Tim Gihring

Writer of long reads and short podcasts. Host of The Object podcast @artsmia.

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@mattyglesias Performative—because we were actually so happy we had to pretend to be sad sometimes to change things up.

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@mattyglesias Had a similar youth. But humans, given the means, are more like tigers than wolves. From the move to suburbia to vacations optimized to avoid each other.

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@mattyglesias Back up. Still think we’re letting billionaires off the hook too easily simply for existing: all three in your photo have been credibly accused of unfair practices. A millionaire is your dentist, lawyer, local Substacker; a billionaire should raise eyebrows.

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@mattyglesias “Weird, out of touch, elite” or “curious, informed, minority”? There’s no reason to be pejorative.

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@mattyglesias What in the world. Most people would prefer a city like SF that manages to make a lot of money while preserving enough natural beauty to make living (or visiting) worthwhile. No one wants to live in Chicago or Detroit circa 1950, much less a “mega city” if they don’t have to.

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@mattyglesias Nah. With every new generation, urbanists suggest that this one wants to live on top of each other, and each time once they can afford it they go looking for space. Vacations, too, are largely seeking to avoid. We need to accept we are more tiger than wolf.

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@mattyglesias He could have escaped in disguise but didn’t want to shave his beard—too undignified… You don’t want these people in charge of anything.

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@mattyglesias We can argue whether there’s any non-corrupt path to making billions. The problem is the billionaires with dumb/selfish ideas have the power to impose them on the rest of us, esp. in a Trumpian/corrupt society.

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@mattyglesias Matt… If “interior enforcement” looked like your story pic of guys in windbreakers flashing ID before a chitchat, great. Instead in Mpls it’s gunmen rolling up on sidewalks grabbing anyone who looks foreign, including children, and leaving, as I see everyday.

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@mattyglesias You’re right, not enough snow anymore for many of us.

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@mattyglesias The traumatized citizens of Minneapolis appreciate your sarcasm @mattyglesias . Parents are being taken at bus stops, kids are afraid to go to school, agents are ramming cars and just leaving, without accountability people will decide for themselves how to react to feel safe.

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@mattyglesias We all do worse when we all do worse.

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@Noahpinion No.

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@NateSilver538 Enabling porn is what separated the Internet’s early winners (WWW, Netscape) from the losers (Gopher), Altman hoping that will be true for AI too. But yes, taking the low road now suggests the high road is closed.

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@mattyglesias So we’re already at the porn stage of this new-tech bubble, and it’s barely new tech: Clippy with a dirty mind.

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@SpencerHakimian Ironically of course climate change is part of what’s driving immigration, so good luck solving one by exacerbating the other.

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if you do not know what oWo is or uWu then stop posting about this shooter like Bryant Gumbel in 1994 trying to explain the world wide web on the Today Show

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@ZaidJilani Seems not ideal that we got a bunch of people at the ATF and FBI seemingly unfamiliar with internet/gamer culture when that’s basically like the biggest radicalization threat in the entire country at the moment

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@SpencerHakimian Yes! Normal Americans need to stop normalizing guns—even well-intentioned pols who still talk about owning them at election time.

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@SpencerHakimian Yes, stock traders bidding up a bubble now, and no one wants to be first to pop it.