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Nick Simmonds @diacriticaz.bsky.social · 4h

In this case it also provides an unregulated communication medium for insider information that is untraceable. E.g., you can use Polymarket to effectively give out information on stocks that you wouldn't normally be allowed to give.

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Nick Simmonds @diacriticaz.bsky.social · 4h

Inside trading is frankly less of a big deal than the fact that governance token holders get to decide the results of a bet if there's a dispute, and can simply vote that they were right if enough of them took the losing side.

Nick Simmonds @diacriticaz.bsky.social · 9h

Things you can say about protests or about sex parties

ethel cainhurst † @nyetalia.bsky.social · 1d

a fun thing that happens if you are +very+ docile, pliant and doll-like is that your lack of struggle actually loops back around to making them so angry/worked up/intrigued that they start to work you over like you're actually resisting very hard just to get a bigger reaction

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Nick Simmonds @diacriticaz.bsky.social · 2d

I don't even think Newsom would argue against this, he'd say "yeah, you got a puppy and a voter in mind?"

cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 2d

i love this website actually

Mr. Cait @chas.bsky.social • 13h
Gavin Newsom would take a puppy from an orphan, rip the puppy apart with his bare hands and eat it while the orphan screamed if he thought it would win him one vote in Wisconsin.

ILLEGIT PREc
@illegitprez.bsky.so... • 13h
there is something wrong with you.

cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social • 10h
"anti far left" in bio, hard pass

ILLEGIT PREc & E @illegitprez.bsky.so... • 10h no one invited you

cait (and adonis)
@cait.bsky.social
that's my husband you dumb bitch

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 3d

Oregon's stubborn resistance to Texas National Guard troops invading reflects the elitist and closed-minded belief that the people of Portland have nothing to learn from the people of Texas

--Ezra Klein, tomorrow in the New York Times

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Nick Simmonds @diacriticaz.bsky.social · 3d

Like after a fight?

Nick Simmonds @diacriticaz.bsky.social · 4d

Yeah basically this. I've gone from "eh they're probably covering up something that's not nearly as bad as people think" to believing there has to be major dirt in there.

Jason Kander @jasonkander.bsky.social · 4d

I was a skeptic about the import of the Epstein files.

But 3 invasions of cities, one military buildup outside Venezuela, a government shutdown, and so many other things meant to distract have me convinced whatever’s in there is the biggest presidential scandal in U.S. history.

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Nick Simmonds @diacriticaz.bsky.social · 5d

At a glance, I would say yellow.

Nick Simmonds @diacriticaz.bsky.social · 7d

Ezra Klein voice: "Say what you will about Kangmin Lee, he is doing politics right. We may have to concede that, at least in some states, women will have the right to vote stripped away from them, and I don't know why the Democrats refuse to run anti-suffrage candidates."

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Nick Simmonds @diacriticaz.bsky.social · 8d

THIS SHOULD BE THE MESSAGE, not some wonky shit. Republicans have shut down the government, and can unilaterally open it at any time. Look at why they'd want it shut down.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8d

Raskin: "It's not lost on anyone that shutting the government down allows them not swear in our new colleague, Ms Grijalva from Arizona, who would be the 218th signature to discharge the Epstein files and to put a vote on that on the House floor."

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Nick Simmonds @diacriticaz.bsky.social · 9d

Right now the question before the Democratic party seems to be, do you want to protect the rights of the marginalized, or do you want to compromise those in order to make headway on technocratic goals. But no one will put it that way.

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Nick Simmonds @diacriticaz.bsky.social · 9d

Absolutely. The admin has shown over and over that it is not possible to cave in sufficiently. In fact, in the usual manner of bullies, when you cave you become a target. Institutions that fight back have been seeing them back off because they are looking for easy wins.

Anne S Kim @anne-s-kim.bsky.social · 10d

Utterly legally indefensible.

Harvard should stop any and all settlement talks and fight tooth and nail.

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

US Recommends Harvard Be Excluded From Federal Funding, HHS Says

The US Department of Health and Human Services said Monday that it is referring Harvard University for administrative suspension and debarment proceedings, a move that would exclude the school from en...

www.bloomberg.com

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Nick Simmonds @diacriticaz.bsky.social · 9d

(for clarity, I'm including Hossenfelder in "kooks")

Nick Simmonds @diacriticaz.bsky.social · 9d

Oh hey, she just put up a video about exactly this. www.youtube.com/watch?v=miJb...

conspiracy physics and you (and also me)

YouTube video by Angela Collier

www.youtube.com

Nick Simmonds @diacriticaz.bsky.social · 10d

Yeah, as far as big channels go, there's stuff like SciShow, but that's just pop science. There are not a lot of people in the space that Hossenfelder is in, talking about things like cutting edge physics, who aren't basically kooks.

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Nick Simmonds @diacriticaz.bsky.social · 10d

Angela Collier does a great job. Smaller channel but she doesn't seem at all tempted to start grifting.

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Nick Simmonds @diacriticaz.bsky.social · 10d

The Charlies Kirk of the world, the Trumps et al, do not want or intend to compromise, they want surrender if not annihilation from the people that Ezra Klein is admonishing to give up stuff so he won't have to.

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Nick Simmonds @diacriticaz.bsky.social · 10d

The Charlies Kirk of the world, the Trumps et al, do not want or intend to compromise, they want surrender if not annihilation from the people that Ezra Klein is admonishing to give up stuff so he won't have to.

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Nick Simmonds @diacriticaz.bsky.social · 10d

Klein wants "us" to compromise by which he means marginalized groups should go along so that people like him can get along. Because Klein is terrified, because for once white supremacy threatens him. Coates *does not have compromise on offer*.

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Nick Simmonds @diacriticaz.bsky.social · 10d

I really think this gets at the meat of the problem, and what Klein is too smart to bring up but knows he's glossing over when talking to Coates here, or trying to compromise on women's rights. Compromise is a thing that fascism and white supremacy afford to Klein and not Coates.

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Nick Simmonds @diacriticaz.bsky.social · 10d

Wow you two look exactly alike!

Nick Simmonds @diacriticaz.bsky.social · 11d

A relationship held entirely in written text and hand gestures.

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Nick Simmonds @diacriticaz.bsky.social · 12d

I did not expect you to actually be here

Nick Simmonds @diacriticaz.bsky.social · 12d

!remindme 6 months "check what happened to this guy"

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Nick Simmonds @diacriticaz.bsky.social · 12d

It's not true that liberalism will always side with fascism, but Klein and Sunstein are great demonstrations of how some strains talk themselves into supporting fascism. I also think Klein is personally afraid that he's a target if it becomes normalized to shoot pundits.

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