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Vexatious Galoot

@Distant_Mirror_

Oyez, oyez! My anonymous account for opining about happenings and controversies. Let's all be nice. 🤓👌

Los Angeles, CA انضم Temmuz 2022
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Movez@0xMovez·
This 1-hour MIT lecture by Jim Simons is like getting a masterclass from Kasparov - except the board is financial market. Quant King reveals more about quant trading than most Wall Street players pick up in an entire career. Bookmark it. Watch it. Then read the article below.
Roan@RohOnChain

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Jaynit@jaynitx·
This 1 hour lecture from the "Father of Modern Marketing" will teach you more about consumer psychology than 2 years working at a Fortune 500. Bookmark this & give it 1 hour today, no matter what. It’s the most productive start you can give your week.
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@shipwreckedcrew My theory is that Hillary Clinton offered Obama her full support if he made Biden his VP, so he did.
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Shipwreckedcrew@shipwreckedcrew·
Obama picked him as VP because he was ZERO threat to Obama, and his initials were not HRC. He was about to fade into oblivion when Obama picked him. No one ever imagined he would actually run for POTUS after 8 years. Then the primary field in 2020 was so bad for Democrats they had no choice but to settle on him to prevent Bernie Sanders from taking the Dem Party -- that he didn't even belong to -- into full commie mode.
General Soreness@PangaMan5

@shipwreckedcrew I thought everyone knew this about Biden in 1975.

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Vexatious Galoot@Distant_Mirror_·
@ArtemisConsort Liberals in the civil rights era never predicted that non-white people in the post era would continue to see race as a cornerstone of identity. With huge ramifications, inadequately explored.
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@ThatchEffendi It's remarkable how German culture is now almost irrelevant in the wider world, but at Harvard you needed to study German to graduate in the early 20c, and I bet that didn't change until WW2. @grok when did this change?
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Vexatious Galoot@Distant_Mirror_·
@ThatchEffendi I bet they did. German immigration in 1940 has a similar cultural status to Italian immigration in the 1970s. The big wave was over, but it had been huge. And so the broad culture was aware of foods, songs, etc. First popular Andrew Sisters song was Bei Mir Bist Du Shein.
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Alexander Thatcher@ThatchEffendi·
Something that I've always found interesting about this scene is that it seems to suggest an educated American in 1942 had some kind of passing familiarity with Die Wacht am Rhein? Perhaps it's just a generic German patriotic song for the film, but still odd.
cinesthetic.@TheCinesthetic

The “La Marseillaise” scene in Casablanca (1942) still lands with staggering power. Many extras were actual refugees from Nazi-occupied Europe, which is why it feels so painfully genuine.

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@idobadtakes It might be different if these schools were relentlessly meritocratic. But they're not, and everyone knows this.
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george@idobadtakes·
I agree in theory But how exactly are Harvard and Yale supposed to continue to produce all the American elites if they are 70% Asian? That’s not going to fly with a public that’s 7% Asian, and the universities know it
Kelsey Piper@KelseyTuoc

This is a common piece of feedback I got when I said I wanted to write that affirmative action, as it was practiced at elite schools, was in fact racist, morally wrong and at odds with liberal principles. "Okay, but it's over, so what?"

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@Empty_America It didn't used to be this way, but over twenty years the system was recalibrated to allow the large number of special admits (DEI, athletes, connections) to pass their courses.
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Vexatious Galoot@Distant_Mirror_·
@Empty_America What does it take to graduate in good standing? Honestly, 1100 and you can finish with a 3.0 if you apply yourself.
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VB Knives@Empty_America·
So what SAT is required to actually do the work at an Ivy? I would say about 1400, but it could be lower. Above this threshold, they can pick anyone they want. It might not even serve their goals to have everyone at 1550+, as would happen with pure test admissions.
Marc Porter Magee 🎓@marcportermagee

My take on this is that the Ivies should stop selecting classes 100% full of 4.0 students. Throw some bright students who got a bunch of B’s in the mix, the ones who don’t mind taking chances and failing short and aren’t just trying to maximize their GPA all the time.

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Sam Haselby@samhaselby·
Last week, in three separate articles, three different Princeton professors announced they are devoted to opposing "white supremacy." For non US followers, when Princeton professors say they are against white supremacy they mean poor white people, not the rich ones who pay them.
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Vexatious Galoot@Distant_Mirror_·
@marcportermagee The way to understand grade inflation at ivies, btw. It's basically pass fail. The average grade at Harvard is an A. It used to be that over 90% graduated w/ some sort of honors. This was tightened, but it's still a majority. A mid student in high school can graduate, definitely.
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Vexatious Galoot@Distant_Mirror_·
@marcportermagee No ivy does this. It's now basically one-third smartish students with connections, one-third DEI, and one-third academic stars. It's been this way for 20 years. Also why grade inflation is rampant. A competitive system would demoralize students.
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Marc Porter Magee 🎓@marcportermagee·
My take on this is that the Ivies should stop selecting classes 100% full of 4.0 students. Throw some bright students who got a bunch of B’s in the mix, the ones who don’t mind taking chances and failing short and aren’t just trying to maximize their GPA all the time.
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Vexatious Galoot@Distant_Mirror_·
@mrianleslie @helenlewis Screenwriting is often collaborative. And imitative. Those who think AI can't do this well, I bet, are mistaken. So bad news for human writers. But why should the audience care? Most readers usually aren't invested in the identity of writers of all sorts.
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Vexatious Galoot@Distant_Mirror_·
@mrianleslie @helenlewis Many nonfiction essayists do seem to enjoy the process of writing. But what about screenwriters? They are creating an intermediate form, a blueprint to create a different product. If they co-wrote a script with AI why would it matter?
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Vexatious Galoot@Distant_Mirror_·
@butleriano I think you're wrong about the United States. A typical college grad would not know Kipling, except as a name. Definitely wouldn't know Tagore. Might know of Rushdie but wouldn't have read him, and even that is iffy.
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Canderous Ordoliberal 🫥@butleriano·
India is more of a core Anglophone society than Australia tbh. Average university educated Briton or North American could not tell you the name of a single Australian writer but they could tell you about Kipling, Rushdie and maybe Tagore.
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@whyvert He has a weekly podcast and it's quite good. Great guests, 2 hours. I agree he's not relevant in the old sense. But serious question, is there anyone on Twitter/X who is relevant on the strength of tweets? Because I don't think so. Even substack, I dunno.
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Whyvert@whyvert·
Used to hear a lot about Andrew Sullivan. But he hasn't tweeted in 3 years and his Subbstack is completely pay-walled. How to drop out of the discourse.
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Vexatious Galoot@Distant_Mirror_·
@jbarro I find it hysterical that people treat Newsome as if he is a viable candidate for president. He's a cartoon. Taking him down will be like playing patty cake.
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Josh Barro@jbarro·
Democrats desperately need more straight men working in communications, especially for politicians who are themselves straight men, because it’s weird how so many Dem offices try to speak in some form of “caustic gay wit” nytimes.com/2026/03/31/us/…
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Vexatious Galoot@Distant_Mirror_·
@DisgracedProp Get rid of the sectors that produce goods and services outsiders want to buy and this causes the spiral. People stop moving there, real estate flattens, public sector contracts, education gets worse, etc. Or go to Santa Monica, haha. LA and CA are horribly governed.
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Vexatious Galoot@Distant_Mirror_·
@DisgracedProp LA's economy is more complicated, and its other strengths are things like weather. But entertainment is more like 4-5%, and that's the difference between growth and recession. Many other sectors are downstream from it. Detroit analogy, it was rich when world bought its cars.
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