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Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by @bwwgpro1 @gayestgaymer1 @stevesrawmind @minervasmuse @mpershan @dannux @thefatamerican @johnny2fingersz @nickemoran @grok @namesoatta @moultano @isaacking314 @themountaingoa1 @thewreathwright @growing_daniel @minervas_muse @auserofnoimport @coughsonwombats @caryatis

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"@caryatis I didn't claim someone would have seen the murder-suicide (an extraordinarily extreme event) coming. But she encouraged and fed into their paranoia pushed others away from digging too deep and issued no mea culpas. Her actions were inexcusable then and remain so in hindsight"
@tracewoodgrains on X 2025-07-25 14:28:19 UTC 46.7K followers, XXX engagements

"@Nick65979825 ok. where did she apologize for and recant her support for his kidnapping a five-year-old after the murders happened where did she apologize for and recant her aiding and abetting the murder of a judge her defenses of gulags"
@tracewoodgrains on X 2025-07-27 08:31:39 UTC 46.7K followers, XX engagements

"sure. and perhaps the gun thing or the Jim Jones thing if she spent her subsequent years profusely apologizing and holding herself to account for having gotten caught up in destructive circles would have been excusable. but instead she used them to launch her career into the stratosphere and become the Soviet Unions hero #1"
@tracewoodgrains on X 2025-07-25 21:33:54 UTC 46.7K followers, XXX engagements

"why do unpopular and destructive ideas so often win in politics people organize for them and everyone else counts on someone to do the work for them. it is possible for ideas to be both popular and neglected"
@tracewoodgrains on X 2025-07-22 02:55:16 UTC 46.7K followers, 5563 engagements

"this feels like such a bleak outlook to me the more skill you develop the more facts you understand the more you can amplify any other character trait you have. curiosity from a low knowledge base gets you basic insights. we should not outsource our minds"
@tracewoodgrains on X 2025-07-23 05:39:40 UTC 46.7K followers, 33.2K engagements

"The day after October X the largest and most active student organization in my law school put out a statement in explicit support of Hamas. They went on to spearhead the local student protest movement. I will never ever let them whitewash that"
@tracewoodgrains on X 2025-07-25 22:25:21 UTC 46.7K followers, 276.7K engagements

"but 2) I was overly dismissive of the idea of conscious "1488" messaging there and those who pushed back against me were correct. there's very little ambiguity left in this one and nothing to defend here"
@tracewoodgrains on X 2025-07-24 01:34:58 UTC 46.8K followers, 20.6K engagements

"guess who just pulled a you cant fire me I quit over at Wikipedia"
@tracewoodgrains on X 2025-07-17 14:32:23 UTC 46.7K followers, 42.9K engagements

"@gayestgaymer1 @bwwgpro1 and if the rule that you would impose brings them to accepting mass murder and kidnapping against them of what use is your rule"
@tracewoodgrains on X 2025-07-25 23:48:24 UTC 46.7K followers, XXX engagements

"@minervas_muse universities that care more about helping prevent childhood cancer than honoring and centering people like Angela Davis should focus all their energies on building up their hospitals and tearing into their broken academic fields when they do that I will believe them"
@tracewoodgrains on X 2025-07-26 02:36:02 UTC 46.7K followers, XX engagements

"my update: 1) I stand by the great majority of what I said about the last one. pioneer imagery is genuinely benign and a poor target for outrage. this on the other hand is a wholly reasonable target for outrage"
@tracewoodgrains on X 2025-07-24 01:33:23 UTC 46.7K followers, 19.1K engagements

"why on earth are people stigmatizing the decision to put a baby up for adoption here there are dozens of loving couples eager to adopt every baby who needs a home. if it is not the right time for a couple to raise their own kid finding them a loving home is praiseworthy"
@tracewoodgrains on X 2025-07-22 21:11:17 UTC 46.7K followers, 57.5K engagements

"@moneysignmawi @aliceisplaying what about the voicing support for gulags is that part concerning or no in what sense is it exaggeration to say that buying a shotgun for people a day before they use it to blow a judge's head off is aiding and abetting murder and why is the dead kid thing not bad enough"
@tracewoodgrains on X 2025-07-27 09:41:33 UTC 46.8K followers, XXX engagements

"@mrushelmore bounded distrust. fabricating a letter like this is absolutely not the sort of thing the WSJ would do and yes typically things like that do entail concerns about anonymity etc though generally via figurative fingerprints and not literal ones"
@tracewoodgrains on X 2025-07-25 08:56:55 UTC 46.7K followers, XXX engagements

"Have you voted in a presidential election in which Trump was not on the ballot"
@tracewoodgrains on X 2025-07-27 02:46:34 UTC 46.8K followers, 6484 engagements

"what are the five British values wrong answers only"
@tracewoodgrains on X 2025-07-22 09:45:35 UTC 46.7K followers, 66.5K engagements

"@MuchGreenGrass assume it is in fact genuine and the details - reported by multiple outlets that place a high premium on not getting facts wrong - do in fact line up how would you expect Trump's response to differ from his current one"
@tracewoodgrains on X 2025-07-25 15:51:49 UTC 46.7K followers, XXX engagements

"Fantastic article looking at a study that examines college English majors trying and failing to read Dickens. Highly recommended"
@tracewoodgrains on X 2025-05-21 17:13:46 UTC 46.8K followers, 2.5M engagements

"From "After the Spike": "The year 2012 may well turn out to be the year in which the most humans were ever bornever as in ever for as long as humanity exists." Going to live-tweet interesting bits"
@tracewoodgrains on X 2025-07-13 13:24:16 UTC 46.8K followers, 3.4M engagements

"Paul Ehrlich unapologetic author of a mass sterilization campaign deserves a thousand times more hate than he has gotten. His name should be mud"
@tracewoodgrains on X 2025-07-13 17:46:15 UTC 46.7K followers, 89.5K engagements

"@IsabeauVidal it was targeted at every level including Cloudflare hosting providers etc. And protection from illegal cyberattacks should be treated as a broadly available good not shifted based on content of a site"
@tracewoodgrains on X 2025-07-25 08:54:03 UTC 46.7K followers, XXX engagements

"I don't know that I'm overestimating the extremism of the average person who wears a Che Guevara T-shirt. Plenty of radical-chic people casually support dictators because it's the cool thing to do not out of deep-seated conviction. But I'm not the one making the "nazi bar" argument that one signal is a dealbreaker for both that person and all of their vague associates"
@tracewoodgrains on X 2025-07-27 14:35:27 UTC 46.7K followers, 1193 engagements

"I understand why people find it distasteful for DHS to post this given the Trump admins aggressively anti-immigration stance. But I viscerally passionately hate this response and am disgusted at its popularity. This was in fact my heritage Almost every line of my ancestors came from England Denmark and the eastern United States to cross the plains. My 3x great-grandmother Jane Brice came over at XX saw her mother die during the crossing saw her father choose to return when he saw Utah and hid in a woodpile to stay. Another 3x grandmother Jane Batchelor saw her husband fall severely ill on the"
@tracewoodgrains on X 2025-07-15 16:16:16 UTC 46.8K followers, 310.8K engagements

"@bwwgpro1 what is the correct proportionate response to a nation somewhere between on your borders and within your boundaries murdering and kidnapping your civilians en masse in order to provoke retaliation and international sympathy"
@tracewoodgrains on X 2025-07-25 23:41:26 UTC 46.8K followers, 2164 engagements

"right. you're irritated but you can't provide a rational way for me to combat multiple generations of institutional capture in the domains I care most about in response nor can you assign culpability to the university administrators and departments who brought things to this state. you're mad because people are caught in the middle but you're specifically mad at the people attacking the institutions because they don't accept "leftists are honored by liberals while center and right are viewed with intense suspicion" as a reasonable status quo for every one of these institutions to maintain."
@tracewoodgrains on X 2025-07-26 03:28:21 UTC 46.8K followers, 2542 engagements

"@MattyBoySwag143 its a pretty large part of what the painting represents there are other ways to celebrate the good ol USA that dont involve cheering the near-annihilation of a people"
@tracewoodgrains on X 2025-07-24 02:05:22 UTC 46.7K followers, XXX engagements

"Lead with the mass killing and atrocities. Then explain that public opinion on him remains split in China vs the west citing the reasons that people would point to. Dont contextualize every point with apologism; if adding people think x including critical perspectives. His entry should read approximately like how Hitlers would read in a counterfactual where the Nazis were still in charge of Germany"
@tracewoodgrains on X 2025-07-27 21:51:13 UTC 46.7K followers, 4488 engagements

"@EngenEric nobody watches their baby starve for clout deaths by starvation in Gaza have increased starkly. mocking that is grotesque"
@tracewoodgrains on X 2025-07-26 00:49:45 UTC 46.8K followers, XXX engagements

"@caryatis I wouldn't have seen the murder-suicides coming. I'm quite confident I would have been against them by the time the kidnapped-kid story was making the public rounds though"
@tracewoodgrains on X 2025-07-25 14:58:51 UTC 46.7K followers, XXX engagements

"I don't support burning it all to the ground. I support legal action against universities that are breaking the law cultural pressure against an admin class that treats people like Angela Davis as heroes and the building of parallel institutions only in cases like ed schools that are unsalvageable"
@tracewoodgrains on X 2025-07-26 02:57:13 UTC 46.8K followers, 1189 engagements

"@moneysignmawi @aliceisplaying why is it inappropriate to compare someone who aided and abetted murder supported Jim Jones in his kidnapping of a five-year-old child who he subsequently murdered and supported Stalinist gulags to a Nazi are the skulls she stands on prettier ones"
@tracewoodgrains on X 2025-07-27 09:25:04 UTC 46.8K followers, XXX engagements

"I think someone can very reasonably hold that Hamas provided a clear and impossible to ignore casus belli and support a total war against Hamas while still holding that many actions are over the line What they cant do ethically is support eg specific targeted mass killings of civilians"
@tracewoodgrains on X 2025-07-26 01:29:45 UTC 46.7K followers, XXX engagements

"@bwwgpro1 a way similar to that which was done to the Nazis involves a whole lot of all-out war how satisfied do you think groups like the NLG would have been with that response in which ways does the world in which Israel does that lead to a different reaction"
@tracewoodgrains on X 2025-07-25 23:44:57 UTC 46.8K followers, 1877 engagements

"@gayestgaymer1 @bwwgpro1 any law that claims to condone mass murder of civilians and forbids a group from responding defensively is not worth the paper it is printed on. no law binds non-signatories and nobody has cause to sign onto a law that condones their own murder"
@tracewoodgrains on X 2025-07-26 00:01:13 UTC 46.7K followers, XXX engagements

"from a peanut gallery perspective its pretty fun to see nerds suddenly treated like star athletes $X billion is insane"
@tracewoodgrains on X 2025-07-21 19:26:34 UTC 46.8K followers, 25.2K engagements

"Between 1953 and 1995 student enrollment in Washington D.C. public schools went from 107000 up to 150000 then down to 80000. Using 2025 dollars the budget went from about $XXX million to at least $XXX billion. Money is not the issue and the money pit never fills up"
@tracewoodgrains on X 2025-07-23 02:03:16 UTC 46.7K followers, 12.8K engagements

"@jonathanborows2 she bought the gun used to blow a judges head off which is a different question to whether they could make the conspiracy charges stick pressuring the president to let Jim Jones keep a kidnapped five-year-old in his Guyana compound was not illegal. just evil"
@tracewoodgrains on X 2025-07-25 21:26:00 UTC 46.7K followers, XXX engagements

"@Trent_STEMpunk My path went through Wozniak and Waitzkin as well and I also did something similar to the MIT project (though less successfullyI struggle with discipline which is one reason good schools matter so much to me)"
@tracewoodgrains on X 2025-07-27 22:08:29 UTC 46.8K followers, XX engagements

"making a top podcasts of all time list and not including such titans as Blocked and Reported Clearer Thinking Unsupervised Learning Dwarkesh The Bayesian Conspiracy The New Liberal Podcast or Progressively Incorrect outrageous oh yeah and Joe Rogan's missing too I guess"
@tracewoodgrains on X 2025-07-24 05:08:36 UTC 46.8K followers, 24.3K engagements

"@bwwgpro1 other contemporary sources including a right to resist video from them were most explicit in naming Hamas PIJ etc as orgs to support people posting that were indeed correct to predict the backlash coming from the evil things they (and you) supported"
@tracewoodgrains on X 2025-07-25 23:34:56 UTC 46.8K followers, 2338 engagements

"sure I noticed. that's fine by me - I think a lot of harm here has been done by people who want to act like the adults in the room by getting irritated when people care about this stuff without having the courage to either lay out object-level defenses or concede actual problems if that's what makes you unfollow me I'm proud to be unfollowed. have a good one"
@tracewoodgrains on X 2025-07-26 03:14:03 UTC 46.7K followers, 1317 engagements

"my most right-wing stance is that every one of these institutions is morally rotten and that the mainstream consensus deserves no deference or respect as long as it treats people like Davis as heroes"
@tracewoodgrains on X 2025-07-25 09:32:44 UTC 46.7K followers, 8324 engagements

"@MichaelKiwi77 @ElijahRavitz then provide me an alternative that doesnt involve them keeping pride of place in determining the morality that binds my culture and the mantle of objective authority over their destructive policy goals"
@tracewoodgrains on X 2025-07-25 23:05:33 UTC 46.7K followers, XX engagements

"@LilUziVartan the Coldplay cheaters. caught on kiss cam"
@tracewoodgrains on X 2025-07-26 11:41:22 UTC 46.7K followers, XXX engagements

"no thats nonsense. people have a double standard with this sort of thing where the RW alt-media bubble maintains rock-bottom standards and thats fine bc nobody expects any better while outlets like the WSJ maintain strict standards and then become used as scapegoats for every grievance with every outlet. show an example of the WSJ publishing something materially false comparable to the allegation here"
@tracewoodgrains on X 2025-07-25 09:05:50 UTC 46.7K followers, XXX engagements

"Hm. I think I've found the "cancel culture" line where I don't really care The guy voluntarily went on an enormous mainstream platform to tell everyone he was a fascist defend Nazis call huge chunks of the populace his Schmittian enemies etc Seems like he got what he wanted"
@tracewoodgrains on X 2025-07-22 06:53:46 UTC 46.7K followers, 404.2K engagements

"man I love this sort of innovation lowering costs more than XX% with a single change is such a satisfying move"
@tracewoodgrains on X 2025-07-25 12:45:04 UTC 46.8K followers, 36.8K engagements

"@xav_moss yeah people who celebrate intentional killing of civilians are always going to be worth harshly condemning and there are plenty on the Israeli side"
@tracewoodgrains on X 2025-07-25 22:38:51 UTC 46.7K followers, 6894 engagements

"@MaxTheChicagoan that's . not what I said or what I think I do think one major problem with 2025 America is that most of our institutions treat extremists like Angela Davis as the heroes of history whitewash their stories and obscure the evils they pushed for"
@tracewoodgrains on X 2025-07-26 21:26:27 UTC 46.7K followers, XX engagements

"Ive gradually evolved in my view of politeness during my time online. I used to treat it as the appropriate mode in almost every interactionbut over time I saw the ways subtle and not-so-subtle conflicts lingered as people would stay facially polite facially within local norms while taking potshots at each other. I saw people turn every conversation into a repetition of old grievances against their perceived enemies. And I saw how people trained themselves to read for tone above substance dismissing accurate and important points because they were made combatively then seeing more and more"
@tracewoodgrains on X 2025-07-27 23:29:23 UTC 46.7K followers, 17.6K engagements

"I aim to do no worse than matching tone for tone on Twitter with some leeway and a strong preference for politeness and earnestness. I'm always a bit surprised when people get outraged at that sort of tone-for-tone match. if you want good conversation provide it"
@tracewoodgrains on X 2025-07-24 03:10:17 UTC 46.8K followers, 5610 engagements

"Sonya's point is one thing I try to underscore when I criticize EAs their values are not precisely the same as my own but by my own values many of them are better people than I am and that matters"
@tracewoodgrains on X 2025-07-21 21:05:16 UTC 46.8K followers, 28.3K engagements

"@minervas_muse that's a lot of work but it's practical work it recognizes the value and the difficulty of institution-building and it respects researchers who do good work. but yes there is absolutely anger behind it and I won't hide my disgust at generations of failure"
@tracewoodgrains on X 2025-07-26 02:58:04 UTC 46.8K followers, 1117 engagements

"@minervas_muse @moultano Lets focus on the clearest-cut instance: What is the status and awareness of and support for intelligence research and individual differences in intelligence in education schools"
@tracewoodgrains on X 2025-07-27 06:01:07 UTC 46.8K followers, XX engagements

"@The_Equationist @xav_moss they were welcome to make that in a general sense to treat Hamas as the military of Palestine and to advocate for war against the Israeli military what they did instead was celebrate and defend mass murder of civilians the day it happened. there is no defense"
@tracewoodgrains on X 2025-07-26 01:51:09 UTC 46.8K followers, XXX engagements

"The state of our education schools should be seen as a national embarrassmentone that harms the entire world since the world looks to the US for policy guidance. This is from 1961. Education schools have never ever been good and we've turned a blind eye for generations"
@tracewoodgrains on X 2025-07-25 05:40:22 UTC 46.7K followers, 4119 engagements

"@samvega sure that's one theory of change. following advice of groups like the NEA Washington D.C. schools have pursued that theory of change since around 1967. How well has it performed there Kansas City Schools meanwhile did so from 1980 to 1995. How did it perform there"
@tracewoodgrains on X 2025-07-25 06:44:17 UTC 46.7K followers, XX engagements

"live your life so that an imagined leftist historian scribbling notes in the future will be proud of you"
@tracewoodgrains on X 2025-07-26 02:24:31 UTC 46.7K followers, 26.3K engagements

"@minervas_muse @IsaacKing314 I appreciate the responses. In terms of turning off potential allies and supporters: I don't want to do that. More than not wanting to turn people off though I don't want to replicate the dynamics that have led to failure and stagnation over generations. That requires clarity"
@tracewoodgrains on X 2025-07-27 05:06:29 UTC 46.8K followers, XX engagements

"@zplerhop I certainly wont valorize massacres etc but Im happy to valorize people who build a stable and productive society from next to nothing history is full of ugliness but its also full of people doing their best in the circumstances they had"
@tracewoodgrains on X 2025-07-24 12:34:25 UTC 46.7K followers, 1851 engagements

"@Johnny2Fingersz @bwwgpro1 they are saying that Hamas has the right to mass murder civilians a day after Hamas did so war is war. if you want to start a war by means of committing an atrocityand Hamas didyou get the fruits of war"
@tracewoodgrains on X 2025-07-26 00:27:53 UTC 46.7K followers, XXX engagements

"@NaMesoAtta theres not really a way to read your tweet above other than trying to give Mao personal credit We have a counterfactual here run by the people Mao actually fought against. Its Taiwan and its beautiful"
@tracewoodgrains on X 2025-07-27 22:25:15 UTC 46.7K followers, XXX engagements

"@minervas_muse @moultano peoples partially manufactured and heavily propagandized memories of history can cast long shadows yes but the full case for that will need to wait until I finish my essay"
@tracewoodgrains on X 2025-07-27 06:05:47 UTC 46.8K followers, XX engagements

"every right-winger is a fascist and we must purge all fascists from our institutions wait what did you say about being uneasy about the dominance of Marxism in the humanities typical. another Red Scare. thanks McCarthy"
@tracewoodgrains on X 2025-07-26 06:08:09 UTC 46.7K followers, 14.8K engagements

"@bwwgpro1 one of a few and the faster one to dig up as compared to the email blast from my schools branch check the date"
@tracewoodgrains on X 2025-07-25 23:19:37 UTC 46.7K followers, 10.8K engagements

"I'd feel bad for him if he hadn't chosen this three-and-a-half more years to go JD. three-and-a-half years and you can stop contorting yourself like this"
@tracewoodgrains on X 2025-07-25 07:12:34 UTC 46.7K followers, 33.5K engagements

"@minervas_muse those things are good and I agree that the proposed alternatives have been bad so far does that mean I should not hope for a reckoning for generations of failure in the domains I care most about"
@tracewoodgrains on X 2025-07-26 02:34:02 UTC 46.8K followers, 1140 engagements

"man the commies really did a number on everyone by associating every instance of noticing their existence and their openly stated goals with McCarthy"
@tracewoodgrains on X 2025-07-26 06:05:42 UTC 46.7K followers, 154K engagements

"soon the same people who pushed for these changes to Thomas Jefferson High School: "what happened to this school it used to be so good""
@tracewoodgrains on X 2025-07-24 05:35:31 UTC 46.8K followers, 136.9K engagements

"If a child is in a class they should be there because it is the best environment to help them learn not so they can act as an unpaid tutor to provide vague "peer effects" to others A system that abuses children as resources instead of teaching them to their level is unethical"
@tracewoodgrains on X 2025-07-06 15:34:52 UTC 46.7K followers, 788.4K engagements

"male sexuality is the most destructive and perverse force known to man and has to be policed constrained and controlled"
@tracewoodgrains on X 2025-06-01 15:19:30 UTC 46.7K followers, 514.3K engagements

"@pleasehandlethx @eigenrobot yeah but its the one attached to the most interesting not-well-enough-understood Lore and other people are already primed to mention the judge murder thing"
@tracewoodgrains on X 2025-07-25 13:58:25 UTC 46.7K followers, XXX engagements

"@themountaingoa1 @neipate96 howd that work out for the Gazans on behalf of whom you so graciously justify murder and kidnapping"
@tracewoodgrains on X 2025-07-26 21:03:27 UTC 46.7K followers, XX engagements

"Coming back from Australia full of fire and excitement for studying and working within education I had an immediate urge to return and use my time at college to study education as a discipline. I could not do it. Straightforwardlyit was impossible for me to study what I wanted at the famously Woke Brigham Young University. Y'know the flagship Mormon school that's one of the most conservative serious universities in the country. The things I wanted to study and would spend the next decade of my life dabbling inexpertise research intelligence research the science of learning effective pedagogy"
@tracewoodgrains on X 2025-07-26 11:43:55 UTC 46.7K followers, 44.4K engagements

"@neipate96 why not talk about people closer to home who you have more interaction with and potential influence over vs events far from home that the entire world is locked in fierce debate over"
@tracewoodgrains on X 2025-07-26 02:29:27 UTC 46.7K followers, 5369 engagements

"The One Child Policy had less effect than you might expect. Try to pick China's birthrate out from Hong Kong Romania South Korea Taiwan and Thailand"
@tracewoodgrains on X 2025-07-13 14:26:22 UTC 46.8K followers, 6209 engagements

"every single top-tier institution in academia is complicit in this every one of them has either turned a blind eye or actively supported it the rot runs to the root and there is no excuse"
@tracewoodgrains on X 2025-07-25 09:40:43 UTC 46.7K followers, 8783 engagements

"@srsjeff wow that makes me feel young Id never heard of her until this moment"
@tracewoodgrains on X 2025-07-27 03:19:36 UTC 46.8K followers, XX engagements

"@bwwgpro1 did they know that it was a casus belli for a war of survival"
@tracewoodgrains on X 2025-07-25 23:54:28 UTC 46.7K followers, XXX engagements

"@itsmedanielfc @minervas_muse the Columbia settlement did not burn Columbia to the ground. the institution still stands. and the admin wouldn't have gone about it precisely as I did but Columbia was in fact proudly flouting the law. all top universities have been and are. they can take some legal blows"
@tracewoodgrains on X 2025-07-26 02:55:31 UTC 46.7K followers, XX engagements

"@minervas_muse re: focusing on the top I focus on prestige universities here because they drive the research and the culture of the field not out of a philosophical commitment to the top people emulate the best and emulating Harvard and Stanford on education is a very bad idea"
@tracewoodgrains on X 2025-07-27 02:49:39 UTC 46.8K followers, XXX engagements

"@ZachariahSchwab once you get into the harm it's done to our collective understanding of the world the calculations become incredibly hard incredibly fast how to calculate the stillbirth or destruction of large swathes of intellectual life"
@tracewoodgrains on X 2025-07-28 01:39:17 UTC 46.7K followers, 1197 engagements

"some pushback bc it mentions mass murder in the second para but nobody's explaining why "political intellect theorist military strategist poet and visionary" is a fair description of someone whose greatest impact was as a dictator mass murderer and architect of famine"
@tracewoodgrains on X 2025-07-28 02:58:07 UTC 46.7K followers, 8828 engagements

"like at the point where you go on a massive platform to say that then immediately set up a publicity tour + fundraising afterwards you're digging for exactly what you got the "victim of the Woke Left" or what-have-you frame just isn't really viable here"
@tracewoodgrains on X 2025-07-22 07:03:34 UTC 46.7K followers, 31.5K engagements

"Since I received multiple good-faith critical DMs about this it's clear I chose an ineffective way to make what I think is an important point. What do I mean by "you may be the dog" here Consider "It's okay to be white" which was coined and popularized by /pol/. What's the point of it It's a signal to be sure but the core signal is not a wink to racists. Rather the core signal is bait. If someone with fringe views posts something facially good a lot of people will see not the text (it is okay to be white pioneer ancestry is a reasonable part of US heritage to celebrate) but the context: the"
@tracewoodgrains on X 2025-07-16 02:55:17 UTC 46.7K followers, 159.2K engagements

"the cool thing about writing a popular book is that your thesis can outlast the on-the-ground data indefinitely a decade out from the decline people still cite Finland"
@tracewoodgrains on X 2025-07-24 20:06:02 UTC 46.7K followers, 10.8K engagements

"like honestly people are mad at Trump for going after higher ed and Im mad at everyone for not going after higher ed enough they keep research around as a hostage puppy while they lavish honors on all their pet commies rotten to the core"
@tracewoodgrains on X 2025-07-25 09:38:59 UTC 46.7K followers, 21K engagements

"I think maybe people are sometimes surprised by my vehemence and the depth of my venom towards communism since it's incongruous with how a lot of people with otherwise squishy center-left views treat it but it's correct to be vehement. it sucks"
@tracewoodgrains on X 2025-07-28 01:37:37 UTC 46.7K followers, 6353 engagements

"is it right-wing to be horrified when people around you start celebrating mass murder"
@tracewoodgrains on X 2025-07-25 22:36:47 UTC 46.8K followers, 24.4K engagements

"@IsaacKing314 @BayesianNuance activism in a sense is my job but my comparative advantage is in commentary and things adjacent to investigative journalism not street activism (which Im ill suited to)"
@tracewoodgrains on X 2025-07-22 19:07:21 UTC 46.8K followers, XXX engagements

"thank you Wikipedia for helping me understand Mao's legacy as a political intellect theorist military strategist poet and visionary who drove imperialism out of China improved literacy and significantly reduced poverty very enlightening"
@tracewoodgrains on X 2025-07-27 14:43:08 UTC 46.7K followers, 228.2K engagements

"this is one of the most compassionate historically informed immigration-skeptical posts I've read in some time and I think the conversation on the topic would be healthier if more people approached it like Darryl"
@tracewoodgrains on X 2025-07-22 03:10:52 UTC 46.7K followers, 47.9K engagements

"@TheFatAmerican it's a famous positive portrayal of among other things explicitly driving out and destroying the American Indians of the time yes It is both possible and good to defend America without glorifying the warfare against American Indians"
@tracewoodgrains on X 2025-07-24 02:48:28 UTC 46.7K followers, 3804 engagements

"@dannux @_tedks right so youre a disingenuous hack who cares only about what you wish I said instead of what Im actually saying. take care and find some self-respect"
@tracewoodgrains on X 2025-07-27 23:11:26 UTC 46.8K followers, XX engagements

"a touching tribute you can really tell the way Colbert spoke truth to power by how cheerful power looks as they laugh together"
@tracewoodgrains on X 2025-07-21 04:07:38 UTC 46.7K followers, 190.9K engagements

"Fascinating conversation on the extent to which individual skill versus teaching methods matter in math. Justins empirical work here is phenomenal. Linking his post but the one above it is worth reading first"
@tracewoodgrains on X 2025-07-23 21:05:51 UTC 46.7K followers, 48K engagements

"@THEZONEEEEEE thats neat. how do you feel about her aiding and abetting murder petitioning the president not to return a five-year-old from Jonestown to his mom defending gulags etc I dont think not hating that stuff should be worn as a badge of pride"
@tracewoodgrains on X 2025-07-25 21:08:59 UTC 46.8K followers, XXX engagements

"huh. all the right-wingers who obsessed about this are really being vindicated in what must for the true believers among them be the most depressing possible way I honestly have a fair bit of respect for those who are pressuring Trump as a result of all this"
@tracewoodgrains on X 2025-07-26 00:54:25 UTC 46.7K followers, 33.1K engagements

"@Floatinginwaves @woodcubed is there a statute of limitations after which it becomes okay to provide high honors to living people who aid and abet murder support a cult leader kidnapping a five-year-old cheer gulags and never recant or apologize for any of it"
@tracewoodgrains on X 2025-07-27 12:58:24 UTC 46.8K followers, XXX engagements

"y'know I can see why Mormons took this one out of their hymnbooks"
@tracewoodgrains on X 2025-07-24 09:30:50 UTC 46.7K followers, 5253 engagements

"The replies to this are such an indictment of a ton of people's attitudes towards trans people Jessica is an economist. She writes about cutting spending. She's not a culture warrior just a writer who happens to be trans. And that's enough to draw immense and ugly vitriol"
@tracewoodgrains on X 2025-06-28 19:37:05 UTC 46.8K followers, 580.3K engagements

"every once in a while Ill go on a run of anticommunist posting and some people will treat it as a sudden right-wing turn I dont really get it. communism really really sucks and has done incalculable harm to the world is correct important and something Ive said for ages"
@tracewoodgrains on X 2025-07-28 01:27:31 UTC 46.7K followers, 36.6K engagements

"I am ambivalent about the situation in Gaza because Hamas made it so no country on earth could reasonably be asked to accept their continued leadership of the territory were they in Israel's position even as Israel has many extremists who will do indefensible things. I'm not at all ambivalent about the soul-blackening effect of cheering in-progress atrocities as those student protestors did on October 7th and I refuse to sit back and watch as people attempt to frame them as having had some sort of moral high ground in doing so"
@tracewoodgrains on X 2025-07-26 02:08:01 UTC 46.8K followers, XXX engagements

"what happened to Claude the other day out of nowhere it went from responding in the style I prefer based on my system prompt to giving much more generic soulless basic-AI responses what did Anthropic do"
@tracewoodgrains on X 2025-07-22 23:04:18 UTC 46.7K followers, 7418 engagements

"heartwarming: even after Hulk Hogan's passing he's still living on in the heads of everyone who wrote for the amoral gossip rag he very rightly sued into oblivion"
@tracewoodgrains on X 2025-07-25 07:22:37 UTC 46.7K followers, 23.3K engagements

"@dannux @_tedks Youre making the claim you put forward the numbers youre using and the specific people youre criticizing as responsible. Burdens on you. The legitimacy of the state matters a whole lot as an aside. Laws matter. Avoiding a war of all against all matters"
@tracewoodgrains on X 2025-07-27 22:34:13 UTC 46.7K followers, XX engagements

"There have been many informed compassionate harsh critics of Israels actions during this warpeople like Paul Graham. Nobody who lowered themself to cheering mass murder deserves the least bit of rehabilitation or whitewashing for doing so"
@tracewoodgrains on X 2025-07-25 22:29:32 UTC 46.8K followers, 18.5K engagements

"its fine to not agree hey man thanks for giving me permission to be disgusted with the praise given to someone who aided and abetted murder helped keep a five-year-old kid locked in a suicide cult compound and defended gulags only to be rewarded with academic prestige. big of you"
@tracewoodgrains on X 2025-07-27 22:17:36 UTC 46.8K followers, XX engagements

"my go-to comparison for a lot of AI stuff I confess has also been from Harry Potter"
@tracewoodgrains on X 2025-07-17 08:40:52 UTC 46.7K followers, 202.2K engagements

"wait the UK gives a bunch of people free new cars every few years"
@tracewoodgrains on X 2025-07-12 13:10:14 UTC 46.7K followers, 519.4K engagements

"@The_Equationist @xav_moss to express support for Hamas in the immediate wake of Oct X is unambiguously and without the slightest figleaf of plausible deniability to support the mass killing of Israeli civilians there is zero room between those two positions"
@tracewoodgrains on X 2025-07-26 01:21:55 UTC 46.7K followers, XXX engagements

"I can be measured professional rigorous and thorough as appropriate. and I will be at the same time in moments when universities do indefensible things I will be direct in my responses you're not even disputing my points you're just acting irritated that I care about this. people should care about it. it matters"
@tracewoodgrains on X 2025-07-26 03:03:11 UTC 46.7K followers, 1196 engagements

"This is a very very good point that doesn't get mentioned enough"
@tracewoodgrains on X 2025-05-27 14:26:20 UTC 46.8K followers, 153.9K engagements

"@DemurBuoy @adrusi At a mass populist level Not in the United States. In terms of elite acceptance and damage to US institutions Unquestionably and while the Klan are now near-unanimously seen as the Villains Of History people like Angela Davis remain lionized"
@tracewoodgrains on X 2025-07-28 01:04:51 UTC 46.8K followers, XX engagements

"Continuing my "Mormons and Manifest Destiny" examination: After my post about pioneer ancestry some people pointed out that Utah was already occupied when Mormons arrived and questioned the legitimacy of celebrating pioneers. It got me thinking: What should people have done Let's stipulate "it would have been correct for people not to believe Smith in the first place." But they did. A mass movement of believers willing to travel place to place and build a communal society sprung up. Individuals could and did leave but the movement as a whole was composed of true believers who had sacrificed"
@tracewoodgrains on X 2025-07-24 21:51:06 UTC 46.7K followers, 14.1K engagements

"Studying Carl Schmitt and lionizing Angela Davis are two very different things re: persuasion I spend a lot of time writing about this in part to persuade. persuasion that the ideological capture isnt a big deal no especially not after Ive seen the history of ability grouping"
@tracewoodgrains on X 2025-07-27 02:40:35 UTC 46.8K followers, XXX engagements

"@caryatis there were a ton of red flags and Davis was specifically pushing people to ignore those red flags. it didnt come out of nowhere"
@tracewoodgrains on X 2025-07-25 13:50:26 UTC 46.8K followers, 1056 engagements

"brilliant handling hats off to these guys. maybe I am suddenly interested in data workflow automation"
@tracewoodgrains on X 2025-07-26 02:20:09 UTC 46.8K followers, 11.3K engagements

"@minervas_muse @moultano What do you make of the commentary from the Deans for Impact people etc iirc cognitive load has snuck in a bit more than in the past; the parts of learning that dont implicate individual ability differences are more likely to enter than those that do"
@tracewoodgrains on X 2025-07-27 03:12:11 UTC 46.8K followers, XXX engagements

"@rancho_lonlon @toggle_in_time not at all true. hence my above essay private equity buying real estate is a meme not a serious issue re: housing prices"
@tracewoodgrains on X 2025-07-27 08:30:45 UTC 46.8K followers, XX engagements

"I want institutions that are honest rigorous and effective ones that take the role of academia as knowledge production instead of communist activism seriously ones that explicitly and overtly reject the generations that have turned many departments towards that activism. give me an alternative that gets me closer to that"
@tracewoodgrains on X 2025-07-26 02:50:25 UTC 46.8K followers, 1259 engagements

"@moultano no. we know quite a bit but education schools reject it for ideological reasons this article is a pretty solid summary of the state of things"
@tracewoodgrains on X 2025-07-26 13:04:14 UTC 46.7K followers, 2181 engagements

"this is true about a ton of historical moral panics starting with Socrates having been right about writing"
@tracewoodgrains on X 2025-07-24 01:08:16 UTC 46.7K followers, 29.8K engagements

"@dredgedskeleton scratch a socialist you'll find someone who honeymooned in the Soviet Union and embraced Cuba"
@tracewoodgrains on X 2025-07-28 02:51:03 UTC 46.7K followers, XXX engagements

"definitely "ability grouping in schools is good" put me in coach"
@tracewoodgrains on X 2025-07-24 20:15:40 UTC 46.7K followers, 9323 engagements

"@Johnny2Fingersz @bwwgpro1 if you want to reduce things to raw power games Palestine gets wiped off the face of the map It is very much in Palestines interest that things not get reduced to raw power games in the way youre inclined to encourage murder of civilians isnt self-defense"
@tracewoodgrains on X 2025-07-26 00:36:35 UTC 46.7K followers, XXX engagements

"I think it's about time to figure out what a proper successor to Art Nouveau or Art Deco would look like"
@tracewoodgrains on X 2025-01-06 15:36:10 UTC 46.8K followers, 43K engagements

"@itsmedanielfc @minervas_muse I don't want to just torch them to the ground. but if they can't even acknowledge people like Angela Davis as bad there really does need to be a cleaning of house of the admins who think that way refusing to act like honoring Angela Davis is good is part of "incremental change""
@tracewoodgrains on X 2025-07-26 02:54:20 UTC 46.8K followers, XXX engagements

"We would be in a much better place if liberals reacted to hard leftists the way those leftists react to liberals"
@tracewoodgrains on X 2025-07-27 00:46:56 UTC 46.7K followers, 106.8K engagements

"so inspiring of Cambridge to give an honorary doctorate to someone who aided and abetted murderers and suicide cults because shes the good sort of extremist"
@tracewoodgrains on X 2025-07-25 09:31:24 UTC 46.7K followers, 122.3K engagements

"@MathIntee the 1488 messaging is that it is XX words long and has HH capitalized and while I defended the latter as likely coincidence last time I'm not extending the same benefit of the doubt to extremely online staffers who saw the reaction to the last one and then made it less subtle"
@tracewoodgrains on X 2025-07-24 03:51:06 UTC 46.7K followers, XXX engagements

"@minervas_muse sanding off edges means maintaining the same ideological core but that ideological core has had specific far-reaching baleful effects for several generations it needs to be delegitimized and outcompeted not iterated upon"
@tracewoodgrains on X 2025-07-27 02:42:30 UTC 46.8K followers, XXX engagements

"and this is what people do ofc oh you hate seeing honors lavished on people rubbing shoulders with Jim Jones and the Soviet Union and every communist evil under the sun its because theyre black isnt it cant defend so they just deflect. utterly craven"
@tracewoodgrains on X 2025-07-25 10:57:34 UTC 46.7K followers, 12.7K engagements

"its always impressive to me the way people hanging out in crowds where half the people have Che Guevara Mao Angela Davis and Assata Shakur on their t-shirts use this to argue that anyone who has breathed the same air as Twitter RWers is a Nazi"
@tracewoodgrains on X 2025-07-27 08:56:50 UTC 46.7K followers, 104.2K engagements

"@dannux @_tedks quote my claim you pretend is incorrect. dont paraphrasequote. you are arguing something I never said to run cover for the destruction and disorder I did say something about which is extraordinarily disingenuous and counterproductive"
@tracewoodgrains on X 2025-07-27 23:07:09 UTC 46.7K followers, XXX engagements

"learned a neat lesson about my habit of always picking the cheapest hotel option last night when I checked in at midnight at Extended Stay America the other night and they gave me a key to an already occupied room"
@tracewoodgrains on X 2025-07-16 19:45:37 UTC 46.7K followers, 406.7K engagements

"@themountaingoa1 @neipate96 violence against military is legitimate but at that point it becomes a matter of war not niceties. mass murder of civilians is an invitation for massive violence in order to remove the threat violence between nations is a power game more than a morality play"
@tracewoodgrains on X 2025-07-26 20:55:24 UTC 46.7K followers, XXX engagements

"@shabbytigers @Floatinginwaves @woodcubed yeah everyone who has vigorously supported either side of I/P did the equivalent of buying a gun that their buddies used to murder someone"
@tracewoodgrains on X 2025-07-27 13:22:33 UTC 46.7K followers, XXX engagements

"@MattyBoySwag143 celebrating the death and driving out of American Indians is not"
@tracewoodgrains on X 2025-07-24 01:49:10 UTC 46.7K followers, 3685 engagements

"very fair. let me be more precise: liberals should take hard-left claims of enmity seriously and should react to them not as morally pure but practically misguided allies but as a legitimate threat to liberalism who should be opposed vigorously"
@tracewoodgrains on X 2025-07-27 07:16:51 UTC 46.7K followers, 9223 engagements