Oh, fuck.

Are you off?

Oh, there.

Hi, guys. Sorry about that.

It took me in a second to get the old internet.

What's about that?

Confubling.

Um...

So... Hi hi everyone.

So today is actually a fortuitous day for the stream because I've gotten some feedback recently from trusted friends who say that they think what I'm doing here is interesting but that I'm not as legible

as maybe I need to be for a general audience whose bad good faith can't be assumed at every level

hey Alex how you doing and that I kind of need to reel in a little bit because you know bad

faith actors can take things said in the

heat of a discussion out of context and then, you know, becomes part of the arsenal of weaponry

against Chapo. And I respect and love my coworkers very much and I don't want to see them threatened

in any way. So I'm taking that into consideration. And one of the pieces of

advice I got, which I understood sort of as a theoretical point, but which was hard to really

commit to on the stream because I get excited and kind of fly off, is to ground things in specific

examples. Like I think the talk about Napoleon we did

yesterday, where we talked about Napoleon and what he did vis-a-vis, you know, the directory

and Haiti, I thought that was good. I feel like I made some, I made some good points relatively, and more importantly, it felt like it was in a

vocabulary that was communicable across planes of understanding to people in a large enough

...