He sneaks in just enough snark on the sly though to really make the point Tommy says “I’m great” El- Sayed: “are you?” He asks Tommy about JFK and then says “you should read history” Just driving the knife in slowly while schooling him *chefs kiss*

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oh for fuck's sake....we can't have anything nice without infighting can we?

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Quite a lot of rhetorical skill in that reply, though: He debunked the presumption behind the question - while deconstructing the questioner’s thinking. A speech act one does not see every day.

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the second el-sayed chose to treat tommy as an equal and not a nuisance, tommy was cooked

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Over on Whatever today I go over @subvert.fm's "AI" policy and tell you why I think it's a really good version of such a policy, and why other organizations looking to create such a policy of their own would be well served to give it a look: whatever.scalzi.com/2026/10/18/w...

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