#fuckthesystem PhD student at @HistoryatSU
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Did he write it on Epstein Island?
Steven Pinker is a Harvard psychologist who wrote the only style guide based on how the brain actually reads.
Here are 10 writing fixes from "The Sense of Style" rooted in cognitive science, not grammar rules.
1) The curse of knowledge ruins more writing than laziness
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The solution can't be “go to school, learn a trade, or get a better job” when there aren't enough living-wage jobs to go around. The system requires some people to work for poverty wages. And some to be unemployed.
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There’s an Ivy League school w state land grant status one hour away. No one is paying more to go to Syracuse. 🫣
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in other words an actual bond villain
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15 Apr 2024
‘BE ALIVE AND FRISKY AND ACKNOWLEDGE THE GREAT GOD PAN’
D.H. LAWRENCE
Art: Norman Lindsay
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Confidence looks sorta like this.
(Also, I've met him, he was really nice. VERY COOL. My teenager asked him to say "As you wish", and he did!)
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Starbuck to Ahab right before he descends to attack Moby Dick and is killed:
“See! Moby Dick seeks thee not. It is thou, thou, that madly seekest him!”
Most insightful, important line in all of fiction. IMO.
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We should make it a national holiday.
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Schools serve the same social functions as prisons and mental institutions- to define, classify, control, and regulate people.
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Chris Hemsworth is one of us
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Jun 11
Clash of the Titans released 45 years ago today.
12 June 1981 🦉
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the existence of billionaires is a crime against humanity. the existence of a trillionaire is a crime against life itself
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Jun 12
Marie Antoinette met her fate for far, far less
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SPACEX IPO MAKES ELON MUSK WORLD'S FIRST TRILLIONAIRE
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