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Once Again, I Will Have to Take a Heavier Hand with the Comments [Freddie deBoer, Freddie deBoer’s Substack]

January 31, 2023

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• The publisher had posted a divisive cultural topic and the comments had become anti-LGBTQ, so the publisher had to go back to the drawing board.
• The publisher is a leftist and has conventional left-wing views on almost everything, including a commitment to progress on LGBTQ issues.
• The publisher is critical of the contemporary American left of center and many left-of-center people right-code him.
• The publisher believes that many people on the right have an obsession with gender issues and need to ask themselves about their mental health.
• The publisher reminded readers that they can always take their ball and go home, and that he has to make decisions that are consistent with his values.
• The publisher also reminded readers that most drag performers are not trans.

Published January 31, 2023
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Of Course Drag Isn’t Dangerous, It’s Just Played Out and Corny [Freddie deBoer, Freddie deBoer’s Substack]

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January 30, 2023

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• The interviewee is a progressive person who is fighting against anti-LGBTQ bills in Republican states.
• They recognize that drag shows have become normalized and embraced by a sports league, which is a sign of progress but also a loss of something that was once countercultural.
• They argue that drag shows are not inherently sexual and that parents should be able to make the choice to take their children to a drag show or not.
• They point out that the same cultural processes that make drag shows more acceptable are also making gay marriage possible.
• They argue that normalization and assimilation are the same thing and that marginalized people cannot have both respectability and radicalism.

Published January 30, 2023
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If I Have to Keep Hearing “Nobody Believes In Us” I’m Going to Jump Out a Window [Freddie deBoer, Freddie deBoer’s Substack]

By Spencer Chen

In Freddie deBoer

January 26, 2023

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• The Cincinnati Bengals and Kansas City Chiefs have both been playing the “nobody believes in us” card, despite the Bengals having the consensus best player in football and hosting the AFC championship game for the fifth consecutive time.
• Betting underdogs went 97-175 in terms of wins and losses last season, suggesting that the “nobody believes in us” narrative is not as powerful as it is made out to be.
• Teams like the Patriots, Cowboys, and 49ers have all won championships despite being favored in the majority of their Super Bowl appearances.
• Professional athletes are already playing as hard as they can, as they have a direct financial incentive to do so.
• The “nobody believes in us” narrative is insulting and absurd, as motivation has nothing to do with the outcome of the game.

Published January 26, 2023
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Remember Rich Uncle Pennybags [Freddie deBoer, Freddie deBoer’s Substack]

By Spencer Chen

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January 24, 2023

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• The Rich Uncle Pennybags test is a way to think politically, asking if the proposed action will hurt the most privileged person.
• Labor issues, such as laws and regulations about unions, pass the test as they threaten Rich Uncle Pennybags’ station.
• Workplace diversity, equity, and inclusion trainings do not pass the test as they do not change the distribution of power.
• Race-based affirmative action passes the test as it helps to address inequalities in access to college and can help to redress overall socioeconomic inequality.
• Criticizing Elon Musk for his right-wing memes is an example of culture war that does not pass the Rich Uncle Pennybags test.
• Politics should focus on mass action and structural change that Rich Uncle Pennybags can’t ignore, rather than personal critique.

Published January 24, 2023
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Remote Work Shifts Costs From Management Onto Employees [Freddie deBoer, Freddie deBoer’s Substack]

By Spencer Chen

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January 22, 2023

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• In the past decade, many services have been created to reduce people’s exposure to other human beings, which people are willing to pay a premium for.
• Remote work shifts financial burdens that once fell on employers onto employees, yet employees don’t complain and even celebrate.
• This has caused a crisis with office space downtown and a deepening of America’s structural housing crisis.
• Remote workers are spending extra money on rent or mortgage for extra space, which is essentially a $12,000 haircut in their total annual compensation.
• People should think critically about what they’re giving up and what they’re now paying for themselves.

Published January 21, 2023
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Be Independent! No, Not Like That [Freddie deBoer, Freddie deBoer’s Substack]

By Spencer Chen

In Freddie deBoer

January 16, 2023

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• The article discusses the difficulties of being professionally heterodox and the tendency for people to pigeonhole those who step outside of the usual partisan lines.
• It also discusses the tendency of those who claim to value independence and free thinking to only do so when it produces results they agree with.
• The author then goes on to list various rhetorical ploys used to avoid acknowledging America’s guilt in foreign countries, such as weaponized ignorance, whataboutism, and demand for unachievable rigor.
• The author concludes by recommending books to learn more about America’s conduct in the world.

Published January 16, 2023. Visit Freddie deBoer’s Substack to read Freddie deBoer’s original post [Digest, 1/14/2023: Doctor, Doctor]

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ChatGPT and Winograd’s Dilemma [Freddie deBoer, Freddie deBoer’s Substack]

By Spencer Chen

In Freddie deBoer

January 12, 2023

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• ChatGPT is a recently-unveiled AI chatbot that has been met with mixed reviews.
• Microsoft has invested $10 billion in its developer.
• Terry Winograd proposed two sentences to test AI’s ability to parse natural language.
• Coindexing is an essential step to decoding sentences, and it is dependent on the verb.
• AI must have a theory of the world in order to understand language.
• ChatGPT has passed Winograd’s test, but it is not basing its coindexing on a theory of the world.
• Douglas Hofstadter’s work on creating a machine that thinks the way a human thinks is still in its infancy.

Published January 12, 2023. Visit Freddie deBoer’s Substack to read Freddie deBoer’s original post.

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The Creative Underclass is Still Raging [Freddie deBoer]

By Spencer Chen

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January 9, 2023

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• The internet is full of negative emotion, and the creative underclass is still raging.
• People with unrealized dreams in creative industries are often angry due to thwarted ambition and the sense that they were meant for more than comfort.
• These people are often college-educated and gainfully employed, yet they are still resentful of those who have succeeded in creative fields.
• They are often jealous of those who have achieved success despite no clear advantage in talent, worth, or effort.
• Nate Silver is an example of someone who is conspicuously successful and enviable, and thus a target of the creative underclass.
• The economics of media and publishing have shifted since the heyday of Gawker, making it impossible for a new Gawker to emerge today.
• Professional writing is still enviable, but the rewards are far more humble than in the past.
• It’s difficult to have an appropriate perspective on the anger from those who don’t have the same opportunities as the creative underclass.
• Bullshit jobs aren’t that bad, and most people would kill to have them.
• We need to shatter the myth of just deserts and remind people that they don’t control their own destinies.
• We can never achieve a world where everyone enjoys public acclaim, and people need to find a way to deal with that.

Published January 9, 2023. Visit Freddie deBoer’s substack to read the original post.

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Resilience, Another Thing We Can’t Talk About [Freddie deBoer]

By Spencer Chen

In Freddie deBoer

January 2, 2023

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• Jonathan Haidt’s recent interview with the Wall Street Journal about the crisis of Generation Z was met with ridicule and dismissal.
• Haidt’s concerns about depression and anxiety among Gen Z were overshadowed by the culture war.
• Suffering is an inevitable part of life, and teaching people how to respond to suffering and grow from it is an essential task of any community.
• Criticisms of Haidt’s argument are valid, but his perspective is more nuanced than Ben Shapiro’s.
• Resilience is an essential trait that should be taught to young people, but talk of toughness and resilience can be used opportunistically to dismiss demands for justice.
• Social media creates incentives to always find yourself on the “right side” of every debate, making it difficult to engage in subtlety and nuance.

Published January 2, 2023. Visit Freddie deBoer’s substack to read the original post.

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If You Hate Billionaires, Stop Fixating on “Undeserving” Billionaires [Freddie deBoer]

By Spencer Chen

In Freddie deBoer

December 29, 2022

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The movie Glass Onion is a sequel to Knives Out, but the characters are too broad and the mystery isn’t interesting.
The ending is unconvincing and forced, with Edward Norton’s billionaire character seemingly about to lose everything for no good reason.
The fixation on whether billionaires “deserve” their wealth is a sideshow, and undermines the deeper critique of the structural class position of billionaires.
A more radical critique would have been to have a brilliant and deserving billionaire character who is still a malign force.

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CategoryFreddie deBoer

Once Again, I Will Have to Take a Heavier Hand with the Comments [Freddie deBoer, Freddie deBoer’s Substack]

Of Course Drag Isn’t Dangerous, It’s Just Played Out and Corny [Freddie deBoer, Freddie deBoer’s Substack]

If I Have to Keep Hearing “Nobody Believes In Us” I’m Going to Jump Out a Window [Freddie deBoer, Freddie deBoer’s Substack]

Remember Rich Uncle Pennybags [Freddie deBoer, Freddie deBoer’s Substack]

Remote Work Shifts Costs From Management Onto Employees [Freddie deBoer, Freddie deBoer’s Substack]

Be Independent! No, Not Like That [Freddie deBoer, Freddie deBoer’s Substack]

ChatGPT and Winograd’s Dilemma [Freddie deBoer, Freddie deBoer’s Substack]

The Creative Underclass is Still Raging [Freddie deBoer]

If You Hate Billionaires, Stop Fixating on “Undeserving” Billionaires [Freddie deBoer]

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