22/ The overwhelming majority of the Bay Area is not tech-bro. Too many of the loudest people in tech with considerable power who don't get sufficient pushback are.
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32/ Private schools create more socialization-induced problems than public schools do and it isn't even close.
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33/ At once, racism explains more than the right admits and less than the left asserts. But you'd be a fool to claim either that racism isn't a persistent issue or these errors are equally bad. Or you'd be a racist.
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[okay. Shitty boingo airport Wifi is to spotty on my laptop and I hate phone tweeting. Tbh]
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34/ People who call and reach out for “civil conversations” don’t care about the conversation part, only the pretense of *their* civility that they’re asking you to commit to.
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35/ The past is important to understand but given the combination of technological progress and hysteresis, at society scale it’s all basically n=1. Somehow only the left and cryptoland seems to believe this.
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36/ If you are over the age of 30 and you are engaging with early twenty something edge lords, you’re making so many useless mistakes.
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37/ “Triggering” is a damn near sociopathic strategy for hijacking attention and agendas. It’s also unfortunately an effective one given the environment. We live in right now.
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38/ If your politics doesn’t include some fiction — particularly of a brighter possible tomorrow — you implicitly assume history *must* repeat itself, which is the most pessimistic and self-perpetuating view imaginable
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[it was a very long travel day and I am unfortunately still caffeinated so I just smoked some of the marijuana and think it’s best to pause]
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