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Too busy with other things, I guess.
Cover of Abundance by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson; Picture of a bisected demi-Earth with a garden of Eden motif and a city or something.
August 24, 2025 at 3:24 AM
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Chart from G Elliot Morris showing Trump's disapproval to approval gap widening, now at 11.7 percentage points net disapproval.
August 7, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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Yeah, how can society expect us to adopt different personas in different contexts? That's so inauthentic. Just be yourself, man!

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The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life by Erving Goffman. A 1956 sociology classic positing that we all present ourselves differently to different audiences, like actors putting on costumes to take the stage.
June 23, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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June 25, 1994
New Jersey
S Arabia - Morocco
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I recall some media attention about this attendance. It wasn't mostly Saudi and Moroccan tourists.

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Mohammed Chaouch goal at Giants Stadium in 1994 World Cup. Crowd appears heterogenous, not divided into Moroccan and Saudi cheering sections.
April 16, 2025 at 1:39 PM