Devon Bancroft

@river_is_nice It’s in NYC right by the Q train

I will never cancel Noam Chomsky. He devoted decades of his life to tireless solidarity with oppressed people, especially by his own government, and exposing the propaganda used to subjugate them. His impact on that front is immeasurable. This doesn't mean he's above critique. He took positions I disagreed with, especially in recent years. I think he made an error in judgement befriending Jeffrey Epstein, who, when he met Noam, had been convicted of soliciting prostitution from a minor. If you think Noam Chomsky deserves banishment despite having zero complicity in that or Epstein's other crimes, OK. I'm going to decline to join you, just as I declined to join those in the establishment who've been trying to cancel Noam for a lot longer.

@USAttyEssayli the 4th amendment is a poison pill, huh? swallow it anyway you degenerate

We all know what happens next

a frame by frame dissection from times reporters shows ICE disarming, macing, and securing pretti in restraints all before two agents fire ten rounds into him. the agent who appears to have pretti’s gun is across the street by the time they stop shooting nytimes.com/interactive/20…

Business Insider bringing the snow day headlines

When the US sought to purchase Greenland in 1946, it was by way of secret negotiations that weren't even revealed until decades later -- as opposed to public browbeating and threats. And it was soon mooted by the 1951 treaty that essentially gives the US carte blanche to do whatever it wants in Greenland, militarily and otherwise. The 1946 negotiations also preceded the formation of NATO, which further entrenched Greenland under the military umbrella of the US. That's why the US was subsequently able to place 50 military installations in Greenland, along with thousands of troops. Trump's insistence that he needs to formally annex Greenland because of some "psychological" benefit he perceives, and his apparent willingness to achieve this through wild threats, really has no meaningful precedent -- as much as certain people now want to spin a convoluted rationalization for it, to make it seem totally sensible and historically well-founded. Even though it's totally wacky. If he feels Greenland is integral to his cockamamie plan for a boondoggle "Golden Dome" missile defense system (another glorious win for the "military-industrial complex") that could obviously be arranged within the current parameters of the US-Greenland-Denmark relationship. Instead he wants to formally seize it for reasons of personal aggrandizement, and because he's developed a second-term ideology around brutish American expansionism, as made evident in numerous other places across the world where he's recently declared himself the new ruler.

I'm a former defense attorney and currently a civil liberties attorney with no political dog in this fight. I watched the video at least 10 times from different angles and at different speeds and waited to offer an opinion, which I still reserve the right to change if additional information changes the calculus. It is very clear that the officers instigated the confrontation. The woman initially tried to wave them past her. ICE officers have no authority to search a US citizen or arrest her (unless there's probable cause to believe she's harboring undocumented individuals, not a contention here). A woman surrounded by masked, armed men who have no law enforcement authority over her has every right to try to escape. Video shows her steering wheel is turned to the right, clearly an attempt to leave WITHOUT hitting anyone and steer clear of the officer standing towards the front of her car. That officer had time to step to the side, which is where he was when he shot her. Even a real police officer would not have the right to shoot at her for trying to flee. This is well-established in the case law; deadly force may not be used simply to prevent someone from getting away. Given that the ICE officers had no law enforcement authority to begin with, AND the video footage shows she was trying to escape a perceived threat, not to kill anyone, the crime is all the more inexcusable. I'm praying for the victim's family, especially her children. I'm also praying for all the conservatives who are so unprincipled and lost they're excusing this terrible crime, and gloating over a death that will leave three young children motherless, because of the victim's politics.

@erikmbaker How can I follow you on Letterboxd?

@TheStalwart There’s a smaller sample size and thus more variance for XXL so it’s more likely their inventory projections were wrong?

Something that’s not obvious to me. Why is it that if a clothing retailer has a clearance rack, the items are more likely to be sizes like XXL than, say, M?

@vasuman We Hear For You

They’re going to murder the intern that posted this

@mattyglesias In NYC it’s closer to $80k

@captgouda24 @maiamindel You’re being pedantic

@maiamindel No, that is not what heritability would mean. They are heritable if identical twins would get more similar inheritances than fraternal twins. To that extent, and to that extent alone, they are heritable. If you are going to criticize things, possess a trivial knowledge of them.

Traits correlated with success that are heritable: - money - legacy at fancy university - job at daddy's firm - job at daddy's friend's firm - advice from daddy and his friends

@allgarbled Such a good tweet

Even better question: how does anyone ever become the CEO in the first place? Either he must have been the CEO for all time, which defies reason, or there must be some kind of first CEO who has appointed all the others

@StatisticUrban Is everything just about iPhones?

Mexico’s fertility rate fell from a healthy, comfortably above-replacement level of 2.21 children per woman in 2014 to just 1.60 in 2023, lower than both the US and France. In just nine years. We don't really know what's coming.

@Bestofsopranos @SopranosWorld I never understood why he ran like that, except for getting rid of his gun? I assume the feds would only have a warrant out for Johnny Sack, and if they did want to arrest Tony they’ll be able to find him very easily eventually.

Looks like Tony running from the FBI at Johnny Sack’s house:

@dwightcrow @Altimor What did he lie about?

@Altimor ha!! we hired Soham 3 months ago - same story of starting remote and would be here within the month. fired him after two weeks when we caught him blatantly lying. unfortunate - there should be a better way to catch folks like this :/

Holy shit. We hired this guy a week ago. Fired this morning. He did so incredibly well in interviews, must have a lot of training. Careful out there.

@Suhail Don’t most companies do background checks, like call their previous employers? How does he get around that?

PSA: there’s a guy named Soham Parekh (in India) who works at 3-4 startups at the same time. He’s been preying on YC companies and more. Beware. I fired this guy in his first week and told him to stop lying / scamming people. He hasn’t stopped a year later. No more excuses.

@typesfast Age of Wonder by Richard Holmes a.co/d/1nVztoz

What’s the best history book you’ve read?