Zoe
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Kade U
Kade U
8h
>unless they are going off of the fact that their parents owned some company and sent them to fancy private schools but as young adults they were a struggling journalist.
this is a real phenomenon in NYC specifically, which explains the connection to Mamdani's win. there's a lot of people with relatively wealthy parents who wen... See more
Kade U
8h
>unless they are going off of the fact that their parents owned some company and sent them to fancy private schools but as young adults they were a struggling journalist.
this is a real phenomenon in NYC specifically, which explains the connection to Mamdani's win. there's a lot of people with relatively wealthy parents who wen... See more
Democrats’ strategy for winning union voters is broken
We think we’re making active choices. But, often, we’re reinforcing unconscious biases - toward what’s familiar and frictionless. The algorithm isn’t evil. It’s obedient. It responds to what we train it on.
how to build your information advantage
But I do think it’s bad that in both cases we struggle so much, as a society, to actually sustain discussion of working-class life and working-class problems without transmuting it into discussion of middle-class problems.
Emotional labor was about paid work
I find that people who don't like the book don't like reading about unsympathetic characters, but I always taught it (when the youths read books) as "What does it mean to find your soulmate when you have a shitty soul?" What about people who do not behave carefully and rationally? What do they deserve? Is Cathy really "made of the same stuff" as He... See more
How Wuthering Heights keeps changing
Kenny Easwaran
Kenny Easwaran
6h
I thought Moses spent 40 years destroying slums and building highways so that suburbanites could drive to where the good bagels are.
Kenny Easwaran
6h
I thought Moses spent 40 years destroying slums and building highways so that suburbanites could drive to where the good bagels are.
The power of a single-issue group
Eric C.Eric C. 3hAh yes, the two genders: bought more college than you could afford, and bought more car than you could afford
Repairing the tax code after Trump
dysphemistic treadmill
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The project of Big Tenting will be assisted, I think, by returning to an earlier understanding of “allyship.”
During WWII, the US allied with the USSR in order to defeat Hitler. We were allies despite fundamental disagreements about political ideologies, values, and global aspirations. We were allied... See more
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The project of Big Tenting will be assisted, I think, by returning to an earlier understanding of “allyship.”
During WWII, the US allied with the USSR in order to defeat Hitler. We were allies despite fundamental disagreements about political ideologies, values, and global aspirations. We were allied... See more
Only a big tent can maximize the OBBBA opportunity
Nikuruga
11h
Also it’s not hard to imagine a universe of technological abundance existing alongside large groups of impoverished people who don’t get to share in it. In fact that’s what the real world is like. If we can have a world where a futuristic AI-powered Silicon Valley coexists with subsistence farmers in Africa living in mud huts, why is it ... See more
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Also it’s not hard to imagine a universe of technological abundance existing alongside large groups of impoverished people who don’t get to share in it. In fact that’s what the real world is like. If we can have a world where a futuristic AI-powered Silicon Valley coexists with subsistence farmers in Africa living in mud huts, why is it ... See more