The way a lot of ppl seem to see the world is:

- if things are getting bad, that's news
- if things have been bad but are getting better, that's also bad news
- if things are good, that's boring so it's not news

The problem with this approach isn't just that you persuade…

Tonight I am attending the wake of my favorite pirate.

If I wanted people to change their beliefs about an issue I cared about, and they invited me to a dinner at their home, I would use the occasion to try to persuade them with polite conversation, rather than protesting in a way that angered and alienated them.

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Though Americans were able to finish a transcontinental railroad more than 150 years ago, California is so incompetent at building new rail that I expect to be able to take a self-driving car from Los Angeles to San Francisco before I can take a high speed train.

TFW you step outside at LAX and realize how much you missed the best light in the world.

Also extraordinary:

Extraordinary.

Apropos this perspective, even absent regulatory change, I would expect to see parenting changes going forward, partly due to the same cohort of parents having new information about how tech affects children and partly due to each ensuing cohort of parents having experienced…

Life is a gift — a wonderful, terrible, and unparalleled gift.

It's a miracle that any of us are here at all. It’s amazing that we happen to be here together. Finding the novelty in every moment isn't hard if you're paying attention.

I don’t think it’s a ton of people. I think most academics clearly care about the standards of their professions. But I’m seeing more and more where obvious academic misconduct is being excused, brushed off as not a big deal, because the guilty party has the right opinions.

A lot of academics are so rotted by blue cable news they no longer care about scholarship. Claudine Gay flagrantly plagiarized, but it doesn’t matter because she’s Team Justice. A book misuses research and misidentifies rural places, but it’s ok because it attacks The Bad People.

This is hilarious.

I don't know why this is as funny as it is.

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Sometimes doing the right thing echoes through history.

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Lol 'Not liking my book because it was exposed by Tyler Austin Harper as intellectually dishonest & poorly researched is white privilege'

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'Some people call me Maurice /
'Cause I speak of the pompatus of love'