Andrew Sullivan

I use the fantastic Inoreader that is better than Google Reader was. I follow things that post maybe once or twice a week or once a month. For things with new information every day, like Hacker News, I check the website. A few of the things that I follow that may be a bit different for people are : Arnold Kling - a PhD economist who worked in technology and is genuinely different. https://arnoldkling.substack.com/ Noah Smith - a PhD economist who writes about economics and the world https://www.noahpinion.blog/ Roger Pielke Jnr - a guy with a PhD who writes about climate and energy and was excommunicated by the climate priesthood. https://rogerpielkejr.substack.com/ Andrew Sullivan - a conservative, gay, HIV positive, Catholic writer who campaigned for gay marriage. https://andrewsullivan.substack.com/

I've seen a number of responsive designs I like better than the full page of a regular site. Compare the following sites to using this site, HN, on a phone. http://dish.andrewsullivan.com http://video.disney.com For a site that would be much better with a responsive design look at http://nytimes.com

> how many blog posts can the average person write about their feelings on the Iraq War? A books worth: http://dish.andrewsullivan.com/deepdish/ebooks/i-was-wrong/

Andrew Sullivan's blog The Dish[0] did this for its entire existence. It was a driving point of the site's culture, to the point where certain topics gained frequent contributors that were probably better recognized because of the advantageous signal-to-noise ratio. Many sites seem to be turning toward a manual moderation model now. This doesn't seem too whacky as a next step for many of them. [0] http://dish.andrewsullivan.com

Using the reflections as additional information is very interesting. However, I’m not that surprised that views from windows can be relatively easily located. Andrew Sullivan has been running his View From Your Window contest for four years now and people have been guessing the locations of the photos with scary accuracy (as good as in the linked post). Here is the archive: http://dish.andrewsullivan.com/vfyw-contest/ Still, it’s probably more than 15 minutes work even in the best case scenario (and much, much longer in the worst case), can probably not be automated in any meaningful way (but that would be an interesting project, huh!) and is consequently only of interest to dedicated attackers, not general surveillance.

HN Journalist here, survivor of several 'digital first' revolutions and now, officially, a 'content director' and glad to have a very good job. A couple of things: 1. A really good newsroom is really tight. Very few print-trained journalists are in it for the money, so the cause and comradeship are everything. A quick way to ruin a newsroom is to implement sweeping changes that have nothing to do with good storytelling (and also mean a lot of extra work). I've been through several of these reorganizations. In the worst, management delivers a master plan heavy on digital/social goals but then provides no tools or training. Essentially, somebody went to yet another publishing conference, heard the latest on why everyone's losing money, or what sort of digital results you need to hit the multiples the current VC owners want to flip their share ... Oh hell, this is too frustrating to relive. Gist: By and large, print journos don't do digital. A good story is a good story, but the tools/skills are essentially different. It's like telling someone skilled with an epee she's going to have start breaking boards. Ordering an accomplished story teller to deliver a list and a quiz each week and promote them heavily across multiple social platforms, for example, is a mistake. You want clickbait, get a pro. You want video, get a pro--not GoPros and iMovie tips for the writers. 2. Of course, owners are absolutely expected to do what they think is best for a property. And outside of TNR…

Elite fratricide embodied: https://dish.andrewsullivan.com/2013/11/21/the-political-threat-of-soa…

Some pieces from Sullivan that fill in more background: We all live on campus now: https://archive.ph/r3hBu What happened to you?: https://andrewsullivan.substack.com/p/what-happened-to-you-e5f Interview with Ezra Klein: https://podcasts.apple.com/nz/podcast/andrew-sullivan-and-i-work-out-o…

I do too, but I think that “empty promises” empower them. I also agree with Andrew Sullivan (https://andrewsullivan.substack.com/p/how-to-turn-the-gop-green-dae) that conservatives could be persuaded to support climate initiatives if we on the left allow ourselves to prioritize climate above our own tribalism tendencies (those who would reply, “But conservatives aren’t prioritizing climate over tribalism” are missing the point entirely).

I find all these pretty great: - Persuasion (liberal democracy, free society): https://www.persuasion.community/ - Money Stuff (finance, also sort-of comedy?): https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/authors/ARbTQlRLRjE/matthew-s-levine - Stratechery (tech companies and strategy): https://stratechery.com/ - Stay Tuned with Preet & Cafe Insider (law and politics): https://cafe.com/stay-tuned-podcast/ - The Morning Paper (CS papers): https://blog.acolyer.org/about/ - Slate Star Codex (rationality, currently in a weird state): https://slatestarcodex.com/ Some new ones I subscribed to, but haven't read a lot of: - Sam Harris: https://samharris.org/ - Andrew Sullivan: https://andrewsullivan.substack.com/p/coming-soon - Benedict Evans: https://www.ben-evans.com/

If you like the idea of trying to identify a location from a photo, take a look at a competition that regularly tried to do this, View From My Window: http://dish.andrewsullivan.com/vfyw-contest/ . Some of it was truly impressive detective work.

Andrew Sullivan used to run a contest doing something similar albeit less serious and with remarkably good results http://dish.andrewsullivan.com/vfyw-contest/

I get a kick out of pinpointing the exact location of photos or paintings. A couple of communities exists for this: * Geoguessr (I don't participate in this one much, street view is pretty limiting) * The Dish's "View from My Window" archive. A now defunct blog series where readers would submit photos from their window. Very difficult. Users often pinpoint the exact window from which the photo was taken. http://dish.andrewsullivan.com/vfyw-contest/ * SkyScraperCity's Guess the City contest. A daily contest to guess the city. Also this is a precious internet 2.0 forum. https://www.skyscrapercity.com/ * North Korea enthusiasts pinpointing the exact location of Kim Jung Un in official DPRK photos. * r/whereisthis helps Reddit users locate photos, also allows content just for fun. * r/PictureGame a more open contest, not necessarily a geolocation task.

Gary Johnson made hay in 2016 about the fact that it took Hillary Clinton longer to change her position than Dick Cheney. I feel pretty confident that he wasn’t always in favor of it when he was in Congress or working in the Ford Administration (after all, even the Human Rights Campaign was opposed to campaigning for marriage equality in the nineties [1]). But I take your point, and I don’t understand why it is so surprising that politicians could hold a la carte views on social issues, something which I feel used to be much more common and allowable in our culture (see also Barry Goldwater’s support for gays openly serving in the military in the late 80s, a policy that wouldn’t be implemented until 2011, which to the original point he credited to a gay grandson). [1] http://dish.andrewsullivan.com/2014/04/16/jo-beckers-troubling-travest…

I used to hold similar views, but the opinion of this person, who worked with prostitutes, really opened my eyes to the problems and started to change my mind: http://dish.andrewsullivan.com/2012/02/22/dissent-of-the-day-9-5/ From a economics stand-point, there's way higher demand than supply. And currently the only supply is another person. Most people won't willingly choose to be prostitutes when they have other options. Surprise! This big supply/demand gap leads to some very unsavory ways to increase supply:coercion and exploitation. Maybe one day something like sexbots will change this dynamic, but until then the sex trade is a very difficult and tragic problem.

Have you actually read his blog? Readers email him all the time. He typically posts 2-3 of those emails every day and responds to them publicly. Often, he'll go back and forth with multiple readers in this way. Here's a post from _today_ that contains emails from 9 people: http://dish.andrewsullivan.com/2015/01/31/busted-with-an-eggcorn-ctd-1… He has a regular "Dissent of the Day" post where he goes out of his way to post critical emails from readers. For your perusal: https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Aandrewsullivan.com%20dissent%20… Your comments in this thread are nothing but incuriosity dressed up as intelligence.

Andrew Sullivan (who can hardly be accused of being a gay basher) put it quite succinctly and very eloquent: http://dish.andrewsullivan.com/2014/04/03/the-hounding-of-brendan-eich… I have to agree.

I agree with Sullivan's take[1] posted yesterday. If this is the gay-rights movement today, a bunch of extremist Social Justice Warriors, I want no part of it. Not only that, but Catlin's reaction to it[2] is also shameful: 'oops, we thought he would evolve like President Obama did, our bad. but hey, we're putting our apps back on the marketplace!' [1] http://dish.andrewsullivan.com/2014/04/03/the-hounding-of-brendan-eich… [2] http://www.teamrarebit.com/blog/2014/04/03/a-sad-victory/

Not true! They don't use cocaine, but they do extract flavor from imported coca leaves, and are the only US company allowed to do so. Randomish link from a quick search: http://dish.andrewsullivan.com/2012/02/25/coca-cola-is-still-made-from…

To lump a legitimate social insurance program like the Heritage Foundation's Romneycare (which many "conservatives" have taken to calling Obamacare) in with the excesses of civil forfeiture, PRISM, and the TSA is illegitimate. See, for refutation, Andrew Sullivan's "Since When Was Free-Loading A Conservative Value?" http://dish.andrewsullivan.com/2013/08/05/since-when-was-free-loading-…

Sullivan identifies as a conservative and sometimes a Republican: https://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/22/books/review/Brooks.t.html > “The conservatism I grew up around” Sullivan writes on the second page of the book, “was a combination of lower taxes, less government spending, freer trade, freer markets, individual liberty, personal responsibility and a strong anti-Communist foreign policy.” His heroes were Thatcher, Reagan, Solzhenitsyn, Havel, Hayek and Orwell. Sullivan is ideologically similar to, and a fan of, Anthony Kennedy, who was a life-long Republican: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/06/anthony-kennedy-and-the-death-… (noting Kennedy’s “pragmatic libertarianism — his belief in limited government, pluralism, moderation, and social cohesion”). It’s not really as simple as “Republicans moved too far to the right and he’s a liberal now.” For example, Sullivan is a devout Catholic who thinks Roe was wrong to take the decision on how to regulate abortion out of the hands of voters: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/05/andrew-sullian-a-way-through-t… (He thinks voters would converge on laws like in France or Germany, allowing abortion up to 12 weeks with limited exemptions after that.) He supported Bush (and thought Gore tried to steal the 2000 election) and the Iraq war initially. He soured on it later and reeled at Bush’s deficits and fiscal excess, and Bush’s support for the federal marriage…

I see little relevance of this to HN. That said, the opening line stands out: > A Dallas officer fatally shot a 26-year-old man Thursday night This is a departure from the way this is usually written up these days, which would be: "A 25-year-old Dallas man died as a result of an officer-involved shooting." This manipulation of language infuriates me to no end. The officer was not just "involved" in a shooting -- the officer did the shooting! This choice of words is not an accident. Law Enforcement has somehow convinced the press to use language that removes the direct causality (and therefore, the responsibility / culpability) of the shooting. Longer articles on this phenomenon: https://www.huffingtonpost.com/craig-martin/time-to-kill-the-term-off_… http://dish.andrewsullivan.com/2014/09/02/stop-saying-officer-involved… https://news.vice.com/article/some-nypd-officer-involved-shooting-narr…

Anyone who is impressed by this should seriously check out Andrew Sullivan's view from your window contest. Most weeks a reader submits a photo from their window, literally anywhere in the world. And people track it down with very similar techniques, to the exact window. And a lot of the contest photos offer much less to go off of than this [namely, only 1 photo, low res, country/context unspecified]. Here is the winners archive. http://dish.andrewsullivan.com/vfyw-contest/ Some of photos aren't too crazy or offer a landmark that is recognizable if you'd seen it before. But most of them offer very little in terms of knowing where to start unless you've got a huge body of contextual knowledge you can draw on. A couple ones that I had absolutely no idea where to start with: http://dish.andrewsullivan.com/2010/08/17/the-view-from-your-window-co… http://dish.andrewsullivan.com/2014/08/19/the-view-from-your-window-co… I imagine the CIA/NSA has a crack team of a couple dozen people doing this exact job.

> the extremely wealthy members of society (the 1%). Not to be that guy, but if "society" is defined as "humanity", as it should be imo when it comes to human health, all of us in first world are the 1%. Edit: "To make it into the richest 1 percent globally, all you need is an income of around $34,000, according to World Bank economist Branko Milanovic. The average family in the United States has more than three times the income of those living in poverty in America, and nearly 50 times that of the world's poorest. Many of America's 99 percenters, and the West's, are really 1 percenters on a global level." http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2012/02/27/we_are_all_the_1_perc… http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2082385/We-1--You-need-34k-inc… http://dish.andrewsullivan.com/2012/03/01/the-global-1/ http://www.globalrichlist.com/

87% of Americans are not descended from a recent Sub-Saharan African population (where recent is defined as within the last 80,000 years). African Americans form a genetically distinct American subpopulation with about 70-80% of genes from Africa. If you sent in spit samples to 23andMe from a white American and an African American, 23andMe would have no problem telling them apart. If race did not exist, this would not be possible. It is interesting that crime rates and other social pathologies are so segregated by race in America. Different experts have different explanations for this. The point is, comparing America against Europe is hard to do when the racial makeup of the two countries is so different. The legacy of slavery in America cannot be avoided. 14-24 year old African American males make up 1% of the USA population and commit 27% of the murders. Europe had no large scale agricultural African slavery in the 19th century, and its current society has evolved differently as a result. I agree that government-defined racial categories are too broad and inexact. The true amount of human genetic diversity is far larger and far messier than five racial categories would suggest. Andrew Sullivan addressed the myth that "race is a social construct" on his blog[1]. [1] http://dish.andrewsullivan.com/2013/05/16/is-race-only-a-social-constr…