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Aaron Ross Powell ☸️

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Host of the ReImagining Liberty podcast. Writing about political ethics. Radical liberal. @theunpopulist.net contributor. He/him. Podcast: https://pod.link/1614436300 Writing: https://aaronrosspowell.leaflet.pub/

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Aaron Ross Powell ☸️ @aaronrosspowell.com · Sep 6

I have an entirely free Patreon with a couple of cool perks. First, you'll get all my new writing in your inbox. Second, and even better, you'll get a special private feed of my ReImagining Liberty podcast that doesn't have any ads. Just go here and click "Join for free."

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Host of the ReImagining Liberty Podcast. Political Ethicist. Radical Liberal.

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Aaron Ross Powell ☸️ @aaronrosspowell.com · 1d

Institutions give in to the regime because they're used to keeping their eye on the ball, but right now instead isn't even about the game, but about the whole society that game's played in. What's needed is a zoomed-out perspective, but they're used to thinking only zoomed-in.

If Trump is So Unpopular, Why are Institutions Capitulating?

The American people can't stand Trump. His polling is abysmal. And yet private and public institutions capitulate. Why?

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Aaron Ross Powell ☸️ @aaronrosspowell.com · 19h

This is the one I read. www.gamesradar.com/thanks-to-fa...

Thanks to fans, Sacred and Terrible Air, a novel set in the same world as Disco Elysium, finally has its English translation

It was first published in Estonian in 2013

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Aaron Ross Powell ☸️ @aaronrosspowell.com · 19h

Have you read "Sacred and Terrible Air," Robert Kurvitz's novel in the same setting he wrote before the game? There's an excellent fan translation of it out there, and it's a beautiful book.

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Aaron Ross Powell ☸️ @aaronrosspowell.com · 21h

Yes, Trump won. Twice. And he was far-right both times. But the first time around, most American's didn't know the full extent of it. The second time around, many still didn't, and he had inflation on his side. Future elections, Americans will know what the far-right looks like when it rules openly.

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Aaron Ross Powell ☸️ @aaronrosspowell.com · 21h

This is correct. But it also means, if we make it beyond Trump, and the Dems sweep in with 2028's election, that the right is likely to face a prolonged period of national political irrelevance. The far-right is quite unpopular, and a clear majority of Americans can't stand it or its policies.

Zach Rabiroff @zachrabiroff.com · 1d

The worrying possibility (as Bill Kristol of all people has mused about) is that the ascendent period of the center-right was a lengthy postwar aberration, and what we're seeing now is right-wing politics simply returning to its natural state

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Aaron Ross Powell ☸️ @aaronrosspowell.com · 1d

If Trump is So Unpopular, Why are Institutions Capitulating?

The American people can't stand Trump. His polling is abysmal. And yet private and public institutions capitulate. Why?

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Aaron Ross Powell ☸️ @aaronrosspowell.com · 1d

What does the cat think of liberalism?

Aaron Ross Powell ☸️ @aaronrosspowell.com · 1d

As the people who insist otherwise try to burn the country, it's important to affirm that immigrants, from everywhere, are awesome, and America is better the more immigrants we have. You have to be just empty and vapid and unimaginably small to reject that.

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 1d

I'm also reminded of the "whistleblower" report about abuses at a Missouri gender clinic, the author of which is now just a full-time anti-transgender lobbyist, that fell apart the moment any reporter tried to verify it

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

perhaps the biggest story TFPever ran was a catastrophically shoddy argument that George Floyd ackshully died of an overdose. When confronted with irrefutable evidence that the piece was simply wrong, Weiss didn’t take it down, she asked her critic, @radleybalko.bsky.social, to come on a podcast.

max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · 1d

David Ellison’s note to staff on Paramount’s acquisition of the Free Press

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Aaron Ross Powell ☸️ @aaronrosspowell.com · 2d

The thing is, this is what the AT Protocol was built to enable, with Bluesky as just a proof of concept of one subreddit in the network, and people are free to set up their own with whatever rules they want. But people don't want to accept what Bluesky and AT were designed from day one to be.

anime.robin0 @animerobin0.bsky.social · 2d

a lot of people want bluesky to be run like a small subreddit

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Aaron Ross Powell ☸️ @aaronrosspowell.com · 2d

He stole my line! I've been saying this for years. (Including in a conversation I had once with Dr. Frank.) The story of the contemporary far-right is a bunch of weirdos who listened to that song and drew the absolutely wrong conclusion from it.

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Shikha Dalmia @shikhadalmia.bsky.social · 2d

The real sin of American univs is not that they are too "woke," it is that they are putting their financial interests ahead of their values and appeasing authoritarian regimes. At @theunpopulist.net @aaronrosspowell.com talks to @sarahemclaugh.bsky.social

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China's Authoritarian Regime Is Censoring American Universities: A Conversation with Sarah McLaughlin

Elite universities with deep pockets have no excuse for putting their financial interests ahead of their values

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Aaron Ross Powell ☸️ @aaronrosspowell.com · 2d

Ouch.

Aaron Ross Powell ☸️ @aaronrosspowell.com · 2d

With five people in the house, sometimes we have a situation where everyone assumes someone else fed the cats breakfast. The trouble is, the only way we can discover no one did is if the cats alert us—but they have a comprehensive history of dishonesty regarding whether they've gotten breakfast.

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Aaron Ross Powell ☸️ @aaronrosspowell.com · 2d

Wasn't Bluesky at one point considering building their encrypted DMs on top of Matrix?

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 2d

Wurman is one of the starkest examples of somebody who’s not stupid, he could easily explain himself why this is wrong, but has simply decided, eyes wide open and knowing exactly what he is doing, to be shamelessly dishonest.

Pat Sobkowski @patsobkowski.com · 3d

We don’t have to carry water for dictators. Just my thought.

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SubGothius @subgothius.bsky.social · 3d

"Change is a raw and constant fact of the world ... Dynamism isn’t a preference, it’s the base nature of reality.

To fight against dynamism then—to demand stasis—is to attempt to force upon the world a feature it cannot have."

Aaron Ross Powell ☸️ @aaronrosspowell.com · 3d

There's a reason for that. aaronrosspowell.leaflet.pub/3m2fh2qe2d22a

Social Conservatism is Suffering - Aaron Ross Powell

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Aaron Ross Powell ☸️ @aaronrosspowell.com · 2d

Signal supports group chats. (And with disappearing messages, which Discord does not.) Unless there's a strong reason to use Discord for your group chats and communities, you should be trying to move them over to Signal. For a lot of reasons, not just this data breach.

John Scott-Railton @jsrailton.bsky.social · 2d

NEW: breach of Discord age verification data.

Including some users passports & DLs

Age verification is a badly implemented data grab wrapped in a moral panic.

Mark my words, as age verification mandates expand, we'll end up more surveilled and less secure. 1/

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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 2d

*Donald Trump says he is about to put 10 Marines in my home*

Wurman: Have you considered tort law?

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Aaron Ross Powell ☸️ @aaronrosspowell.com · 2d

The product will not become successful, though. No one wants this.

Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 2d

Jony Ive is at OpenAI creating a screenless device with an always-on personal assistant similar to Humane’s AI Pin or the movie Her.

The device is struggling with privacy concerns as it’s a recording device and OpenAI doesn’t have enough data center capacity if the product becomes successful.

OpenAI's new AI device reportedly faces technical hurdles that could delay its launch

OpenAI and former Apple designer Jony Ive are working on a new AI device, but the project is facing technical hurdles that could delay its launch.

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Aaron Ross Powell ☸️ @aaronrosspowell.com · 3d

There's a reason for that. aaronrosspowell.leaflet.pub/3m2fh2qe2d22a

Social Conservatism is Suffering - Aaron Ross Powell

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Aaron Ross Powell ☸️ @aaronrosspowell.com · 3d

If she wants to be able to keep reading Kindle books, the Kindle Paperwhite is still the best bet.

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Art @artfromclt.dev · 4d

Imagine if Google Wave was brought back in some shape using the AT Protocol

leaflet.pub @leaflet.pub · 4d

Working on making Leaflet great not just for blogs, but *social publishing* more broadly, from a single doc / post / page, to a whole blog / site / wiki…

What will you publish if friends can comment, quote, react, share? When we can @-mention each other and reference posts with backlinks and more?

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Aaron Ross Powell ☸️ @aaronrosspowell.com · 3d

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 3d

This!

I feel like the biggest repudiation of Reactionary Centrist Pundit timidity was how Dems going to CECOT crated Trump’s numbers on immigration.

It showed us, in real time, that attitudes are not fixed … bc 99% of ppl are paying FAR less attention than the pundits.

Kevin Collins @kwcollins.bsky.social · 3d

There is nothing wrong with political strategy - including progressive political strategy - being informed by polling. After all, good strategy starts with good intelligence.

The key is to understand public opinion as dynamic rather than static, even if any given poll is a snapshot frozen in time

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