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Welcome to the Kotke Ride Home for Wednesday, November 24th, 2021. I'm Jackson Bird today.

How does the CIA go about recruiting young people who are increasingly skeptical of government institutions and also not exactly covert about their lives on social media.

Plus, a dictionary of fake words for very real feelings.

And are we cautiously eyeing an end in sight for the supply chain issues?

Kind of.

Here are some of the cool things from the news today.

Ever since social media really got going in earnest, there's been all kinds of jokes and cynical warnings about what will come back to haunt people once they're grown up and applying for

jobs, especially government and public service jobs. And it's been happening, you know, there've been

plenty of problematic tweets that have gotten dug up, especially from actors and comedians. We also

get occasional flickers of joy, like Timothy Shalame's old Xbox controller modding YouTube

channel. There was Virginia House delegate member Dana Karim's heavy metal band, and Beto O'Rourke's

punk and hacker past. House Representative Alexandria Ocasia Cortez's old class project

Listomania music video was shared around early on in her political career,

and fellow representative Madison Cothorn's gleeful Instagram posts from visiting Hitler's vacation

home weren't apparently enough to deter voters. The era of being able to leave your embarrassing

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