Are a lot of people claiming to ‘know’ things when their only evidence is people’s approval? Have they really thought about it? Do they actually care or are they playing a game of appeasement? That’s important.

Across politic, across community affiliation, people have demonstrated a willingness to feign ignorance if there is a chance that asking questions could cause people to break ties with them, or view them less favorably. That is important. It’s the wiring.

If you have a transactional relationship to other people's work, it can seep into your work too.

People who outsource their writing, even daily mundane communication, are also outsourcing their thinking.

Many are weaponizing methodological individualism. It removes the social relations from the equation, thereby circumventing the social sciences.

“Social” requires at least two conspecifics, though, and MI takes the contrarian stance. Framing around the free agent, or an anti-social stance.

i got my first ever story published in a literary magazine and think it would be cool if people wanted to read it!

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have you ever felt like public health is an overreach? do me a favor and look up tertiary syphilis or, alternately, the concept of "shitting yourself to death", which used to be something that happened with medium regularity

they know grievance is a great motivator

My goodness, Baldwin could had written this last week.

a certain kind of liberal has a cycle of being confidently wrong, coming to the right conclusion way too late, forgetting all the people who told them they were wrong in the first place, never reflecting on it or learning any humility, and then being confidently wrong again to start the cycle anew