But here’s the rub: I am able to afford this faux middle-class life on $40,000 a year because I live around poverty.

As one example, during the 1962 Cuban missile crisis, American destroyers attacked three Soviet submarines near Cuba and forced them to surface.

it’s meta + elites the whole way down.

zeynep tufekci thread on blocking the noise on twitter to actually see the interesting feedback and responses.