See how we’re celebrating being part of the Hyundai Motor Group!
— Boston Dynamics (@BostonDynamics) June 29, 2021
Check out Spot meeting BTS at @Hyundai_Global and visit our blog for the behind the scenes story: https://t.co/n7WB2XUxCD pic.twitter.com/xwFcEPtmFn
This is an extremely useful framing.
Not just further to the right, but further from the real. That’s the direction the Party is moving in.
— Jay Rosen (@jayrosen_nyu) July 7, 2021
Deadliest case: vaccination rates in the red states. There’s nothing inherently “conservative” (or pro-life) about being anti-vax.
But you can express your GOP-ness that way.
It also goes along with one of our long-running threads.
We’ve discussed this before, but the pandemic has given us a wealth of new examples.
What possible ideological basis is there for arguing for the relative contagiousness of one virus over another? Or of insisting on the efficacy of a particular drug? And yet, how one answers questions like these have become arguably the defining political positions of the day, particularly in conservative media and the far right.
I’m certain someone out there is working on a painfully epicyclic model to explain this (does R have a spirograph package?), but the picture becomes remarkably straightforward if you approach it in partisan terms.
From a conservative/Republican standpoint, when it comes to a potential collapse in support for President Trump, timing matters more than magnitude. A bad Q3 is worse for them than a terrible 2021 would be. Prematurely lifting lock downs is unlikely to buy them more than a dead cat bounce, but might be enough to avert a GOP bloodbath.
Add to that the constraint of not infuriating Trump. The base is (for the moment at least) personally loyal to him, not to the party, and temperamentally he is more than willing to bring the temple down with him.
Obviously, the memes and narratives of Fox et al. are often ideological and partisan, but when you look at the odd quadrants, you see lots of stories that advance a partisan aim with no significant ideological component, relatively few that go the other way.
Moviepass
Sounds like Uber and Lyft: https://t.co/JovKpAgM1t pic.twitter.com/qj4KsEOLxK
— Stuart Buck (@stuartbuck1) June 29, 2021
"...longer than you can stay liquid."
If, over the last 5 years, we had gotten long every <$200 mil company as soon as I had conviction that they were a fraud, we'd have had so many 5-10 baggers that it makes me laugh. The efficiency of capital allocation in the U.S. must be at a multi-decade low.
— Midwestern Hedgie (@MidwestHedgie) June 28, 2021
The legacy of Silicon Valley
Software is eating the world, but software culture keeps on whiffing in businesses that are nothing like software (construction, auto manufacturing, etc).
— E.W. Niedermeyer (@Tweetermeyer) June 29, 2021
Go figure! https://t.co/YLuCU9gp2X
Beter red and dead
The Communist Party staging protests against mandatory vaccinations – ostensibly to defend the individual’s right to be a moron anti-vaxxer – could be Russia’s most ironic post-Soviet antics yet. And that’s saying a lot.
— Kevin Rothrock (@KevinRothrock) June 30, 2021
If they would have tried really hard, they could have worked in a vampire reference.
Lord of the Roths: How Tech Mogul Peter Thiel Turned a Retirement Account for the Middle Class Into a $5 Billion Tax-Free Piggy Bank https://t.co/tyvoA60BU3
— Mark Palko (@MarkPalko1) July 1, 2021
One for the secular evangelicalism thread.
White Gen X And Millennial Evangelicals Are Losing Faith In The Conservative Culture Wars https://t.co/OjXLrUwshG via @TPM
— Mark Palko (@MarkPalko1) July 1, 2021
For the life of me, I can't think of a JIT pun
The company that invented just-in-time supply chains was one of the only OEMs to not get caught with their pants down in a major supply chain interruption (which typically slam JIT chains hardest).
— E.W. Niedermeyer (@Tweetermeyer) July 1, 2021
There's a really important lesson there... maybe even a couple. https://t.co/OzipkrjEf7
And one for the OTA television thread.
— Mark Palko (@MarkPalko1) July 2, 2021
Voter suppression file.
A law banning people from turning in someone else's mail ballot for them may seem like a minor inconvenience, but it isn't on Native reservations. Most residents live in remote areas & lack adequate postal service or a car, making many reliant on trusted community members to vote https://t.co/FRkhwrIRGI
— Stephen Wolf (@PoliticsWolf) July 1, 2021
Let this sink in.👇
— Marc E. Elias (@marceelias) July 1, 2021
"Kansas groups halt voter registration drives to avoid being jailed under new law"https://t.co/phTgSh33og
Vaccines and variants
🚨In a new piece, I lay out and explore 3 principles that now define the pandemic.
— Ed Yong (@edyong209) July 1, 2021
1) The vaccines are still beating the variants.
2) The variants are pummelling unvaccinated people.
3) The longer 2 continues, the less likely 1 will hold. https://t.co/T7izwOXWgA
Unlike Western megafires, the relationship between tropical cyclones and climate change is direct and undeniable.
"On average, the Atlantic does not crank out its fifth named storm until the end of August." Tropical Storm Elsa forms, becoming earliest fifth named storm on record https://t.co/tcHOipfXe8
— Deborah Blum (@deborahblum) July 1, 2021
Crypto
6% of Robinhood's revenue comes from enabling Elon Musk to execute the Dogecoin scam
— TC (@TESLAcharts) July 1, 2021
AMAZING https://t.co/55qEZuNekL
A tale of two cults and one very unlucky woman.
When I heard the shot ring out in this chamber on #January6th I was immediately transported to a day more than 40 years ago, after I was shot 5x and left for dead on an airstrip, & thought 'I survived Guyana but I'm not going to survive this attack in the House of our Democracy.' pic.twitter.com/bljoAyi6mi
— Jackie Speier (@RepSpeier) July 1, 2021
Follow Mayer.
In a case brought by the Kochs’ political arm- Americans For Prosperity- the Court’s conservatives just made dark money even darker. https://t.co/yoTgSiQXKq
— Jane Mayer (@JaneMayerNYer) July 1, 2021
Yep.
Conversation with student today:
— Missy Cummings (@missy_cummings) July 5, 2021
Me: Do you know how to conduct statistical tests on experimental data?
Student: No but I am a good coder so it can't be that hard.
He's perfect for Silicon Valley.
Epic nerd thread.
Alan Moore's GOOFUS/GALLANT (1987), of course, famously shocked readers by revealing that the two were the *same* boy - and that Goofus was the original, with Gallant an artificial personality created by U.S. government research. https://t.co/z625cRHryl
— James Palmer (@BeijingPalmer) July 5, 2021
The Wages of Strauss
My #FauxFoxViewing Family in St. Louis has no idea the state is in this crisis. Fox News is killing people by telling lies abt #COVID19 & hiding truth abt how #TFG handled entire pandemic. Followed by #BigLie It should be a crime to turn a medical emergency into a political issue
— Susie, Fully Vaxxed, Still Masked (@susie_lastname) July 5, 2021
As someone actually from the Ozarks, I can't believe anyone actually fell for this fake.
The heavy toll of ambition. https://t.co/5czD3YsW6R
— David Axelrod (@davidaxelrod) July 5, 2021
And in closing.
We made it. pic.twitter.com/lkcoLdGZxs
— Declan Garvey (@declanpgarvey) July 1, 2021
When I was a kid my sister had a Spirograph and I was sooo envious. All I had was a Spirotot, which as you can imagine is a baby version of Spirograph that doesn't do much at all.
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