@ima_pseudo41406 @FischerKing64 It’ll be one collective self fulfilling prophecy or another.
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@SpenceBurn @FischerKing64 Historically, this will be the eventual outcome and there's no good reason to believe that it will be any different this time.
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A strong argument against rapidly overwhelming a society with diversity - which the vast majority of the population didn’t want or ask for - is to avoid stupid and unnecessary conversations like whether James Bond or Hamlet should be a black dude.
Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
The impulse to diversify canonical works like The Odyssey is the whole concept of a canon doing what it’s supposed to do — serving as broad cultural patrimony rather than as a curious foreign story. slowboring.com/p/a-diverse-od…
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@ima_pseudo41406 @FischerKing64 Well that ship has sailed my friend. We are a melting pot. Aspiring to have shared cultural values is a different conversation & far more worthwhile & sensible. A snapshot in time is not a future inevitability. Diversity is bad people should speak plainly about ulterior motives.
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I didn't know Helen of Troy could generate so much conflict.
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@FischerKing64 Culture wars are exhausting. Pretty sure you can just disagree with the casting here but Christopher Nolan has earned the right to have artistic freedom. Phenomenal filmmaker. Would you like to establish a “bureau of historical accuracy in filmmaking”? Give me a break.
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The reason it’s wrong is that it’s an effort to erase European history. It’s not ‘inherently wrong’ to cast anyone as anything. Russell Crowe could play Nelson Mandela.
But when the casting is inherently political, is aimed at destroying heritage - then it’s wrong.
National Review@NRO
What the Helen of Troy role most requires is luminous beauty, and there’s nothing inherently wrong with casting actors such as Lupita Nyong’o in roles that don’t match their ethnicity. | @RichLowry nationalreview.com/2026/05/does-i…
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@AdamSinger @tszzl Truly believe the patronage model is one of the most positive economic outcomes imaginable. Philanthropies with gobs of money to deploy would do well to create funds exactly like that for musicians, architects, filmmakers, artists, athletes, public stewards, etc.
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@tszzl I would setup a fund for musicians to apply to take a year or two, maybe longer off work to compose public domain music. Would be immensely cool
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it will be very hard to productively spend this scale of philanthropic capital effectively, it seems already quite hard
Nan Ransohoff@nanransohoff
New blog post: The third wave of American philanthropy Hundreds of billions of dollars in new philanthropic capital will soon become liquid. The OpenAI Foundation holds 26% of OpenAI, worth about $220B at today’s valuation. Anthropic’s seven co-founders have pledged to give away 80% of their wealth and have instituted the most aggressive donor matching program for employees in tech history. How much does this all add up to? And how meaningful is that in the context of philanthropy today? I was doing some simple napkin math to wrap my head around the scale of what’s coming, and radicalized myself in the process. I had dramatically underappreciated the scale of the philanthropic capital that’s about to become available and the corresponding gap in talent and organizations that will be needed to make the most of it. This piece aims to directionally sketch the scale of what’s coming, the gap in operational capacity needed to absorb it, and what we can do to fill it. (Link to full post in reply)
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this is the kind of messaging you craft for public education when you believe the purpose of public education is giving unions money rather than educating children
Governor Newsom Press Office@GovPressOffice
Student funding in California is now a RECORD HIGH! Since Governor Newsom took office, it’s increased 66%— reaching $28,282 per student as the state makes historic investments in public education.
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The ultimate compilation of Tucker Carlson contradicting himself.
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Why is everything so expensive, he asks, as he proposes new rules to make running a business even harder and more expensive.
- State gov't across the country
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@BullandBaird Last of Us ahead of Mad Men is genuinely vomit inducing.
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Band of Brothers at 44 is a crime.
Ali Tekin@alitekintr
BBC Culture, en iyi 100 diziyi listeledi. Kaydedin lazım olur.
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Look, was LIV Golf successful? No.
Did it bolster the reputations of everybody involved? Also, no.
But was it fun? Once again, no.
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@Catholic_bro Man, hate to say this, but this clip sounds like it was completely written by AI...
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NEW: Astronaut Reid Wiseman, who says he is not religious, says he broke down in tears when he saw the Cross after getting back to Earth.
Wiseman: "I'm not really a religious person, but there was just no other avenue for me to explain anything..."
Victor Glover: "The only thing I would add is I am a religious person, but everything else is the same."
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Sometimes reading Steinbeck is like getting kicked in the chest
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Here for this as well as for the Pope bringing back the hashtag sign off.
#Peace
Pope Leo XIV@Pontifex
Those who pray are aware of their own limitations; they do not kill or threaten with death. Instead, death enslaves those who have turned their backs on the living God, turning themselves and their own power into a mute, blind and deaf idol (Ps 115:4–8), to which they sacrifice every value, demanding that the whole world bend its knee. Enough of the idolatry of self and money! Enough of the display of power! Enough of war! True strength is shown in serving life. #Peace
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@WillManidis Somewhat related is the poison that is Kayfabe and reality distortion.
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the single greatest thing you can do for your sanity is to take life seriously. we live in a profoundly irony-poisoned society and you cut off 1/100th of what life can offer you by being a goofball. the jester may be near the king but he does not sit at the hand of the father
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In the light of #Easter, let us allow ourselves to be amazed by Christ! Let us allow our hearts to be transformed by his immense love for us! Let those who have weapons lay them down! Let those who have the power to unleash wars choose peace! Not a peace imposed by force, but through dialogue! Not with the desire to dominate others, but to encounter them!
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Pardon me for being, ahem, pragmatic, but this IS hyperbole.
The thing that's weird about articles like this is they assess a "balance sheet" that doesn't include the US government's biggest assets - its natural resources, land and present value of future tax receipts.
The land and resources alone are worth $100+ trillion. But the taxing authority is the real whopper. The US government has a present and future claim on the output of the wealthiest country that ever existed. A conservative discount rate of 4.5% over 50 years equates this to a $200T+ asset. They love to talk about "unfunded liabilities", but what about the present value of uncollected tax receipts? It's a crazy huge figure....
So no. The wealthiest country in human history doesn't have a bankrupt govt. It has a very poorly run govt that could benefit from being a lot better run, but it's not bankrupt.
Carry on.
Yahoo News@YahooNews
The U.S. government is insolvent. That’s not hyperbole — it’s the conclusion drawn directly from the Treasury Department’s own consolidated financial statements for fiscal year 2025, Fortune reports. finance.yahoo.com/economy/policy…
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