Shea Levy
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Shea Levy
@shlevy
In pursuit of conceptual virtuosity
Joined January 2009
- Lina Khan cuts off the right hand of a genius pianist, who nevertheless perseveres and produces a one-handed masterpiece, for which she then takes credit.A great reminder that letting startups grow into independently successful businesses, rather than be bought up by existing giants, can generate enormous value. A win for employees, investors, innovation, and the public.
- “You’re born with a debt that takes a lifetime to repay” No.
Replying to @tracewoodgrains"With great power comes great responsibility" is a simple, true statement. To the extent being born with unusual (intellectual) power is an "innate characteristic," that good luck means that you owe the universe hard work. You're born with a debt that takes a lifetime to repay. - Horrific that we built an entire economy on hypertext and the best way to distribute a canonical text block is as a bitmap."There is No Source"
- The worst thing that Musk has done to this site is the reversion to the pre-hypertext era. Penalizing links, and doubly so for links to the site with some of the best contemporary medium-form writing, makes Twitter (and the whole internet) smaller, not an “everything app”.
- Look man if there’s anyone who should be subject to the consequences of an excessive legal code it’s lawmakers.How many members of Congress, federal judges, governors, attorneys general, and other federal and state leaders—Rs and Ds alike—have submitted home-loan applications with falsehoods in them? Too many, I think, to make felons of them all.
- Replying to @kitten_beloved and @jan_dutkiewicz"Those are rookie numbers, we can do better"
- Boys are in the mines
- The problem with Montessori is that they learn to quietly and independently address their own needs
- Replying to @shlevyThis was days before the Access Hollywood tape dropped!
- This remains a better understanding of the actual meaning of free speech than basically any of the dominant positions today and all of the "thick free speech" vs "thin free speech"/"free speech culture" vs "cancel culture" muddiness has confused your thinking.
- If true then this is just evidence that “eugenics” is a bad concept. You can’t group together “technological intervention to make our children healthier and stronger and smarter” (obviously good) with “sterilization and murder of undesirables” and expect to think clearly.
- I’m now a single issue voter around the rule of law. I don’t care about your preferred policy. I don’t even care if you’re right about the law. I just care that you make a good faith effort to know and adhere to the law, especially the Constitutional law structuring government.
- In The Fountainhead, Ellsworth Toohey is shown putting a lot of work into influencing young people away from their own career interests toward things claimed to be in the interests of humanity, with the result that these people end up broken and completely dependent upon him.
