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Charlie Quirk retweeted
At the very least people who told you that serious democratic contestation was going to disappear (because of mass immigration or left-elite cultural power or Trumpist authoritarianism or the undemocratic Constitution) have been consistently mistaken.
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It seems to me that democracy has on the whole worked very well in America over the last decade, and perhaps better than in any other major country in the West. National outcomes have repeatedly been responsive to underlying voter preferences on meaningful questions, and significant changes in policy have ensued. I’ve been reading Democracy in America this past week, and it’s striking how much it still rhymes nearly two centuries later.
Charlie Quirk retweeted
Le docteur Guérit-tout👏🎶
Cet extrait de l'émission culte Soirée canadienne a été tournée en 1981 à Ascot, une ancienne ville qui fait maintenant partie de Sherbrooke. On y voit un jeune homme de 16 ans y chanter « Le docteur Guérit-tout », une chanson folklorique québécoise. Il s'agit de Serge Veilleux, qui est décédé en 2007, à 41 ans.
Cet extrait est devenu viral sur Internet au cours des derniers jours, rappelant à de nombreux Québécois la richesse de notre répertoire musical traditionnel et faisant même découvrir cette musique à l'extérieur de nos frontières.
#trad #musique #Québec #tradition #folklore #culture #chanson #viral #télé #SoiréeCanadienne
Charlie Quirk retweeted
The most widely accepted all-time Test World XI, compiled by Wisden Cricket and ESPNcricinfo !
Sir Jack Hobbs
Sir Len Hutton
Sir Donald Bradman (Captain)
Sachin Tendulkar
Sir Vivian Richards
Sir Garfield Sobers
Adam Gilchrist (Wicketkeeper)
Wasim Akram
Shane Warne
Malcolm Marshall
Sydney Barnes
Do you agree with this ?
If No, then what’s the changes you want , comment 👇
Charlie Quirk retweeted
for a long time i said that antisemitism, particularly on the american left, was not as bad as people claimed.
i'd like to just state that i was totally wrong.
i still don't understand it, really. or know what to do about it.
but it is so fucked.
Charlie Quirk retweeted
Earlier today, a letter from Pope Leo XIV arrived at Rate Field. Go White Sox!
Charlie Quirk retweeted
Someone on my street puts out light, nonsensical lawn signs. Replaces them every few weeks. I assume he’s mocking lawn sign people and if so, I need to meet him.
Charlie Quirk retweeted
This is a Stephen Root and Montreal smoked meat sandwich appreciation post.
Retweet if you are a fan of both beloved character actor Stephen Root and Montreal smoked meat sandwiches.
Charlie Quirk retweeted
Hasan Piker’s dangerous and hateful language targeting Jewish Americans has no place in our civic discourse. Suggesting that Jewish Americans bear responsibility for hatred or violence directed against them is wrong, dangerous, and antisemitic.
We can, and should, argue fiercely over policy. We should have meaningful dialogue and debate about the policies and actions of the Israeli government and American foreign policy. That is the lifeblood of democracy. But that’s not what this is.
No American should be told that their political beliefs make them responsible for hatred or violence directed against them. There is a bright line between vigorous debate and rhetoric that stokes hatred toward our neighbors. Mr. Piker has crossed that line, repeatedly and unmistakably.
Charlie Quirk retweeted
People forget the key principle of moneyball. It’s not about on base percentage, launch angles, etc… it’s about finding market inefficiencies. Once it was discovered that these factors were undervalued, they lose their edge because everyone pays up for them. Maybe the Rays found an inefficiency at the other end. No different than how a stock of a great company might be a great investment at one price but a bad investment at another price.
Charlie Quirk retweeted
I wish Nike was still this unafraid to make a statement. Those days feel long gone at this point.
Charlie Quirk retweeted
the ABS system sits at the vexed crossroads of several highly charged dynamics in our collective life. successful challenges (by your team) feel amazing, like a long-awaited blow against capricious and unearned authority; but the overall existence (and putative infallibility) of ABS inevitably ignites anxieties about the superfluity of human judgement. and yet, the challenge system relies on human hubris, intuition, boldness, and risk. it's a very compelling encounter between populism and the machine.
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The 1950s moment for our brains is happening right now, and Cal Newport might be the first person to name it correctly.
In the 1950s, doctors smoked. Jogging was considered eccentric. The idea that you needed to exercise for health was fringe science. Then a handful of researchers started publishing data on heart disease and sedentary lifestyles, and within 30 years the entire country built a $100B fitness industry from scratch.
Newport's NYT argument: seven hours of daily screen time is the cognitive equivalent of smoking two packs a day, and we're treating it with the same shrug the '50s gave cigarettes. Normal. Maybe even productive.
The reading number is the one that should stop people cold. The average American reads 15 minutes a day. Down from 23 minutes in 2003. The average TikTok session is 95 minutes. We replaced the single activity most correlated with sustained cognitive ability with the single activity most correlated with fractured attention, and we did it in less than a decade.
Newport wants a few dozen book pages a day to become the new 10,000 steps. Baseline cognitive maintenance. The problem: steps are easy to gamify. Your watch buzzes, the ring closes, you get the dopamine hit of completion. Reading has no built-in feedback loop. No streak counter guilt-tripping you at 9pm.
The fitness revolution worked because the economics aligned. Gyms made money. Nike made money. Fitbit made money. A cognitive fitness revolution has the opposite economics. Every company profiting from your attention has a direct financial incentive to make sure you never sit quietly with a book.
That's why this one will be harder than getting America to jog.
“Perhaps consuming a few dozen book pages a day should become the new 10,000 daily steps — a basic foundation of activity to maintain cognitive fitness.”
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