Palmer

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o/` You know my name... o/` The Judge He/Him Philly sports, whisky, travel, card games, #WeAre I went to a party but only on principle

I think it's wild that polling is still trusted at all in an age where phone scams mean that the only people who still answer a call from an unknown number are either criminally insane or tremendously dumb. You get so little response data now, and that data itself is mostly detached from reality.

G Elliott Morris@gelliottmorris.com · 23h ago

Looks like a 10-15 point polling miss in Michigan regardless of who wins. And people have been writing a lot of electability takes using this data. It’s dangerous out there folks be safe

Pundits are underestimating how fed up the average Dem voter is with moderate Dems refusing to thwart the Republican hegemonic agenda. Ppl want government to do what it should: care for constituents.

Then he added, "So there is literature that you enjoy and is meaningful to you. That's good. That's a start. Now what is it about the works of Ayn Rand that you enjoy so much?" "I dunno, really, there's just something about sexy vampires that really gets me involved in the story."

Bluesky is a "liberal bubble" because fascist chuds can't get traction without algorithmic assistance and because people here trained themselves to block "debate me" trybois the instant they roll up

The Verge@theverge.com · 2d ago

Bluesky's new CEO Toni Schneider on the platform's reputation for being a liberal bubble: "Yes, we definitely want that to change. It is already changing. It certainly wasn’t designed to attract one specific group of people."

A nature charity guy on the street in Indy asked me “you love trees, right?” so I got to give him my entire speech about how no, I hate trees because they obscure the beautiful contours of the land and that’s why the Scottish Highlands are the most beautiful place on earth.

I think Yglesias is basically right that audience capture is an exceptionally powerful force, far more than commonly acknowledged; the problem is that one of the best extent examples of this is Yglesias himself.

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