@johngpettus
Social venture entrepreneur. San Francisco native. Iraq veteran. Economics-trained, MBA liberal. Both more liberal and more conservative than you, in some ways. Working on improving public discourse and teaching & measuring critical thinking at scale.
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Rev. Dr. Jamal Bryant at the memorial service for Rev. Jesse Jackson:
"The service wouldn't have been this long if were able to go to the Capitol, but the Capitol is now only reserved for pedophiles and podcasters."
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Absolutely.
Just learned about this book from @npr.org Science Friday podcast.
Did you know that the concept of an individual person's "carbon footprint" was invented by British Petroleum, aka BP?
This book is a scholarly riposte to the idea of "nudging" individuals to better collective action.
like i said this when the US attacked venezuela. we are hurdling back into an extremely violent world, one which hasn't really existed since the 1700s and which nobody since hitler has really tried to enact. and it's entirely on trump's hands
I was pretty sure this was about the U.S.
It's just interesting to watch the group psychology and fan psychology.
This will become more and more relevant as the Warriors enter another Dark Age after Steph.
(Note that a lot of these genius critics are eager to throw away 1st rd draft picks, each of which extends the Dark Age by a year.)
A little bit of that emotional energy will also be spent on management/ownership. And some of that can be totally valid. The Dubs *clearly* blew their highest draft picks of the Steph era with Wiseman and Kuminga. BUT! they found and developed some unexpected value, especially in the 2nd round.
Some of this is emotional math.
People get angry when their team loses.
They are not willing to blame their favorite players (who are probably most responsible).
They are not willing to blame the other team (just better than us).
They don't want to chalk it up to luck.
So they blame the coach.
Most of these people would never dream of criticizing their plumber, another expert in their field, but one working in a field with much more clear rules (physics and engineering) of good and bad performance.
Many dedicated Warriors fans have decided that Steve Kerr is no a good coach despite all of the evidence to the contrary.
Part of it is the social contagion of social media. Other people confidently say he is bad, so it gives them confidence to publicly criticize an expert in his field.
March is #WomensHistoryMonth.
Before 1974, women needed permission from their spouse to get a credit card or loan.
In 1972, Rep Bella Savitsky Abzug introduced the Equal Credit Opportunity Act prohibiting lending institutions from discriminating on the basis of sex or marital status.
#Pinks
Ordinarily I'm at pains to explain that the President doesn't control the economy.
But in this case, and in many intentional, destructive moves, the President has sought to control the economy, and has hurt it through choices every econ major could predict would hurt the economy.
Are you sure that's how it works? I genuinely don't know, but I assume most countries with malevolent dictators aren't members of the ICC.
“Anthropic has much more in common with the Department of War than we have differences” is a genuinely stunning statement given current events both at home and abroad
passive voice final boss grand champion honorable mention award for turning slurs into a sentient thing that can do actions www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/u...
This is what happens when you choose an insecure manchild as Secretary of Defense, who thinks it's tough to brag about committing war crimes.
Hegseth needs to be prosecuted, but it has to happen outside of the US bc we don't have the rule of law capacity. Republicans would just pardon him.
Melton has looked a LOT more like JK than I remember from last year.
Not that great creating for himself.
We bombed a girls elementary school.
“No stupid rules of engagement”
We are now an “illiberal democracy.”
Looks like democracy. Reality is different.
I wish that were true, but it’s not.
The abuse of the pardon power ensures we’ll never again live under the rule of law.
Same with the insane SCOTUS ruling that POTUS is above the law for any act characterizeable as official.
The ability to not ratify the EC and throw elections to the house. Etc.
Correct.
If we rendered or, uh, released people to a country that was, though, they would try them.
Huh?
These extremely specific claims of things that MUST have happened if this were a fascist regime are absurd.
It’s unserious to claim <these specific, idiosyncratic things MUST have happened if this were fascism>.
C’mon, man. Let’s be serious.
I don’t agree that those specific criteria are either necessary or sufficient to define fascism.
I use these criteria, assembled by scholars of fascism 20 years ago.
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I don’t agree with that. And you didn’t really engage w my specific objection to the asserted pattern there.
I’ve been using the characteristics assembled by Lawrence Britt and other scholars of fascism for many years now.
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That’s what I think it means.
Scott… it’s… that’s called…
…nevermind.
Courtesy mute.
Move along, Scott.
I don’t agree that Trump fully defers to the courts, nor that that is a criteria for fascism.
And they for sure don’t bother explaining why they have been killing civilians. Making up arbitrary pretexts/lies and then forbidding investigations is not the rule of law.
Ah, you’re right. I got my dates mixed up on Beer Hall Putsch. I forgot it was SO EARLY.
My bad. You were right.
