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Venkatesh Rao
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Conversational account. For work follow @ribbonfarm, @breaking_smart, @artofgig. Tweets are 90% vacuous views, apathetically held. Mediocritopian. IKEA builder.

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    1. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Nov 3
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      The nice thing is, this time around I’ve been prepared for exactly this contingency. This is what Project @basicmansion is about 😎 A personal Second Foundation for a Dark Age.

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    2. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Nov 3
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      Venkatesh Rao Retweeted Venkatesh Rao

      Previously on the doomscrollhttps://twitter.com/vgr/status/1323775147044564992?s=21 …

      Venkatesh Rao added,

      Venkatesh Rao @vgr
      “No one in this world, so far as I know — and I have searched the records for years, and employed agents to help me — has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby.” H. L. Mencken.
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    3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Nov 3
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      Commercial break. At least our Dark Age TV lineup is lit. Brought to you by @kneelingbus for Mayor of NYC. The mayor who will bring you the first Asimovian Cave of Steel in 2030.pic.twitter.com/i6aDUDWPr6

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    4. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Nov 3
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      Things to look forward to tomorrow - Breakfast burrito - 50% reduction in scenario planning complexity for us futurists - Grand narratives are back. Dark age! - Can think long-term again - Great Weirding officially over, and into the Permaweird - Anthropocene Whiskey Sour

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    5. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Nov 3
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      The long arc story for the last 20 years has been urban vs rural. Every passing year, city-state future looks more real.

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    6. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Nov 3
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      Underlines why Covid is so huge. In one sense it explodes the geopolitical foundation of urban political power. OTOH thatvoower itself is demographic not location-based. it is unclear what it will mean if the urban world floods out into the hinterland like a dam bursting.

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    7. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Nov 3
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      Biden’s randomly making a statement. Sounds confident and doughty. Rallying the troops saying he feels on track to win this.pic.twitter.com/lkPu6Udh8a

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    8. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Nov 3
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      Weirdly hypernormal. This is unfolding similarly to every election night I’ve stayed up tracking since 2000. Yet feels completely different.

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    9. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Nov 3
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      Since this is a livetweet of the election I must capture this inevitable inflammatory tweet. Now *this* is different from every other election.pic.twitter.com/Q9HLFDycCu

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    10. Brandon Hudgeons‏ @bhudgeons Nov 3
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      Replying to @vgr

      That was the second version of the tweet. Here is the original:pic.twitter.com/ohIU28ADvH

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      Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Nov 3
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      Replying to @bhudgeons

      I’ll give him his typo. Feeling generous.

      10:00 PM - 3 Nov 2020
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        1. NOLAN GRAY‏ @nolangray_ Nov 3
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          Annex Poland

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