2022-12-29

Worthy

The dance of the naked emperors - by Adam Mastroianni

A tenured professor hinted she might try to get me fired. A person with a PhD accused me of “cynical metacognitive polywaffle,” which a good name for a postmodern noise band. I got some weird and vaguely threatening emails, including one that had a screenshot of my personal website with my improv experience highlighted, proof that I am literally a clown. Which is, I guess, true.
- HN thread

New U.S. Control of TikTok's Censorship, Report Criticizing Zelensky Was Deleted
Mark Judge: America needs a rock ‘n’ roll rebellion against woke censors.
Twitter and the CIA (Twitter Files 8–10)

Ask yourself, if it weren’t this administration and this message, would you approve these methods? If the government changed hands to your opponents, would you want to grant them the same intrusive power? The fact is, by approving this level of intrusion into the public discourse now, we have already granted our opponents that same power. If you build a gun, anyone can use it, especially if its use is widely cheered.

The Devastating New History of the January 6th Insurrection

The New Yorker is publishing the full report of the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack, in partnership with Celadon Books. The edition contains a foreword by the magazine’s editor, David Remnick, which you’ll find below, and an epilogue by Representative Jamie Raskin, a member of the committee.
(Oct 2021) What broke the New York Times? | The Spectator