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Dan Gardner
@dgardner
New York Times bestselling author and co-author of many books. My website: https://t.co/S17Y9SDxGE. My newsletter: https://t.co/XVtKxu6iVi.
Ottawa Katılım Nisan 2010
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@CarissaVeliz @nytimesbooks Congratulations! My copy arrived a few days ago.
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Thrilled and grateful to see #Prophecy reviewed in the @nytimesbooks! #books #bookrecommendation #bookreview
"Witty" and "surprising", “Prophecy” — roving, intelligent, irreducibly idiosyncratic — can expand our sense of possibility, starting now."
nytimes.com/2026/04/29/boo…
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@lcnxyz I'm almost never on this site and can't access DMs. Sorry.
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Maybe Elon should re-read the parts where the authors talk about wealth inequality and how, if it becomes too severe, and it isn't correct with legislation and wealth redistribution, it ends in revolution and heads on pikes.
Elon Musk@elonmusk
Read The Story of Civilization by Durant
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Just a reminder: in 1982, when Great Britain was attacked by Argentina, starting the Falklands War, the United States did not come to their aid because the Falklands are not in the North Atlantic and the British did not bitch about it.
In 1956, when the French and British attacked Egypt, causing the Suez Crisis, despite the fact that France and Great Britain are in NATO, the United States not only refused to assist, but went to the United Nations to condemn them for attacking Egypt.
In 2019, when Turkey decided to attack Syria, the Trump administration had the Pentagon send out an official notice that they did not support the campaign and would not send troops.
So kindly shut the fuck up, everyone in the White House.
The White House@WhiteHouse
“NATO WASN’T THERE WHEN WE NEEDED THEM, AND THEY WON’T BE THERE IF WE NEED THEM AGAIN. REMEMBER GREENLAND, THAT BIG, POORLY RUN, PIECE OF ICE!!!” - President Donald J. Trump
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Trump explicitly stated that negotiations would be based on Iran's ten-point list of demands -- a list that includes charging every boat that transits the Strait of Hormuz $2 million.
It is bonkers to see this as anything but a cornered Trump desperately trying to get out.
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Vance's speech in Budapest is truly outrageous:
1. The US vice president campaigns for an enemy of the EU & NATO, but a friend of Putin & China.
2. Vance attacks the EU for pressuring Hungary, but Hungary has received net about 3% of GDP a year from the EU, but it has squandered much on corruption.
3. In effect, Vance argues that the EU should promote corruption just as the Trump administration does.
Trump and Vance fight freedom and the rule of law in favor of autocracy, kleptocracy and Russia.
US foreign policy has hit the bottom.
Jay in Kyiv@JayinKyiv
Vance blames all Hungary's economic problems on foreign interference (Brussels and Zelensky, not Orban's 16 year looting binge).
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@razibkhan Subversion is thrilling, instructive even, until there's nothing left to subvert.
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If Boris Johnson had remained a mere pundit -- or perhaps a TV show host -- I would have loved him like my own stuffed bear from childhood. Alas.
Christopher Kratovil@chris_kratovil
It’s not every day that one gets to listen to a former British Prime Minister recite from memory the opening passages of The Iliad in Ancient Greek, with no notes, in response to a random question from an undergraduate—and all while wearing what appear to be Thomas The Tank Engine socks. But today was one such day. My thanks to my good friend Brad LaMorgese for the opportunity to see the colorful and comic Boris Johnson speak tonight at the University of Dallas.
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A great point from @sapinker: we didnt' evolve with reading. Listening and watching are so easy and compelling, and they are rising as reading falls. But reading/books gave rise to so many important cognitive habits, and to the Flynn effect.
Steven Pinker@sapinker
Like an appreciation of progress, reading and literacy are among the things that are good but cognitively unnatural. That is, they go against our evolved nature. We didn’t evolve with print; it was a recent invention. Reading, for many of us, has become so second nature that we just assume it’s the most natural way of getting information. But what we’ve seen, especially in the last 10 years, when video has become so cheap because of the cloud computing revolution and the broadband revolution, is that a lot of people, unlike us, much prefer to listen and watch than to read. You just see this: when I go to Google and ask a basic question about how to unstick my printer or solve a problem, I get like five videos. And I just want a paragraph that would solve it. I don’t want to see Seth saying, “Hi, welcome to my show. If you like it, subscribe and give it a like.” So just help me solve the problem. But clearly there’s something unusual about me, because people are going for the video. And the massive availability of video—of TikTok, of YouTube—means that people may not be getting the practice or putting in the effort into literacy, which we have reason to believe was one of the drivers of the Flynn effect and of cognitive sophistication in general. @HumanProgress
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I read the paragraph and didn't watch the video. Solidarity with @sapinker.
Steven Pinker@sapinker
Like an appreciation of progress, reading and literacy are among the things that are good but cognitively unnatural. That is, they go against our evolved nature. We didn’t evolve with print; it was a recent invention. Reading, for many of us, has become so second nature that we just assume it’s the most natural way of getting information. But what we’ve seen, especially in the last 10 years, when video has become so cheap because of the cloud computing revolution and the broadband revolution, is that a lot of people, unlike us, much prefer to listen and watch than to read. You just see this: when I go to Google and ask a basic question about how to unstick my printer or solve a problem, I get like five videos. And I just want a paragraph that would solve it. I don’t want to see Seth saying, “Hi, welcome to my show. If you like it, subscribe and give it a like.” So just help me solve the problem. But clearly there’s something unusual about me, because people are going for the video. And the massive availability of video—of TikTok, of YouTube—means that people may not be getting the practice or putting in the effort into literacy, which we have reason to believe was one of the drivers of the Flynn effect and of cognitive sophistication in general. @HumanProgress
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@johnkonrad Yeah, insulting and deriding an ally embarking on the biggest boost in military spending since WWII -- spending which has mostly gone to the US in the past -- isn't maybe a smart idea.
Unless you're a Kremlin bot or stooge. Then it's a great idea.
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So you’re going to arm your sea kayaks?
You have:
Zero carriers
Zero destroyers
3 broken diesel subs
1 that kinda works maybe
No navy-owned replenishment ships
2 semi-broken heavy icebreakers, built in 1966 and 1983, to patrol the longest arctic coast on earth
Legacy CF-18s
F-35s not coming for years, if ever
More generals than working tanks
1/3 of your wokefighters are obese
The head of your military is a woke English King
Your top general cries on TV
And you’ve completely pissed off your strongest ally.
What exactly is the plan here Mark?
Mark Carney@MarkJCarney
We're rebuilding, rearming, and reinvesting in the Canadian Armed Forces — to protect Canadians and our Allies.
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@dcharvie @DMike_Day I'm "projecting" that Iranians will have paid attention to what the President of the United States said as he launched a war on the Iranian regime. Pretty odd that you would object.
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@dgardner @DMike_Day You’re projecting that they watch CNN like your fellow Canadians… unlikely anyone anywhere hovers offshore news sources like self reliant Canadians
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Can anyone provide a link / quote as to the American end state of this operation
Success is a consequence of achieving the end state measured against cost
Lacking such clarity it is impossible to make an assessment
Ignore talking heads who posture and ignore this construct
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@denis_acia It's both. And thinking it's only interests is destroying American power.
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@dgardner Foreign policy isn’t teams it’s interests today’s ally can be tomorrow’s friction point
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Donald Trump's enemies in Europe: France, Germany, the United Kingdom, Denmark, the Netherlands, and, well, all the other democracies.
Donald Trump's allies in Europe: Russia, Belarus, and Hungary.
This says everything.
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@GeorgeD72865991 @brithume A whole bunch of Canadian soldiers who died in Afghanistan fighting for the United States would tell you to go to hell if they weren't dead, you ungrateful cur.
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@brithume Canada is NOT an ally. It’s a globalist nation and ill suited to be a close partner with the US. Sure US has to deal with them but it doesn’t have to be generous.
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This from a Canadian: "Canada has swallowed the Trump shtick and fallen into the trap of being offended and outraged by his negotiating strategy—never mind that we need America far more than it needs us." wsj.com/opinion/an-all…
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@GMDanTO What have I been watching? Donald Trump's TruthSocial account. It's pretty clear what he thinks.
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@dgardner You do realize NATO juat signed with US and Israel right ? What have you been watching. Add Japan and Middle East countries
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@LouisAnslow Sorry, "if Haidt is right..." at the end.
The core problem is sometimes fears turn out to be unfounded and sometime they're all too true. Leaded gas. Cigarettes. Only if we wrestle with the uncertainty are we dealing with it seriously. Anything else is dogma.
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@dgardner I genuinely think a crusade to age gate the internet based on shaky theory of harms is going to have widespread and harmful impacts, much like the crusade to control population. Unfocused panics about GMOs, Vaccines, Nuclear Power and Comics have all created harms for society!
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Johnathan Haidt is to the world of bits what Paul Ehrlich was to the word of atoms.
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@LouisAnslow In Population Bomb, Ehrlich asked the right question (then answered it horribly): If I'm wrong, what harm will I inflict?
What harms would age-gating inflict should Haidt be wrong? 🤷♂️
And flip it around: If Haidt is wrong, and you're wrong, what harms will accrue?
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@LouisAnslow Ah, well, let me rephrase: This tweet is a school-yard slur of the sort which is rampant in public discourse and taking us to a place where no one, whatever their views, should want to go.
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