Adam H Johnson

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An excellent piece by @ahjohnson.bsky.social in @inthesetimesmag.bsky.social. Deserves to be widely read, and should drive "journalistic institutions, universities and prestige nonprofits" into deep self-examination. To paraphrase Chomsky: Are some victims more (un)worthy than other victims?

“Taking a position is okay so long as it doesn’t meaningfully offend the prevailing hegemonic worldview. If it does, then it violates not, explicitly, the prevailing hegemonic worldview, but some abstract virtue of 'neutrality' or 'objectivity.'” inthesetimes.com/article/gaza...

Gaza Has Exposed Journalistic and Academic “Neutrality” as the Conservative Deflection It Always Wasinthesetimes.com After Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, elite liberal institutions had no problem picking a side. After 37,000 Palestinians are killed by Israel—things are now more complicated.

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The potential "next Gen Z member of Congress" launched his campaign this week. @ahjohnson.bsky.social joined us to explain the inherent hollowness of generational politics: www.insurgentspod.com/p/ep-206-gen...

Ep. 206: Generational Candidates ft. Adam Johnsonwww.insurgentspod.com Listen now (61 mins) | The Citations Needed co-host joins us to explain why simply running as a "Gen Z" candidate isn't enough.

still hope for me to live the dream

the kid (2.5yo) has entered his “train phase” this is a very exciting development for me

Biden needs to announce a plan to put all the college football conferences back to their 2019 status, he’d win 90% of the vote

none of these are powerful enough for a vibe shift, sorry. only SBUX can do this

with its PSL marketing Starbucks has complete, unilateral control over the autumnal vibe shift, this is too much power for a single corporation to have

RIP Chicago Bears

Equalizer3 being offered in imax is the funniest dad pandering ever, middleaged guys paying an extra $7 to watch 40 foot tall Denzel cut open a Serbian thug with a credit card. No creative justification, just an option dumped by the studio in late august. For dads.

an idea so stupid..... it just may work

Yes and also none of this ever going to happen. These guys saw a couple paragraphs of mediocre scripted genre pastiche and assumed we were a few years from actual writing, actual acting, actual music composition, actual directing and actual editing. Babies, all of them

i’m not exactly a connoisseur when it comes to film and literature, but it still blows my mind that these guys all conceive of art as just an updated set of jingling keys dangling in front of their moron faces

GOP media shops: for $10,000 I will say I survived 18 abortion attempts www.nytimes.com/2023/08/25/u...

The Story Behind DeSantis’s Anecdote About an ‘Abortion Survivor’www.nytimes.com Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida has been retelling Miriam Hopper’s 1955 birth story. The details are jarring, highly unusual and unverifiable.

funny that in 2004 granola people made a movie exploiting the linguistic and conceptual fuzzy areas of quantum physics and basically argued you could stand in front of a mirror and if you were sufficiently solipsistic and self-loathing you could concentrate hard enough and lose weight

there should be a tournament where the most popular blue state governors debate whichever GOP primary candidate shares their rank. If that was the case itd currently be Green (HI) v Trump Beshear (KY) v DeSantis Lamont (CT) v Ramaswamy Healey (MA) v Pence Polis (CO) v Haley (MC approval v RCP avg)

Funny that Newsom is debating (supposedly soon?) the guy now polling third

tl;dr “AI” to AGI is mostly vibes open.substack.com/pub/garymarc...

What if Generative AI turned out to be a Dud?open.substack.com Some possible economic and geopolitical implications

My all-time favorite character actor Xander Berkeley followed me then a few months later unfollowed me and I was legit upset. Then I realized it was a massively stupid thing to care about but yes, there’s still a small hole in my heart like four years later.

Prompt thread for a site where you can't game prompt threads: what were your most surreal Twitter follows? Mine were Norm, John Mayer, Jason Isbell, and Johnny Carson's old lawyer.

He wants to redirect money from Ukraine defense to massive escalation with China and Mexico, I beg the midwits who buy into this stuff to actually listen to what he’s saying, Ramaswamy doesn’t want to redirect money from Ukraine to poor people in the US, he wants to simply fund other hostilities

Saudis are doing soft power with baseball now. Devastating fansided.com/2022/07/27/g...

Growing the game: New baseball league with Hall of Fame backing set to kick off in Middle Eastfansided.com The United International Baseball League has announced that it will launch this winter with the backing of Barry Larkin and Mariano Rivera.

The lesson with the DeSantis’ implosion like with Jeb or the other “front runner” governors no one likes is that people elect governors to Get Things Done, they elect presidents because they Vibe With Them, it’s more of a romantic gesture. Governor is middle management, president is a cult leader

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So much this. "Abortion on demand" as opposed to what? Doctors roaming the streets and leaping out of bushes to perform surprise terminations?

Warms my heart to see the GOP also waste their time with vacuous “generations” discourse, analysis with the depth of a 1990s Pepsi marketing campaign in all its manifestations.

Man these guys are extremely horny for war with China, like even more than the last round. Just foaming, dead eyed and bat shit, it’s the only consistent applause line

This is cool, love this “anti imperialism”. ‘The woke libs care about gay stupid Ukraine and give them $77 billion while they ignore Maui and south Chicago which is why I want to spend $200 billion starting a new Cold War with China and also don’t care about Maui and south Chicago’

God bless the also-rans saying wild stuff like “presidents should not try and overturn elections and stir up violent mobs” only to get 1.4889% in Iowa and an occasional op-ed in the NYT

“Abortion on demand” first ballot propaganda thingamajig. What else would it be? You have to demand one to get one. Even with an arbitrary waiting period it’s still “on demand”, a cliche that only exist to make abortion seem super glib and slutty

they brought up DeSantis’ biggest donor but didn’t ask him about THE ALIENS

as a co-founder of the Online Eric Adams Disliker Caucus i have to say, and we all must admit, Eric Adams is genuinely funny and being funny is the biggest predictor of electoral success in this country. This is not an irony post, but a warning to his haters (future Adams’ waiters)

Going down the rabbit hole of fascist health influencers and the constant obsession with “haters” is so funny to me. 45yo men obsessed with “haters”, like teenagers, no interrogation as to the moral content of this “hate”, they’re all just jealous and lazy. Psycho breeding farms youtu.be/Zs1oV_q12Vc

EMBRACE YOUR HATERS - Powerful Motivation | David Goggins (2021)youtu.be EMBRACE YOUR HATERS - Powerful Motivation | David Goggins (2021)👉 David Goggins Motivation PlayList: https://bit.ly/3aVLchy🔔 SUBSCRIBE for future videos: h...

Absolutely hysterical, some team will 100% be paying Shohei $63M/yr when he’s 44 to be a mascot for the team and hit 12 homeruns a season Albert Pujols-style. I don’t care how much these guys say the long term contract is a thing of the past, my man is getting record breaking midlife mascot money