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Graham Cummins @grahamiancummins.bsky.social · 7h

Education at large would, I think, save a _culture_ from this. There'd still be plenty of potential, educated evil leaders, but they'd have a harder time convincing followers.

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Graham Cummins @grahamiancummins.bsky.social · 7h

You are claiming the Infinite Perspective Vortex isn't punk?

Graham Cummins @grahamiancummins.bsky.social · 7h

"Lord" Thiel is concerned that someone (else) might try to exert control over people.

(And he's not just any tech "lord," he's specifically a guy who thinks he needs a mass surveillance network and killer robots)

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Graham Cummins @grahamiancummins.bsky.social · 7h

I'll be honest, I did not have "if you want to fight the most critical battle for American democracy in your lifetime, you'll need to be prepared with an inflatable animal costume" on my radar

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Graham Cummins @grahamiancummins.bsky.social · 7h

There are a lot of rich grifters who voted for exactly that.

Graham Cummins @grahamiancummins.bsky.social · 8h

"Statistically unlikely interpretations" is a beautifully crafted descriptor for this context.

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Graham Cummins @grahamiancummins.bsky.social · 8h

My compromise wealth tax:

Everyone with a net worth over $50M is taxed back down to $50M (on wealth, not income). There's an available exemption anyone can claim, but it has 501c3-like conditions. If you do significant political action, you lose the exemption.

Graham Cummins @grahamiancummins.bsky.social · 9h

It's often shocking how much the people we call capitalists hate capitalism these days.

That said, I expect some of this is because supply chains are now very complicated and bulk-optimized. Changing them adaptively is more difficult and expensive than it once was.

IDK much about this case, though

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Graham Cummins @grahamiancummins.bsky.social · 9h

Our user panels are full of people with mid-six-figure salaries telling us what they really want our software to do is the entirety of their job, fully automatically.

Graham Cummins @grahamiancummins.bsky.social · 9h

Do 85% of the chore, IIRC.

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Sarah Dougherty @sarahdougherty.bsky.social · 10h

Totally agree. Getting an ebike changed not only the way I get around atlanta, but my experience and relationship with the city, for the much better to be clear. Ebikes are revolutionary while EVs are a small (but important) shift in the current system.

Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 1d

By me this week - the happiest thing I've got to report of late, with a glorious trip over the summer to Montreal

"Forget EVs. Cycling is revolutionising transport."

www.economist.com/internationa...

Forget EVs. Cycling is revolutionising transport

Pedal power is booming, spinning up a new culture war

www.economist.com

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Graham Cummins @grahamiancummins.bsky.social · 10h

I guess they take the Sith code seriously :|

Graham Cummins @grahamiancummins.bsky.social · 10h

Don't worry. We'll get Glonzo yet.

Graham Cummins @grahamiancummins.bsky.social · 10h

I'll be honest here: I hoped 99% of the emails I've ever received didn't find me.

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Graham Cummins @grahamiancummins.bsky.social · 10h

I like Bernie, but his choice of talking points implies that Americans care more about free beer than Free Speech.

We should prevent the rise of a sociopathic class of wannabe feudal lords to prevent them from looting us, not because we want to loot them.

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Graham Cummins @grahamiancummins.bsky.social · 10h

I like Bernie, but his choice of talking points implies that Americans care more about free beer than Free Speech.

We should prevent the rise of a sociopathic class of wannabe feudal lords to prevent them from looting us, not because we want to loot them.

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Graham Cummins @grahamiancummins.bsky.social · 10h

In my opinion, fairly progressive on concrete material issues. We could cede a lot of ground on in-substantial culture war issues, IMO. Words matter much less than who gets rights and what gets funding, but I gather that's not a consensus opinion.

Graham Cummins @grahamiancummins.bsky.social · 10h

I don't see any practical way to support the energy transition without pushing the GOP out of power, and that requires a broad coalition over many issues.

How strongly progressive that coalition should be to succeed is a separate question.

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Graham Cummins @grahamiancummins.bsky.social · 10h

I can imagine a world with rational oligarchs, where we could all agree we need to secure a livable world, separately from fighting over who owns what. We don't live in that world, though.

Fossil fuel interests will continue to own the GOP, no matter what progressives choose to say.

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Graham Cummins @grahamiancummins.bsky.social · 10h

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Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 13h

“The problem with billionaires isn’t that they’re hoarding money that would otherwise pay for a Scandinavian social utopia. It’s that their money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.”

Billionaires Are Hoarding Power, Not Money

Billionaire money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.

www.liberalcurrents.com

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Graham Cummins @grahamiancummins.bsky.social · 21h

It's a shock.

My guess is she got in by actually believing some crazy things, and that's less fungible to other topics than the more common position of complete willingness to lie.

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Graham Cummins @grahamiancummins.bsky.social · 21h

You'll be able to say whether the streets are burning without having to trust some media source!

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Dr Dan Shugar 🇨🇦 @watershedlab.bsky.social · 1d

Masterclass in decisions-based evidence making

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

RFK Jr on Tylenol and autism: "It is not proof. We're doing the studies to make the proof."

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Graham Cummins @grahamiancummins.bsky.social · 21h

I've read that most of the blocked exports are animal-feed grade soybeans

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Graham Cummins @grahamiancummins.bsky.social · 1d

"Gold standard science" is where you "make" rather than "discover" your evidence.

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