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noam chompers @noamchompers.bsky.social · 9h

If only there were a word for this kind of guy…

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noam chompers @noamchompers.bsky.social · 10h

lol

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noam chompers @noamchompers.bsky.social · 10h

i do think we're ODing on bari discourse a bit, but i just want to encourage you to read this (...two sentence) passage, while bearing in mind that sally jenkins described the author as 'a tremendous writer'

Clay Ranck @clayranck.bsky.social · 11h

I love how Caitlin’s main example of Bari Weiss speaking truth to power is a piece about NPR that just goes through the same right-wing tropes about liberal media that we’ve heard a thousand times before.

That she will somehow denigrate the storied
CBS News—it has been reported that some staff members have delivered minatory instructions to not "mess with the Golden Goose(s) of '60 Minutes' and 'CBS News Sunday Morning," as though West 57th Street were the O.K. Corral—is a complete misreading of her and her vision, which is to bring the traditional methods of American journalism back to the news, and also to build a culture of ideas. This is exactly what she's done at The Free Press, which covers a variety of stories, the most popular of which
—Uri Berliner's explanation of NPR's decline, for example—are those that hold powerful institutions to account.

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noam chompers @noamchompers.bsky.social · 10h

i've long said calling olive oil 'extra virgin' is bullying

Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 10h

Look, I don’t care what kind of life it’s led before I met it. All that matters to me is that it’s olive oil.

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noam chompers @noamchompers.bsky.social · 12h

[also sagely] football move

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Jon Bois @jonbois.bsky.social · 13h

thank god the red zone channel started running commercials. when it was commercial-free i'd get to 7:30 p.m., look at how i'd spent my day, and realize i'd burned through an entire sunday without growing or developing at all as a consumer. and if i'm not a consumer i'm nothing at all

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noam chompers @noamchompers.bsky.social · 13h

[sagely] left buttcheek equals two feet

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noam chompers @noamchompers.bsky.social · 15h

One small beer after another

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warrior cop @wyattprivilege.bsky.social · 2d

Trump to China: obey my command or I will destroy the United States

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noam chompers @noamchompers.bsky.social · 2d

i know it's the classic means-testing thing (that i think is intellectually disreputable generally fwiw), but just at the level of language 'wealthy new yorkers who take the bus' is a very funny phrase

Second Ave. Sagas @2avesag.as · 2d

You can tell Cuomo's campaign has cooked its brain on Twitter because it's repeating nonsense talking points from people like Andrew Fine and Reza who claim only rich people use transit.

As of 2017, bus riders in NYC earn an average salary of $28K, well under subway riders ($40K).

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noam chompers @noamchompers.bsky.social · 2d

my dad was a lawyer, sue me

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Shane McNichol @ontheshanetrain.bsky.social · 3d

New meme format

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noam chompers @noamchompers.bsky.social · 3d

Can’t believe Major League Baseball would be biased against the beautiful dodgers like this

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noam chompers @noamchompers.bsky.social · 3d

Getting some really good feedback on my latest publication (in particular: why the fuck did you use the word ‘arguendo’?)

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noam chompers @noamchompers.bsky.social · 3d

lol hell yeah

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Vlad Chituc @vladchituc.bsky.social · 3d

I spent like 5 minutes arguing with a philosopher this summer at SPP because I said it was crazy that you see perceptual nonlinearities in moral judgment since morality doesn’t have any physical correlate for a sensory receptor to transduce, and he said “yes it does.” Philosophers rule lmao

noam chompers @noamchompers.bsky.social · 3d

smh @vladchituc.bsky.social endorses moral subjectivism. disappointing

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noam chompers @noamchompers.bsky.social · 3d

i'm joking—from this nice paper
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

How to show that a cruel prank is worse than a war crime: Shifting scales and missing benchmarks in the study of moral judgment

Moral judgment is central to both everyday life and cognitive science, but how can it be studied with quantitative precision? By far the most direct a…

www.sciencedirect.com

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noam chompers @noamchompers.bsky.social · 3d

smh @vladchituc.bsky.social endorses moral subjectivism. disappointing

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noam chompers @noamchompers.bsky.social · 3d

there's a major controversy about a fitness influencer's phd, so there's literally so many videos of jacked guys looking at cameras and going 'a doctoral thesis is really important, and it shouldn't be bad' being posted every day rn

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noam chompers @noamchompers.bsky.social · 4d

kershaw was evidently too preoccupied with his own retirement and forgot to focus on retiring batters

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muscular baby jeb lund @mobute.bsky.social · 4d

I assume Clayton Kershaw is being punished by God because he again didn't do something heterosexually enough. That's on him.

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noam chompers @noamchompers.bsky.social · 4d

i can't really enjoy it as a sorta dodger fan, but i can reason my way to understanding that it is objectively funny

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noam chompers @noamchompers.bsky.social · 4d

boy did clayton kershaw just eat a dick

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noam chompers @noamchompers.bsky.social · 4d

i'm obsessed with sensei

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noam chompers @noamchompers.bsky.social · 4d

it's possible i already tweeted this because i can't stop thinking about sensei. if so, sorry

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