A thread about Twitter. First let us stipulate that Elon musk is a disgrace and a partner with the murderous Saudi regime. But at least for now I am going to stick it out on Twitter. I came to the platform very reluctantly years ago, pulled into it by my editor. 1

A great way to sell books and promote yourself, he said. I thought, what can you do in 140 characters that isn’t just trivial? But I quickly discovered that there is a lot more to Twitter than that, and that you can say a lot in one tweet and in multiple ones. 2

I learned that when I followed interesting people, I could click on things to read that I would not otherwise discover that were enlightening, entertaining and edifying. Along with videos that made me laugh or made me cry. (H/T @RexChapman) 3

I have built a community of friendships that I would never have found otherwise. Some of these friendships have endured and really enriched my life. Some ate famous people, others are not. All are interesting, morally strong and admirable. I do not want to lose that community. 4

I found a place where I could be candid about my own traumas, including the loss of my son, & be surrounded by warmth and love. I could tweet about my dog lost in downtown DC and have 28,000 people respond, both with sympathy and calls to help keep a lookout to find him. 5

Twitter is a place where I can vent and fulminate about evil and injustice, which is better than screaming at the television set or the wall. A place where I could indeed promote not just my own books, articles, and podcast (w @kavitapmd,) but also great stuff by others. 6

If Musk keeps up his current path, allowing hatred and vitriol to flourish, promoting conspiracy theories himself, If we find data misused, or the Saudi’s abusing it to punish dissidents, we all might be forced to leave and try to find another platform. But I’ll stay. For now. 7

Let’s face it: we are at a critical point in our country, w a real possibility of losing our democracy, and sliding into an autocracy, and a period where real violence, incited by some of our own political actors and media owners, could prevail. We need to fight back. Here. 8

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@AdamParkhomenko

Love the way @donlemon handled former Assistant Secretary of State (#Trump Administration) Len Khodorkovsky on #cnnthismorning.
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David Schapira
@dschapira

Ok, I’ve had it. I remained silent about Kyrsten Sinema for 10 years, but it’s time to break the silence.

I always had a distaste for candidates who criticize their opponents after they lose an election. It comes off as sour grapes even if it’s well-founded. But…(1/10)

I need to scratch an “I told you so” itch. For those who weren’t around or don’t remember, after serving in the AZ legislature together for five years, Kyrsten moved into my district in 2012 to run for Congress in a Dem primary against @AndreiCherny and me.

Fair to say…(2/10)

Kyrsten and I were friends before she jumped into the AZ9 race. We spoke after her decision and committed we would not “go negative” against each other in the campaign. We held a press conference and released a joint statement saying so.

She had nothing to lose because…(3/10)

She was the front-runner in early polling w/ her firebrand reputation in progressive circles. Everyone figured I’d have to bring her down with some dirt to pull ahead. But I kept my promise and ran a clean campaign.

Things changed when my grassroots campaign pulled ahead…(4/10)

In the final months of the race, Kyrsten’s campaign spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on mail to Democratic primary voters with 2 attacks against me:

1. She said I supported John McCain for President over Obama.

2. She said I supported private-school vouchers.

So…(5/10)

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@AmoneyResists

BREAKING: Former GA senator Kelly Loeffler’s cell phone records which were recently subpoenaed had some interesting texts from @RepMTG (among other GOP members of Congress) about “coordinating objections to electors” and planning “ahead of January 6th”

And from @JodyHice:

And @RepRickAllen:

And Tricia Raffensperger (Brad Raffensperger’s wife) just hours after she called on him to resign:

And @tedcruz:

Revlov
@Blue_JackSky

@JDLuckenbach She's trying to distract from the fact that republicans are trying to make this permanent.

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Tansu YEĞEN
@TansuYegen

Brilliant art🖼️

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Donchian channels are mainly used to identify the breakout of nifty/BNF.
We can take directional bias based on the indicator.
If nifty is breaking DC high, can take bullish view.
if it is breaking DC down, can take bearish view.
if it is in between, can trade range-bound.

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We can monitor nifty/banknifty futures with volume along with DC.
If the volume is 1.5 to 2 times the average volume and if DC high/low is taken out then it can be a strong bullish/bearish signal.

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1) Core attributes of a promising founder worth following:
- Progress/trajectory over time
- How well they lead a team &
- Make the vision happen
- Most impressed when someone is way ahead of where you thought they would be when you check up/see them a few months later.

2) Indie Makers have such a benefit of being small, fast, nimble workers in comparison to big companies.

We can easily pivot and vastly change a project of ours. We can change as we learn more about our users.

Big companies can take months/years for even the smallest of pivots.

3) Before you find a product market you can pivot your project as many times as necessary until you find something that works.

Then you only have one thing to do: scale, scale, scale.

4) Be obsessed with the little details.
- listen to every single person who uses your product
- reply to every single person who emails you about your product
- ask them what they like and do not like
- iterate your product, make changes, pivot if necessary

5) Paul Graham's (@paulg) name came up with a feeling of great admiration! Naturally! It was Paul who said:

In the early stages of a company just;
- write code
- talk/sell to customers to stress test your idea

Nothing else.

Zena Hitz
@zenahitz

I just finished Eric Adler's The Battle of the Classics, and wanted to say something about Joel Christiansen's review linked below. I am not sure what motivates the review (I speculate a bit below), but it gives a very misleading impression of the book. 1/x

As someone\u2019s who\u2019s read the book, this review strikes me as tremendously unfair. It mostly faults Adler for not writing the book the reviewer wishes he had! https://t.co/pqpt5Ziivj
— Teresa M. Bejan (@tmbejan) January 12, 2021

The meat of the criticism is that the history Adler gives is insufficiently critical. Adler describes a few figures who had a great influence on how the modern US university was formed. It's certainly critical: it focuses on the social Darwinism of these figures. 2/x

Other insinuations and suggestions in the review seem wildly off the mark, distorted, or inappropriate-- for example, that the book is clickbaity (it is scholarly) or conservative (hardly) or connected to the events at the Capitol (give me a break). 3/x

The core question: in what sense is classics inherently racist? Classics is old. On Adler's account, it begins in ancient Rome and is revived in the Renaissance. Slavery (Christiansen's primary concern) is also very old. Let's say classics is an education for slaveowners. 4/x

It's worth remembering that literacy itself is elite throughout most of this history. Literacy is, then, also the education of slaveowners. We can honor oral and musical traditions without denying that literacy is, generally, good. 5/x

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