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The day gravity started to stop, those people with espresso machines and aeropresses were so lucky.

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"If you start by ignoring everything that we already know, the best you can ever hope for is to accidentally rediscover the already-known. Geoff Anders was so smart and original that he threw out all the best practices of organizational design and workplace safety, all the methods of science, and the whole history of psychological research, and as a result his organization was chaotic, abusive, and discovered nothing."

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Happy to never read anything about this again.

Over Leveraged
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Over Leveraged

The inside story of Peter Thiel's MKUltra by someone who thinks it was kind of good, actually.

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"Organizing requires dealing with annoying people, and union members know and expect that. I think that friction disappeared so long ago that people just don't know how to tolerate one another in the process of achieving a goal. It's a path the rest of the world is sliding towards, they're just further down the slope. People don't know what winning feels like, so it feels impossible."

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in defense of the American South
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in defense of the American South

When I went to teacher orientation in Baltimore, it was full of Southerners. We came from Tennessee, Mississippi, South Carolina and Florida. It was nice to ...

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Took these screenshots from Critical Role a while back intending to post them immediately. This is from the cooldown. I subbed to Beacon half to get earlier access to episodes, half to get the full cooldown.

Four cast members of critical role. Caption text: "MATT: Bunch of elites and the bourgeoisie in a room..."Four cast members of critical role. Caption text: "...talking about how they got to bind together..."Four cast members of critical role. Caption text: "...against the regulars outside..."Four cast members of critical role. Caption text: "...I'm so glad we live in this fictional world." Also at this point Matt is giving a side eye.
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Another screenshot from the Critical Cooldown, immediately following the above.

Brennan pointing at the camera. In large text across the frame: "YOU CAN NOT PROVE THIS IS ALLEGORY"