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   Thomas 🔭🕹️ (thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 13-Jul-2026 09:46:26 JST Thomas 🔭🕹️

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   • Clive Thompson

   @clive “meet the press” as in the ill-fated Apple iPad commercial

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     Clive Thompson (clive@saturation.social)'s status on Monday, 13-Jul-2026 09:46:31 JST Clive Thompson

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     I am not sure I've even seen a dang *clip* of it

     mind you, I have -- for good and for ill, and possibly surprisingly a lot of the latter --- structured my entire epistemological apparatus around never engaging with *any* TV news or commentary

     like, slamming the laptop lid shut if something accidentally starts autoplaying

     it's not even so much a decision as an autoimmune function

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     Clive Thompson (clive@saturation.social)'s status on Monday, 13-Jul-2026 09:46:35 JST Clive Thompson

     I was reading a piece about Lindsey Graham and it mentioned him appearing 63 times on "Meet the Press" ...

     ... and I realized I've never in my entire life sat down to watch "Meet the Press".

     What's ... what's it like?