Chase Woodruff

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unbelievably funny for contrarian heterodox market-of-ideas icon Steven Pinker to answer the "name a book that changed your mind" prompt with a book that just confirmed all his priors https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/jan/07/it-altered-my-entire-worldview-leading-authors-pick-eight-nonfiction-books-to-change-your-mind
‘It altered my entire worldview’: leading authors pick eight nonfiction books to change your mind

Steven Pinker, Mary Beard, Rebecca Solnit and others reveal the books that made them see the world differently

The Guardian

✨🎉✨ New Year’s resolution inspo 2k23 ✨🎉✨

🌙 In the coming night men would band together in the hills. ⛰️

🔥 Feeding their small fires with the deeds and the covenants and the poetry of their fathers. 👨‍👩‍👦

📚 Documents they’d no gift to read in a cold to loot men of their souls. 🥶

Have a lot of Complicated Franzen Feelings but he’s crazy for this one
Every single day, researchers are making exciting new discoveries in the study of Democrat Brain, one of the deepest mysteries known to science
There’s no way the Big Fruit Loop isn’t a textural disaster, right? Gotta be like a 2mm thick crust of classic cereal crunch around a cursed torus of (at best) underbaked biscotti
Exclusive evidence of newly discovered voting irregularities in #copolitics
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Less than a month after an extremely online troll shot up a Colorado Springs LGBTQ nightclub and left five people dead, far-right agitators are using their new safe haven on Twitter to target a trans journalist who’s done great reporting on the shooting with a bunch of false/outdated information.
Insane
Also: this is a description of the internet that already exists! A small percentage of the population — the people who are most personally or professionally invested in engaging in public affairs — are on Twitter. The rest exited a long time ago or use it very sparingly. The outcome we're facing is that we lose that space entirely.