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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1113661000186601475 | |nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1113661000186601475 | ||
|name=Eric Weinstein | |name=Eric Weinstein | ||
|usernameurl=https://x.com/ | |usernameurl=https://x.com/ericweinstein | ||
|username= | |username=ericweinstein | ||
|content=Looking forward to it. | |content=Looking forward to it. | ||
|thread= | |thread= | ||
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1109208423072063488 | |nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1109208423072063488 | ||
|name=Eric Weinstein | |name=Eric Weinstein | ||
|usernameurl=https://x.com/ | |usernameurl=https://x.com/ericweinstein | ||
|username= | |username=ericweinstein | ||
|content=Interesting to see who paints @joerogan as dumb. His charlatans & dullards include me. Fair. But other losers include Sir Roger Penrose, @seanmcarroll, @HeatherEHeying, @BretWeinstein, @SamHarrisOrg, @sapinker, @DrDebraSoh. | |content=Interesting to see who paints @joerogan as dumb. His charlatans & dullards include me. Fair. But other losers include Sir Roger Penrose, @seanmcarroll, @HeatherEHeying, @BretWeinstein, @SamHarrisOrg, @sapinker, @DrDebraSoh. | ||
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1109500512855035904 | |nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1109500512855035904 | ||
|name=Eric Weinstein | |name=Eric Weinstein | ||
|usernameurl=https://x.com/ | |usernameurl=https://x.com/ericweinstein | ||
|username= | |username=ericweinstein | ||
|content=Ha! That’s not it all Kara. | |content=Ha! That’s not it all Kara. | ||
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1109503676001849345 | |nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1109503676001849345 | ||
|name=Eric Weinstein | |name=Eric Weinstein | ||
|usernameurl=https://x.com/ | |usernameurl=https://x.com/ericweinstein | ||
|username= | |username=ericweinstein | ||
|content=What we‘re left with is those who thrive in the heat. This is pure adverse selection with the extremophiles who prefer more heat than light deciding that the public sphere is theirs alone. Well..screw that. I don’t enjoy my stalkers and these hit pieces paint bullseyes with hate. | |content=What we‘re left with is those who thrive in the heat. This is pure adverse selection with the extremophiles who prefer more heat than light deciding that the public sphere is theirs alone. Well..screw that. I don’t enjoy my stalkers and these hit pieces paint bullseyes with hate. | ||
|timestamp=5:14 PM · Mar 23, 2019 | |timestamp=5:14 PM · Mar 23, 2019 | ||
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1109507238161309697 | |nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1109507238161309697 | ||
|name=Eric Weinstein | |name=Eric Weinstein | ||
|usernameurl=https://x.com/ | |usernameurl=https://x.com/ericweinstein | ||
|username= | |username=ericweinstein | ||
|content=Okay. I’ll do as you suggest. Hang on... | |content=Okay. I’ll do as you suggest. Hang on... | ||
|timestamp=5:28 PM · Mar 23, 2019 | |timestamp=5:28 PM · Mar 23, 2019 | ||
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1109510459516813312 | |nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1109510459516813312 | ||
|name=Eric Weinstein | |name=Eric Weinstein | ||
|usernameurl=https://x.com/ | |usernameurl=https://x.com/ericweinstein | ||
|username= | |username=ericweinstein | ||
|content=Okay. I re-read it. Here is my take: | |content=Okay. I re-read it. Here is my take: | ||
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1109510912082235395 | |nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1109510912082235395 | ||
|name=Eric Weinstein | |name=Eric Weinstein | ||
|usernameurl=https://x.com/ | |usernameurl=https://x.com/ericweinstein | ||
|username= | |username=ericweinstein | ||
|content=Can we not do this here right now? Kara is engaging and I’m appreciating that. Thanks. 🙏 | |content=Can we not do this here right now? Kara is engaging and I’m appreciating that. Thanks. 🙏 | ||
|timestamp=5:43 PM · Mar 23, 2019 | |timestamp=5:43 PM · Mar 23, 2019 | ||
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1109512695806517248 | |nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1109512695806517248 | ||
|name=Eric Weinstein | |name=Eric Weinstein | ||
|usernameurl=https://x.com/ | |usernameurl=https://x.com/ericweinstein | ||
|username= | |username=ericweinstein | ||
|content=C) Because the piece is “no different” than a million other MSM articles, it seeks to create a perception of truth by perseveration. That is, I introduced the IDW, so I know what it is & there isn’t a real Trump supporter in it. Yet our echo chamber repeats it into ‘truth’. Why? | |content=C) Because the piece is “no different” than a million other MSM articles, it seeks to create a perception of truth by perseveration. That is, I introduced the IDW, so I know what it is & there isn’t a real Trump supporter in it. Yet our echo chamber repeats it into ‘truth’. Why? | ||
|timestamp=5:50 PM · Mar 23, 2019 | |timestamp=5:50 PM · Mar 23, 2019 | ||
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1109513399568728065 | |nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1109513399568728065 | ||
|name=Eric Weinstein | |name=Eric Weinstein | ||
|usernameurl=https://x.com/ | |usernameurl=https://x.com/ericweinstein | ||
|username= | |username=ericweinstein | ||
|content=Thanks. Since you don’t follow me I can’t contact you without going through our mutual friends. May I ask you to DM me your email or mobile? I’ll be happy to send you mine. | |content=Thanks. Since you don’t follow me I can’t contact you without going through our mutual friends. May I ask you to DM me your email or mobile? I’ll be happy to send you mine. | ||
|timestamp=5:53 PM · Mar 23, 2019 | |timestamp=5:53 PM · Mar 23, 2019 | ||
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1109515155119857665 | |nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1109515155119857665 | ||
|name=Eric Weinstein | |name=Eric Weinstein | ||
|usernameurl=https://x.com/ | |usernameurl=https://x.com/ericweinstein | ||
|username= | |username=ericweinstein | ||
|content=D) There are a lot of proximity attacks. Alex Jones belongs in one of Joe’s buckets of guests. But Roger Penrose is in a *totally* different bucket. As was Tulsi Gabbard. Or Bari Weiss. I mean the whole 🌎 goes through that studio yet the MSM fixates on “OMG! He Talked to Milo!!” | |content=D) There are a lot of proximity attacks. Alex Jones belongs in one of Joe’s buckets of guests. But Roger Penrose is in a *totally* different bucket. As was Tulsi Gabbard. Or Bari Weiss. I mean the whole 🌎 goes through that studio yet the MSM fixates on “OMG! He Talked to Milo!!” | ||
|timestamp=6:00 PM · Mar 23, 2019 | |timestamp=6:00 PM · Mar 23, 2019 | ||
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1109520268093849600 | |nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1109520268093849600 | ||
|name=Eric Weinstein | |name=Eric Weinstein | ||
|usernameurl=https://x.com/ | |usernameurl=https://x.com/ericweinstein | ||
|username= | |username=ericweinstein | ||
|content=Agree w/ you both. I actually want some Overton window. But if I can’t even discuss the *reasonable* reasons on MSM why 1/2 the US is so pissed off that it sent a wild “can you hear me now” message in 2016, we’re going to get another larger middle finger in 2020. We need to talk. | |content=Agree w/ you both. I actually want some Overton window. But if I can’t even discuss the *reasonable* reasons on MSM why 1/2 the US is so pissed off that it sent a wild “can you hear me now” message in 2016, we’re going to get another larger middle finger in 2020. We need to talk. | ||
|timestamp=6:20 PM · Mar 23, 2019 | |timestamp=6:20 PM · Mar 23, 2019 | ||
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1109522172999946240 | |nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1109522172999946240 | ||
|name=Eric Weinstein | |name=Eric Weinstein | ||
|usernameurl=https://x.com/ | |usernameurl=https://x.com/ericweinstein | ||
|username= | |username=ericweinstein | ||
|content=E) Lastly, as Joe’s guest, I get to discuss paying women more for kin work, North Indian classical music, sexual mimicry in cephalopods, [[Gauge Theory|gauge theory]], cross-harp blues harmonica & a world of topics no one gets to touch! | |content=E) Lastly, as Joe’s guest, I get to discuss paying women more for kin work, North Indian classical music, sexual mimicry in cephalopods, [[Gauge Theory|gauge theory]], cross-harp blues harmonica & a world of topics no one gets to touch! | ||
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1110147627297828864 | |nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1110147627297828864 | ||
|name=Eric Weinstein | |name=Eric Weinstein | ||
|usernameurl=https://x.com/ | |usernameurl=https://x.com/ericweinstein | ||
|username= | |username=ericweinstein | ||
|content=Kara? Any reaction? | |content=Kara? Any reaction? | ||
|timestamp=11:53 AM · Mar 25, 2019 | |timestamp=11:53 AM · Mar 25, 2019 | ||
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1113533636995731456 | |nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1113533636995731456 | ||
|name=Eric Weinstein | |name=Eric Weinstein | ||
|usernameurl=https://x.com/ | |usernameurl=https://x.com/ericweinstein | ||
|username= | |username=ericweinstein | ||
|content=@jerrylieb12 Nah. Not a cop out. I’m a fan of coffee first. I’m not out to fight Kara for anyone’s amusement. I want to figure out if we even disagree first, and if so, on what issues. I have no need to nurse my grounds for a grudge with anyone. | |content=@jerrylieb12 Nah. Not a cop out. I’m a fan of coffee first. I’m not out to fight Kara for anyone’s amusement. I want to figure out if we even disagree first, and if so, on what issues. I have no need to nurse my grounds for a grudge with anyone. | ||
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1237754376921309184 | |nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1237754376921309184 | ||
|name=Eric Weinstein | |name=Eric Weinstein | ||
|usernameurl=https://x.com/ | |usernameurl=https://x.com/ericweinstein | ||
|username= | |username=ericweinstein | ||
|content=I can’t repeat this enough: The sacred [[Middle Finger]] remains the soul of the US research enterprise. | |content=I can’t repeat this enough: The sacred [[Middle Finger]] remains the soul of the US research enterprise. | ||
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1230521128218578944 | |nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1230521128218578944 | ||
|name=Eric Weinstein | |name=Eric Weinstein | ||
|usernameurl=https://x.com/ | |usernameurl=https://x.com/ericweinstein | ||
|username= | |username=ericweinstein | ||
|content=Kai Lenny is in the process of turning the world’s largest surfable wave into a private skatepark. | |content=Kai Lenny is in the process of turning the world’s largest surfable wave into a private skatepark. | ||
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1242872751875977217 | |nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1242872751875977217 | ||
|name=Eric Weinstein | |name=Eric Weinstein | ||
|usernameurl=https://x.com/ | |usernameurl=https://x.com/ericweinstein | ||
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|content=So here’s our choice. | |content=So here’s our choice. | ||
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1242872744468869120 | |nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1242872744468869120 | ||
|name=Eric Weinstein | |name=Eric Weinstein | ||
|usernameurl=https://x.com/ | |usernameurl=https://x.com/ericweinstein | ||
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|content=This is hard to keep saying: almost everything we think about STEM is wrong. | |content=This is hard to keep saying: almost everything we think about STEM is wrong. | ||
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1242872749350998016 | |nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1242872749350998016 | ||
|name=Eric Weinstein | |name=Eric Weinstein | ||
|usernameurl=https://x.com/ | |usernameurl=https://x.com/ericweinstein | ||
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|content=Think of it as “Intellectual Munchausen By Proxy” where the leadership of STEM at @NSF and @theNASciences have historically made up stories about how their own children (US STEM) are too sickly/greedy/unruly to do research. But our pliant temp visa holders are obedient wiz-kids. | |content=Think of it as “Intellectual Munchausen By Proxy” where the leadership of STEM at @NSF and @theNASciences have historically made up stories about how their own children (US STEM) are too sickly/greedy/unruly to do research. But our pliant temp visa holders are obedient wiz-kids. | ||
|timestamp=5:55 PM · Mar 25, 2020 | |timestamp=5:55 PM · Mar 25, 2020 | ||
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1242872750642851846 | |nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1242872750642851846 | ||
|name=Eric Weinstein | |name=Eric Weinstein | ||
|usernameurl=https://x.com/ | |usernameurl=https://x.com/ericweinstein | ||
|username= | |username=ericweinstein | ||
|content=The US STEM complex is induced to murder careers of our own people because we are not trained to be obedient workers. We use freedom & irreverence based education. Our edge is our [[Middle Finger|middle finger]] and US STEM folks rightly demand market level US salaries to power our market economy. | |content=The US STEM complex is induced to murder careers of our own people because we are not trained to be obedient workers. We use freedom & irreverence based education. Our edge is our [[Middle Finger|middle finger]] and US STEM folks rightly demand market level US salaries to power our market economy. | ||
|timestamp=5:55 PM · Mar 25, 2020 | |timestamp=5:55 PM · Mar 25, 2020 | ||
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1252705516175818752 | |nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1252705516175818752 | ||
|name=Eric Weinstein | |name=Eric Weinstein | ||
|usernameurl=https://x.com/ | |usernameurl=https://x.com/ericweinstein | ||
|username= | |username=ericweinstein | ||
|content=And as far as the WHO is concerned I actually agree with them on many things. But they are not above science, scrutiny and common sense. Stop pretending you are in a position as a platform to act as a publisher. Maybe listen to The Who: | |content=And as far as the WHO is concerned I actually agree with them on many things. But they are not above science, scrutiny and common sense. Stop pretending you are in a position as a platform to act as a publisher. Maybe listen to The Who: | ||
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1252703563605655552 | |nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1252703563605655552 | ||
|name=Eric Weinstein | |name=Eric Weinstein | ||
|usernameurl=https://x.com/ | |usernameurl=https://x.com/ericweinstein | ||
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|content=It’s *imperative* in the midst of a public health crisis that we able to question and CONTRADICT “Authoritative Sources” like the WHO when they appear to be lying to us or covering for endangering the public. Google, Facebook & Twitter are expendable. | |content=It’s *imperative* in the midst of a public health crisis that we able to question and CONTRADICT “Authoritative Sources” like the WHO when they appear to be lying to us or covering for endangering the public. Google, Facebook & Twitter are expendable. | ||
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1252703565832810496 | |nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1252703565832810496 | ||
|name=Eric Weinstein | |name=Eric Weinstein | ||
|usernameurl=https://x.com/ | |usernameurl=https://x.com/ericweinstein | ||
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|content=There are other countries who believe in obedience. The United States is not one of them. And the technology used to build YouTube did not arise in those countries because it could not. Google is a product and beneficiary of the American [[Middle Finger|middle finger]] to “Authoritative Sources”. | |content=There are other countries who believe in obedience. The United States is not one of them. And the technology used to build YouTube did not arise in those countries because it could not. Google is a product and beneficiary of the American [[Middle Finger|middle finger]] to “Authoritative Sources”. | ||
|timestamp=8:59 PM · Apr 21, 2020 | |timestamp=8:59 PM · Apr 21, 2020 | ||
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|nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1252703566734610432 | |nameurl=https://x.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1252703566734610432 | ||
|name=Eric Weinstein | |name=Eric Weinstein | ||
|usernameurl=https://x.com/ | |usernameurl=https://x.com/ericweinstein | ||
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|content=Word to executives at Tech Companies: Don’t even think about silencing responsible dissent. Put it out of your mind. Stop fantasizing about being N Korean. The WHO, CDC & Surgeon General have an obvious truthfulness problem (e.g. PPE). Pretending otherwise is evil. | |content=Word to executives at Tech Companies: Don’t even think about silencing responsible dissent. Put it out of your mind. Stop fantasizing about being N Korean. The WHO, CDC & Surgeon General have an obvious truthfulness problem (e.g. PPE). Pretending otherwise is evil. | ||
Don’t be evil. | Don’t be evil. | ||