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Jonathanglick

@Jonathanglick@mstdn.social

Investor, writer, Canadian in NYC. I try to boost a lot.

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Jonathanglick, to random
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Ladies and gentlemen, your SCOTUS corruption GOAT: https://www.cnbc.com/2024/06/06/supreme-court-justices-millions-dollars-gifts-clarence-thomas.html

ricmac, to random
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If you had to power rank the least trustworthy big tech cos to start a new social product, how would you rank them? My list:

  1. Google (the least trustworthy; 99% of their products would be eventually sunsetted)
  2. Apple (the blue bubble gang is as social as it gets)
  3. Meta (long list of past infractions)
  4. Amazon (everything they do is designed to make Bezos richer and own more of space)
  5. Microsoft (ironic they are the most trustworthy of this lot…but they’ve learned their lesson, no?)
Jonathanglick,
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@ricmac Well, um, Tesla. :)

QasimRashid, to random
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Biden’s asylum ban is cruel and exactly contrary to what he ran on when he condemned Trump for banning asylum.

I don’t know how to get Democrats in power to understand that embracing Republican policies won’t flip Republican voters. Whether it’s on bloated defense spending, police militarization, gutting social services, or restriction immigration—you cannot out racist elected Republicans.

Jonathanglick,
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@QasimRashid I think polling showing some/many Latinos drifting towards Trump has had a predictably terrible effect on Democratic immigration policies.

Jonathanglick, to random
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Rocky Mountain Nazis: https://www.9news.com/article/news/local/local-politics/colorado-gop-call-burn-gay-pride-flags/73-e5156582-2888-46d2-b535-d5981c149817

interfluidity, to random
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[new draft post] Even the losers https://drafts.interfluidity.com/2024/06/04/even-the-losers/index.html

Jonathanglick, (edited )
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@interfluidity I believe something similar — that for many people, especially men, who doubt their own intelligence, social skills, and ability to compete in an increasingly complex and intellectual world, Trump represents evidence that they can be successful anyway, on their own terms.

slevelt, to HipHop
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#NowPlaying #HipHop @vinylrecords

Jonathanglick,
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@slevelt and they're in Brooklyn....

Defiance, to GenX
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Deidre Hall was on the show Hacks. As a guy I had to say "Oh cool! Electra Woman!!"

No one knew what I was talking about. I feel so alone in this world sometimes 😏

Jonathanglick,
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@Defiance oh that’s who that was

Jonathanglick, to random
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https://pro.morningconsult.com/analysis/donald-trump-polling-guilty-verdict-jury-trial

“15% of Republican voters nationwide want Trump to drop his White House bid, a bit higher than the 8% of Trump supporters who said the same.”

VCP, to random
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I feel like NYMag is trying to harsh my mellow & I don't appreciate that

Jonathanglick,
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@VCP They do it because it works on us. :(

technicallymims, to random

I think it's a measure of how skewed is our attention economy that I'm an avid news consumer and I'm only just learning that 2.5 million Sudanese could be dead of starvation by the end of the summer

https://www.wsj.com/world/africa/genocide-survivors-in-darfur-are-caught-in-another-brutal-battle-d729b143?mod=hp_listb_pos2

Jonathanglick,
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@technicallymims Tom Periello is a mensch. We're fortunate to have him on this crisis.

judell, to community
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This column was both painful and exhilarating to write. Painful because it forced me to reconsider long-standing assumptions. And exhilarating for the same reason!

https://thenewstack.io/how-llms-can-unite-analog-event-promotion-and-digital-calendars/

datasette-extract reading an event poster

Jonathanglick,
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@judell It was very insightful, thank you.

w7voa, to random
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"There's never been a more conflicted judge," says freshly convicted felon Donald Trump of Manuel Merchan who still has him under "a nasty gag order."

Jonathanglick,
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@w7voa Biden is somehow simultaneously a) a Manchurian candidate (doubtful Trump knows what this means) for some mysterious party, b) a master manipulator of NY State courts, c) the dumbest President ever.

lowqualityfacts, to random
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...the energy to sit on a chair while occasionally shutting your eyes for a quick little nap?

Jonathanglick,
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@lowqualityfacts Trump couldn't even testify!

w7voa, to random
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"I'M A POLITICAL PRISONER," declares a fundraising ad on the RNC/MAGA webpage shortly after the Republican Party's presumptive nominee for president is convicted of 34 felony counts.

Jonathanglick,
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@w7voa does this mention the verdict somewhere?

maskedscheduler, to random

gang don’t celebrate. it’s about to get ugly here

Jonathanglick,
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@maskedscheduler yep

gedeonm, to random
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Lock him up.

Jonathanglick,
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@gedeonm It would be three more convictions and that’s why they are not happening.

GrimmReality, (edited ) to random
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Welp, looks like I picked the wrong week to maybe not go get boisterously daydrunk.

Jonathanglick,
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@GrimmReality yep, 100%

w7voa, to random
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In NYC hush money case, the verdict is being read. Donald J. Trump GUILTY on counts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 so far.

Jonathanglick,
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@w7voa A felon who went to jail for these same crimes

Holberg, to random
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I was expecting a hung jury. Bummed at the thought of now expecting not guilty because I feel like there must be at least one MAGA type on the jury.

Jonathanglick,
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@Holberg You’re welcome.

mattblaze, to random
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Since nothing at all newsworthy is going on right now, I guess it’s a good time to rewire my network, cutting me off from all news and information for the next few hours.

Jonathanglick,
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@mattblaze I should do that for the next 6 months. (Or longer.)

glennf, to random
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Surely Trump can't wriggle his way out of this one

Jonathanglick,
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@glennf hahaha

auditorymusings, to music
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Always loved this version of Curtis Mayfield's 'People Get Ready' performed by Jeff Beck and Joss Stone https://youtu.be/NNO4tT9LQD4?si=UOi_LRXVpSsPHG8b

Jonathanglick,
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@auditorymusings me too -- one of my all-time faves

interfluidity, to random
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His ethical tradition does not strike me as unsurpassably subtle. To describe it as the Jewish tradition would be inaccurate and deeply antisemitic.

“[In times of war], it is correct to kill even the righteous among your enemy” seems like an excellent exoneration of Hamas.

What does “chosen” mean? To some, to the piece’s author, it’s exceptionalist, supremicist. To many Jews it is bitterly ironic and reflects a duty to which we are called rather than any privilege.

https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/live-law-die-cross-israel

Jonathanglick,
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@interfluidity To put it plainly, the reason why that passage is so incongruent with rabbinic tradition is not only because it rejects universal (Noachic) morality as a divine truth. But also because the rabbis were very aware that, as a permanent minority in a dangerous world, Jews benefit from upholding universal ethical claims. In the same way, a world without international justice is one where Israel would never exist or eventually won't.

Jonathanglick,
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@interfluidity The question of whether and how God’s own actions represent morality or whether they create space for our free will to exercise (or fail to exercise) morality is a deep tension within Jewish tradition. To be honest, there isn’t a consistent answer and even among the philosophically inclined commentators, it’s difficult to find logical rigor.

Jonathanglick, (edited )
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@interfluidity I think it may be more helpful (or at least, interesting) to think of discussions of this kind in rabbinic Jewish tradition as a kind of infinite game intended to model and inspire a healthy community.

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