a year ago Angela Nagle handed the 'left' a golden opportunity to debate open borders, to reckon with the contradictions and complications of an increasingly integrated global labor market, to grab the reigns of that discourse so it wasn't left to libertarian freaks.
— Aimee Terese (@aimeeterese) November 19, 2019
But if you aren’t for open borders, that moronic fucking idea, you are 100% RACIST and therefore BAD so we can’t even talk about it at all.
Of all the places I’ve lived, the only one I’d never live under any circumstances ever again is Seattle. No fucking way, not ever, biggest shithole I’ve ever experienced.
Itโs been a month but I keep thinking about how bad this Slate piece is at understanding both the Muppet Show (particularly its straight-faced parody of variety shows and vaudeville) and how obsessed kids are with all-stupid un-humor https://t.co/VWbBDj17VO
โ Naomi Clark [ๆๆช็ด็พ] (@metasynthie) October 16, 2019
Yeah. It’s like watching Brooke Bolander comment on the Watchmen show. She obviously doesn’t understand it, its context, its meta-commentary on itself (or it’s meta-meta commentary on that), or what it’s trying to do, so it’s painful to read her takes on it. And I like Brooke’s writing but she does not comprehend that show in the least. She thinks for some reason it’s making straight, obvious points when in reality it’s attempting to say, “Here’s the point you thought we were going to make, and we did make it, but here’s why it didn’t mean what you thought it meant, because we already knew you were going to think that, and here’s how to think about that a little more deeply.” And on from that.
She only sees, “Here’s the point.” Done. I can’t understand how she’s missing all this, but most people, even very smart people, have extreme trouble dealing with anything that’s one level of commentary above where a work nominally operates. Something like The Leftovers or Watchmen which comment on their commenting on their own textuality, are completely beyond most people, so it’s a wonder any show like that ever gets made.
It’s mystifying that someone can view a show like Watchmen and not realize anything else is happening there. Just…how?
After the wokesters are done canceling others for opinions not contemporaneous with and amenable to the last 15 minutes of thought, and find that they too were monsters themselves only a few short weeks ago, will they then cancel themselves?
We can only hope.
BTW: Mac Pro shipping in December. Can now have up to 8TB of internal storage. Will do six 8k video streams at once, up from previously claimed three. We're not done with the Mac yet in 2019.
— Jason Snell (@jsnell) November 13, 2019
Holy fuck, six 8k video streams at once. For people who say the Mac Pro is “too expensive,” realize then that a $15,000 machine can now replace $200,000+ in pro video hardware. That is, needless to say, a smoking good deal.
What is a good population level for the United States? (current population is 329 million)
— Noah Smith 🐇 (@Noahpinion) November 17, 2019
5-10 million. Beyond that, ecological overshoot is likely.
Often, people have a fair amount of expertise in their vocation. That shouldn’t be surprising. But outside of that, all too many people seem to know basically fucking nothing.
If that makes me an elitist, so be it. Be smarter. (That definitely makes me an elitist.)
Professor Who Is Corruption Expert Accused of Laundering $2.5 Million.
Well, it does say he is a “corruption expert” right in the headline.