@IanColdwater Classic @IanColdwater, always prompting engagement with online content
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benjotron
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@_AudreyKennedy My block in Whittier is 100% compliant. But there are signs up on the street?
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Minneapolis checkin:
Have people in your neighborhood moved their cars? Have you seen any ticketing or towing?
In the Wedge, not a SINGLE CAR has been moved for several blocks. No ticketing and probably no towing because they can't get through. (I've seen them turn around.)
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@KittenBalerion @diannaeanderson I actually work for this company. If you tag inspiresleep, the social team is great about answering questions.
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@diannaeanderson I have a coworker with heavy sleep apnea who just gets up at 4 AM regularly
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@bornwithatail_ Sigh. I put money down like a week before the cave diver thing.
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@whstancil Reminds me more and more of the "investor" tiers of social networks. Real investors and advertisers cashing in on content creators and users who have invested time and content in the platform.
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The nature of this fraud was clear long before it blew up. SBF’s supporters knew he was taking money from suckers, but they believed they were in on the scheme. Of course he was exploiting them too, because THAT’S WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU WORK WITH CROOKS. twitter.com/whstancil/stat…
Will Stancil@whstancil
It strikes me that if want to steal a ton of money with crypto shenanigans, but also want to justify it to yourself and your fancy friends, one way would be to get really into effective altruism, and argue you create more utility with the money than the schmucks trading Dogecoin
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“It’s okay if SBF steals a bunch of money from dumb schmucks, because he’ll give it to a good cause” is exactly the reasoning that seems to have enticed so many smart people into an effective altruism affinity fraud. It’s not like his online fan club were crypto true believers.
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@trillharris Yeah, I tend to agree, I don't think nuclear waste is going to be marginal.
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@benjotron The oil refinery almost certainly the nuke plant is maybe if they’re improperly storing things. The refinery puts shit into the air the nuclear plant would have to be sharing their wastewater with the groundwater which I will not at all rule out
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Mind blowing that this happened like right down in Cottage Grove and I had zero idea
Winter@deenafaywinter
Read my story: minnesotareformer.com/2022/12/14/the…
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@trillharris I grew up south of that area and I've heard that the oil refinery and Prairie Island also contribute to cancer rates. No idea if there's any objective truth to it.
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I mean I’m not surprised cuz I was under zero illusions that 3M was better than any other huge chemical manufacturer but goddamn it’s so hard to separate how entrenched they are here
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@whstancil Buying the Supreme Court didn't give them the respect they wanted so try buying Twitter next?
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Thinking about how ideas spread in society - where the printing presses are, who controls them, who reads them - is vital to politics. Liberals, comfortable with the previous status quo, don’t think about it. The left barely thinks about it. But to the right, it’s an obsession.
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Yes! The right is crazy about Twitter but they’re not crazy to think it’s important.
Brian Beutler@brianbeutler
NEW: Right-wing billionaires like Elon Musk want to control Twitter because they understand how it punches above its weight as a social platform. mailchi.mp/crooked.com/bi…
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@ItsTheBrandi They've been in the room for ten minutes? Sounds like a tough crowd
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A Tucker Carlson regular has appeared in my mentions, furious that anyone might ever detect any racism behind the politics of him and his friends
Glenn Greenwald@ggreenwald
@whstancil The planet's whitest man - who thinks he's some kind of intellectual dissident because he tepidly criticizes DNC strategy - gets very confused by anyone who doesn't fit within the most primitive Dem/GOP dichotomy and thus, exasperated, explains it away with... racism accusations.
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