Osita Nwanevu

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I wrote about the election and the American project. www.ositanwanevu.com/will-america...

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Osita Nwanevu

Lots of flux in 2004, though. Bush happened to be up by 2.5 today and won by 2.4.

In six swing states that Biden narrowly won in 2020, a little more than half of voters classified as likely to decide the presidential election say threats to democracy are extremely important to their vote for president, according to a poll.

Trump trusted more than Biden on democracy among key swing-state voterswapo.st A poll of swing-state voters shows that Americans rate threats to democracy as an important issue, but that the president has yet to convince them he is the one to defend it.

This is an exchange I had with a Trump voter at a rally several years ago. www.newyorker.com/news/our-col...

New rule: to comment negatively about immigrants, you have to first disclose why your own family members immigrated to the US seeking a better life, and why people facing much worse shouldn’t have the same opportunity. www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

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Denver gave people experiencing homelessness $1,000 a month. Results showed that close to half of the participants secured housing, and nearly $600K saved in public service costs due to fewer ER visits & jail stays. They also saw improved mental health.

Denver gave people experiencing homelessness $1,000 a month. A year later, nearly half of participants had housing.www.yahoo.com Participants in Denver's basic income program received up to $1,000 a month. They became more housing secure and landed full-time jobs.

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Osita Nwanevu

I am exaggerating kind of, but also not really. www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...

Zipf's law hits *hard* The top 10 most prolific posters, post literally more than the bottom 90% of all users combined. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zipf's_...

Zipf's law - Wikipediaen.m.wikipedia.org

....he wants how many subscribers? A typo, surely? www.nytimes.com/2024/06/14/b...

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Osita Nwanevu

One reason why the White House might be wary of acknowledging the death toll on this operation is that we helped plan it.

No, no, they won't...unless...

Did a podcast about third parties and where they go after 2024 and my extremely basic take was... in 2028 Dems won't be nominating an 81-year old and it'll change everything. You can't write "Biden's old" every day but if you look at the strength of the two parties in the states, that's the issue!

Scarface (1983, dir. Brian De Palma)

Really do not know why this basic dynamic isn't a larger part of vibecession discourse. GOP consumer sentiment never recovered even a little bit post-COVID because Biden won the election. At best the plunge has stabilized. Sentiment is not going anywhere. www.reuters.com/graphics/USA...

Recently unlocked a new antebellum history character. Duff Green or Slavery Gandalf, Democratic publisher. So sexist by 19th century standards, Jackson told him to knock it off. Tried to gouge a guy's eyes out in the Senate. Later became Senate printer. Published propaganda at public expense.

Anyway, as far as the white working class specifically is concerned, here's a chart everyone who writes and thinks about American politics should commit to memory. Please note and compare the sizes of the jumps between 2008-2012 and between 2012-2016. www.vanderbilt.edu/unity/2021/0...

Stay not just woke, but Wide Awake. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wide_Aw...

Thinking about becoming a Lost Causer, but for Reconstruction. Flying an 1876 flag, slipping “40 acres & a mule” into casual conversation, saying “our people fought the good fight” about ten+ years of multiracial governing. www.rareflags.com/RareFlags_Sh...

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Atrios

Lots of confusion between “every great new technology was initially resisted” and “every technology that is initially resisted will be great.”

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Osita Nwanevu

Here is a good flag.

👍👍👍👍👍 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

This is one of the most New York Post articles of all time

Seems like a long way to go to get pictures of yourself slimmed down in the newspaper but alright. nypost.com/2024/05/18/u...

The Gouda, bad and ugly: NYC law student addicted to cheese went to...nypost.com Adela Cojab said cravings began during her junior year at NYU, in spring 2018, when she binged almost daily on the “cheapest” bricks cheese she could find.

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Osita Nwanevu

There was a good column on all this and carbon tariffs as an alternative in the Times the other day. www.nytimes.com/2024/05/15/o...

“The era of the detached, impersonal AI helper is coming to an end,” Kevin Roose writes. “Instead, we’re getting chatbots modeled after Samantha in ‘Her’ — with playful intelligence, basic emotional intuition and a wide range of expressive modes.”

A.I.’s ‘Her’ Era Has Arrivedwww.nytimes.com New chatbot technology can talk, laugh and sing like a human. What comes next is anyone’s guess.

I wrote about the protests. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I wrote about ties and what they mean for @flaminghydra.com. flaminghydra.com/cultural-ties/

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moxie

I'm going by the article's implied meaning of doomerism, which isn't a kind of 'what's the point of doing anything' attitude. There are references to "screaming" and "intimations of doom." I don't think it's correct to say that this mode hasn't been motivating or that its impact has been limited.

Genie: you have three wishes Me: I wish for more wishes Genie: that’s against the rules Me: wish it wasn’t Genie: you’ve got two wishes Me: I wish for more wishes Genie: you got it

The diagrams in this are also great. scholarship.law.marquette.edu/cgi/viewcont...