Hunter Wieman

I thought the appeal of an AI boyfriend/girlfriend is that it will spend all their time excited to talk about you. That doesn't sound like good practice for healthy human relationships.

@BenShindel @mattyglesias I like that the left’s critique is: The characters are immature adrenaline junkies which is a deliberate attempt to delegitimize leftists And the right’s critique is; The characters are immature adrenaline junkies which is a deliberate attempt to valorize meaningless violence

@mattyglesias It’s funny that both the left and right wing are mad about the politics in OBAA. Meanwhile my parents quit watching 30 minutes in because they thought it was “too depressing”.

Really dumb, philistine take

@NathanB60857242 @bellaforristal @NathanpmYoung @Aria_Babu Agree. It was prescriptive on extreme body choices. “If your body can look like Kim K’s, you should make it so.” What? You can tell women that many men find that body type attractive and it is rare, but that is an extreme choice and not at all obligatory to be attractive.

@bellaforristal @NathanpmYoung @Aria_Babu I think the tone its written makes it at least somewhat normative, despite the disavowels of this. Calling female bodybuilders "grotesque" is not some required to give advice on the instrumental task of how to change ones appearance for the purpose of finding a husband.

I like @Aria_Babu and hard nosed truth telling, but I am capable of empathising with a woman who reads an article about getting sexier and finds it tremendously difficult. But on the margin, I want media for women to be more honest, not less.

@mattyglesias Unmentioned in your article is that Gallego also rose to power by primarying Sinema. How much cred do you think that gives him with the left?

We owe Kamala a great debt for this coconut tree line, I think about it constantly. slowboring.com/p/the-obama-of…

photo creds to @CartoonsHateHer

What am I reading?

Whole article is basically

@deanwball @hamandcheese How do you get told this and then forget who said it?

@hamandcheese I forget who it was who said this to me in recent weeks, but it was a relatively prominent person: “you are right that the republic is dead. Now the only thing left is to fight over control of the empire, and your writing is making that harder for our side.”

It seems like a regularity in history for empires in secular decline to prematurely jump to the conclusion.

@AliceFromQueens @souljagoyteller To be clear, I strongly support trans rights. I think biological sex is relevant factor is limited situations including sports, and these are places where voters will also have value judgments. If you dismiss disagreement, voters will think you don’t take their values seriously.

@AliceFromQueens @souljagoyteller Voters wonder why Dems can’t just say the thing is crazy. And then voters might wonder if the democrats aren’t being fully honest with them or if their values are misaligned more broadly Don’t take the bait! Defend positions you want to run in, and distance yourself from others.

I mean, this is unambiguously correct (this is the truth of most social wedge issues)

@AliceFromQueens @souljagoyteller Would be different to me if the right wing panic was only quoting minor activists and academics. Then you have a much bigger reason to blame Fox News.

@AliceFromQueens @souljagoyteller Totally agree, but if you are on video supporting a position, it does complicate the original claim that the only reason the issue is salient is bc of right wing media.

@AliceFromQueens @souljagoyteller I agree one Democrat can’t change the perception of the party. But on a variety of issues, I see D candidates wishing it would disappear instead of just taking the popular side. Republicans ran from social security questions. Then Trump loudly said he wouldn’t cut it and he won.

@HunterWieman @souljagoyteller I dont think Dems have that much control over it

@morallawwithin I would be shocked if it is the first, and if it is the second, that just seems uninteresting.

@HunterWieman If I knew the answers to these question, then I myself would be published

Counterpoint: my future self consented to the tattoos when she signed the forms

@AndyMasley Looks good! Why did you choose this over a bar chart? I've heard that people underestimate differences in area.

Okay this is no longer a work in progress, very happy with the result. andymasley.com/visuals/water/

@jdcmedlock Love this blog post

"Sure, it works in practice, but does it work in theory?" publiccomment.blog/p/sure-it-work…

AMERICA IS NOT HAVING EUROPE’S IMMIGRATION PROBLEM. Last year, @DLeonhardt published a piece on how the American left should learn from Denmark to restrict immigration in order to protect the welfare state. It went viral and become something of a conventional wisdom among many lawmakers and liberals. But he misunderstands the U.S.' unique advantages and his "solutions" would make the problem worse, not better. The “Denmark model” story focuses on reducing numbers. But the bigger lever is labor-market access: Europe makes it structurally hard for newcomers to work, then acts surprised when they struggle. The U.S. largely doesn't have this problem (until the recent migrant wave, that is). As a result, in the U.S., immigrants are more likely to be employed than natives. However, in Germany, only 58% of prime-aged non-EU immigrants work vs 78% of non-immigrant Germans. France is 52% vs 66%. Cultural assimilation looks different too: on PISA reading, U.S. kids of immigrants are basically at parity (506 vs 511). In France the gap is 40+ points (444 vs 486). Most European countries bar asylum seekers from working for 6–9 months (often longer). That’s not “integration.” It’s state-enforced unemployment. And of course it doesn't work. New from @KelseyTuoc and @akoustov at @TheArgumentMag: theargumentmag.com/p/why-america-…

@AlexGodofsky @MattZeitlin Both

@MattZeitlin if you had never heard of this before, but I claimed "access to solar power is considered an important policy goal for california environmental groups" would you say "huh that doesn't make sense" or would you say "that sounds like exactly the sort of thing they would do"?

it's not super obvious to me why *access to solar power* is considered a policy goal for a state (as opposed to, say, reducing emissions or air pollution or fossil fuel dependence)