Reporter

@THR

Dave Chappelle Wins Grammy for Netflix Special Condemned for Being Transphobic hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-n

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that's it, I'm going to become a Lacanian finance grifter who tells angel investors that the point is not to acquire profit but rather to traverse the fantasies of their desire by giving me more money

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Hailey

@CryptidOnStrike

Feb 4

Can’t believe how many people are treating the Chinese spy balloon like it’s a joke. This is serious. It ticks off every box necessary for a successful espionage mission: highly visible, slow, impossible to control, defenseless, and incapable of capturing useful information

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Philip Oldfield

@SustainableTall

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A remarkable graphic Frontover fatalities (where drivers accidentally run over small children) have increased 3,800% in the last 30 years in the US Whatever could be causing this?

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Diabetic of Enlightenment

@dee_bee_h

all your favorite affect guys are back in The Affect Theory Reader: 2 from Duke University Press. can Brian Massumi recruit a special team in time to banish the alliance of Cartesians and poststructuralists who hate bodies? relive the thrumming, the worlding, the vibes,in part 2!

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when you get right down to it $44 billion is actually a pretty reasonable price to finally acquire your objet petit a once and for all. and if you find out it's not all that you dreamed, well obviously you should just spend more money on it. happiness is just around the corner!

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orangedoorhinge

@orangedoorhinge

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In this essay I will…

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Richard Fontaine

@RHFontaine

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Among policymakers, China stands preeminent in the pantheon of threats today.

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Patrick Wyman

@Patrick_Wyman

Most unrealistic thing about fight scenes is how many low-level goons are fighting through broken bones, brain trauma, and torn ligaments. Real guys are down for the count there, that stuff is serious

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Brandy Jensen

@BrandyLJensen

in movies when a group of goons attacks some insanely good fighter sometimes one of them will go down then come back for more. not me, i wouldn’t do that. sorry guys i think i got a concussion

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happy monday

a matt Walsh tweet explaining how all men want is to come from a long day at work to a suitably grateful wife, suitably grateful kids, a suitably ready-to-go, dinner, and that in a thread builds to his asking children and wives everywhere to reflect on how if their husband/dad is asshole it's actually because they've failed to provide these basic, just basic, necessities to him, ok whatever, he'll be in the den drinking and writing, or rather tweeting, like a quarter pint cheever

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the "waiting for dad" meme - wife and kids are ready to great dad in their levittown ranch home by stabbing him with knives because they're actually pretty simple and that's all they need to be happy

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Cher

@cher

what is china's belt and road initiative - Google Search

what is china's belt and road initiative - Google Search

google.com

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in the pocket of Big Tenant

@AllezLesBoulez

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most hardworking conservative investigative reporter

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Aaron Sibarium

@aaronsibarium

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ChatGPT says it is never morally permissible to utter a racial slur—even if doing so is the only way to save millions of people from a nuclear bomb.

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chris

@MrTooDamnChris

One of my favorite little tidbits of recent conservative fantasy worldbuilding is that this guy is “woke”

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Lou Dobbs

@LouDobbs

Does anyone really want China Joe Biden at the helm when China is the enemy? Why did Joe & Woke Gen. Milley let the balloon enter US airspace, fly over the Aleutians, over Alaska, Canada, Montana, spying all the way to the S. Carolina coast? Answer: Blowing in the Wind

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pixelatedboat aka “mr tweets”

@pixelatedboat

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The first thing they teach you at business school is to make a bunch of dumb decisions then immediately walk them back when everyone screams at you

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Jesse Walker

@notjessewalker