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today we directly purchased Argentine pesos Blogging at https://someunpleasant.substack.com/

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Maia @maiamindel.bsky.social · 7d

New post: Gen Z is mad as hell and they’re not going to take it anymore. But what are young people mad about? And why is it lowkey like Taylor Swift's latest album?

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Rage For The Dying Of The Light

We are the world, we are the children

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Roosevelt Institute @rooseveltinstitute.org · 3d

Citizens United has had catastrophic impacts on American democracy.

Unlimited spending is entrenched, but @rfunkfordham.bsky.social offers a suite of reforms that can get concentrated wealth out of our political system.

Line graph titled 'The US Is Now a Flawed, Not Full, Democracy' showing a decline in the US democracy index from 2006 to 2024, with a significant drop marked at the 2010 Citizens United ruling. Data sourced from the Economist Intelligence Unit Democracy Index. The index value decreases from above 8.2 in 2006 to below 8.0 after 2016, entering the flawed democracy category.

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 12h

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Maia @maiamindel.bsky.social · 8h

the true revolution: being nice

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Alex Blechman @alexblechman.bsky.social · Sep 3

The Coca-Cola Freestyle machine is an echo chamber. Good luck finding nuanced debates about hot button issues on that touch screen. It’s just soda names and flavored syrups

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 12h

Hi Sally. When Weiss published a supposed expose on the death of George Floyd, a veteran criminal justice reporter showed in deep detail that the piece was not just wrong but filled with falsehoods and misrepresentations. Weiss did not retract the piece. What do you think of that?

Sally Jenkins @sallyjenx.bsky.social · 14h

This is really smart. Amazed at the hysteria over the ascendance of a woman entrepreneur who clearly knows how to cover and sell news and who's not afraid to take on a mob. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Don’t Bet Against Bari Weiss

The new editor in chief of CBS News triumphs over her critics.

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Maia @maiamindel.bsky.social · 10h

nobody tell that to the book i'm reading (nina power's what do men want)

River_Tam @rivertam.bsky.social · 11h

I don't understand how "people yelling at me in the comments" can be misconstrued for "thought police" except by way of a bizarre generalization such as "anyone who tells me my opinion is bad is the thought police"

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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 11h

Please nobody tell professional writer praising professional journalists Caitlin Flanagan what "out of whole cloth" means

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Not now but soon enough, there will be major stories about The Free Press being the creation of three female founders who constructed a hugely successful digital business out of whole cloth.

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Maia @maiamindel.bsky.social · 11h

The Free Press covers the important and underserved niches of stupid culture war controversies and unlimited money for Israel thinkpieces with the traditional methods of a stupid grandma ranting on Facebook

Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 12h

Describe the opposite of The Free Press in a sentence

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It’s a business story. [Highlighting begins] Everyone in journalism has known for years that there’s been a huge opportunity for a publication that employs the traditional methods of U.S. journalism—reporting, deep sourcing, fact-checking, fearlessness—to subjects that either don’t get covered enough or get covered only from a certain perspective. [Highlighting ends] If creating such an enterprise seems simple

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 11h

Caitlin Flanagan publicly attacked a friend of mine for being sexually assaulted and speaking up about it.

Sally Jenkins @sallyjenx.bsky.social · 13h

Ratio me. Please. It's a badge of honor. If you don't like a link, go follow some chicken-heart who needs the approval of the thought-police. Caitlin Flanagan of @theatlantic.com is a tremendous writer and this piece is an excellent read. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Don’t Bet Against Bari Weiss

The new editor in chief of CBS News triumphs over her critics.

www.theatlantic.com

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Maia @maiamindel.bsky.social · 12h

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elias isquith @eliasisquith.blog · 13h

this comparison feels obvious to me but i wasn’t seeing it being made and then i saw this and figured i must be on solid ground

Steven Spielberg Just Compared One Battle After Another With Stanley Kubrick’s Highest Rated Movie

Paul Thomas Anderson's One Battle After Another gets the highest praise from Steven Spielberg who compares it to a Stanley Kubrick classic.

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Maia @maiamindel.bsky.social · 1d

ranked by declining wokeness i assume

Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD DSc(hon) @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social · May 30

No words

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Maia @maiamindel.bsky.social · 1d

www.goodreads.com/user/show/17...

go be my goodfriend

Maia Mindel

Maia Mindel has 33 books on Goodreads, and is currently reading What Do Men Want? Masculinity and Its Discontents by Nina Power

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Maia @maiamindel.bsky.social · 1d

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 1d

more and more convinced of the need for a sort of plastic surgery norm around Gen AI: it’s fine in of itself to use, any use of it where it’s clear to a layman that you used it should face severe ostracism. If you can’t get away with it without me knowing, you aren’t responsible enough to use it

Claire Zagorski, MSc, EMT-P @clairezagorski.bsky.social · 1d

A student on TikTok has been documenting her journey with a professor who “wrote” the anatomy textbook and it’s all a bunch of AI hallucinations.

She’s saying that, understandably, the students are doing super poorly!

Behold what we’re teaching the healthcare professionals of tomorrow:

A diagram of the bones and (some) deep muscles of the hand and forearm. AI says that we only have four digits. It’s also identified a tendon as the median nerve, another tendon as the ulnar nerve, among other issues.

An AI generated diagram of the muscles of the neck. It hallucinated the “ennocleidomasid” muscle, and the “anterior scalpalin muscle”.

An AI generated diagram of the muscles of the lateral thigh. It says that the gluteus Maximus (the big juicy butt muscle) is on the anterior side. It also points to the quadriceps muscle and says “attattment”. It also says that the same structure is the tibia AND the deep fascia of the leg.

An AI generated diagram of the bones of the hand and forearm. This time AI says we have 6 digits. It also says that the radius is the ulnar artery. Among other many issues.

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Maia @maiamindel.bsky.social · 1d

I like how Scott Bessent is pushing to bail out Argentina basically as a way to do Kaldor-Hicks compensation for his buddies who sank billions into the pump and dump shitco scheme known as "the Argentinian peso"

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Maia @maiamindel.bsky.social · 2d

The three AI outcomes
- we all become one with the machine god and shuffle off our mortal coils to live as a hive mind of cyborg superbeings
- we all die horribly and painfully in an alien world that has no use for human emotion, creativity, or intellect
- 1.5% TFP growth for seven years

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Eric Levitz @ericlevitz.bsky.social · 2d

Zohran Mamdani phasing out gifted programs for kindergarteners is fine.

But in later grades, progressive opposition to "tracking" is misguided imo. Ability sorting can be beneficial for all students, when done right www.vox.com/politics/464...

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Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 2d

"If your government is for sale to any billionaire willing to pay, you do not have a democracy." www.liberalcurrents.com/billionaires...

Billionaires Are Hoarding Power, Not Money

Billionaire money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.

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Maia @maiamindel.bsky.social · 2d

Groan

Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 2d

News: Bari Weiss just sent a memo to staffers at CBS News asking them to produce a memo explaining "how you spend your working hours—and ideally, what you've made (or are making) that you're most proud of."

One CBS News staffer puts it like this to me: "We just got Elon Musked."

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Maia @maiamindel.bsky.social · 3d

A lot of horror stuff comes from made up shit about Gein it's insane

Maia @maiamindel.bsky.social · 3d

Scott Bessent trying to spend the Argentine pesos he bought in 2026:

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Maia @maiamindel.bsky.social · 3d

TL: DR kept a peg on for way too long and then set up a nonsensical system to replace it where the peso appreciates *and* interest rates go up *and* they don't buy any reserves which made everyone pissed off

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Homo Economicus or Homo Argentum?

My "I will defend the exchange rate at any cost" t shirt is leading people to ask too many questions already answered by my shirt

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Maia @maiamindel.bsky.social · 3d

BREAKING: Scott Bessent to make purchases of Hawk Tuah Coin to support investment in strategic partners of systemic importance and achieve fiscally sound economic freedom via lower taxes, higher investment, private sector job creation, and partnering with allies.

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