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@avidseries

Good and bad ideas are fairly equally distributed across the political spectrum.

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@avidseries
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I was in NYC in 1993, and I can confirm that there were two Empire State Buildings back then, 90% of the vehicles on the streets were yellow taxis, and retailers like Freoenfrgahue and 54gbokisly were very popular.
Johnn
@john_my07
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If this is the level of AI creations, then it's over for Hollywood and big production houses. The city of New York filmed with a HD camera in 1993. Created using Seedance 2.5
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@avidseries
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I was repeatedly suspended and ultimately indefinitely locked out of Twitter in the pre-Musk era for doing nothing more than tweeting European government statistics on immigrant crime and welfare dependency.
Michael Shellenberger
@shellenberger
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Before @elonmusk bought Twitter, you couldn't notice that foreigners committed most of the group rapes in Germany, despite being just 15% of the population. By lifting censorship, says @Pauline__Voss, Musk unleashed a “vibe shift” that led to @AfD's historic victory.
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@avidseries
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It's not in the air, although I wish it was. I'm convinced at this point that nothing can turn the switch on that will attune most conservatives to interesting culture and aesthetics. There's a dead zone in the conservative brain — a love of cringe and banal "heroic" and
Jonathan Keeperman
@L0m3z
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Something is in the air. Was just talking about how much I like Rothko on the pod last week, and conservatives' self-defeating resistance to modern art. Fortunately I think this attitude is dying.
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@avidseries
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"There is now a social contagion of right-wing men imagining they were deeply, traumatized by lockdowns, rather than affronted, put out, annoyed. Some, I'm sure, had trauma-worthy lockdowns. Most of you are simple hysterics." — @AliceFromQueens
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@avidseries
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He was smeared by people who never read the book. His supporting evidence was all mainstream. Over ninety scientists signed a letter supporting him. His predictions have been borne out. In this house Charles Murray is a hero. End of discussion.
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@avidseries
Sep 5
Sam Harris: "I find the dishonesty and hypocrisy and moral cowardice of [Charles] Murray's critics shocking." "He is probably the most unfairly maligned person in my lifetime." "The most controversial passages in [The Bell Curve] struck me as utterly mainstream with respect to
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