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Attention, my New York-y friends!
Next month I'm singing in a concert in NYC at Carnegie Hall. Here are several good reasons for you to attend:
1) It's a benefit concert for homelessness.
2) The music is really good.
3) I will be there.
4) Some other famous people will be there.

I hope you will come!!

Saturday, Sept. 24
Tickets: https://www.carnegiehall.org/Calendar/2016/9/24/0800/PM/Sing-The-World/

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Political thoughts for the day:
1) I wonder if the Never Trump movement will try to get the reps in the electoral college to not vote the way their states vote? (Mirroring the popular vote is actually not required in many states.)
#itaintovertilitsover
2) Some politician should adopt the blackberry as their sigil. Blackberries are thorny, invasive and tenacious as f**k, but once they're there they're so delicious that you don't really want them to leave. I'm writing in blackberries for president.
#blackberries2016

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This hits home, right in the sweet spot of stereotypes we have about rich and poor people.
P.S. F*ck Scott Walker.

Let's drug-test the rich before approving tax deductions, US congresswoman says | US news | The Guardian

+The Guardian

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+Kendra Dresner Saw this and thought of you! It would look so cute on you!
#millinery

Rosabelle Hat Free Pattern + Tutorial from Elsewhen | Sew Mama Sew | Outstanding sewing, quilting, and needlework tutorials since 2005.

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Careful, Seattle: when The Big One hits, all of downtown is going to look like this.
#liquefaction #nope #WestSeattleFTW

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My next million-dollar idea: Making shirts like this, except with NFL quarterbacks. THE QUARTERBACK IS IN THE POCKET. I want a little Russell Wilson head peeking out, with his throwing arm up. We could make them for every team. Put them on polo shirts, embroidered like the LaCoste crocodile. This is gonna be huge.
#pocketprotection #GoHawks

RipNDip Lord Nermal Pocket T-Shirt

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I love this.
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Found this interesting, especially this part:
"When Michael Young, a British sociologist, coined the term meritocracy in 1958, it was in a dystopian satire. At the time, the world he imagined, in which intelligence fully determined who thrived and who languished, was understood to be predatory, pathological, far-fetched. Today, however, we’ve almost finished installing such a system, and we have embraced the idea of a meritocracy with few reservations, even treating it as virtuous."

Is stupidity the next front for the social justice wars? Should it be?

The War on Stupid People

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Christina S: Actually that wouldn't be necessarily stupidity, rather ignorance due to lack of education or maybe the wrong type of education, such as one centered on religion. And sure, some people are just evil no matter how intelligent and/or educated they might be.

Sasch Mayer: Wasn't gonna wade into this one, but what the hell, eh?

I think Christina is totally on the money with "ignorance due to lack of education". A couple of very good friends of mine are Ex-British Forces. Both fell through the gaping ~~cracks~~ chasms in the British Educational System, and were consigned by the powers that be as fit to be nothing but a driver and a cook. And yet, these are among the most brilliant minds I've ever encountered. Inquisitive, eager to learn, able to assimilate new knowledge with relative ease, and critically investigative with all that.

They're lucky, because their extraordinary abilities allowed them to eventually rise up above the norm. Many others subjected to this same lack of educational opportunities are unable to rise in this way.

My question therefore is, how much of a difference could a supportive, nurturing educational system make to those with not quite such brilliant abilities?

This brings me directly to +Sverre Rabbelier's point... Lack of compassion and general desensitization to our fellow humans' suffering are learned traits, not part of human nature... in all but an extremely small number of people.

For my money, the fault lies as much with society becoming more insular and detached from those not immediately close to us, individually. We're used to the world being a bad place, and as a species we learn to tune it out. As time passes, this is apparently having some extremely undesirable consequences...

So... Is there/Should there be a War on Stupidity?

''pends on your definition of stupidity. If we equate it with nothing but raw processing power, we have absolutely no right to wage war upon it. With education and proper nurturing, the measure of pure intellect can be affected positively, and in itself the inability to keep up with society's intelligentsia should not disqualify one from being happy and prosperous.

If, however, we equate Stupidity with the casual lack of empathy and the ignorance/arrogance that lets one human trample others in his/her quest for the top - whatever the top maybe - the kind of stupidity so rife throughout our species' history of carnage and - to borrow a cliche - Man's Inhumanity Against Man, then YES, we must make war upon it in the most fervent way possible...

The fault, then, lies not with the Fox News Viewer him or herself, but with the kind of society which allows a Pseudo-News Frankenstein such as Fox to attain such a pivotal position of societally manipulative power in the first place.

This is The Stupidity which must be brought to heel...

Susan Moskwa: Right on the money, as usual, Sasch.

The article did differentiate between innate "intelligence" vs. "education", which I think is an important distinction -- there's so much we could do to give less innately gifted individuals better chances in life through early childhood education, which would help tease out some of these correlations (e.g., does empathy correlate with education, or with intelligence?).

I find some of these responses interesting, though, because they're indicative of exactly what the article describes: our current societal attitude towards stupidity, associating stupidity with abusiveness, or lack of empathy. Even if we're asking questions rather than making assertions, it's still instructive; for example, I don't think we would be asking whether one's race or sexuality is correlated with these attributes.

While reading this article I was basically trying to decide whether this is another axis upon which I have unconscious bias, and should work on, or whether this is a step too far in social-justice-warrior political correctness. Like, is the next step an article about "The War on Bad People," arguing that bad people aren't bad, that good and bad are just natural differences and we should embrace both? Or am I an able-ist elitist?

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"When you want to be a singer and they just won't let you."

Richard Sherman OTAs Press Conference

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So apparently we're all listing our alphabet of Chrome autocompletes now. Turns out mine is mostly Google properties:
A: airbnb.com
B: bartellrefill.carehealth.me
C: calendar.google.com
D: drive.google.com
E: eat24.com
F: facebook.com
G: groups.google.com
H: hangouts.google.com
I: instagram.com/susanmoskwa/
J: [ twitter.com/JJWatt ]
K: keep.google.com
L: linkedin.com
M: mail.google.com
N: netflix.com
O: orbitz.com
P: plus.google.com
Q: [ www.ravelry.com/people/MoulinRogue/queue ]
R: ravelry.com/projects/MoulinRogue
S: seattlerep.org
T: translate.google.com
U: usps.com
V: voice.google.com
W: weightwatchers.com
X: xkcd.com
Y: youtube.com
Z: zone.msn.com (ouch)

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