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Author of Listening to Prozac, now in new 30th anniversary edition Latest: Death of the Great Man: A Novel
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Ordinarily Well, as reviewed in @TheAtlantic, https://t.co/aOi8zPB80a: "an ambitious, persuasive, & important book"

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@GjDrW @BosSportsBros @Chris_Grosse Actually, yes. In addition to Nantucket, Martha's Vineyard, Block Island, parts of the Cape, & the RI/northern CT beaches, you get access to museums in New Haven, arboretum in New London, & dining in Mystic, Old Lyme, Matunuck, etc.

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@jota_snchez Plot stolen from King Lear--the three daughters.

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@SenWhitehouse What's especially gratifying is seeing Orban's complex gerrymandering backfire. Orban set up many winner-take-all districts where he expected small majorities & then added another amplification method—so 54% of the vote gave Magyar 69% of the parliamentary seats.

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@OpenSourceZone I can't see what Grok says, so I asked Gemini. The system amplifies favorable votes in two ways. In many districts, narrow pluralities give the winner all the reps; & then an amplification further rewards any victory. So yes, the setup meant to benefit Orban backfired.

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@OpenSourceZone Magyar won 54% of the vote & 69% of the seats—even though districts were gerrymandered to favor Orban. Can happen if a party creates many districts where it expects to win by small margins—& then fails everywhere. Would be amusing if GOP here were to suffer the same fate...

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@benwfreeman1 Will someone w expertise please interpret the results. The raw numbers find Magyar only slightly ahead of the Orban+Toroczkai total—but far ahead (2 to 1) in parliamentary seats. Isn't this the trend the reverse of predictions in light of gerrymandering meant to favor Orban?

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Re-upping from last November: https://t.co/sjiZAVSBaF

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I've been remiss in not posting the new landing page for the audio book of my novel Death of the Great Man. More timely than ever... and now, at half price.

https://t.co/F6sVUJyZmv

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@JamesGleick @KathaPollitt @Neko_Akage @kevincarey1 @goldberg_dan @LisaBirnbach @NormOrnstein @NYTimesWordplay @borkow1 @SEKramer @EWFIII @oliverbutler @RadicalSister15 @notinwordlist @nytimes @parisreview @thegridkid @sv1121 @OED @WSJ @JohnFetterman @washingtonpost @nypost @guardian @NewYorker @paulbloomatyale @jknotjk @kfaisteele @taffyakner @LauraMLippman @kvetchnewyork [Spoiler alert Feb 7 2026]: We've seen these letters 3x times before, & today is the first time that 2 pangrams are accepted. I wish that twitter/X had kept this long spelling-bee-related thread afloat—so that we could see whether contributors had suggested the second pangram.

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@JamesGleick @DavidJManson @EllenFremedon @KathaPollitt @BCDreyer @Neko_Akage @kevincarey1 @goldberg_dan @LisaBirnbach @Digby_C @NormOrnstein @NYTimesWordplay @borkow1 @sekramer @EWFIII @oliverbutler @RadicalSister15 @wiffleclaw @notinwordlist @MerriamWebster @nytimes @parisreview @thegridkid @sv1121 @OED @WSJ @tinclock @JohnFetterman @washingtonpost @nypost @guardian @NewYorker @paulbloomatyale @mjohnharrison @jknotjk @kfaisteele @BcDryer @alicia_furiosa @taffyakner @DianeEnglander @LauraMLippman @kvetchnewyork Maybe the puzzle is just finding its level? As it gets more popular it needs to get simpler? I can see making a different choice a few months later. Or allowing one different, less standard word when a puzzle repeats. We're not worse off without donator & mandator & nondormant…

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[note: https://t.co/KOgvtny7i5]

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@parul_sehgal In which skepticism of the overused trauma plot becomes a meme. https://t.co/eNFhzVHbQL

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@DanielJDrucker Promising, but as the authors suggest, plenty of room for confounding by indication, where here "indication" includes not just MDs' reasons for prescribing but also patients' social class, sophistication of the prescribing doctors, etc.

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@mkonnikova @RachelAviv FWIW: Anatole (not Anatoly) Broyard.
Broyard's wonderful memoir, Kafka Was the Rage, is also slightly deceptive in one regard, but as it was published posthumously... hard to assign responsibility

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Republicans’ promise to preserve Medicare didn’t last long. Their cuts just had to be well hidden.

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@thegridkid I'm little slow on the uptake. Today's puzzle has a seasonal theme, one that justifies that S.
Interesting how the single vowel and the central B moderate the S's power to multiply accepted responses.

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@thegridkid Thought today must be some sort of anniversary.
The second S.

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@RecoveryDoctor But this is a study where you can override randomization, and some participants chose meds, no? (Even *with* randomization, exercise studies can suffer from dropout bias—if people who favor exercise —& are more reslient—leave the no-exercise arm.)

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@RecoveryDoctor Of course there is also the obvious confound—that people who are more ill (or too ill to contemplate exercise) choose medication treatment.

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@RecoveryDoctor The link: https://t.co/CLRhxS4mZ5