Co-founder of https://nitter.cf/t.co/vndVEKNl5Y. Writer of books.
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Quinton Skinner retweeted
A reminder that for all the inequities of American life, the poorest state in America — Mississippi — has nearly the exact same GDP per capita as the weathiest state in Europe, Germany with cheaper food and housing.
Americans on both the left and the right who stoke resentment for votes appear to have lost contact with the reality of the obscene material abundance that we all enjoy compared with the rest of the planet.
Generation Z is richer than any previous American generation was at the equivalent stage of their lives, not poorer.
The many diseases that we suffer from are mostly the self-inflicted wounds of abundance.
What we do with the opportunities we are given is up to us. We can all eat better, read more, and help those in need.
Pretending that those opportunities and the accompanying wealth they offer don’t exist is an obscene insult to the 90% of humanity that has to toil all their lives for basic subsistence at a level that Americans are too sheltered and self-involved to recognize.
The future is still being invented here. We will shape it together, either through our imagination and hard work or through cosplay resentment, willful ignorance and hate.
Quinton Skinner retweeted
History's first trillionaire is a guy who catches rockets out of the sky with chopsticks and beams internet to every dead zone on the planet.
Same guy ships cars that drive themselves, humanoid robots for the factory floor, brain chips that let paralyzed people move a cursor with pure thought, and an AI running on a supercomputer his team stood up in months instead of years.
And the people crashing out about his net worth are doing it on the app he owns. The same app governments spent years trying to censor.
You cannot legislate a rocket into orbit.
Quinton Skinner retweeted
I wrote a thing about Friday. tcbmag.com/platt-day-of-econ…
For the love of all that’s sacred, can each person at the table get their own drinks menu instead of having to share one? This would revolutionize everything.
I wholeheartedly recommend Eddington; its tone of horror comedy captures the 2020s in a very astute and entertaining fashion.
How Ozzy and Oasis held a burial service for the analog age and why your next favorite record might have a machine heart. quintonskinner.substack.com/…
This shows the resentful, pandering, unserious nature of the Democratic Party today (which I once supported). The governor of MN, in another state during a looming budget crisis and shocking corruption in his agencies, expresses glee at the stock devaluation of American industry.
Quinton Skinner retweeted
I am begging Jeremy Olson of the @strib to have any curiosity at all about the thousands of people who have healed from long COVID, and what the methods they used suggest about the mechanisms at play in the condition. startribune.com/five-years-l…
The psychological concepts of projection and the shadow are so sturdy and explain so many of our feelings and opinions. It would be great if they were more common in our public and private discourse.
There are a number of extremely compelling + important news stories happening today. Leading this morning's digital edition, above the fold, with a story about "crave-worthy" gas station food is inexplicable. @StarTribune
Quinton Skinner retweeted
Everyone of influence has become invested in perpetuating our division and the more they exclaim how the enemy is not like you, the more they gain from our separation. They will push people already on the edge of the cliff of reasonable disagreement over into hardened disdain.
Quinton Skinner retweeted
Proud to share that my latest Unfurling essay was picked up and republished (with some slight modifications) by the good folks at Tangle News.
Show your face and say what you mean: readtangle.com/otherposts/sh…
Disconnect between headlines and news stories can be pronounced. @StarTribune
The story is about Walz political appointees. Direct competitors to the racing industry have been appointed to the industry's oversight. The headline implies the objection is over tribal membership.
Quinton Skinner retweeted
This is a travesty. Ann and Conrad have built a business that brings equitable wages, creative, ambitious culinary experiences, beauty, and delight to a city that desperately needs all those things. The forces that want to destroy rather than build have them in their sights.
This is an absolute disgrace to our city. Ann and Conrad have added so much to the Twin Cities, and have always done so with total integrity and conscience. That this has happened is shameful.
23 and Me are getting very specific in their genetic questioning.
But in a way not specific enough. Are we talking Sabbath or Megadeth? I want to contribute good data but this is a complicated question.
