
"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on time, and I can't help but think that his perception of what "doing an OJ" means to the average person is wildly outdated.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..

🤔

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