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    1. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Nov 4
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      This is very niche but I don’t care.https://twitter.com/vgr/status/1324134191483682816 …

      Venkatesh Rao added,

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      The mix of urban+mail-in has created Jurassic World ending level drama. Joe Biden (played by T-Rex) is in overmatched standoff with Trump (played by Indominus). Will chaotic-neutral energy of electoral system (played by Mossasurus) rear up from water at last minute to eat Trump? pic.twitter.com/FD6nDU0ARB
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    2. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Nov 4
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      Goddamn Pennsylvania

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    3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Nov 4
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      The electoral college creates an interesting faux-discretization of a single scenario into many. Remember we’re now navigating a variety of scenarios and futures all within cone of Biden winning popular vote, which I think is already certain. It’s like aliasing pixelation.

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    4. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Nov 4
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      An odd shtick nobody else could pull of with a straight face is Trump trying to halt counting where it would favor him and drive it to resolution where he’s behind. He really has no sense of the spirit of a competition. Atlanta commissioner doing a presser on scanner process.

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    5. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Nov 4
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      Quite a process this dude is describing. - invalidated ballots are tossed (missing/mismatched signature) - open, flatten feed ballot through scanner twice - if computer flags an uncertainty, human review panel infers voter intent to countpic.twitter.com/qtvLNghYUT

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    6. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Nov 4
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      Gotta say these people are heroes in the same sense as firefighters, healthcare workers. It’s thankless, low-paid, low-glamour frustrating work with a lot of angry people waiting to yell at you no matter what. This is why I believe in democracy. We invest thankless labor into it.

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    7. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Nov 4
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      Things tend to be valuable in proportion to the amount of thankless grinding labor it takes to make them work. In a way this would be an argument against online voting. The labor is a feature.

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    8. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Nov 4
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      Blockchain people get this and don’t get this. This is literal proof of work. If you designed an online version you should design in an expensive counting process. Elections *should* be costly to run.

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    9. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Nov 4
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      Venkatesh Rao Retweeted Liberty

      If Trump loses, there will be a clear test of the popular remote diagnosis that he is a narcissistic psycho with no soul. If he grows a beard to process, he has a soul. If he doesn’t, he doesn’t. I don’t make the rules. The beard test is bipartisan and global.https://twitter.com/LibertyRPF/status/1324145916853575680 …

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      You can't shame someone who doesn't have a conscience. They should teach the basics of sociopathy and malignant narcissism in high school so fewer people fail to recognize the signs.
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    10. Bruce Worden: drawerings‏ @bruce_worden Nov 4
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      2020 was the first beard I ever kept beyond springtime. I knew it was a "processing" beard, but had no idea it meant I have a soul. Woohoo!pic.twitter.com/geVA2G5bVd

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      Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Nov 4
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      https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2020/1/28/21077676/beard-change-politics-beto-orourke-al-gore-david-letterman-conan-obrien …

      4:42 PM - 4 Nov 2020
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        1. Bruce Worden: drawerings‏ @bruce_worden Nov 4
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          Yeah, I don't think Conan O'Brien and I are growing our beards for the same reason though :P

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