Joe McCarthy

Instigator, connector, evangelist. Interested in the ways technology connects people, and the ways people connect technologies.
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[Joe McCarthy @gumption]

@JeffAndDonkeys Thank you for sharing your story. I found myself thinking about Longfellow’s insight: “If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.” I appreciate your posts, even when discomforting

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Distrust of election integrity, prioritizing precincts, paranoia as party organizing principles.

“They’re after me. They’re after everybody like me. That’s what this is all about.”

Inside the Michigan GOP’s MAGA Meltdown — ProPublica

⁦@AndyKroll⁩ https://t.co/50wy2Zjeh2

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"Ecological degradation .. benefits only a very few people .. [and] is arguably a major cause of climate change"
Many climate change problems - flooding, droughts, wildfires, heat waves - are impacted by land misuse, not just fossil fuels.
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@hart_hagan

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“if there is a definitive story of the past decade, it is how the net of oppression has widened. Whether through covid, climate change, or the loss of hard-won rights: we are all targets, we are all disposable.”
@sarahkendzior
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@moniguzman @JonHaidt In a recent interview on @HiddenBrain, @JonHaidt talked about dividing lines, and considering different perspectives on morality, purity and autonomy without judgment, that reminded me of themes you often talk and write about
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[Heidi Shierholz @hshierholz]

I know y’all know this but it’s worth saying: the idea that immigrants are making things worse for US born workers is being used as an intentional distraction from things that are actually hurting working people. 10/

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@brownecfm I wonder how much of the increase in excess deaths since 2020 is due to people avoiding healthcare settings, especially after mask mandates and other precautions were relaxed in many such settings

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“Democrats are attached to media that does not want to be media for Democrats [e.g., CNN and NYTimes]. And Republicans are attached to media that wants to be media for Republicans. And that has created an asymmetry in the system.”
@ezraklein
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“The Right is not interested in a public policy solution. They are interested in whipping up fear and anger .. entrenching white supremacy. This must lead to instability and dysfunction, constitutional crises, and, ultimately, violence.” @tzimmer_history
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@LauraJedeed I see different content when logged in to the same account on different devices, leading me to wonder if the content is determined more by cookie tracking keys than account ids

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@greglinden I find the explanations offered by @davetroy on the historical roots and motivations of Elon and his investors & friends in taking over - and taking down - Twitter to be the most compelling I’ve encountered. Here’s a thread containing a few references

https://t.co/MMyi0jsPJ6

[Dave Troy @davetroy]

1/The reason so many are bewildered by the apparent insanity of the current moment is because people just haven’t studied the history. Back in June I wrote this (long) piece that foretells of the moves we are seeing now.
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@pomeranian99 I’m reminded of a few things @berkun has written about writing, such as “real writers” writing because they can’t not write, and the prevalence of [human] ghostwriters, acknowledged or not.

I wonder how many articles in MSM are “helped” by Jasper

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@jhagel RIP indeed. Interesting to read more about his life and accomplishments.

Dee Hock’s 2000 essay on The Art of Chaordic Leadership remains the single most inspiring source of leadership wisdom I’ve ever encountered.

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@sarahkendzior I was struck by “The spirit of unrest which seemed to pervade all classes and conditions” observation by the Baron. Seems as apt now as in 1910. Universal, persistent precarity .. perhaps by design

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A thoroughly documented, compelling & disturbing illustration of accusations representing confessions. Disappointed in not seeing more about this in MSM. Grateful to @jennycohn1 for shining a glaring light on the widespread malfeasance.
https://t.co/wIOfD9Cjha

[NPR @NPR]

Since the Supreme Court's 1973 Roe v. Wade decision, a number of not-quite-right claims have lingered about abortion. Here are seven claims, fact-checked.
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@pomeranian99 I imagine you’ve already seen this, but sharing just in case https://t.co/Hy35VVgLhf

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@berkun I know you are looking for book recommendations, but if you are open to other media, I think the Creating Passionate Users blog still stands out as a great and highly accessible resource for design thinking and doing. https://t.co/2HyVW3gb41

[Joe McCarthy @gumption]

One antidote to allodoxaphobia (irrational fear of opinions): stop judging others.
"To judge others is to acknowledge a belief that people can .. legitimately judge one another; thus, it is an implicit acceptance of others’ judgment of you"
@arthurbrooks
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“To an extent that many people still don’t recognize, Fox News is a grinding, daily cesspool of white grievance, mistrust of deep-state government, and a belief that liberals are literally trying to destroy the country out of sheer malice”
@kdrum
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