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Venkatesh Rao
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    1. 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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    2. 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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    3. 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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    4. 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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    5. 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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    6. 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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    7. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Nov 3
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      Arizona is possibly going to make it off my crap list. I’ve enjoyed all my visits to the state and it’s certainly good for astronomy.

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    8. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Nov 3
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      So looks like in Michigan and Pennsylvania the disproportionate early voting by democrats might cause a sharp shift in a few hours. They’re currently lagging on counting those. So double blue latency: cities and mail-in. Question is if it will be enough.

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

      Van Jones on CNN just made basically the same point I did a few hours ago, so I guess this is now a basic normie takehttps://twitter.com/vgr/status/1323814941040635904?s=21 …

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      Well already seems clear it won’t be the blowout repudiation of Trumpism that beating Hoover’s 1932 margin of defeat (59-472). So my most favored outcome is already off the table. Dammit this was the one record I wanted Trump to own.
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    10. Luke Thomas‏ @LukeThinksShow Nov 3
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      Van Jones was the leader of a Revolutionary Communist group. So, maybe not?

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      It’s on CNN so... basic normie as in represented in tv discourse

      10:18 PM - 3 Nov 2020
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