Steven A. Squier @sasquier

I'm nobody you need to know about. DeKalb, IL Joined April 2017

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Claire Lehmann @clairlemon

a month ago

I was honoured to give the Constance Holden Memorial Address for Distinguished Journalism at this year's ISIR Conference in Chicago. Here is the essay version of my speech. quillette.com/2025/08/05/a-h…

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Steven Pinker @sapinker

a month ago

Excellent analysis by Jonathan Rauch @jon_rauch on premodernism, modernism, and postmodernism, and what the "woke right" has in common with the woke left. open.substack.com/pub/persuasion…

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Daniel @growing_daniel

2 months ago

Thinking a lot lately but keeping it to myself. Not letting you guys know the stuff I’m thinking. Thinking in silence. Silently thinking.

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Hank Green @hankgreen

5 months ago

A tricky thing about modern society is that no one has any idea when they don’t die. Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200k/year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.

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Kelsey Piper @KelseyTuoc

7 months ago

@RiverTamYDN accelerationism never works, making the world worse makes it worse and then it's worse. the way to make the world better is by making it better.

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Billy Binion @billybinion

7 months ago

It amazes me how many people here respond to posts about obscene behavior with some version of: "Yeah well this OTHER person who is [insert opposing political ideology] did something BAD TOO ONE TIME." ...OK? Sure? Since when is that an excuse for...anything?

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Mike Solana @micsolana

7 months ago

separate from immediate substance here I just want to remind you guys that this 2k year old scroll is more durable than many blogging sites from like 10 years ago, and that is a really really big problem for the future of humanity

Joe — e/adgbe 🎸 @joe_r_Odonnell

7 months ago

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Helen Pluckrose @HPluckrose

7 months ago

It seems that many people who recognised the extremism, authoritarianism and irrationalism of the Critical Social Justice (woke) movement and supported those of us who criticised it on those grounds are currently feeling quite disillusioned. hpluckrose.com/p/what-is-goin…

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The Atlantic @TheAtlantic

7 months ago

“The most immediate task for the anti-Trump coalition in these early months of 2025 is to avoid more mistakes,” @davidfrum writes. “Build unity from the center, rather than indulge the factionalism of the ultra-left.” theatlantic.com/politics/archi…

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Sarah Isgur @whignewtons

8 months ago

Reminder from the Virginia Declaration of Rights: “That no free government or the blessings of liberty, can be preserved to any people but by a firm adherence to justice, moderation, temperance, frugality, and virtue and by frequent recurrence to fundamental principles.”

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Paul Crowley @ciphergoth

9 months ago

Every day you use Twitter, remember: posting in whatever way most destabilizes the US and the West is literally the full-time job of a large number of people. Each person runs many Twitter accounts, and their bosses think hard every day about how to do us the most harm.

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Angel Eduardo @StrangelEdweird

8 months ago

Those are not the only two options. I believe neither, and I’m not a leprechaun or a genius. The utility is in opposing irrationality, dogmatism, groupthink, and superstition. That should have always been the endeavor, and for many of us—like Dawkins—it was and still is.

Melissa Chen @MsMelChen

8 months ago

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Tim Urban @waitbutwhy

9 months ago

You have to choose one: 1) Political violence is not okay 2) People of all political stripes should use violence to achieve their goals “Position 1 for the other team’s causes, Position 2 for my team’s causes” is not on the table.

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Claire Lehmann @clairlemon

9 months ago

If you think violence is edgy and cool it tells me that the only violence you’ve ever experienced is from sitting in a couch looking at a screen.

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Hank Green @hankgreen

10 months ago

This is one of those videos that you could work on forever, but suddenly it felt very important to make it, so I finally did: youtube.com/watch?v=d8Pndp…

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Laura Robinson @LauraRbnsn

10 months ago

Okay, so here's the thing. In the historical tradition, and in the global scene, evangelicalism is a diverse movement, and I'm not speaking about the whole field (which continues to shape my theology). But in American evangelicalism right now, in the way you will primarily see

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Kmele 🖐 @kmele

10 months ago

The vibe shift is real, but I worry this framing is a bit too narrow. I suspect @thomaschattwill will mostly agree with this, so this isn’t a rebuttal—just unpacking of some thoughts. Bottom Line Up Front: This isn’t over. This is a forever war, and understanding the terrain is…

Thomas Chatterton Williams @thomaschattwill

10 months ago

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Conor Friedersdorf @conor64

10 months ago

I'd tweak this. *Most of your ancestors were neither heroes nor villains, a few were notably wonderful and terrible, and it's irrational to feel ancestral pride or guilt, because you get credit or blame for what *you* do, not what others did before you were born.*