Alex Payne

@al3x

Now I write but when I used to program computers I helped make and it seemed like a good idea at the time I swear.

Oregon, USA
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Joined November 2006
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  1. 13 hours ago

    “[H]e’d even coined a term for the elite evasion of social conflict: ‘Pinkering,’ after the Harvard linguist Steven Pinker’s argument that the arc of history is bending ineluctably toward world peace.”

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  2. Aug 22

    Scorching take.

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  3. Aug 21

    “All forms of discourse on the Internet were born broken. I see no solution to this. You can ban Infowars from any platform you want, but it won’t stop the circular firing squad, nor the design of the platforms that encourages that cycle.”

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  4. Aug 20

    “Although the rally was against alleged leftwing violence, figures from the US GAO show rightwing extremists have committed 101 murders in the US since 2001. ‘Far left extremists’ have caused no fatalities in that timeframe.“

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  5. Aug 17

    “‘the data suggest that the vast majority of tax savings have been used by companies to increase dividends and repurchase shares,’ which gives shareholders more money but doesn’t increase corporate investment or workers’ wages.”

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  6. Aug 8

    “to keep up with the demand for meat, agricultural emissions worldwide will likely need to increase by up to 80 percent by 2050 — a figure that alone could jeopardize the ambitious plan to keep planetary warming below the 2 degrees Celsius benchmark”

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  7. Jul 31

    "When we celebrate the notion that anyone could become the next billionaire, we encourage this mass delusion that good times are always just around the corner [...] But in America, reality isn’t a priority — after all, we’ve got The Dream."

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  8. Jul 30

    “Social democratic policies tend to prioritise safety nets and lower inequality over higher growth. But they certainly have not resulted in business falling off a cliff. Many of the things that these new socialists want might even be good for the economy.”

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  9. Jul 28

    “28. Kate Bush was regularly sampled by 90s rave producers.”

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  10. Jul 28

    extremely this mix

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  11. Jul 20

    “Civility bromides are a last-ditch effort to preserve the brutal illusion that the pain of politics, like the savagery of the market, is a gray, neutral, and body-less process”

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  12. Jul 19

    “When democracy is restricted, business opts for predation rather than efficiency since it is always easier to rip people off than to build a better mousetrap.”

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  13. Jul 10

    “Meditation wasn’t developed so we could lead less stressful lives or improve our wellbeing. Its primary purpose was more radical – to rupture your idea of who you are; to shake to the core your sense of self so that you realise there is ‘nothing there’”

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  14. Jul 8

    “expanding our moral imagination” is a superb phrase (and an even better pursuit)

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  15. Jul 2

    “The true cost of tech’s tax breaks is slowly becoming clear”

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  16. Jul 1

    “The experience led to animosity between Ellison and Roddenberry for the rest of the latter's life, in particular over a claim by Roddenberry that Ellison had the character Scotty dealing drugs in one version of the script.”

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  17. Jun 29

    “Banding together is a healthy human impulse. Banding together in knots of narcissistic fury is not.”

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  18. Jun 22

    "Twitter, a company that at this point seems almost allergic to taking a stand against anything, is apparently pretty responsive under the right conditions."

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  19. Jun 18

    “the great wave of popular resentment sweeping across advanced societies is partly about the way the modern economy shreds some of people’s most basic emotional attachments”

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  20. Jun 15

    SIR I’ll have you know I’m depress-ed not depress-ing, have at least a middling sense of humor, and dropped out of a cheap state school NOW GOOD DAY

    Those who proclaim themselves “socialists” are usually depressing, have no sense of humor & attended an expensive college. Fate loves irony.
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