"the document also makes clear that TikTok has done nothing to sever its ties with its Chinese parent, ByteDance"
Ben Smith @benyt
If you do this too much and everyone rides the bus, then the congestion will be less, making driving better?
Brent Toderian @BrentToderian
I kinda love that when you google "famous science fiction authors" you get a series of dignified photographs of people and then you get to @scalzi
I sympathize with Darrell's let's-all-stay-calm approach to the Bay Area store break-ins, but I think people are going to demand action now. And the murder wave he highlights will only increase the demand for immediate law-and-order stuff.
A guy on this airplane just talked about "doing an OJ Simpson" to get to the gate on time, and I can't help but think that his perception of what "doing an OJ" means to the average person is wildly outdated.
Some of us did
Akiva Cohen @AkivaMCohen
Incidentally, Peter Trudgill's book (which is not about politics) "Millennia of Language Change: Sociolinguistic Studies in Deep Historical Linguistics" changed the way I think about this stuff.
Here's a good summary of Trudgill's view.
My hypothesis is that small professional communities — including activist communities — develop distinctive jargon just like the "societies of intimates" that were the norm for at least 98% of human history.
But in mass politics it's not helpful to speak like a member of a small society of intimates, you want to speak to a very large audience of strangers.
Cop left his hatch open and his spike strip fell out the back... then he proceeds to reverse over said spike strips..
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Acyn @Acyn
of course, there are prohibitions on negotiating jobs when you are a member of Congress.
Alex Weprin @alexweprin
Abolishing the police really just means privatizing the police. We've horseshoed ourselves all the way around to Ludwig von Mises
Josiah Neeley 🤔 @jneeley78
Business interests supporting an undemocratic but business-friendly regime would be in line with the behavior of business interests in basically every democratic crisis in the history of every country. https://t.co/da6u1T0EeE
Judd Legum @JuddLegum