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I've created an MSP Social calendar with events that might be of interest to many of us.

Right now @t54r4n1 and I can edit the calendar, so if there's something you think should be added, let one of us know. Without your input I might not have a lot to add to it, so your help will be appreciated!

Thanks.

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I'm going to try to post stuff at @squiggy , and it will be mostly friends-only.

If you want to read about my inner turmoil, and we're mutuals, good chance I'll approve a follow request. Just want to talk about that stuff in a smaller sandbox.

I thought you might like to know that, according to the extremely unscientific methodologies I have at my disposal, MSP Social is really

For users of mspsocial.net — here is the MSPSocial Patreon link: https://www.patreon.com/mspsocial

Do not feel like you are under any obligation to contribute! You're welcome here whether or not you choose to support financially... In fact, posting and hanging out here is the best form of support. But anyone who can afford and wants to support this community effort through more than their presence is welcome to do so.

It could grow into something more, but it doesn't have to!

I'm in ur resort queering your research study

We'll see at the end if our credibility wins out in the end when considered through the lens of people exposed to a given issue in any depth for the first time...

I'm optimistic, but it is, I suppose, a statistical process (if just 10% more of them get it right than wrong, as a group the collective wisdom was improved) and not a certain one.

I *think* we managed to teach one right winger that tariffs on China are paid by the American consumer and then I drove it home by casting the tariff-subsidy form of economic intervention to be intolerably redistributive and corrupt.

The other one, was just a font of misinformation mixed with good facts and a lot of the time the best we could do is say "I don't know think that's accurate."

Fox News / Drudge types still felt free to drop things they believed to be true into the conversation (in, and out of, the structured conversations) and just like it is on live TV, it was hard to fact check that much misinformation in real time.

Today's the last day. We have a session with Julian Castro and then we debrief, check out, and head home.

Whether or not this actually measured anything of value, I am pretty interested in the results. It was, I think, a structured way to expose people to some thoughtful conversation that was often, but not always, grounded in fact.

A vanity Fair article on the experiment: https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/09/america-in-one-room-academics-is-trying-to-break-the-outrage-cycle

Something that is probably interesting only to me is that I was selected to participate before I came out to the group conducting the survey research. So I was selected to participate as a straight male, but that's not what they got.

So I put my finger on the scale for glbt /️ ♀️ representation here and that's rad.

SOMEONE
WENT
THERE

I had a clear role and purpose at this event; for that reason I'm glad I came and filled it.

I introduced myself to a group member's spouse as the group's liberal extremist.

Two lesbian lawyers on one panel ~bless~

Got some commitments from the cool people in the group to go out for drinks tonight.

The cool people are the lesbian-or-possibly-bi law prof, a psychologist (formerly for the VA now doing court-ordered custody assessments), and a guy who does some boring shit in the private sector in Wisconsin but was the one who suggested sabotaging the experiment.

Just finished our last substantive small group, on taxes and the economy. I felt way more effective and got one of my questions in there: "how can federal government policy more closely match productivity gains to the share of the economy paid in wages?"

Abolish this IMO

I am seated behind one of the microphones today, so yeah lots of footage of my chest behind the questioners evidently.

Bill Walsh is the Most Republican/conservative person we've heard from, and he believes in climate change and a need for universal (catastrophic) healthcare coverage.

We talked about the Trans Pacific Partnership 🤝

That was not the shitshow I was anticipating. I am not going to say I took control, but I did decide to start it the conversation by framing it with a question to elicit people's values. I think it helped people frame and focus their comments.

Getting HYPE for foreign policy in a half hour. I'm tactically prepared now.