James Waugh

Building things.

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Underrated Americana: the underpaid Army breaks down into a mob of rioters and chases Congress out of Philadelphia to Princeton. Serious fear ensues about how to recover legislative authority

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We have to reclaim the troubadours from the theater kids. They're Nietzschean heroes and we can't let them belong solely to the theater department

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Underrated Americana: Washington has Addison's "Cato" performed at Valley Forge to stir up a sense of stoicism. Cato stands for "traditional liberties" against the consolidating power of the executive

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If labs get pummeled after the midterms, after the IPO caused everyone in SF to feel weird and existential, there will be relief and schadenfreude. At this point I think it's about feeling like a loser for doing your own thing and not The Thing

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@ekstasis This is really funny

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Preference Cascadia

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Underrated Americana: Washington as Cincinnatus with explicit reference to Livy. We named a city after this! Show me Harambe as Cincinnatus

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@DerMenschensohn Proto-Afroasiatic 🤞

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GPT gave it a shot but still I think overindexed on Cole's landscapes:

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Underrated Americana: Howe's fleet of 400 ships just looming in NYC harbor. A proper Cole painting of this would go hard. It's okay, we're allowed to imagine Washington cowering sometimes

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"gaming" now is "hey Fable what if there were a game like this" and saying "oh, huh, cool" for a few hours at a time. Like an upgraded version of browser games I guess

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Why do we get upset when Founding Fathers e.g. Hamilton are revealed to be flawed people? Shouldn’t that be, like, relieving or even hopeful?

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@StevenGlinert Pseudomorphosis. It was actually Diophantus who first exerted the "complete victory over the Classical world-feeling"

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Happy Labor Day

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Seersuckermaxxed on the Metro North trying to explain to my girlfriend that “WASPlaying” is a real term I did not just make up

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@radbadgeoffbrad Per aspera ad astra

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We were affirmatively NOT born in the wrong generation. First time I have felt this so strongly

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Wine guy who became a VC because of vintages and the “sparkling investment” tweet

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When you meet about bicoastal dude at a party and connect on X - does that make you “exes”?