Ian C. Stephens

I like to read books and listen to podcasts and that gives me the mistaken impression that I know things.

[Ian C. Stephens @IanCSt]

@SexyJedi @shannonrwatts So you’re saying that it is about undermining progressives and not about Hasan?

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@shannonrwatts That sentence sounds like it was spoken during a 12-step program meeting.

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@soblackandblue @theotherotherD1 @DKThomp I think that the relevant question is not how do I define “toy.” It’s how does the report indicating that adults buy 55% of “toys” define it.

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@KnowingBetterYT I believe that the camera without a microphone was a Newsmax camera. So it seems like it might be more a question of ability than of desire.

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This ad for a mobile game low-key having some pretty good ideas.

[Fantasy President Career @president_mode]

Add a state. Kill the filibuster. Padlock the Capitol.

New in Fantasy President: structural reforms that change the whole game. Every move needs the votes, the allies or the generals, and some of them the republic never forgives.

[Ian C. Stephens @IanCSt]

@theotherotherD1 @DKThomp Sure. And caffeine and aspirin are drugs. But if you said that someone who drinks coffee and takes an aspirin each day for his heart was “on drugs,” that would still be misleading.

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@SpeakerJohnson

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@ReichlinMelnick Remember a few years ago when we kept getting op-ed pieces and tweets by public intellectuals about policing vocabulary?

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@mattyglesias Or, Roy Cooper’s such a favorite that North Carolina is effectively a safe seat and that’s not interesting.

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@AaronBastani Avoiding hard questions is exactly what people hate about politicians.

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@ClickingSeason Well I don’t know about the malls but I’ll say that the LED headlights are a menace. Especially when half of cars have their lights exactly at the mirror level of a sedan.

[Ian C. Stephens @IanCSt]

It’s a dark moment when you call a plumber that answers normally with an introduction and a “how can I help” and the little hair stand up on the back of your neck: “wait, are you a person or an AI?”
“I’m Findley, your AI assistant! What can I do to help?”

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I watched this video, then I watched it again. The 1798 Sedition Act was something passed over as barely a footnote in my history classes—a hiccup. Now I know how much more it was, maybe one of the most important lessons our history has to teach us.
https://t.co/08gzauneP4

[Ian C. Stephens @IanCSt]

My friend recently won a discovery motion, but only after moving heaven and Earth. The lengths he went to say something about follow-through. It's easy to say something doesn't exist if there's little risk. Follow up's an investment. It's the only thing keeping this ship afloat.

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@AlexNunn I read a story about thousands of AI agents solving a historic unsolved math problem, and it was the same debate. Was that great? Or did it defeat the point? To me, there has to be a difference between law, a fully manmade construct, and math, an expression of universal concepts.

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@JJ_McCullough I think that it’s pretty easily explained by the fact that there were two Democratic candidates. Combined, they won 92% of votes.

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@JoelWBerry Have you seen these from the ground? They are quite beautiful.

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@real_dreamr No, the “Russia enemy” thing has been around for all of 109 years except for a brief period between 1992 and 2008. And it didn’t restart with Ukraine, it restarted with the 2008 Russo-Georgian war.

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@CyrilH44 So that you can have a crease down the middle. Everyone wants a crease down the middle.