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Struck me that whenever the left wins a political victory it's by establishing an impersonal institution that then gets captured by careerists and turns into an easy right target. So victories just turn into sieges.

Whenever the right wins a victory, it's by tearing down a captured institution.

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Venkatesh Rao 🔹 @vgr.bsky.social · 10d

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Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 10d

climbing into the hibernation toblerone

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Venkatesh Rao 🔹 @vgr.bsky.social · 11d

Reading the Boone County collection is really bringing up memories. Haven’t heard Lee Iacocca mentioned in 35-40 years. His autobiography was one of the first business books I read as a teenager.

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Venkatesh Rao 🔹 @vgr.bsky.social · 11d

Bought this. This Bloom county strip is amazing!

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Venkatesh Rao 🔹 @vgr.bsky.social · 12d

Seriously interesting premise. Would be happy to publish on protocolized.summerofprotocols.com

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Venkatesh Rao 🔹 @vgr.bsky.social · 13d

People in the US in the 80s, do you recall the Bloom County comic strip? What was the fandom like? What was the culture around it?

(before my time in the US and it wasn’t syndicated in India, so I just learned about it)

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Venkatesh Rao 🔹 @vgr.bsky.social · 14d

Lol ESB

SwiftOnSecurity @swiftonsecurity.com · 14d

Some of y'all don't have an emotional support billionaire and it shows.

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Venkatesh Rao 🔹 @vgr.bsky.social · 15d

Empirically, speaking as a connoisseur and occasional producer of memes this is incorrect so the theory is wrong. Meme production is 100% bourgeois.

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Venkatesh Rao 🔹 @vgr.bsky.social · 15d

Poor people invent memes?

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Venkatesh Rao 🔹 @vgr.bsky.social · 15d

Robots are the new poor people

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Venkatesh Rao 🔹 @vgr.bsky.social · 18d

Advances in boubakikiology t.co/nUrbuQLw2C

https://rdcu.be/eDMGM

t.co

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Venkatesh Rao 🔹 @vgr.bsky.social · 18d

The torment nexus is other people

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Venkatesh Rao 🔹 @vgr.bsky.social · 23d

They should put Skyrizi vs Rinvoq on pay-per-view.

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Venkatesh Rao 🔹 @vgr.bsky.social · 23d

www.thedailybeast.com/doj-quietly-...

Bondi's DOJ Censors Study Showing Who Commits Political Violence

The 2024 study is no longer accessible on the DOJ website.

www.thedailybeast.com

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Venkatesh Rao 🔹 @vgr.bsky.social · 24d

I have spent an unreasonable number of hours of my life being repeatedly informed of the benefits of once-a-day Rinvoq, for moderate to severe plaque psoriasis. My sympathies to sufferers of this condition but you’d think there’d be a better way to reach them without occupying my attention 🤔

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Venkatesh Rao 🔹 @vgr.bsky.social · 25d

My wife drinks matcha that comes in a really nice little can. I’ve been collecting these cans. I now have 35 of them. About 7cm high x 5cm diameter.

Open to suggestions for cool projects I might be able to make with them.

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Venkatesh Rao 🔹 @vgr.bsky.social · Sep 7

“Accelerating towards sincerity” 🧐

ae @aelkus.bsky.social · Sep 7

because a lot of the freaks running the Republican party are rapidly accelerating towards sincerity

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Venkatesh Rao 🔹 @vgr.bsky.social · Sep 4

It’s not slop it’s delvatronium

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