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- "One photo shows a crisp red t-shirt with a swastika on it, inexplicably laid out next to three copies of the video game 'The Sims 3.'''
- "Without after-work drinks, coffees breaks or office drop-ins, suck-ups suffered. They were eager to return to in-person work..."
- "This particular mess is due to Wapo having seen fit to accept Heard as a credible voice against domestic violence, and to publish her cynical screed as something positive and truthful for the world."
- Thanks, Dave.
- People I've never heard of are making a show of deactivating their Twitter account, and Libs of TikTok is amplifying their voice (which, I guess, is annoying to them).
- Does Trump mean it when he says he doesn't want to get back on Twitter?
| Posted: 26 Apr 2022 07:29 AM PDT |
| Posted: 26 Apr 2022 06:31 AM PDT "... where they could arrive early, leave late and spend a lot of time looking busy. ... 'I remember in the early stages of the pandemic when a client said to me, "Without the office, how will I pretend to work?"' Some bosses don't believe people are really productive unless they see them at their desks — which infuriates remote employees who want their work to be what counts...) At the beginning of the pandemic, [Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic, professor of business psychology at Columbia] thought remote work would be a great opportunity for managers to focus on performance and not on office politics. Now he's worried that hybrid work will create a two-tiered system. 'Those who are optimizing for politics are going to be back at work, and those who are not able to leave their homes or they enjoy focusing on output are inadvertently punished.... Because, even though you say that it doesn't matter where you are, there's still a premium for being in the right place at the right time, telling the right things to the right person. And so who's going to be at the office? More likely men than women, more likely majorities than minorities, more likely high-status or rich people, more likely extroverts than introverts, and more likely people who are ruthlessly focused on advancing their career.'" From "The pandemic was hard on office suck-ups. Now they're back and ready to schmooze" (WaPo). I almost didn't read this article because the illustration, which you'll have to click through to see, is so absurdly and earnestly racist. And you can see from the bit I chose to excerpt that there is a racial analysis to this question of sucking up at the office. It's easy to just guess that it's a white-male strategy to make a show of catering to the boss rather than actually working. It's what you see on the TV show "The Office," and it's what the professor of business psychology at Columbia tells us is "likely." That's the kind of cheap prejudice we're fed these days. The article identifies a real problem: The kind of people who thrive working in the office might be the ones who put on a show and don't really work. But I don't like seeing this gender-and-race material thrown in as if the basic problem isn't spicy enough and women and minorities are useful excitement. |
| Posted: 26 Apr 2022 05:50 AM PDT "Sure they both suck, but how bout a little more due diligence next time, Post?" That's the top-rated comment at the Washington Post article, "Depp's cross-examination wraps up with rehash of texts, audio clips." |
| Posted: 26 Apr 2022 05:14 AM PDT
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| Posted: 26 Apr 2022 05:01 AM PDT
Of course, self-censorship is a tic of the left. It's also characteristic of the left to want to avoid having to hear from the other side. The preference is to censor the other side, but they would prefer to up and move than to have to be confronted with things they don't agree with. (I have personal experience with this phenomenon: It explains my comments section.) |
| Does Trump mean it when he says he doesn't want to get back on Twitter? Posted: 26 Apr 2022 04:45 AM PDT That's a big topic in the news this morning, but I'm not just catching up with it. Meade and I hashed it all out in text at 6:20 last night after Meade sent me a screenshot of a comment from RMc on yesterday's post about the Twitter board accepting Elon Musk's offer:
RNc's comment is funny because so many people — including me — immediately jumped from seeing that Elon got his way to wondering when Trump would be back. I responded to Meade's text with a WaPo article that had come out at 6:02 PM, saying that Trump says he won't come back. I added — and I'll correct 2 glitches inserted by the iPad handwriting-to-text function — "Trump needs a special invitation to come back - he's not going to be in the position of asking and risking rejection." Meade took Trump's rejection of Twitter seriously: "I think he wants to be re-elected and tweeting helped him in 2016 but would only hurt him in 2024." I admit that I want him back on Twitter because I enjoy his pithy contributions to the national conversation: "Good! I like him as a tweeter who isn't President." For me, if tweeting hurts Trump's potential for getting reelected, that's another reason to want him back on Twitter. But I've undercut my skepticism that he's serious about not wanting to come back. But I said if. And I don't think tweeting will hurt his bid for reelection. He's the genius of Twitter. Of course, he needs to reassume his reign there. He won't turn it down because he also wants to reassume his reign in the White House. He wants both. Look at all the things Elon Musk has amassed. Is Trump a lesser man than Musk? The big men need to look as big as possible. In that light, Trump won't ask to return and be dependent on Musk allowing it. There must be an invitation and a loud demand for Trump to return. It will be an entire drama with a narrative arc. We're in the will-he-won't-he stage of the drama. But Meade said: "He has his own platform. That's all he needs to get his message out. I think he'll move on from his battle with the media. Claim victory, move on." His own platform is bad. It's dead. He can't want to rule over that. It's too small. And the great fun of Twitter is — or was and will be again — that everybody's there in the same arena and if you say something, you get reactions, including negative reactions. And Trump gets tremendous energy from his enemies' negativity. |
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