lol the only person I recognized on this list was @nberlat https://t.co/PYKeFVx6B5
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I would say overall that its greatest weakness was that the letter itself was unable to hold my attention past the third paragraph the second greatest weakness was that they got a signature from a royal who has apparently had to stoop to journalism to make ends meetpic.twitter.com/DvrEec8Xs4
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What actually matters imo is that this is actually an incredibly weak lineup I had not expected this when I saw it going around Need to mull on it a bit but I think they might have been better off not publishing it at all, politically speakinghttps://twitter.com/eigenrobot/status/1280921639010496513?s=19 …
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basically you can view open letters as flags on a hill for outsiders to rally around content of the letter often doesnt actually matter that much, in the details if people you disagree with drop a letter with fucking Chomsky and Rushdie you had better bring some big guns too
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what would have made a difference to either letter imo would have been live players with real power University presidents, editors at flagships, whatever Think it's worth noting they kept their heads down Not speaking is also a signal
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they might be waiting for consensus in either direction before committing safely which makes sense and also maybe signals they have less power than one might think funny how Leaders all move in the same direction at the same time
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also a good point actually they published on substack sign of weakness, either no organization was willing to sign on or the ones that were (imagine
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also a good point, may have contributed to the substack publication institutions dont like broadsides against other institutions maybe (?) https://twitter.com/illiteralworst/status/1281742692645388293?s=19 …
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oh this is a good point re signatories hmm https://twitter.com/bronzebarbarian/status/1281745668596314112?s=19 …
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thank you for coming to my absolutely amateur outsider analysis of impossibly complex social phenomena im your host a literal inhuman robot, signing off
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I recognized a few unfortunately
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