I can remember being very upset about Big Bird too. No one would believe him about his friend Snuffleupagus! I was six.
It is so easy to villainize Jeff Bezos, but it is wrong. It allows us to think that the problem is him, rather than the system that permitted him to get this wealthy. Whatever happened to "hate the game, not the player"? 1/2
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Jan 6 commission "yea" votes had 60% of the vote total and lost. But that's not the whole story.
The 35 senators voting "nay" represent 93.6 million Americans. The 54 senators voting "yea" represent 181.9 million - a 94% advantage! And they still lost.
/cc @Sen_JoeManchin
Last Friday morning: went down a Wikipedia rabbit hole about "dowsing," learned about the ideomotor response.
Last Friday evening: @Danwhitemagic's virtual magic show included a mindblowing demonstration of the ideomotor response.
HOW DID HE DO THAT
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"If Obama had mustered an angry mob to storm the Capitol it would have been OK."
Signed,
- 43 Republican senators
Dear @Tropicana,
I like your orange juice better than all the others. I've been drinking it since the 1970's.
How do you get someone like me to abandon a brand like yours? By switching your containers from sustainable waxed cardboard to plastic.
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Alas, @netflix's DVD service is a shadow of its former self. Turnaround time to get new discs sent out used to be hours and is now days. And their catalog is full of holes that never used to exist. 1/3
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Between "orphaned works" (titles whose copyright holders can't be identified) and media-format obsolescence I worry about all the titles being memory-holed. 3/3
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PS. This is the definitive article on the subject of orphaned works: blog.blcklst.com/in-search-o…
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The Amy Coney Barrett Rose Garden ceremony is turning out to be a slow-motion version of the climax of Raiders of the Lost Ark.
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Only natural for those in power to protect what they have. That is at odds with democracy and even with capitalism, both of which depend crucially on competition - the enemy of safe incumbency. #OurVoteIsPower