Social media is garbage.
«One recent video from the Trump campaign said that Mr. Biden had offered Ukraine $1 billion in aid if it killed an investigation into a company tied to his son. The video’s claims had already been debunked, and CNN refused to play it. But Facebook rejected the Biden campaign’s demand to take the ad down, arguing that it did not violate its policies.
At last count, the video has been viewed on the social network more than five million times.»
https://twitter.com/stangleskid/status/1185656992716603392?s=17
I feel that the Squad and AOC in particular have done Warren a favor by endorsing Bernie. She needs to move to the center and this will help. Also, I suspect AOC knows that her endorsement of Sanders after his heart attack is irrelevant.
stangleskid (@stangleskid) Tweeted:
«I found the secret to supporting Elizabeth Warren while simultaneously not being mad at AOC for endorsing Bernie. It’s called being a fucking adult. I recommend it!»
«In his classic study On the Psychology of Military Incompetence, Norman Dixon analysed British generals who had led their men to pointless deaths from Crimea to Arnhem. How familiar his diagnosis feels. Dixon identified “overweening ambition dedicated to one goal – self-advancement” as a persistent fault; and that sounds familiar.»
https://twitter.com/florianederer/status/1185524108324409344?s=17
Interesting conversation on econ Twitter:
Florian Ederer (@florianederer) Tweeted:
«My Econometrica paper on peer effects was rejected at all the other 4 top 5 journals.
We knew we had a good paper (and I guess the citations since then back that up), but we only got it published after I spent an hour-long conversation with the editor at that time …» https://t.co/nCMxeXwKLB
Santi Sanchez-Pages (@sanpages) Tweeted:
«We all need to pause a bit and rethink. We are a star-crazed profession who wants to believe in meritocracy often too hard. We would overwhelmingly like to move to another equilibrium. But we are collectively responsible for the perpetuation of the current one. (6/6)» https://twitter.com/sanpages/status/1185888616494575616?s=17
https://twitter.com/TheRaDR/status/1185043021483692034?s=20
This:
«If your atheism depends on all religious people being fundamentalists than your thinking is weaksauce and needs work.»
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/11/can-atheism-animate-great-fantasy/598351/
Good (short) article.
«In the real world, our world, there is of course another Church: the Church of Francis of Assisi and Dorothy Day, of radical advocacy, of finding Jesus in dispossession, at the edge of society. But this Church, which has an energy quite as emancipated and revolutionary as anything Lyra will find in the North, is not the caricature that Pullman’s romance requires.»
https://twitter.com/RimSarah/status/1182996991418273792?s=17
Rim-Sarah Alouane (@RimSarah) Tweeted:
7-This is the woman,trying to comfort her crying son, who witnessed the violent behavior of those far-right reps It was a visit that was supposed to teach kids about our representative institutions, the Republic & democracy. This is what they will remember. Shameful. https://t.co/PpjJl6hLN6
“The doctrine of Decisive Battle had driven the Japanese Navy’s strategy and planning since at least 1930.”
Suddenly flashed on Barbara Tuchman’s description of the French army’s doctrine of élan in The Guns of August.
https://twitter.com/TheRaDR/status/1182312874590556160?s=17
Somebody should embroider this on a pillow.
Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg (@TheRaDR) Tweeted:
There is work to be done.
There is art to be made.
There is beauty to be cherished.
There are people to care for.
There is justice to fight for.
There is rest needed sometimes, too.
All of these things.
Pick a couple you can manage, today.
https://t.co/gTWb659fVD https://twitter.com/ForcePao/status/1182254536565694465?s=17
“Damn” is right. That article is stone-cold something.
Zombie PAO in fox clothing 🏳️🌈 (@ForcePao) Tweeted:
Damn…
