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Kudos to anyone who forecast that supply chains would hold up just fine during a severe pandemic but then become a total mess once the pandemic wasn't an issue any more. Did anyone predict that? https://t.co/qHWULK50J1
If I were a petrol station I would simply raise the price of petrol.
People often explain this kind of thing purely by reference to signalling support of sacred values, etc, but my sense is that another contributing factor is a cognitive failure to understand hypothetical thinking. If so, intelligence may lead to less signall-y seeming behaviour. https://t.co/5ahuvmIlM8
I’m excited to announce that new dates have been secured for my AUS/NZ tour with @thinkincAU! Tickets are still available for the Sydney, Auckland and Virtual events. Info and tickets → https://t.co/MpGGWtb3lZ @LifeYouCanSave https://t.co/3KRdumWzg8
@sbkaufman Yep. I'm super nice in person. Not always on Twitter.
"If men cannot struggle on behalf of a just cause because that just cause was victorious in an earlier generation, then they will struggle against the just cause. They will struggle out of a certain boredom: for they cannot imagine living in a world without struggle.” - Fukuyama
We have given each other trust and freedom, with the belief that everybody has to find their own way," he said. "And marriage for us can't be a prison.” (Isn’t this like the sixth time this has been “revealed”?) https://t.co/WraIB73Iri
Big Five related to immune function measures... https://t.co/5d5fsjqN4k https://t.co/NRDYDJvgwm
Shows how important the framing here is: - Chinese people will get wealthier 😃 - China will increase global inequality 😡 What exactly does the latter metric contribute? https://t.co/OCI9nLFaC4
@SarahTheHaider My following has basically the same sex ratio, and I don't even post nudes.
The data on age and COVID is very striking. https://t.co/K1r26yC75R
This is good news. I am hoping Universities will also lead on considering off-ramps for indoor masking. https://t.co/2wxx5Kn48z
The two genders https://t.co/UsRZpJPlmx
So the verdict from the comments is that now you can be called a TERF (transexclusionary radical feminist) if you believe in sex differences or binary sex regardless of whether or not you are a feminist or radical of any kind. so... most humans are TERFS now. https://t.co/kUk3JYK9Go
"Ashkenazi Jewish genetics: a match made in the Mediterranean - How and when did the Ashkenazim come to be" https://t.co/8A2eFrPR79 https://t.co/kJKq9p8s7a
@sentientist you know asimov wrote a book in which he appears as a character and does transgressions https://t.co/Pg9R1oOFAj
@sentientist Depends: have the duck-sized horses been treated with ivermectin?
@razibkhan @sbkaufman Yes, I think you both get more combative about (what you think are) wrong ideas and are pretty friendly with people even if they endorse (what you think are) wrong ideas.
Yesterday, a cow called me a TERF https://t.co/jQePU71qNA
RT @sentientist: I polled men on Twitter about if they would prefer to be slapped or to get silent treatment, get yelled at, have a long di…
A word hasn't been this confusing since people started calling tall good looking women "stallions"
This poll making fun of me is actually pretty funny. https://t.co/upHLFSRUhS
So... is everyone objectionable on trans issues called a TERF now regardless of whether or not they are actually a feminist?
@DuaneMieliwocki https://t.co/JclnwpJify
RT @heuristicism: would you rather fight: A) one woman who slaps her boyfriend instead of giving him the silent treatment B) three termi…
@mongreloutsider he tried to grope women without permission- the old school English term for is "a masher"
RT @sapinker: Most talk of eugenics is muddled (confusing heritability, an empirical fact, w a political policy) & historically ignorant (…
@natalia__coelho So true- why didn't we include saving these beautiful creatures as an option
This disparity in treatment, plus things that other public figures have gotten in trouble for (e.g. Cuomo) have made me think that since #MeToo we've elevated sexual harrassment or sexual assault to the level of murder or criminal negligence that results in death.
"Would you rather fight one horse sized duck or 100 duck sized h..." "How dare you imply I would hurt an animal!!"
RT @TomChivers: On the bipartisan nature of bullshit https://t.co/DJJdCxr63e
@PsychdOnScience @JeffGassen @EmilyCorrigan10 @sarahehillphd Awesome
I've seen a lot of tweets about the transgressions of Isaac Asimov now that The Foundation series has premiered. But, I don't remember seeing anyone talk about how Philip K Dick tried to kill two of his wives when Bladerunner came out. Moral artists or Abundant art- pick one
@rebeccarightnow @IonaItalia Sometimes I'll tell my partner exactly what I want to hear & how I want to hear it about our disagreement/argument. They can choose what they agree with and respond with that. It feels less good than if they say something conciliatory without a crib sheet, but this is faster.
Starting tomorrow! I'm part of a 6 day love and relationships forum including talks, online mingling and breakout sessions. Me and @primalpoly are giving talks on the 29th. https://t.co/EIYfYFzH12 https://t.co/PxzRRjXMVZ
Posting hot takes- not so intermittently reinforced- more like a rat at random intervals that presses a lever and gets cocaine or an electric shock. People generally aren't punished for skewering hot takes like toddlers generally aren't punished having tantrums in public.
Intermittent reinforcement schedules, where a reward is given a random interval, especially when the reward is large, produce the most compulsive behavior Like: Slot machines Toddler throwing a tantrum in public Posting screenshots of people's hot takes on Twitter https://t.co/4iSQH7WtBe
@razibkhan This is the problem with the high unemployment rate both here and in Europe. It used to be that on Monday morning people had something better to do than write angry tweets at strangers.
@TruBluBrewCru https://t.co/JclnwpJify
@josilenepower Unfortunately my Portuguese, at its best, was only good enough for me to talk to my Mom about my day. But thanks :)
@sentientist Cows would like terf, presumably.
@sentientist @SarahTheHaider This makes it sound like Ms. Haider does lol
@sentientist https://t.co/L9d7b8lLHL
While y'all are thinking about personality, check out my first, first author empirical paper, which explores links between Big 5 personality traits and markers of immune function! With @JeffGassen @EmilyCorrigan10 & @sarahehillphd https://t.co/8WFsMAlcoU
@sentientist Why does it matter that an artist, especially a dead one, was "problematic"? Anyone who chooses their taste in art based on the behavior of the artist is going to be limited to virtually nothing. I don't care that Picasso was a womanizer or that Van Gogh was mad, I love their art
Taught my first class at UoC today and despite the time (8am on a Monday morning) turnout and engagement were great! Its so good to have the campus buzzing with students again and everyone enjoying the fall sunshine. #UChicagoFirstDayofClass https://t.co/tWYpVYJjFd
@peligrietzer Surely Kenny Easwaran? This is in his works in progress section on website https://t.co/EBMC2u1r1y
Either “big houses are good, actually” or “there is overwhelming evidence that visible police presence is an effective crime reduction strategy.” https://t.co/tdHXe5V7QH
Genuinely a secret desire to be a political scientist is one of the strangest accusations I’ve ever faced in my life. I did speak on an APSA panel once. https://t.co/OMGt7peX1n
“We should let kids vote” is one of my pet ideas, sad to see it’s literally the least popular thing they could think of.
Why not try to make the effective altruism movement as large as possible? One concern might be "idea dilution": as you get bigger, you need to appeal to more people so you weaken the claims. Yet it feels like EA ideas have actually become more concentrated as the movement grows.
for each like this post gets i will match an american politician to their european political party. if you're interested in a specific country, you can ask
i just feel like a lot of people haven't updated their view of the US electoral system to incorporate the leftward movement of the democratic party/rise of bernie/hostile takeover of the GOP by Trump, the party system is more open, fluid, and dynamic than it gets credit for
Look I'm not so arrogant as to expect to be among the top 50, but even setting me aside and looking at broader trends, it's conspicuous that there is not one, literally not one, Akan-Celt on this list. We still have a long way to go in confronting racism. https://t.co/9xv7Iyx6Rh
Get rich quick schemes look a lot more attractive now that I am older.
Somebody definitely wrote an actual paper about this https://t.co/Y1E0E5Bcri
Creepiest. Resurrection. Ever. https://t.co/JsGfKPN4Wd
@AmandaAskell Agree 100%! Aside from maybe the fringes of longtermism, imo dilution wouldn't be necessary to gain 5-10x greater population. Afaik, I'm like the only blue collar ea, and have heard others explicitly advocate advancement only via exclusive universities.
@AmandaAskell Hi Amanda - i've worked in marketing for my whole career but only in EA for ~ 3 and this has been my No1 suggestion so far. Big brands get big by reaching lots of people but EA is excruciatingly focussed on retention. It also has a massive tone of voice issue.
@AmandaAskell My experience organizing EA Georgetown: there are a ton of very smart, EA-aligned ppl at good but not Ivy universities who have never heard of EA, and who would be extremely receptive without dumbing down/diluting the ideas
@AaronBergman18 @AmandaAskell There are a bunch of construction workers and mechanics who would be extremely receptive to ea without diluting the ideas! Mystified as to why ea is pulling away from earning to give when the opportunities there seem the largest.
@AmandaAskell Or maybe a bronze age account of CPR mediated by a dozen or so storytellers?
What exactly is being alleged here? https://t.co/gfPWVFwatP
I turned 40 on Sunday — sucks to be you, thirtysomethings https://t.co/8o2CYxUxOC
Every large American city is a "good food city." What are these cities you're visiting where it's somehow impossible to come up with a good restaurant to go eat at? The hard part is getting a babysitter!
Concept: what if your community newspaper was re-centered around a community dashboard? It addresses the ADD aspect of news judgment. Rather than random stories every day, your community would instead track metrics over time, like $ saved or time working out. And improve them.
The vaccine mandate is a clarifying example of police unions being entirely indifferent to public safety, because there’s no risk at all to the officers and no real opportunity to frame it as somehow leading to more crime. They just think they ought to be exempt from the rules. https://t.co/CPtNhyRHFF
"According to that data, an unvaccinated 10-year-old, who may look like the very picture of COVID vulnerability heading into the school year, faces a lower mortality risk than a vaccinated 25-year-old". Fascinating @dwallacewells on the covid age skew. https://t.co/Uv0toOS9sF
What the Dallas Fed needs is someone with Texas roots, ability to communicate about economic and monetary policy views on many platforms, and a known defender of fiat ideology.
Amazing stuff https://t.co/vpCL1uhuxI
Why would I want to be a political scientist? https://t.co/SHjrDJrXUf
This is true and what they came up with was … the correct policy response! https://t.co/cB1My9FqxY
It’s quarantine day 4 of 14, on the 12th floor of Singapore’s Regent Hotel. https://t.co/7m57DI4ShS
Conservatives are somehow simultaneously both against executive branch discretion and also long, detailed bills. https://t.co/FtHdsWJiIr
@mattyglesias @BrendanNyhan @hakeemjefferson @vbhoyo These appeals have been part of Dem politics for a long time; there have been universalizing trends that have taken what used to be understood as explicitly transactional politics and created unintended audiences for it. It's context collapse.
@mattyglesias The mesh network of chips actually boosts everyone’s reception (like in rainbows end and fire upon the deep) so there is a positive externality as well
If they have to cut the bill, maybe they should concentrate on doing a few things well rather than many things poorly? Just a thought? https://t.co/NVLRpnNThT
The White House takes the YIMBY Pill. https://t.co/OVaYETb96p https://t.co/n45dqJQnSa
Maximalist negotiating stances can create loss aversion for the left when it should be a big win. Another notch in the quiver for a pragmatic progressivism, not dubious "game theory" https://t.co/fcuAXLO7wj
My relationship to academia is after I did my senior thesis defense, Prof. Korsgaard asked what my plans were for after graduation. I said I had a job lined up at a magazine in DC and she said "that seems to be about your speed."
@EdwardLawsonJr @mattyglesias @Nate_Cohn @OsitaNwanevu If you look at any black neighborhood, It was clearly small, but real
It really is pretty incredible how the ideological dimensions of the GOP have flatten to become solely about you think about Trump https://t.co/Q4Y85lhSUq
tfw you got criticized by the adl https://t.co/zoqtvectcS
@Birdyword Fight for ¥1,500!
The great mystery of American politics is why the pivotal members don’t try to set the agenda. Was the exact same deal when Collins/Murkowski held this role. Or Jim Jeffords back in 2001. https://t.co/3LV9VWbXsN
If Democrats’ current course were causing them to gain Black and Latin vote share rather than lose it, I would feel a lot more comfortable with it. https://t.co/oT9S1x7Ne9
“Don’t ever ask tactical questions or people on the internet will yell at you that you’re a racist” is not an approach that is going to create a strong and successful political movement, https://t.co/R0Q2BsQq5u
@DrNoah_MTBC Conveniently, it does not include that.
I understand the coalition politics, but I really think this is misguided. If you're going to spend $X, spend it on permanent programs and fight for the other ideas another day. https://t.co/r1Xr9GFPPI
An old fashioned Peter Singer cancellation, how retro. https://t.co/eaQuSooM4X
Gotta say I am not detecting a lot of engagement with the BIF, the reconciliation bill, the possible shutdown, or the debt ceiling among anyone in the civilian population.
Kyrsten Sinema dramatically crosses the aisle, joins the GOP, and rips off her mask to reveal — it's been Martha McSally all along!
I have some how made it this far through the pandemic without ever having done a Microsoft Teams meeting, but somehow for my sins I have two this week.
@hakeemjefferson Should we try to recommission a re-run of the survey with a larger sample size and see if the results come up as statistically significant? This is not my field so I don't really know what the costs would be but that could be more productive than yelling on the internet.
Just incredibly misguided that they didn't try to use leverage to *eliminate* it then, thus avoiding the current hostage situation. https://t.co/E95Vemca4f
@nhannahjones @rasmansa @hakeemjefferson I think opposition to "identity politics" is absurd (identities are central to politics) but if you want to win you need to cater to the identities of the majority of the electorate which, yes, is mostly white people. https://t.co/K2APeI5EkQ
@JohnStopSinging @alon_levy She wanted Agriculture and was given HUD as consolation prize.
@hakeemjefferson Okay, well I wish you would've accepted my invitation to talk this out on The Weeds a while ago rather than sniping on Twitter but now I'm not on the show anymore and can't invite you again. 😂
@hakeemjefferson The updated paper has directionally similar results, though yes no longer statistically significant.
I don't fully agree with where this thread goes, but I think this is an excellent point that has been missing from some of my previous writing. https://t.co/m2GlwCNVtL
Always distressing to be reading something, become mildly confused, and then realize that the author is somehow even more online than I am.
@OsitaNwanevu @BrendanNyhan @hakeemjefferson @vbhoyo I think that is definitely part of the story, yes.
Out of character for Trump to prioritize personal self-interest over the welfare of the downtrodden voters he has so long championed. I hope he will reconsider. https://t.co/lJL5pkVZJw
RT @ryanavent: The energy supply issues popping up around the world should remind us that energy consumption is essential to growth, and th…
@OsitaNwanevu @BrendanNyhan @hakeemjefferson @vbhoyo I *do* think that talking about race is inherently politically risky. But it's fine to take calculated risks, not everything is reducible to economics. But what Democrats have started doing is deliberately injecting racial frames into topics that *are* reducible to economics.
RT @simon_bazelon: By setting up the expanded Child Tax Credit to expire, Democrats are gambling with the lives of millions of poor childre…
Here's a win for the candidate of the multi-racial working class. https://t.co/VQr3ev63cS
Progressives should think hard about the fact that education polarization is now eroding Dem share of the Black & Latin vote and try really hard to distinguish between what people of color are demanding, and the cultural politics of young college grads. https://t.co/SiubMXPsMD
And I think Democrats should be attentive to the fact that affirmative action policies are very unpopular and take that into account when considering the risk/reward calculus of advancing certain ideas. https://t.co/cFswXfQT8Q
I think if you want to address racism in electoral politics, you should do so by talking about racism and your ideas to combat it. What I *do not* think you should do is take race-neutral policy ideas and frame them as race-targeted. https://t.co/MWaW9Ds5SD
Here's a whole thread about me that deals entirely in straw-men, quoting zero things I've actually written. https://t.co/suJXkIjdPD
@nhannahjones @hakeemjefferson I don't think it's "demeaning" to Black voters to suggest that Democrats should reconsider a strategy that has led to them doing worse with Black voters.
@BrendanNyhan @hakeemjefferson @vbhoyo With respect to both parties, only one party here is dealing in false binaries and slippage.
The Departed (one guy) https://t.co/8bkb2E5Kmo
I tweeted this like seven times yesterday, but the post-2012 switch of Democratic Party rhetoric on racial issues has been associated with them doing *worse* with Black and Latin voters rather than better. If the trend were in the other direction, I'd feel better about it. https://t.co/9aE2VvIvQT
@ryanavent But again this is what I’m saying — if the climate economics research you’re condemning was highly influential, US climate policy would be much more aggressive than it currently is.
RT @BGrueskin: At a Bronx hospital last Wednesday, “more than 20% of the hospital’s 3,000 staff members had yet to get their first dose.”…
@jonathanchait @Redistrict I think it will mostly make them more comfortable casting party line votes that in turn immunize them from primary challenges.
@maya_sen Yes they usually leave it out of their own papers about how racial views impact voting behavior. 😂
@ryanavent Fair enough, I guess I don’t care that much about academia per se and think it’s bad for the world when people who care about climate change misidentify the proximate impediments to improving policy.
@ryanavent I’m just saying, the advice of that paper is to do more than we are currently doing to fight climate change. The public thinks we should focus more on deficit reduction and curbing illegal immigration. https://t.co/BJ8m5Wb8Gc
Wouldn’t it be more effective to do the opposite? Let the BIF pass over prog objections and then tempt Sinema to just tank the reconciliation bill? https://t.co/5GhQ6rj0Xy
@ryanavent I find that online a lot of people seem to think this kind of economics work is the barrier to sharper action on climate change, but in practice whatever you make of the mainstream economists’ view it says we should be doing *more* on climate. The problem is mass opinion!
@maya_sen It’s uh … not very popular as seen by losing a referendum in California last fall. https://t.co/cFswXfQT8Q
Some real 👀👀 stuff here in terms of what are the most-popular and least-popular Dem ideas. Moderates hate some of the best-scoring proposals and one of the very worst is very mainstream. https://t.co/3rkAz6woaI https://t.co/YF8DduSkPE
However the real star of the post is this chart showing the results of a giant experiment polling over 100 progressive policy ideas with rigorous partisan framing and counter arguments. https://t.co/3rkAz6woaI https://t.co/8dDsP5WHVW
In Shor’s experiments, the more you means-test the CTC the more popular it gets. *Parents* like the broader credit more (because more of them get money) but they are outnumbered by non-parents who prefer narrow targeting. https://t.co/3rkAz6woaI https://t.co/kfFScR2ip2
New Slow Boring post from @simon_bazelon & @davidshor argues that since Democrats are already incurring the administrative burden from means-testing the expanded CTC they may as well save money by means-testing it more sharply. https://t.co/3rkAz6woaI
RT @michelleinbklyn: https://t.co/OyoMAk2swI https://t.co/VoQiuvfFff
RT @kdrum: Biden's immigration policy is way, way better than Trump's https://t.co/bVvhCFYyPu
@CitizenCohn @MikeGrunwald Deliberately because it polls as a low priority for voters
@jonathanchait @chrislhayes I think if the package she heroically (and successfully!) negotiated with Republicans is shot down from the left, that still underscores her point that she’s a genius and progressives are bad.
All I know is nobody has ever regretted taking a piece of decontextualized digital video and then just running with it. https://t.co/ZYxhC3QkT7
Weird pitch from @robbysoave https://t.co/Qw4hmdV2oZ
One of the most lopsided maps you’ll find — I hope congressional Republicans get really mad and decide to back a national ban on partisan gerrymandering. https://t.co/ygK0dJYXjB
@Theophite @davidshor Not as wild as when you out of blue decided to smear me earlier today. I’m glad that we now seem to have proceeded to the point where you implicitly concede that was bullshit, but I still wish you hadn’t done it and don’t really understand why you did.
@EdwardLawsonJr @SpecialPuppy1 @Nate_Cohn @OsitaNwanevu Why do you think precinct-level data shows a Trumpward shift in nearly every Black neighborhood?
@erichdelang @trizzlor @hakeemjefferson Democrats leftward rhetorical shifts on racial issues since 2012 have been associated with *worse* performance with Black & Latin voters, not better.
@Theophite @davidshor Today’s version of this fight started with me pointing to a public speech given by a member of Biden’s cabinet. I disagree that it would be hard to muzzle activists (these groups are all fake and will do whatever donors want) but the problem is much bigger than activists.
@Theophite @rustbeltjacobin I routinely delete all my tweets. Perhaps armed with the information that you are wrong about this, you will reconsider some of your other thinking.
@chrislhayes Right, why does Sinema care if crazy progressives spike a largely deficit financed domestic spending bill?
RT @BillPascrell: Every single mcconnell republican just voted to blow up the entire economy and start a depression for no reason except be…
@rustbeltjacobin @Theophite Greenwald hates the Democratic Party and mainstream American liberalism and has criticized it from a number of different sides over the years, always maintaining his fixed point. I’m a boring Democrat who wants a bigger welfare state.
RT @germanrlopez: Happens in my replies every time I mention "defund the police." https://t.co/ZGg8crc4iM
If you want to insist that it is inconceivable that there might be a good faith disagreement about political tactics, that is your right. I am simply observing that a political movement that supports that norm will fail and lose. https://t.co/diFm0b3bvC
@xenocryptsite There are very strong incentives to err on the side of incumbent protection relative to partisan optimization, to actually overshoot in the manner suggested by dummymander theory would be fantastical
RT @eyokley: NEW: The idea that it is too hard to vote is not the prevailing sentiment among the American people, according to our new poll…
@EmilyStewartM What does this even mean?
I still can’t believe how shamelessly the media and the ornithological establishment gaslit us about the Covid-induced increase in the urban bird population. This is why trust in institutions is collapsing. https://t.co/E298RBp2PV
@ezraklein @kwcollins I am very skeptical of Overton Window tactics (as is the author of the Overton Window who explains that’s not what he meant). I think defund police, eg, clearly hurt moderate police reform rather than helping. https://t.co/Z3WzCWx5Eq
@MattBruenig @jakebackpack Well some people (me) think we should raise the marginal rates above the revenue maximizing point and use the tax code to reduce high end market incomes.
TCJA contained tax cutting provisions and also contained tax raising provisions, the “cost” of the bill was generally reported as the net increase in debt not the gross price tag of the cutting provisions with the offsetting hikes then considered separately.
Gross spending and net debt are different things ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ https://t.co/5GXlHFekAA
@germanrlopez I continue to have grave doubts about the chili situation over there.
@JakeAnbinder He's a Chinese food hater, which I have tried to explain is anti-Semitic.
But all cities have good restaurants. I was in Cleveland one time and went to a restaurant people said was good — it was good. Then an acquaintance took me to another restaurant she said was good — also good! It's not hard to find good places to eat.
I appreciate and cherish the fact that my neighborhood contains a few good restaurants that my six year-old also likes. That's a precious thing. But even so they're not the actual best places to eat in DC.
@jon_m_rob Progressive shave game-theoried themselves into scoring a $600 billion infrastructure bill as a loss!
@Noahpinion @rasmansa You bleach your lungs to fight covid.
I also wrote early, and correctly, about Trump's improved standing with Latin voters. A lot of progressives were (and continue to be!) too blinded by their own ideological constructs to see the broad-based nature of education polarization. https://t.co/d4K865LZ3n
Yes, I argued that Democrats should take Trump's Black outreach seriously at a time when few did. Then on Election Day, Trump improved his performance with Black voters even while doing worse overall. It was a good piece and more people should have praised it at the time. https://t.co/9uyoc22f8X
RT @MarketUrbanism: There actually is no tradeoff in transit planning between “economic development” and ridership. Making transit useful i…
My establishment has never been surveyed so they are undercounting the real number of jobs.
RT @donmoyn: One more example of how investing in people is good
For me it was the better 5G reception that sealed the deal https://t.co/B9pB5GqC5A
Proof that the common core is a Sith plot. https://t.co/3YfZZosg6Y
RT @mattyglesias: @hakeemjefferson In your Twitter bio, you aptly observe that race is the central organizing feature of American politics.…
@primalpoly Yes, I agree that the conservative critique of delegating power and executive branch discretion is nonsense.
@hakeemjefferson In your Twitter bio, you aptly observe that race is the central organizing feature of American politics. So, yes, I think politicians who want to win should be hyper-conscious of white backlash politics and do everything in their power to avoid it.
News you can use https://t.co/NiIdxtI42V
@mattyglesias I never had Korsgaard but it always seems that the more humane a gov/phil/econ prof's theories are on paper the pricklier they turn out to be in person. T.M. Scanlon is the only major exception I can think of.
Me, too! https://t.co/171N616YF2
Rationality: What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters | Steven Pinker https://t.co/KeJRXJokyk
Today: https://t.co/6QvVeh0OTj
Pub day! Rationality: What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters https://t.co/hnx3fDMzuO
On sale tomorrow... https://t.co/9IJGHqfSJd
Why "problematic" is problematic: @tmbejan explains.. https://t.co/udneqeMUVu
i would simply not fire someone based on a 30 second clip posted by the satanic rituals airbnb guy
I just really strongly feel that I should have tenure. Give it to me.
Yes. YES! https://t.co/1q0mxYUkxQ
@Virtual1nstinct @jejunestarfcker @arctanno If history is any indication, fears of mass automation & outsourcing are overblown. Many past hype cycles never heated up. OTOH I think Covid made a big trend deviation in our cultural acceptance of remote work. Some smart knowledgeable forecasters agree https://t.co/tzzTovd059
New post from @Noahpinion makes sense to me. Curious if there are folks who thoughtfully disagree? cc @saikatc @SeanMcElwee @nataliefoster https://t.co/eDofV3riKS
@AgnesCallard But attempts to shame and to praise usually DO point to reasons. Usually there is a general rule, with widely accepted supporting reasons, and a particular instance, where reasons are given to show that the rule applies to this instance.
@AgnesCallard We appropriately have social norms that apply to intellectual activity, and humans generally enforce social norms via guilty, shame, and praise. Why not enforce them here that way as well?
@AgnesCallard Surely shaming and praising exist in humans because our ancestors found them useful at times. Why shouldn't such things also find uses in intellectual worlds?
“beginning to talk while another is talking can be a way of showing enthusiastic engagement with what the speaker is saying. Far from silencing them, it can be encouragement to keep going” https://t.co/BTh9il4e77
@zorangecats @robinhanson Fact check: true https://t.co/CgaYOyaxgm
@SamoBurja The same thing was said two days ago by @robinhanson https://t.co/tNX3U3Lc8K
@robinhanson Totally. It’s almost as if most anti-capitalists don’t fully understand capitalism or economics
In any case, after looking through the history of how the aerosol/airborne debate actually went down, versus what the textbooks said, I think it's really useful to look at history at times with fresh eyes. Did we really know this, or did we conclude something and kept asserting?
@singhabhi @lwantchekon @DinaPomeranz @HaroonBhorat @restatjournal Expect a referee request from me soon!!! Thanks for the lovely thoughts. I have to say I am completely loving editing @restatjournal!! I learn so much and get to see so many different papers, its really such an honor and privilege to be able to do this!
«Aber die Intensivstationen sind ja gar nicht ausgelastet…». Einer der grausligsten, zynischsten Sätze seit Beginn der Pandemie. Die Realität, in vielen erschütternden Details: https://t.co/loXJDIeR4Q
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Great news! Switzerland has voted to legalise same-sex marriage 🏳️‍🌈 'Yes' won with two-thirds of the votes. We will soon be able to add another country to this map for 2021 👇 https://t.co/PZwJ1fdzcc https://t.co/Lwq6Q1Jvuq
CO₂ emissions per $ of GDP (kg) 🇿🇦 S. Africa: 0.7 🇨🇳 China: 0.55 🇨🇦 Can: 0.35 🇦🇺 Aus: 0.34 🌍 Avg: 0.32 🇺🇸 US: 0.3 🇮🇳 India: 0.29 🇩🇪 Germany: 0.19 🇬🇧 UK: 0.15 🇫🇷 France: 0.13 🇳🇴 Norway: 0.1 🇸🇪 Swe: 0.09 *Adjusted for cross country prices Explore here: https://t.co/T6nomk0Nsb https://t.co/kDqSUkBHx3
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No, people in the US, Switzerland is not Sweden 😜 Ht @ThBenkoe https://t.co/JjM2448cDP https://t.co/iGIndE7opx
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@Cutler_econ But a US citizen or greencard holder
@hansi_voigt Weil die AFD als faschistoide Partei gegründet wurde, die SVP aber als ursprünglich konservative Partei zur faschistoiden P umgebaut wurde.
Ich suche in Twitter nach #Baerbock, aber es kommen nur Tweets zu Laschet. Kann mir das bitte mal jemand erklären? https://t.co/DjKh97ucae
Florian is an example of intellectual curiosity and humility https://t.co/pA3ZC2882y
👇🏽 https://t.co/xHBjzpVyc4
☝🏼 https://t.co/CHgUUt2Xz6
Support for the Black Lives Matter movement declined between June and September 2020, but has remained stable since. https://t.co/Yzb1cBpoVi https://t.co/sRUixQToHa
@garrytan I wonder if the doomsday scenario for deepfakes isn’t some sort of forged political opposition research as currently posited but rather short-form videos of say Elon Musk with analogous intent to the spammy cryptocurrency reply tweets.
My body at 21 was the product of partying and poverty, so 🤷‍♀️ https://t.co/o63a5lmLaa
On Morrison not committing to going to Glasgow for COP26: “History is made by those who turn up. If Mr Morrison decides not to go to Glasgow he is sending a message. His absence will send a strong message about his priorities”. Says the ‘gas led recovery’ is “nonsense” https://t.co/ZlPQB8ZB64
Breakthrough cases of polio—including deaths—were common during early polio vaccination. What kept us safe was not perfect vaccine efficacy. It was that Americans quickly & massively stepped up to get the imperfect vaccine, quashing transmission. From: https://t.co/djYf0JmWnQ https://t.co/PiGRHYcct6
The rapid testing failure, while likely less impactful than the vaccines failures, is somehow so much more infuriating for its sheer bloody-mindedness. It is the sharpest example I’ve seen of the public health tendency to make the perfect the enemy of the good.
@ATabarrok Yep, I saw Tyler’s link to it. One of the most extraordinary public statements by a public health official I’ve ever seen. Yet people just lap it up unquestioningly. It is infuriating. My take on it yesterday: https://t.co/bMtHnchvU9
“We promise to stop being stupid morons in 1 month”
Why is South Korea the only country that seems to be able to keep moving down the learning curve for nuclear power? In every other country, it's been getting *more* expensive to build nuclear power plants over time. https://t.co/95prnhtXJI
It's weird how climate is the biggest issue ever and the reconciliation bill is the biggest climate bill ever, but the coverage is all about price tag, offsets, progressives vs. centrists, timing with infrastructure/debt ceiling, everything but whether DC acts on climate or not.
Poll after poll makes it clear: The majority of Americans overwhelmingly support my Build Back Better Agenda. Let’s get it done and deliver for the American people. https://t.co/uptz12TQmP
@Noahpinion @realchrisrufo He's a perfectly reasonable fellow.
My latest for Pull Request! @realchrisrufo on Critical Race Theory and what drives him in the one-man media war that's pissing off everybody. https://t.co/Tbk6ZEsuxp
There is a lot of discussion right now about expensive natural gas in the US. While higher gas prices could ultimately help reduce emissions and encourage fuel switching, in the near-term it will result in a lot more idle coal capacity coming back online: https://t.co/KhXBs9bOQR https://t.co/gWNIhGaafa
One day our grandchildren will ask us, how did you cope with this pandemic back then, when one in 500 people around you died, and all we'll have to say is well, we got used to it. https://t.co/VZBIqPtVfU
I’ve been getting a vague sense lately that people are coming to their senses about this stuff. Fuuuuuck. https://t.co/zjmH7Qelg1
The y-axis here is a chart crime https://t.co/3tOSphxJDB
Conservatives love to make their whole brand Facts and Logic and then insist that giving people money won’t make them not poor
@MaxMurrayShow @PolicyShill @russellmz @Noahpinion @tmychow There are real challenges to single parenthood we can't replace with government, but we can absolutely make sure those challenges aren't compounded by material scarcity. https://t.co/braHje0IYU
When it comes to assessing an individual’s risk of dying from COVID, age may be a more significant determinant than vaccination status. https://t.co/fZVVijv34P
@Noahpinion That we know of.
@AlecStapp 77% = enthusiastically Christian 65% = Hail Satan
There's an entire shelf in your local library of 00s books explaining how Wal-Mart is going to eat the rest of the economy. https://t.co/zumtCyvaWK
If progressives kill the infrastructure bill, they'll keep lead in the drinking water of millions of marginalized people. And they'll starve trains and buses of funding all across America. And they'll show Dems can't govern. DON'T DO THOSE THINGS. https://t.co/elVn2hsp9I
https://t.co/vjflZG6L5a https://t.co/XlXoxfEemq
like man insane clown posse is great https://t.co/YYT8YLNodt
A deep dive into the mechanics of the world's most indebted real estate company https://t.co/1pfvWX69CK
@a_fad_es @Noahpinion reconciliation is gonna happen anyways and moderates are gonna have the same bargaining positions
Saw this and was transported back to the Sixties, when powdered drink mix for kids was just casually racist https://t.co/X50JBsEI0f
Tucker Carlson: All the Christians are disappearing!!! https://t.co/0QPjQr3ZGN
@jdcmedlock Clearly someone has not compared the fonts and margins.
@Noahpinion I am with you on this one. At some point last year someone wrote about how disposable masks where going to be difficult to recycle and cause environmental hazards or something silly like that. Read the room, people.
@Noahpinion Seems like most of these areas are in the suburbs now
don't get it twisted yall https://t.co/MhcGWS7VHz
I should sell a coffee table book that is just terrible graphs from Fox News https://t.co/8UxWfajlX4
vivid and to the point #synesthesia https://t.co/lf05d8oMOL
It's twice as good as the Bible https://t.co/ky5i8NGkyy
@Noahpinion weebs posting their Ws
@Noahpinion or is WoT just Folsom Street Fair fanfic
BREAKING: American Siblings Barred From Leaving China for 3 Years Return to U.S. with @chubailiang https://t.co/PkERVOUSm7
@Noahpinion Weird how human trafficking doesn't even make the list and yet is used to justify all kinds of bullshit
Powell is asked if the inflation we're seeing is broader and more structural than earlier in the year. "Yes, I think it's fair to say that it is." Supply bottlenecks "have not only not gotten better, they've actually gotten worse." He points to ships parked off the port of L.A.
@Noahpinion You're right; this is a hostage situation where the hostage is either non-corporeal, or is actively belching carbon into the sky.
Now that the public debate has begun to turn against them, the NIMBYs are focusing less on their bad policy arguments and more on attacking YIMBYs. It won't work. https://t.co/HOBSl9dSB6
The US spent $145B to rebuild Afghanistan's economy, more than on the Marshall plan. It was a failure. GDP stopped growing once troops began to leave, and there's no sustainable pvt sector to support infrastructure it built. By @SuneEngel & @JMitchellWSJ https://t.co/GH3994HPed https://t.co/S44XJzzLEE
@Noahpinion Tells you something about SF's moderate/progressive divide too
@Noahpinion https://t.co/S3zIN5gehM
“That’s right.” https://t.co/LdSfkbgDwo https://t.co/lUD8JUeZGz
TAKE THE W! https://t.co/XzBS6REY4E
"If you treat your city like a suburb, then it’ll have the demographics of a suburb." via @Noahpinion: https://t.co/ByEEepyD2R
Pass the damn infrastructure bill, dammit (@noahpinion / Noahpinion) https://t.co/Lx1wWH5UWh https://t.co/MwXOhItw7c
@Noahpinion But sir, the batteries are pRoBLeMaTic.
I really think progressives have badly undersold the virtues of the BIB when trying to hold it hostage, so futilely, to coerce Manchin and Sinema into a more aggressive reconciliation bill than they support. It's a good bill. I'd vote for it without reservations. https://t.co/EfRCUzi4l6
how is cost of housing not even on this list? https://t.co/wbcGKyUqxm
@Noahpinion Some white Tankies would have been fascists had they jumped down the right rabbit hole instead of the left one.
@Noahpinion Totally get the appeal of being told new things you can feel bad about. My family had a standing Sunday morning appointment with an expert for exactly this when I was growing up. Seemed like a good frequency.
@Noahpinion Yeah take your own advice 👇 https://t.co/bhG3BADtrY
Wtf he found the Gödel statement of the Midwit Meme axiom system https://t.co/cU4iKssfxg
Shut (and I cannot emphasize this enough here) up. https://t.co/5IDA6G4vdv
cc @Matt_Alt https://t.co/KJZxXUWDIN
Oh you think you've got a housing bubble? That's cute. China's housing bubble would eat yours for breakfast https://t.co/rfN2G1YlxA w @Noahpinion @anjani_trivedi @foxjust and more
@Noahpinion Noah Smith Hivemind Inc.
We made a missile that can throw an entire other missile https://t.co/IKrQv1RrX7
@Noahpinion I ignore all the Sam Vimes books.
@Noahpinion The problem is our default position is to think the absolute worst of our fellow Americans, their personal situations and their motives and foist a huge heaping helping of victim blaming upon them
Asking the people who are like “but what about battery disposal? Or lithium mining? Or desert tortoises who lose .5% of their habitat to solar farms” to consider that there is, in fact, a difference between good and bad things https://t.co/kQbV0vxSUt
@Noahpinion BTS: Bagels, Talmuds, Schmaltz
I love how Americans think the affordability of healthcare and gun violence are big problems but vote for people who won’t do anything about those things https://t.co/I4DlkvNHzU
An American melting pot in which both White and Black people are minor players is incredibly interesting, because it allows us to observe which things about American culture go beyond our traditional racial divide -- and thus envision the future of an integrated, mixed America.
I'm very interested in the parts of California that are mixed Asian-Hispanic. These regions represent a form of racial integration that simply doesn't correspond to the traditional Black-White pattern. For example, check out the southern part of San Francisco: https://t.co/ULaI4gwhtW
@Noahpinion First time in Paris this week in a long time: LOTS of new Korean restaurants. Everywhere. How come?
@Noahpinion Also in places like San Leandro - three-way mix of Latino, Black, and Asian, often in the same person (many of which are absurdly attractive). It's the future.
Look I'm not really in the mood to spell out all of the ridiculous and flat out false things in this thread. We all know it's wrong. I just want to say that this guy is a real asshole. https://t.co/W9jBN7lZ5h
@Noahpinion @Theophite @plike_ He's a nasty weirdo; broke with Trump on racial issues including immigration, wants to bring kill teams to hospitals on anti-mask crusades
@Noahpinion Also, Asian and Hispanic are within themselves very broad and diverse categories.
There is a mall like this in Lima, Peru. I think some tourists have dubbed it the Latin American Akihabara https://t.co/UJLpkXHBta
@Noahpinion Ok, that counts. But it's still a very San Francisco mall. Has at least two sushi places.
@MaxMurrayShow @PolicyShill @jdcmedlock @Noahpinion https://t.co/aopWLpGZos "...the change in Social Security benefits between 1967 and 2000 suggests that the increase in benefits can explain all of the 17 percentage point decline in poverty that occurred during this period."
@Noahpinion GNU Sir Terry Pratchett
@Noahpinion If it produced any I am terribly curious how.
@Noahpinion Malazan's coming for that crown.
I chose @Noahpinion https://t.co/R3cqbFOI9F
@MattAlhonte @Noahpinion ICYMI https://t.co/b41gjFXUcj
@conorsen Yes @Noahpinion will be great
PASS THE DAMN INFRASTRUCTURE BILL RIGHT NOW. https://t.co/elVn2haNL8
@Noahpinion I worked at our law school CLE as an undergrad. Our director had a post JD degree & insisted we refer to him as Doctor. He made me write essays for the Federalist Society newsletter despite my being a public employee and 18. They were not good, because of incompetence and intent.
@Noahpinion Japan/Korea cornered the market on cute and wholesome stuff as well as little convenience items.
That said, Dazai seems to have been more of a beer guy. https://t.co/NbiYREPztT
I've written extensively about Japanese sensibilities inflecting global youth culture, but never imagined Osamu Dazai going viral in US. Thanks to an anime, #dazaiosamu has 1.4b TikTok views & Keene's translation of No Longer Human is Amazon bestseller. https://t.co/7PpL7NNJLm
@Noahpinion A message of opposition to electric mountain bikes (e mtb), on a water tank above UC Santa Cruz in CA, where a bunch of biking trails come together
@Noahpinion exhibit E https://t.co/dRl2F8AJGK
This is correct https://t.co/TxDvLEgIuq
@Noahpinion Thought this was the Santa Anita mall in Arcadia but didn't recognize the food court
@Noahpinion Joke: Noah should spend it with Stever and find out just what Stever’s price is
@Noahpinion Yeahhh, why would an anarchist ever want to defund the police?
@Noahpinion This light novel series is absurdly long (over 43000 pages!): https://t.co/MPoLcUMOb4
@AngelicaOung @noahsmith @noahsmith or @Noahpinion ? Does have the given name Noah Smith automatically mean you have 🐇🐇🐇?
@bainbridge_dk @Noahpinion How could any reasonable person object to "All Lives Matter?" But a lot of "activists" do.
YES. THIS. 1000X THIS. https://t.co/aysfKfF75Y
He just wants freedom from his eternal servitude https://t.co/br5ETAQNN4
Yes https://t.co/eBPcrVvegU
I just tried to write "violence begets violence", and my keyboard corrected it to "violence Vegeta violence" Time to log off
Jesus f***ing Christ get the lead out of drinking pipes right now https://t.co/WytYmo6ZlE
New Pew research finds that Twitter is used by the 23% of Americans who think "I beg of you", "You idiot", and "Imagine thinking this" are persuasive arguments https://t.co/8p8rvz6VCR
@thought_less_ Courage to do what, buddy? Spike a good bill that Manchin doesn't really care about, just out of spite? Yeah that's real mature. 🙄
How many rich people go to community college? Come on. https://t.co/cc1PZruUbU
The bipartisan infrastructure bill would be a huge win for progressivism. It would get rid of lead water pipes in America. It would pour $105 billion into trains and transit. It would prove that big government is good for the economy. TAKE THE W. https://t.co/elVn2haNL8
@DerekMYoung shit man, that sucks
Wow, I didn't even know China was keeping some American hostages too! https://t.co/NltaBchZVC
@stan_keshi Ceausescu banned Scrabble
Kai Strittmatter's "We Have Been Harmonized" really home the point that under Deng, Jiang, and Hu, China really did create a novel, flexible, adaptible new form of autocracy...but then Xi Jinping came in and started turning it into something older and more familiar.
@puremalarkey Again, I think you're confusing public opinion with progressive Twitter opinion here, but now we're going in circles. Anyway, I will circle back when stuff happens, and we can see!
@stan_keshi It does seem like it! 😊
@clayranck @Theophite @samdman95 Thanks I hate it
@puremalarkey They could never receive anything in return because no one else really cares about the infra bill. So pass it, because it's good, then use that success to gain popularity and help exert more pressure on Manchin by whatever methods do exist for exerting pressure on Manchin.
@bengrossbg Second one is to stop people from talking down to you
@puremalarkey Just keep racking up wins man
Today in Reply-Tweets: You're allowed to talk down to people about society if they have only ONE law degree. https://t.co/hK0Y9QDkEy
@wolfe_herb I can't drink or do any drugs, medical issues
@puremalarkey If bribery works, DO THAT SHIT. Hell yeah.
@wolfe_herb Well u a poo poo hed
@stan_keshi (2) is psychological
@dotorii_muk https://t.co/X3RZ6ZfX5a
@puremalarkey I mean, taking lead out of pipes is gooder than not taking lead out of pipes. Honestly that's something I never thought I'd see done in my lifetime.
@scorzeth @kejjmad Awwwwwwwwwwwww
There are so many things about the pre-internet age that I want to go back and experience now that I've learned of their existence via the internet
RT @Matt_Alt: I've written extensively about Japanese sensibilities inflecting global youth culture, but never imagined Osamu Dazai going v…
@stan_keshi The connection is psychological. It's not in the genes.
@puremalarkey Conservatives don't have any policy plans except preserve the status quo and ban CRT and abortion at the state level. They already got all their tax cuts. What's left to bribe them with? They're just gonna sit there and block everything as long as they can.
@puremalarkey I think the "until they get some of what they want" part is the flaw here. It's like step 2 in the Underpants Gnome plan. Remember, if Congress passes absolutely nothing, conservatives pretty much win.
@stan_keshi I mean, I share genes with my ancestors, but the idea that this means I share ownership of a nation with them is purely psychological.
@puremalarkey If conservatives have a majority in Congress, they can do whatever the hell they want, legislation-wise.
@AImas8706 His name is Giggles, but that's similar to Gigolo
@stan_keshi That's the ADOS view. But I think connections are in our heads, not our genes.
@scorzeth Damn that's a cute rabbit.
@stan_keshi I don't think your genetic definition of "replacement" makes any sense...
@puremalarkey I mean, America is more conservative than us, and America's governing class is more conservative than America, and this is a problem. And it's a problem I don't think we can solve by refusing to remove lead from pipes.
@stan_keshi I mean, I just don't care about "founding stock" as much as you do. Or really at all, tbh. Like...who cares if you share genes with the Mayflower people? That means zilch to me. I don't understand why I should care about that. America isn't in the genetic code.
@puremalarkey Conservatives didn't even want to spend money on infrastructure. They definitely didn't want to give Biden a legislative victory.
@JHead1984 @VoidOfRoses I mean you're not wrong
@RealPotatoFan Gave her smaller treats
@heynottheface @samdman95 Who ever got blamed for killing a bill they voted for?
@puremalarkey I mean, they are really bad. But what can we do to stop them? I believe we can do something, probably. But this is not something that will stop them. It just isn't.
@stan_keshi The point is, America's racial composition has changed. We are now only 73% White+Black. I want to know what that does to our society. I'm pretty optimistic it will be good. But I want to understand the changes.
@DLEG101 https://t.co/f6uquuxzlw
@stan_keshi I feel like you're just making up new definitions for common words in order to justify misuse of those words.
@monopaulist Well, more than fractious, it makes them look chaotic and hapless.
@monopaulist Maybe, but it makes Dems look fractious
@puremalarkey Blowing up the infra bill to get Manchin is like hitting Manchin in the knee with our nuts.
@puremalarkey Yes, because I don't actually know how to threaten them. I assume there are threats. I just know this isn't one. This isn't a threat. So let's not tell ourselves it is.
@Theophite Manchin and Sinema will take no heat if progressives vote down a bill that Manchin and Sinema voted for. So blowing up that bill is simply not a credible threat.
@jaycaspiankang Yep. Suburbs have always been the engines of integration in America, possibly because they're just so hellishly isolating that you have to hang out with whoever there is.
@stan_keshi So if your parents die and you're still here, you didn't replace them because you're genetically related to them??
@puremalarkey The answer is no, of course. So the question becomes how to credibly threaten them. And blowing up infra just isn't any kind of a threat to them. So use the threats we do have.
Your regular reminder that not every game is a Prisoner's Dilemma, and that the dominant strategy is not "defect" when "defect" hurts you without hurting the other player at all. https://t.co/xY4SDlliTW
@Theophite @samdman95 Draw me the strategy payoff matrix and tell me if we're facing a prisoner's dilemma, hotshot
@samdman95 Whoa, they broke a promise? HOW FUCKING DARE THEY, who could have ever foreseen this. Well, some assholes broke a promise, we better blow shit up now
@puremalarkey There's just no convincing argument here that killing infrastructure, or even just threatening to kill it, will exert any kind of leverage over the centrists. If I thought it would it would be a different ball game.
@Bamfurlough Oof I'm sorry.
@levraibzzz Ooh, got data on that?
@puremalarkey It's stream of consciousness, but it's also based on the conceit that progressive Twitter's opinion corresponds to public opinion. And when has that ever proven to be true? Such inside baseball. I'm sorry.
Important news: Despite having lost a bit of weight, Cinnamon is still fat ❤️ https://t.co/BUKmcOKmEw
@stan_keshi Are you a replacement for your parents?
@puremalarkey Dear Lord, this is so bad
@ringtrick I mean, I was going to praise Haitian immigration specifically, but I realized that no one actually cares anymore.
Anyway, killing infrastructure will not hurt Manchin; he voted FOR the bill. Threatening to kill the bill will not compel Manchin to support reconciliation; other means of compulsion must be found. Vote for the infra bill because it's good, and because it's progressive. (end)
@puremalarkey Nobody takes heat for the death of things they vote in favor of!
@puremalarkey They voted for the infra bill. If it dies they won't take the heat; they voted for it. The complex idea that its survival hinged on a deal about the reconciliation bill will not make it into the heads of American voters; it's far too complex.
Was going to write a post about how well Haitian immigrants do in America, and then I realized it doesn't matter, because the people who really care about halting immigration don't actually give a shit about that, and everyone else already likes immigrants. https://t.co/UN4Z26Ba4O
@ImNotOwned @Taara535 Why are people acting like this is an alternative to the reconciliation bill? The idea that killing this bill will hurt Manchin in any way is fantasy.
@JimJamison84 Days or weeks are fine. But if that turns into months, it saps Biden's momentum, and that will be bad. Most worryingly, if Manchin calls progressives' bluff, and they actually vote DOWN the bill, that's a disaster.
@puremalarkey It's not fine; Manchin and Sinema are horrible. But can they be compelled by threatening the infra bill? If it goes down, they don't take any heat. They were fine not passing infra in 2019, and 2018, and 2017, etc. They'll be fine. This is not leverage.
@TheOmniZaddy I mean of course they need to do this, but threatening the infra bill is pointless; if it fails, Manchin and Sinema won't take the blame for its failure. So there's no leverage there. Instead, simply put them in the spotlight as the obstructionists they are.
@puremalarkey There's no goddamn leverage there. If the infrastructure bill fails, Manchin and Sinema won't be blamed; they voted for it.
@TWOMARD @BrandyFromTX Whether the infra bill passes will have no effect on their votes, unfortunately. If it fails to pass they won't take the blame.
@DanFagella But I agree with that.
Florida Man, meet California Woman https://t.co/IftwBLcyNJ
@KI7BDA They are really good with fatty food, not as good on their own. In my opinion.
@wophugus Both are true, and both perspectives will continue to oscillate as needed in the future.
@BrandyFromTX You're absolutely right, of course.
@PatrickLeijon @whstancil Well, the fact is, I was right, and eventually everyone agreed with me, and it was not I who was burnt :-)
@SamJabbers @whstancil Man, owned
@SamJabbers @whstancil No I didn't, I said they were nuts
@patio11 Well, why don't we average over the past decade
@ThinkMiamiBeach That wasn't even one of my arguments
@puremalarkey You have no counterarguments to any of the points, do you
@amicus_obscura "Burn it all down"? Man, shut up
@JHead1984 @klein86alex This is so goddamn dumb
@SeanErnst Cut their losses? Fuck that! Take all the Ws!!!
Voting down the infrastructure bill -- or threatening to vote it down -- doesn't do a damn thing to pressure Manchin and Sinema. They get to sit back and watch progressives be the obstructionists. PUT THEM ON THE DEFENSIVE!!
@whstancil Remember when I said Warren wasn't going to get the VP spot and you assured me that you were talking to people behind the scenes to make sure she did?
@PatrickLeijon @whstancil ?? I was right and everyone agreed with me and my thesis became conventional wisdom. Who got burnt? 😃
@SweetCainMusic How can you talk about laziness and not even read the subtitle of my post, much less the post itself? This is the OPPOSITE of "giving up on reconciliation".
Remember Flint? The infrastructure bill would make sure that never happened again! When a bill promises to get poison out of the drinking water of every poor person and every marginalized person in America, YOU VOTE FOR THAT BILL. https://t.co/IOl1JXEMzl
RT @ArmandDoma: I should sell a coffee table book that is just terrible graphs from Fox News https://t.co/8UxWfajlX4
@mullansp @TomCruise_69 Both are bad and realistic.
@whstancil Says the guy who assured me that he was politicking behind the scenes to get Elizabeth Warren the VP spot
@dubioushandle https://t.co/s5TCZYbqpn
@The_Libertaaron No, just against spending indiscriminately.
@Taara535 It includes $105 billion for public transit funding and a plan to take all of the lead out of all the drinking water in America. "Minor"? The fuck?!!
@GordonAChaffin You're kidding, right? This bill would increase public transit funding as a percent of transportation funding in America.
@codytfenwick @payer_single Progressives are vowing to vote against the bill unless their demands are met. My post, which is NOT wrong, argues that they should vote for the bill on its own merits (and that their political maneuvering is going to fail anyway).
@jaredbritton7 Did ye read the post?
@a_fad_es Yes, pass reconciliation! Pass each thing as soon as humanly possible! Don't play these stupid factional games! Take the W!!!
Are progressives really going to vote against taking the lead out of the drinking water of millions of poor and marginalized Americans? Are they really going to vote against $105 billion in funding for public transit? Don't play this goddamn 27-dimensional chess. TAKE THE W.
@payer_single READ MY DAMN POST, DAMMIT
@ElectionsJoe The transit funding is in the bipartisan infrastructure bill, hoss. Take a look.
RT @markgongloff: Oh you think you've got a housing bubble? That's cute. China's housing bubble would eat yours for breakfast https://t.co/…
The big lesson here is that if you want Americans to care about something, just talk about it as much as possible, and try to reduce the number of things you talk about so you can grab the top few spots
@hmantegazzi @SarahGrynpas My friend: "My kids are half Chinese, a quarter Peruvian, and a quarter Polish, so we were a little surprised that they turned out to look Filipino"
@SteveNegusMasr I ordered it between the time you made the initial tweet and the time you corrected it
@stan_keshi The sinister plot to replace America's founding stock with people who wear the same hoodies and sneakers, listen to the same hip-hop songs, worship the same God, watch the same anime, and have the same political fights about housing and crime and taxes
@DrRobertNFord Rob, I like you because despite being on the Right, you also smoke a lot of weed, and I respect this💖
What do Americans think is a problem: Answer: Pretty much everything they read about in the news. https://t.co/3IhL5f9sNS
Remember this next time you call for "a Marshall Plan for X". The Marshall Plan was a success because we gave the money to countries who were willing and able to use it effectively. We can't remake the world by throwing dollars at it. https://t.co/ddyWzjKTnI
@roboso Centuries of history and reams of research
The disconnect between the urgency of the climate issue and the sense of popular urgency around the climate issue is just bananapants. https://t.co/uOrgsJZHP3
@wolfe_herb No, he's not a fascist stormtrooper. You have to brake more slowly.
Linguistic distinctiveness is often a key input into a sense of national distinctiveness. https://t.co/rT06pN1rfr
@MoralHazardPay @Theophite @plike_ Yes. He is quite bad. But in the end I think we'll see him as just a guy who wanted to act out and smash stuff.
RT @PolicyShill: @MaxMurrayShow @jdcmedlock And it worked https://t.co/cHIDEzrPz6
@wolfe_herb But he's not. He's just nothing. He's just an unhinged guy who wants to act out and get attention and feel violent and powerful.
I love this tweet so much. https://t.co/WhCpytj2t8
@wolfe_herb Well, like I said, come see me in ten years.
@David_Jorgonson @Theophite @plike_ Who does?
@wolfe_herb https://t.co/G1xxTNm9PN
@DaisyChewy @plike_ @Theophite Oh they are absolutely insane. But like many insane people, I'm guessing theirs is less ideologically clear of an insanity than the narrative would have us believe.
@Theophite @plike_ He is certainly a violent idiot.
People in an Era of Unrest don't like being told how ridiculous so many of the people and ideas and movements and actions of that era will look in retrospect. So come see me in a decade and we'll talk again. (end)
But like I said, we're not ready for this conversation yet. We're not yet out of the Era of Unrest, even if I'm right in my prediction that we've seen the peak. https://t.co/v16zMHpo5r
Maybe in 5 years, maybe in 15, we're going to look back and see very clearly that a lot of the prominent figures from this period were attention seekers, outrage entrepreneurs, or just riled-up people who didn't really know why they were riled up. https://t.co/JPpF6uNozA
For many, only by insisting to themselves that everyone has a very clear ideological side in a very clear ideological battle (instead of just acting out) can they convince themselves that their own activism, their own hatreds, their own imagined acts of violence mean something.
But we're not ready for that conversation, because we're still in the era of unrest, and so we still have to justify our own agitation to ourselves by telling ourselves that everyone has a very strict ideology.
What we're eventually going to realize is that 2014-whenever was a period of unrest, where a lot of people felt that they needed to make dramatic demonstrations and take dramatic actions, but not all of those people really knew what they wanted.
@plike_ @Theophite insists these guys want fascist death squads and race war
@Mal_A_Clypse @Theophite If they say things indicating they aren't fascists, we must not believe them, because who would believe a fascist?
@ElGranCAQuetzal In my experience, media tries to cater to existing narratives rather than creating narratives.
@Theophite He also came out in support of BLM!
@ElGranCAQuetzal I mean, false narratives are simply incredibly common; most things are complicated.
@Theophite You guys should hang out and discover all you actually have in common! 😊
@Theophite Haha I was thinking of you when I wrote that tweet. Turns out you and Ammon agree about the police!
@MaxMurrayShow @jdcmedlock @PolicyShill @russellmz @tmychow But "more spending" has been so damn effective, why throw away a winning strategy
Wow, first I'd seen of this. Pretty amazing. Kinda complicates the narrative that Ammon Bundy was a fascist stormtrooper... https://t.co/h8MmjY4Mqg
@jason_path10 It's Chinese, right?
@MaxMurrayShow @russellmz @PolicyShill @jdcmedlock @tmychow Check out Stockton's experiment
@NoahProoval I'll ignore the "hero" comment because you're a Noah 😘
@NoahProoval AFDC was a pretty bad program, but we just didn't replace it with anything. Still, we increased other programs and manage to still drive poverty down during the 00s and 10s.
RT @tekashi996: What if the “sex trafficking mania” that’s sort of taken suburban social media by storm is a form of secular Evangelical es…
@Fourthletter58 @HeavyHymnal @theendismeh Mexico
Check out this discussion thread. Tons of evidence shows that giving poor people money usually makes them non-poor. Amazing how that works! https://t.co/LvdoUT4PR3
@nextdoorsv The Jews will replace you* *with anime and Kpop
@persimfan I don't own any real estate but you can have my old sofa
@Network_Guy @Valergain The Ottoman Empire knew how
@MonkeySalad Stonetown mall I think
The food court too. Almost all Japanese, Korean, and Taiwanese stuff! https://t.co/vk9Qjd3AfU
Walking through an American shopping mall for the first time in many years, and it's all just Korean and Japanese stuff. ❤️ https://t.co/IO1d8LxJk0
@JamesTimmins @Insert_Name28 This is a LARPer man, ignore it
@Valergain Your bougie parents will leave you their suburban real estate, don't worry
@Ciel_Cicatrice You should change your name to Dumb Butt BAM
@Insert_Name28 You only say that because you know it'll never happen. When someone tries to raise property tax on you by like 0.03% you'll be screeching that it'll cause gentrification or something. Cosplay kid.
@Insert_Name28 No! You don't! You just want to be a Boomer but pretend like you're not!
@ethanbaron For duck's sake man
@ethanbaron What am I looking at
@MaxMurrayShow @PolicyShill @jdcmedlock Yes, and that argument appears to be wrong.
@MaxMurrayShow @PolicyShill @jdcmedlock Actually we've gotten a good return on our anti-poverty spending
I feel like Outrage Entrepreneurship is reaching the Juicero stage here. First movers already exploited all the lucrative niches of things to get people mad at, so the new wave has to get mad at stuff like e-bikes. Late Stage Outrage Capitalism.
@MaxMurrayShow @PolicyShill @jdcmedlock Or I choose a politics based on the goddamn evidence, one or the other
@miniver I tried to read the first book and then literally burned it halfway through
Final crime numbers for 2020 are in. Murder up 30%, assault up 12%. https://t.co/diVJOto5YT
America also invented pachinko but is among the countries least interested in pachinko. But in that case it didn't result in hundreds of thousands of preventable deaths. https://t.co/AMxsBzutWH
@John47137220 Yeah the orgs seem highly dysfunctional and not that useful in general.
@ReubenMcCallum @DeepDarkRock @gobsmackled "things that people who know nothing about Japan whatsoever say"
@excigaddict @originalspin *wakes up from nightmare and looks at arms* Whew, safe!!
@Itmechr3 I have a question. What must happen to ICE?
@eean It's like asking why Dylan bothered making that awful Hendrix cover
@originalspin In 2008 I was drinking a cup of Tazo Awake tea, and I noticed on the tab it had the words: "Imagine yourself on a lush tea plantation in India in 1850. The tea you would be drinking would probably taste a lot like Awake." I said "What if I was the one picking the tea?"
Passed by Folsom Street Fair yesterday, and realized I will never not be able to see it as Wheel of Time cosplay
@WesLawe Has more BDSM anyway
Yeah but Terry Pratchett's "Discworld" series is 15,497 pages. Bow to the true master https://t.co/qLR6m7XBZX
At least the non-white tankies have some sort of rationale, as opposed to the white tankies who just got tired of playing video games or whatever and needed a new thrill https://t.co/ZSfFLi2Otc
...prompting me to write "Americans dressed as clowns defeat clowns dressed as Americans"...
@Noahpinion When was that ever the narrative about the Bundys? Sovereign Citizens and SovCit-adjacent people are (in)famous for being anti-Federal government and state use of violence. That’s their whole thing.
@Noahpinion I've somehow read/listened to the entire Discworld series, but get scared off by the books over 500 pages.
@AlmingtonCap @Noahpinion Before I explain, have you heard of front yards?
@HistoryBoomer @Noahpinion Strong Disagree. The ranking of Discworld storylines is clearly: 1. MvL 2. Watch 3. Tiffany Aching 4. Other Industrial Revolution 5. Death 6. Witches 7. Ancient Civilizations 8. Wizards/Rincewind
I should start talking to people like this of anyone brings up anything about confectionery (thankfully no one ever does, because I'd be insufferable). https://t.co/g19fpReVNz
@Noahpinion Yeah, this is not a great way to strengthen the breadth of their appeal, though perhaps it comes across as more noble than hapless to the base.
All true. The increase in Asian influence in the US is huge, over just the last 10 or 20 years even https://t.co/W5FoA4aScz
@Noahpinion @johngmcnally Did a car write this?
@SarahGrynpas @Noahpinion You can even get several layers of Hispanic-Asian mixtures, like, dunno, the children of a Chinese-Peruvian and Philippine couple, or Japanese-Brazilian and Korean-Chilean. And I'm not even counting people from Western or Southern Asia, or Central America
@BorderPolitics_ @Noahpinion San Francisco plus parts of Southern California. There are malls like this in Orange County and the San Gabriel Valley. I used to go to the mall in Arcadia (aka Chinese Beverly Hills) for Asian food all the time. It was a little shocking to me when I first moved to California.
@Noahpinion The white tankies generally want to go full white nationalist but hold back because it would get them excommunicated from their social circles, so they use an ideology that lets them launder their views. Less of that issue for non-white ethnonationalism.
@Noahpinion @Theophite @samdman95 Sinema and Manchin win because they get nice lobbyist careers to fall back on, and America gets nothing because that’s what we ultimately want.
@MaxMurrayShow @PolicyShill @jdcmedlock @Noahpinion "New York City has reduced veteran homelessness by nearly 90% since 2011. ...housing homeless veterans within 90 days of entering the homeless system." https://t.co/qcbYjj28fe
@Noahpinion If you remove the profanity from Discworld, though, it's only 9,273 pages.
@Noahpinion I want everyone *except me* to do degrowth
@EEMthethird @Noahpinion Sir take that back, I was contemptible well before I got my jd.
@Noahpinion Googled it and I'm a flat earther now, thanks. I mean how can you not be? https://t.co/9V5znsoVM7
@Noahpinion If I were to go Tankie, I would be convinced that China is going to rule the world and I better get a good record going now. (China doesn't seem to have a problem with Facebook misinformation claiming the vaccine is in salad dressing and will mark you for the devil.)
The budget deficit is number 2 lmao we’re screwed. https://t.co/Ya2PcR4I1u
@Noahpinion @originalspin Are you East India Company management?
@Noahpinion Even more complexity in the inner east bay. Very glad to have grown up where the map looks like this. https://t.co/KB2GfEFp2V
@Noahpinion Working against fighting climate change are the deniers, the obfuscators, and the greedy fossil fuel interests, but never discount the airheaded concern trolls.
@Noahpinion I needed this. I just had a package stolen for the third time in the past two months. Cinnamon soothes my rage.
@Noahpinion Juicero - when the stories were juicier than the product.
@Noahpinion You should visit Monterey Park the next time you’re in LA Noah.
@Noahpinion Is this guy another version of the classic Twitter performance art piece, "plumbing the depths of stupidity"?
@Noahpinion Dude is more like an anti authority / anti government guy
@Noahpinion I think the strategy here is more like: “threaten loudly to defect while stalling for a couple weeks and then sulkingly cooperate when the obvious bluff is called.” It doesn’t accomplish much, but maybe it maximizes news coverage or something?
@Noahpinion @Theophite @plike_ And he doesn't like cops *if they limit his violent idiocy*
@Noahpinion @Valergain I have a brother, how do I deal with him?
@joeday05 @Noahpinion Yes, and that’s bad. It should apply to everyone. That doesn’t negate Noah’s point that’s it’s an important principal for any free society.
@Noahpinion Ya he is 😊 https://t.co/VELb9d18Ea
@Noahpinion Also, I support giving pet rabbits exotic dancer names. Is the other one named Sapphire or Tarzan?
@Noahpinion The same is true of IPAs. We'll look back and call them what they are--over-hopped bitter beers.
@cokeynes420 @Noahpinion The murder rate was unchanged last year in for example Germany (https://t.co/OJxDrPhThL) and Mexico (https://t.co/InWUZ6F6Y1). It fell in Britain. The pandemic does not explain the surge in murder in the US.
@Noahpinion 楓糖 Fengtang, means maple syrup (named by @kejjmad)
@Noahpinion @stan_keshi I think it'd be more reasonable to say that most people won't care about it.
The city emblem of Otaru, Hokkaido makes it look like they're really into Jewish baseball. https://t.co/Hx39EtaJ1l
@Noahpinion The alternative is that these kids would be throwing Molotov 🍹🍹 in real life, so maybe it's fine
@Noahpinion Electric vehicles, carbon capture, etc. are bad as they might lead fewer people to pursue deprivation and degrowth as their solutions.
@stan_keshi @Noahpinion You can think of nationhood as a: (1) blood and soil, or (b) shared ideals and shared purpose. In the first concept, ethnic demographics is integral for nationhood, in the other it isn’t. Which one are you for?
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed. https://t.co/tsiwod9UoL
@Noahpinion Joking at first and then I remembered "Wild Palms" (1993). Had to look it up. Somehow the real version is a bit less frightening.
@Noahpinion The Jiang and Hu mode had serious shortcomings, which gave Xi legitimacy as he went the other direction.
@Noahpinion Privacy was good.
@Noahpinion Among my questions is how did she aquire the bear urine?
@Noahpinion what’s a back yard?
Just blocked somebody for talking shit about @noahsmith’s rabbit.
@Noahpinion I already think you are an idiot if you have ONE JD, much less two. That is contemptible.
@Noahpinion Recommend Wendy Cheng's book The Changs Next Door to the Diaz's, about the San Gabriel Valley
@Noahpinion I am personally (as opposed to impersonally) outraged that I’m forced to Google 50% of your tweets just to know what the hell you are referencing.
@Noahpinion My favorite is when its announced that the BLM is setting backfires as a wildfire control measure and right-wing social media loses their minds being hysterical "Black Lives Matter is burning down the forests!"
@Noahpinion linking this here since I *did* type up a whole bunch of counterarguments I don't think anyone saw because I apparently dislike myself https://t.co/hJPDikBqRM
@Noahpinion Climate change is people's 10th most perceived big problem. The deficit is #2. So this seems like politicians following people's concerns. https://t.co/ULxiNGwyWC
@quinoaburger09 @theirfanator @Noahpinion Amazing. Dude's principled to a fault, nobody can take that away from him.
@Noahpinion @originalspin It'll still taste like Awake, you'd just be in more pain.
@Noahpinion You lured me in with the rabbits and just stole my heart with the Pratchett homage.
@Noahpinion I'd be very, VERY interested in Japanese cheesecake if I weren't already as big as a house.
@Noahpinion @Valergain In California, you also get to inherit your parent's ancient property tax assessment too.
@Noahpinion Internally, blm is a huge mess. Friend of mine left when pendley moved HQ and went to regional. The rural regionals are very much Trumper anti vaccers. It's kind of a crazy dynamic.
@Noahpinion How amazing would it be to be able to read a History of the 21st Century from the 23rd Century perspective?
@Noahpinion They seem to do good work, but the GOP desire to gut the HQ orgs and instead rely on grunts that are both rural and often ex military is intentional and hugely destructive (on purpose)
@Noahpinion Dude isn't even counting the Mishnah or the Talmud. AMATEUR.
@theirfanator @Noahpinion Woke Ammon Bundy https://t.co/7H9bAY6v1Z
@Noahpinion So he paid double? Can’t be a smart decision.
@bluefiddleguy @noahsmith @Noahpinion Oops! apologies @noahsmith, although I would also stand up for your hypothetical rabbits. Yes @noahpinion’s rabbit, specifically Cinnamon.
@Noahpinion https://t.co/RtIKyR8D5L
@Noahpinion @znmeb Right, sometimes it's an Iterated Ultimatum Game
@stan_keshi @Noahpinion Consoles were banned in China for like a decade
I’m uncomfortable with how often I agree with Noah. This is the best argument I’ve seen for passing the infrastructure bill. I, once again, completely agree. https://t.co/uLd4PK2p7h
@Noahpinion Hawaii also comes to mind.
@Noahpinion These are strange times as people try to find meaning in their lives. Trying to find causes to fight for. I can't imagine anyone will look back at the rise of anti-vaxxers in the middle of a once a century pandemic and not see mass hysteria.
@Noahpinion East Coast influenced by Europe and West Coast influenced by Asia and both influence by Latin America in different ways.
@Noahpinion I am no mathematician, but I am not 💯 that’s how the word random works.
@Noahpinion I feel like this should be word count. How many pages do they want? We can do that.
Feel bad! Everything that’s good is problematic! https://t.co/hXiOIM5bTp
@Noahpinion Just thinking about how growing up in the 90s the media was always making fun of the 60s counterculture as frivolous and silly whereas now we are making movies lionizing everyone from the black panthers to Abbie Hoffman.
@Noahpinion @Insert_Name28 Noah when are you gonna write a BOpinion piece that tells me whether Succession is an accurate picture of billionaires or not? I assume you know cuz "macroeconomics" == "lots of money" and stuff.
This is not an appropriate use of the terms gross and net. The effect on deficit is a different concept entirely from the cost of the bill https://t.co/xAuaXQHEu8
@benconomics Seems like an appropriate topic for me and my 10yo - do you get to kill rival dealers?
A Critical Analysis of Eggs and Cardiovascular Disease (The Eggscapades) https://t.co/psKpUdDblm
@gojomo @gregggonsalves @ATabarrok @mushfiq_econ We are doing a follow-up with KF94 masks.
@HJWallEcon @jmhorp Jeremy is kicking himself for missing that one.
I preach about the sunk cost fallacy, but here I am watching Season 6 Episode 11 of Billions.
@ConnorMEwing Canada’s Texas.
Just had my phone incorrectly autocorrect “ducking” to “fucking,” which means I’ve won, I’ve finally broken its spirit. How does failure taste, demon box.
I bet @visakanv $100 a year ago about whether he'd have more youtube or twitter followers today. And although he's grown his youtube following rapidly since then, it wasn't enough for him to win. Visa, I'd be happy to take payment in the form of consulting time if you'd prefer. https://t.co/SQHxMffqNC
reminder that if a press photographer ever takes your photo with a front-facing flash you need to call your lawyer immediately and get ready to gawker them https://t.co/X4mRsCFJXb
@DanielMillstone In no particular order: Cook & MacDonald 2011, Braga 2017, Braga et al 2018, Ratcliffe & Sorg 2017, Smith & Purtell 2007, Klock & Tabarrok 2005, Di Tella & Schargrodsky 2004, Draca et al 2005, Kennedy et all 2001, Felson et al 1996.
@tedfrank @ATabarrok Even as lame attempt, Mother Jones impresses me again for challenging viral narrative.
@ATabarrok I think it's a bit late to get in on LuLaRoe, unfortunately.
Who owns Kavanaugh??? Finally an intrepid reporter reveals who paid off his debts…it’s…are you ready?…his parents. https://t.co/WTNVR8bROV
@joshgans Here’s another even more apropos example https://t.co/KgqiaHfTGr
@ATabarrok @asymmetricinfo So from a retired well known K street lobbyist
RT @balajis: Cancellation is anti-worker. Employees should start demanding 90-day cooldown periods in contracts such that they can’t be pr…
RT @skominers: My column today in @bopinion: The world can have vaccine boosters and first doses, too – the key is to explicitly contract o…
RT @spwells: More than 50,000 people have died of Covid in the US in the past 28 days 🦠🇺🇸 https://t.co/vPeWNZI89C
RT @m_clem: Breakthrough cases of polio—including deaths—were common during early polio vaccination. What kept us safe was not perfect va…
RT @j_g_allen: "an unvaccinated 10-year-old, who may look like the very picture of COVID vulnerability heading into the school year, faces…
RT @antoniogm: Many Americans have never experienced how the idealistic politics of a radical revolution are cravenly exploited by the shit…
RT @JonahDispatch: Uncle Sam: We're gonna build a huge bridge across America. The good news: It's free. Normal: How can it be free? Sam: We…
RT @SHamiltonian: This, from the head of the @TGAgovau, is *mind blowing*. In Australia, 18 months into the pandemic, it’s illegal to use a…
@SHamiltonian Forcing people to wait for tests is deliberate! https://t.co/SafAn6fipE
@SHamiltonian Not a credible promise.
RT @landryst: "What makes the FDA’s failure to approve more rapid antigen tests especially galling is that some of the tests being sold che…
RT @balajis: Pretty awesome! First Senatorial candidate proposing that the US government buy a strategic reserve of Bitcoin.
RT @imbernomics: I'm sorry but I think Josh is right here. The public health community OK'ing the Floyd protests because they thought the s…
RT @gregggonsalves: The fact that my colleagues @Jabaluck & @mushfiq_econ had to do the mask study is another case in point. Economists led…
I'm thrilled to see these two education path-breakers recognized. I've known Rick Hanushek and followed his scholarship for decades. I haven't always agreed with Rick's conclusions, but he's never failed to engage and challenge me! https://t.co/fdviaauWTs
@alkali19 @ATabarrok @asymmetricinfo Yeah. He's an only child and the most likely answer in any case would be family. In this case that's more than likely given their income. But yeah I'm sure it's possible it's his wife or some other relative, though I don't know what the definition of "family" is for this purpose.
@AsteadWesley did this statement from the ford foundation email domain or a gmail...
ME: So they fired this lady from the dog park, right? But it turns out the guy who filmed the video was the satanic Airbnb guy — remember the satanic Airbnb guy? I mean, what are the odds? MY WIFE: [closing the LegalZoom divorce form on her browser] Oh, yes. How interesting.
@zebulgar Yeah, why would anyone want to get paid to pursue their own vision, choose all of their co-workers, and create their own work environment—and then you might even end up a billionaire at the end of it? Especially when you have the option to be a cog in the machine. So irrational
I guess a tweet of mine got screengrabbed and posted by one of the truly big Instagram meme accounts. Now people I knew from like, Hebrew school, are reaching out to congratulate me — “I always knew you were talented,” “so insane,” etc. Puts my “accomplishments” in perspective.
BOND [Pete Davidson]: I gotta admit something. Ever since my dad died, the medication, it makes it hard for me to — you know. SVETLANA TOPMEOFF [Alison Brie]: Meester Bond, I live in McKibbin lofts for five years after college — you think I haven’t heard thees before?
@SamAdlerBell for me the number would be 1
@jbarro @besttrousers @imbernomics agree with the thrust of this, but it's worth noting the split between the actual government officials (fauci, de blasio) who said the protests were likely unsafe and the high volume, high visibility public health twitter community who tied themselves into knots
It truly is amazing to see how some people can take what annoys them on Twitter and build an entire scale model of the world, complete with heroes, villains, weather, and all sorts of doomed internal logic. My theory is that this all comes from a fear of confrontation.
@MattZeitlin Thank you for this tweet
@TheStalwart @conorsen A bipartisan background would be helpful too. Someone who's been a Republican, but also supported Bernie Sanders.
Why is the wording of this so funny to me https://t.co/6cxIpKbwsp
Jordan Peterson is old Kaworu https://t.co/twmPighnZd
“Opa!” -me when David Strathairn breaks the plates in Nomadland
Sorry I caused the UK gas shortage. Me and my friends were re-enacting that scene from ZOOLANDER (2002) where you spray each other with the hoses for a laugh. We used up a few million litres
just putting it out there that, conditional on a flexible remote work policy, i would be willing to serve as president of the boston or dallas federal reserve banks https://t.co/CJIZtwnvIg
@SomersErin What about guys in their 30s starting podcasts about authors born in 1959
codeswitching but it's a pc for work and a mac for personal use
looking outside at this shitty weather... plotting against everyone who complained that it was summer...
Making the implicit explicit https://t.co/1aK8O5KmOv
51 minutes of me discussing a "convoluted, angry, and deeply horny book about earthquakes, radio station maintenance, and the environmental history of Boston that also might be the most 1990s novel ever written" with three guys and @SomersErin... https://t.co/lNxH11ndQ6
"Even First Dogs, published at the beginning of 2021, has aged poorly. Rather than settling into the White House peacefully together, Major bit two staff members and had to be, at least temporarily, exiled to Delaware. A few months later, Champ died." https://t.co/nwSVkzK5Us
Remember those insanely sick BMW ads starring Owen directed by Ridley Scott? I think James Brown was in one? This is what was taken from us https://t.co/Wy2ffozgv6
@Bernstein sons of therapists flock together https://t.co/Bx1EcGiV7E
happy National Sons Day to my son
Yeah authoritarian personalities are common on the left…the left side of the road when people won’t move over to the right when they’re driving under the speed limit!
I need these transcripts https://t.co/YS6Z5y3njJ
i wonder if "the andersons" (paul t, wes) will go through their entire careers and never have an iPhone in one of their movies
tomato paste containers...always too big for the amount of tomato paste you need...can't be resealed...gotta think there's a better way
this is also how the senate vote will go
RT @BenDWalsh: this elides the fact that there wasn't a financial crisis in March 2020 in large part because of Powell
@Bernstein i for one think it's cool that i have found a likeminded compatriot in this journey through life, i see we disagree on this however, perhaps not as likeminded as i thought
@jaycaspiankang np, i think productivity is important that the best business machine is one that lets its user do the most with it
@jack_hamilton tfw you think liz phair's best album is "liz phair"
when my windows pc is connected to peripherals that enhance my productivity through its ample and diverse ports https://t.co/5zJqFdzaQq
@McGillicudy the book is really good
glowing reviews, not putting his foot into his mouth in interviews, everything is coming up franz-man, it's almost too good...
@BenDWalsh @Bernstein Literal Donald Trump ran into this problem
It’s great that non profits want to fund black led news organizations but I would fund ones led by black journalists that do news, then again I don’t run a non profit so don’t listen to me
a$ap rocky looks great https://t.co/0MenoiPWMW
when chuck grassley was elected to the iowa house of representatives, adenauer still had four years left in office https://t.co/gODjENPuAP
let's all commit to never reading a novel about "the power of storytelling," it's a book, we get it.
@bigheadgenius i mean james bond movies today are basically made by aston martin
@NickBurns Trying to imagine Chris Lasch sharing a meal with the bud distributor in Pine Bluff
@danielmagliocco Buddy that might not even be 4 blocks
Have a feeling like everything else I like the other two may only be popular within a like 4 miles radius of my home, and not even in every direction
@sidhubaba We don’t like to announce it in advance but before a tour I like to grab a tight five now and then to work out new material
@petespiliakos Rick Santorum saw the way https://t.co/kGerAq9rzP https://t.co/Kmj71d9yWG
@EthanBWinter Don Young, Lisa Murkowski, Chris Christie
@xlorentzen Sorry man there’s only one British Albanian who I go to for book stuff https://t.co/clB4ttfGQC
@tomgara it's probably the august case explosion in florida/tennessee/missouri/lousiana turning into deaths
"listen jack, i mean joe, once jay rockefeller and i are sailing down the monongahela and i say jay, tell you what, you could buy this whole damn state and before he could respond i see this large white bird and i say jay, you see that bird with the white hood that's robert byrd!
It’s funny that Beal, Wiggins and Jonathan Isaac can’t help themselves from discoursing on vaccinations when you know who has been silent about it…
@JoePic47 I wasn’t being ironic!
this brainard speech is quite lucid and informative https://t.co/Q5PXdYPdLT
@conorsen i think of it is that they got a big chunk of their offcycle gains in 2020
i'm sure there's all sorts of misinformation and kookiness circulating through the nba re: vaccines, but i bet the baseline for a lot of the skepticism that does exist is just how many players got covid in the first place and thus consider themselves immune https://t.co/aIUbgowwUC
anyone who describes themselves as “complicated” is very simple and usually mean
As promised, though, I also owe him a surprise gift, so I'll need to think of what that should be. DM me any suggestions! https://t.co/HBodA3xN2H
Chinese Supremacy, yes, but not a golden age https://t.co/wgLmU92Xbb
@AmneMachin Colin McGinn’s moment has finally arrived.
RT @LongResilience: With volcanic eruptions, @CSERCambridge’s @laramani14 argues, “We’ve prioritised efficiency over resilience. If somethi…
Cherish your youth...... https://t.co/47UzzCS2qU
A lot of pisstaking over the “Britain will launch rockets next year” story, but British industry’s small-satellite launch programme is quite advanced and space ports were designated years ago https://t.co/gIzbll07pN
In defence of price-gouging in emergencies https://t.co/HPmTX8yr0v
.@CureFestUSA was an amazing experience. I’m so grateful to all the fellow cancer families and warriors we met. We will never forget it and will be back be next year. https://t.co/KMn26FojW5
Went to the COVID memorial after CureFest. It is so powerful. https://t.co/PHzfplWUwM
@ParkerMolloy It’s just weird.
Our friends at @LiveLikeBella had a beautiful display for Francesca at their annual ball on Saturday. https://t.co/66m2QQ4MVW
OMG. https://t.co/BSNj8h82vS https://t.co/uDU2hADR8K
@ebruenig See I think this is too high level, it genuinely didn’t occur to me it was meant to be a dunk on the concept of vaccination until I read replies.
@kjhealy The revelation that hit me when I realised that philosophy specifically selects for people who are smart enough to do many things but would rather be smugly rational than get paid.
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare The lone and level sands stretch far away.
In some deep visceral way I feel that I never ever agreed for any boss to be my personal morality police, or that I am ever representing them as I go about my life. I do not exist for any employer, my life outside the narrow confines of work is not theirs to evaluate.
girl i don't think this is a situation where u can copy from ur neighbor https://t.co/vOoL4tRGI9
am I wearing the same shirt I have in my avi, what is happening here
when it is time to play the cello and u do not know how https://t.co/V8hS30KFSl
here's a video of me pretending to play the cello at age 10 because I had undiagnosed adhd and definitely did not know how to play the cello https://t.co/bQ0q7uIivv
@CT_Bergstrom Goodhart's Law. When managing software projects ~1980, some people in computing focused on counting lines of code written. My model was the fewer the lines of code, the better. We sometimes had "crunch meetings" to reduce code. Luckily, my bosses agreed. https://t.co/L644Jn9Tmu
This remains the story of SARSCoV2 evolution https://t.co/3w6jPI6vzp https://t.co/0rt8BOtjdg
American Goldfinch at Shawangunk Grasslands . #birding #birdphotography #naturelovers https://t.co/qDiumklX9f
Boyfriend's mom just sent us this photo from her balcony on the UWS. Bird twitter, what is this beautiful creature? https://t.co/Z2jJwxVFLF
@sloppy_okapi @ndrew_lawrence Principle of proportional ink? What's that? I just like how the color scheme matches his tie.
"When a measure becomes a target, people do dumb shit." https://t.co/MYpEMMiTvY
@CT_Bergstrom That’s remarkable convergent evolution 😉
@afmagee42 @CT_Bergstrom "fatigue as the productivity measure" Nautilus Pompilius https://t.co/zsuEFbGoWj
@CT_Bergstrom Stunning, indeed!
@afmagee42 OK yeah, that's probably right.
Oh Michigan. https://t.co/EPSqHwqJTI
@CKJohnsonBk Looks glorious, sort of like an east coast version of our beloved Skagit Valley in Washington state but with a larger area set aside as a permanent preserve.
Enjoy, bird lovers. What a stunning photograph. https://t.co/v7pZEr2OwZ
@JohnMashey Marilyn Strathern famously summarized Goodhart's law as "When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure." Campell's law adds to Goodhart's the counterproductive aspect of gaming behavior; the above is my attempt to condense it.
@David_Dobbs Amazing tip. I never would’ve thought of it. Thank you!
@CT_Bergstrom It’s not actually that large, but it feels infinite when you are in it.
@CT_Bergstrom Taken at the Shawangunk Grasslands. https://t.co/5SnQy80eGv
@CT_Bergstrom FIRE towers. I once in Spruce Mtn tower watched wave after wave of warblers land in the treetops 20 feet below me. Easy hike up. It’s in Plainfield. See AllTrails site for deets.
@CT_Bergstrom Carl, a hike to Mtn tops, eg Spruce Peak (or msg any further S as well) may get you views of warblers. Spruce and also Elmore Mtn have for towers giving exclnt treetop views.
@CT_Bergstrom The corollary to "you get what you measure" is "be careful what you measure as you just might get it."
@CT_Bergstrom The Shawangunk Grasslands is an amazing place. You can’t even believe it exists when you go there.
@CT_Bergstrom Every time we start to set a measurement up I try to figure out how I would game it. It’s amazing to me that more people don’t do that.
@CT_Bergstrom I feel like that should be reserved for cases where the measures are a bit less fucking stupid. This is classic "play stupid games, win stupid prizes."
@CT_Bergstrom Not a sure thing, but damn, something to see when it works. And a fine hike regardless.
@SamoBurja It’s the best thing in the world
And this is annoying. It’s not a government programme. They’re private companies. There are research funds (https://t.co/41ttatggTI) but they’re only a few grand (and space research is good and we are a world leader in satellite design and manufacture) https://t.co/5AD7NaUgDA
I went to DeepMind to see their robotics department, and to learn about the problem of "catastrophic forgetting" – how if you train an AI to do one thing, and then another thing, it forgets how to do the first thing https://t.co/sAVpF3bo2Z
Why are symptomatic post-vaccination covid infections, without hospitalization (H), important? —they can be severe, on the brink of H —they can result in #LongCovid —they can transmit to others —they were the primary endpoint of the vaccine clinical trials for efficacy
this is beautiful, all of the most important constants in one equation https://t.co/qWzRezHE6g
Achilles heel for creators isn't monetization, it's discovery. Always has been. Obscurity is far greater threat to writers, musicians, filmmakers than things like making $ or piracy. Solving for that legitimately helps creatives. Once they have attention all the other doors open.
Pretty awesome! First Senatorial candidate proposing that the US government buy a strategic reserve of Bitcoin. https://t.co/CGW48ZJN43
It's pretty obvious who's face should be on the trillion dollar coin IYKYK https://t.co/1IJn6itgyk
Just because I am committed to helping people grow into their full potential doesn't mean I have my own growth sorted out. By helping others grow, I am growing as well. I find my clients endlessly fascinating and the complexities of human existence continually challenge me.
Trust in scientists has changed during the pandemic, which varies considerably in the 12 countries studied, and has affected compliance with mitigation measures and vaccination uptake https://t.co/7W35wkCQKm @PNASNews https://t.co/8zdi95obFk
It doesn't preclude a winter surge later. But schools have been open long enough that it's looking somewhat unlikely we'll have a national COVID surge caused by school re-openings. Cases are still falling in most of the country. https://t.co/i8ElZQJZ5p https://t.co/wunbuvY1FN
i havent liked star wars since i was sixteen and im mad about this guess a man just accumulates insoluble grudges as he ages this one seems more harmless than many
@Spatcholula my initial impulse was like shouldnt you be better at defeating people in psychic combat if thats literally your job
@Spatcholula yeah theyre not good people
raze the cities. allow the endless Steppe to return. let tengri reward you https://t.co/VSH2Cusdpm
https://t.co/7NjcgE79xU https://t.co/J7dkhV2VJH
wait. police executed a WHITE STAG? in ENGLAND? this is the kind of act that dooms a nation https://t.co/dLHbt88cP2
staring at ppl is just rude! https://t.co/QZIO7vlnIb
https://t.co/7Gc5qCQKyW https://t.co/SkQOaAruUb
imagine getting a call to adventure and just shooting it the Wild Huntsman will be wroth and and I fear England will suffer a black Winter indeed https://t.co/CVsAlxztO3
the Borijins who spawned Genghis Khan were eradicated after such an error https://t.co/1TfEonBxUX https://t.co/90NzcMipP7
Photographer Richard Albrecht captured this clip of a mosquito (Culex pipiens) laying eggs in a swamp and was nominated with the honorable mention at Nikon's 2021 Small World in Motion Competition [source: https://t.co/XbQLn7nQxV] https://t.co/PfMYEoVB6x
This drone view by Domenic Biagini not only shows the magnificence of the blue whale, the largest animal that ever lived, but also how the blowhole, essentially its nostril, is so similar to the human nose [source with more videos: https://t.co/MALD8RieA0] https://t.co/dcEJF1hwse
Twig-mimicking caterpillars of the peppered moth can sense a twig’s color with their skin. Caterpillars that were blindfolded in a research study, changed the color of their bodies to match their background [read more: https://t.co/1ytUbFE5Zw] https://t.co/JVN55jgpcw
15 uncoupled pendulums of increasing lengths dance and produce visual traveling waves, standing waves and beating [source, by Harvard Natural Sciences Lecture Demonstrations: https://t.co/TCg4lLtumf] https://t.co/wHQTeNfasO
@ArtirKel Yes, it is! Goes all the way back to the 60s and the coverage is incredibly interesting. Puts a lot of today’s corporate magazines to shame imo https://t.co/EHNKItHEhY
This is pretty amazing - people working 40-50 hours a week in VR https://t.co/7VEcmyWwMp Lots of potential in this new medium.
no steakholders, only vegetable keepers
@valor_zhang @celinehalioua we know this is fake news
@SilverVVulpes Merely bathing in those waters gets you pregnant, even if male
RT @brian_armstrong: This is pretty amazing - people working 40-50 hours a week in VR https://t.co/7VEcmyWwMp Lots of potential in this ne…
@kipperrii Tfw can't fly away out of the US until my greencard comes thru
@Lola_lmao7 @Lan_Dao_ @jack what are you waiting for
@OlliPayne It's vibes all the way down
@nickcammarata Sunday odd-hour regulars https://t.co/f9EGlYPFUE
@LM_Braswell Alt: Going out? You mean getting out of the house to go bouldering? Your climbing shoes I guess.
@LM_Braswell "Going out for the morning coffee? Allbirds and a Patagonis vest at the very least"
@literalbanana Perhaps more widespread use of statins? Wonder what happens if you break it down by treated vs untreated
@kevinakwok It seems to me the best heuristic is "whole foods, fully plant based" as in https://t.co/4fgZGWdB5e but I still eat whatever on the weekends (I do try to do whole foods during the week!)
@kevinakwok I was thinking of writing a nutrition post at Nintil on eggs but fortunately this seems to be roughly what I would write? It may still be wrong, but it seems to go into sufficient depth into the various studies
@singareddynm I'm not sure if I'm more surprised by the cover or the fact that it includes articles on Ethiopian hermit-priests lol. Is this online?
@celinehalioua @sammarkuse !!!!
@Ben_Reinhardt @SamoBurja 4vs5 is not that different!
had an extremely upsetting day and concluded that i'm just gonna make art in a specific direction and with/for people i'm aligned with heck all this other dumb shit
I am disagreeable intellectually but very agreeable interpersonally. I think the Big Five personality model needs to make this distinction clearer. I revel in my rebellion against the standard idea, but also revel in my desire to connect with another human. Anyone relate?
@SamtoshiAlamedo This is a (reasonably) good POV on the september fractal. Will add, that I have not seen a "double bubble" as people like to call it occur more than once on any asset or stock. It generally occurs early in price discovery (ETH 2017, Weed 2018-2019, BTC 2014). https://t.co/MkaziFNaKU
Muted Nova. Not sure why there's still useless thirst traps parading around CT. I'm all for equality, but instagram is that way.
@Dennis_Porter_ Nah I think Bitcoin will lose the number 1 spot to Ethereum. Bitcoin has bad tokenomics and the sustainability FUD will hurt it.
Kind of hard to see what happened here, I have no idea what really went down. Anyone from EF have insight into this? @sassal0x #FreeVirgil
They got him 😭 https://t.co/Fy8SBQqCEf
@SamtoshiAlamedo has a good thread on the medium-term future for #Crypto. https://t.co/AGN7Ossuw9
@Legion03857443 ATOM a smart buy here IMO LUNA too
I hadn't realised that nuclear power wasn't on the table at COP 26. Seems really self-defeating for anyone whose goal is actually to combat global warming. https://t.co/lmWWKDHYAn
First they laugh at you Then they hfsp because they ngmi
@udiWertheimer @kevinsekniqi I know you did hfsp [1] but actually don't know who coined ngmi [2]. I'd of course cite it in Markdown format. [1] Wertheimer, Udi. "How nocoiners and journos are enjoying their self-imposed penury" [2] Unknown
@kevinsekniqi My alt is @udiWertheimer https://t.co/3hQWibypqX
On a personal level: what do you *need* to know about and track over time? - Your health, blood glucose, physical fitness - Your income, burn rate, personal runway - Your progress towards long-term goals Not random infotainment. That's recreation. So: dashboards > newspapers.
We discussed this on the recent All-In. As @chamath pointed out, countries in Africa or South America were treated as economic partners by China, but sympathy objects by the US. China itself was mostly underrated by the US, and still is in many ways. https://t.co/qKTEYm3rAF
The tendency is to bucket everything into either a sh*thole country or a Salvation Army country. Bomb them or patronize them, or bomb them and *then* patronize them. The idea of foreigners as genuine peers, economic competitors, or true partners is surprisingly foreign.
@doctorow @bswud @johnrmyers Thanks for mentioning us! Here’s the link to the article in case anyone reading is interested. https://t.co/Y2jEr6qE6A
@CkLorentzen ha, i take things only the right way https://t.co/6Qxb6YF4KW
@CkLorentzen but i want to split hairs and make people furious at me, it's the only joy i can find in this clockwork world!
@CkLorentzen i'm mostly talking myself into never making statements of any kind whatsoever, in order to not deceive, in principle that would be rad silent avery
@CkLorentzen i'm pretty inscrutable, for an over-sharer i'm pretty good at evasion and inhabiting an esoteric ambivalence ... want to try, in a courtroom: "i can't answer that question truthfully because it would lead you to being deceived into believing that i was guilty"
@CkLorentzen hm, i try to divorce intent from all questions of episteme- not that truths can't be used strategically thinking specifically about questions like "who did you vote for?" with my knowledge, i could guess some of the conclusions at which they will arrive: wrong ones
is answering a question truthfully, that you know will lead someone to the wrong conclusion (due to other misconceptions), deceptive
Has anyone compiled all cases, over last 7-plus decades, in which high-status human forecasters lose to low-status competitors in noisy prediction tasks? Hamsters, rats, chimps,… A public-good for teachers in many fields https://t.co/0awjKgEdVb
Proud to lend my support to this amicus brief on behalf of Happy the elephant, soon to be America's first nonhuman legal person. https://t.co/95QpnvmZzL
Awesome thread that draws on The Housing Theory of Everything and adds lots of extra analysis, critique and thought as well. Well worth a read. https://t.co/Y2jEr693f2 https://t.co/qLBAhXD8M2
@BrianCAlbrecht @causalinf The man is a walking, tweeting spillover effect
@BrianCAlbrecht @causalinf @causalinf inspired me too. 25lbs lighter as a result!
Anthony, no. Imagine if everyone else made half-baked tweets hoping for someone else to correct them. https://t.co/qOk1V2Z7JY
For Covid-19, more than ever before, it's vital to keep clinicians in the US healthcare workforce. These are 10 steps that will help https://t.co/d4Jd8bU6az @AnnalsofIM @ACPinternists @EileenBarrettNM @DarilynMoyer https://t.co/vomWQ9ylHS
@ModeledBehavior Time to order your Faraday cage
Vaccine mandates work https://t.co/7TtLSBT91W
@cettedrucks @dansaltzstein According to @EricTopol, Astra Zeneca followed by mRNA (Pfizer or Moderna) is a better combo. Likely the same with J&J plus mRNA. Doesn't work in the reverse order. See this interview: https://t.co/vw64xIM1Nv
And now … imagine an edit-on-demand pipeline in such a setting. This is a tractable goal for genomic medicine. It really is. https://t.co/4bOvNOvaRc
@EricTopol Also important because we know #BlackAndBrownAmericans are statistically more likely to not be admitted to #hospitals in comparison to #WhiteAmericans DESPITE being symptomatic. And how this is linked to #morbidity & #mortality https://t.co/auP1X3mMxU
There's no such thing as "identical twins" Each person carries a distinct epigenomic signature, which can be used retrospectively to determine the type of twins https://t.co/BvyRhdEZHy @NatureComms https://t.co/qafFC2LrNY
Why is the trust equation on health in Portugal so much higher than that in the USA or almost any other country. #COVID19 https://t.co/16inM3BimZ
How did Portugal become the current #1 in the world fully vaccinated country at 83% of its total population? https://t.co/hmvDv10J4w "Health experts attribute Portugal’s vaccination success to constructive co-operation between medics, the military and local officials." https://t.co/mT5CFG8s2w
The 2 FDA scientists knew the @NEJM data for >1.1 million Israelis age 60+ w/booster restoration of vaccine effectiveness, but wrote "currently available evidence does not show the need for widespread use of booster vaccination " @TheLancet There are 70 million Americans age ≥60
The lung microbiome contributes to an individual's susceptibility to getting severe Covid. https://t.co/ePHeRBcRN8 Other key factors include inadequate adaptive alveolar immune response and viral burden @NatureMicrobiol
When your country makes the vaccines, did the clinical trials, and had enough vaccines for every person. But you're #48 on the list https://t.co/CtQtGEAl0S https://t.co/Oou9ayex1x
RT @m_clem: Breakthrough cases of polio—including deaths—were common during early polio vaccination. What kept us safe was not perfect va…
High vaccine effectiveness vs symptomatic infection in >200,000 teens in Israel (age 12-15) during its Delta wave https://t.co/tqgP7nRF3s https://t.co/La7obbKL8A
A randomized trial of whole genome sequencing in sick newborns demonstrates its importance for changing the management of the babies and making the molecular diagnosis @JAMAPediatrics https://t.co/uRnBnyHkQe This can now be accomplished in < 14 hours https://t.co/77W5XGgWAH
The headline and data visualization that will go down in history as the leading explanation for America's failure to lead global vaccination, but instead leaving its people highly vulnerable to spread covid, get hospitalized and die. https://t.co/jzgBOxW4xT
Our covid times :-) by @stephanpastis https://t.co/LXX8ZnC7w2
We're about to break below 80,000 US covid hospitalizations, for the 1st time in over 6 weeks https://t.co/PdjSmQa8Zk
This change will likely accelerate the Pfizer vaccine EUA for children age 5-11, to be submitted this week. Dr. Peter Marks, now in charge, was the originator of Operation Warp Speed, and led the move to “all hands on deck”(finally) in July that led to full 💉approval in August
Inconvenient truth #2 Transmission among fully vaccinated health care workers, with some asymptomatic individuals with higher viral loads than those with symptoms https://t.co/IcC4Nsvne4 (not common, but it can occur) https://t.co/9nY82yrb2u
Inconvenient truth #1 The waning of vaccine effectiveness vs symptomatic infections for both Pfizer and Moderna across all age 20+ groups, presented at @CDCgov Advisory meeting last week https://t.co/BWWWy0mtZO https://t.co/M2g9FMdGYR
A change in leadership at @US_FDA's Office of Vaccines Research and Review. This was necessitated by the resignation of the 2 FDA scientists who also led a strident opposition to use of 3rd shots https://t.co/5ZaIQJ235d by @noahweiland
The link for this now up @NYMag https://t.co/aiGTLSkxVP https://t.co/NC2rYqYOKC
The difference in pattern of the UK and EU Perhaps, in part, related to first mover disadvantage of being months earlier in vaccination campaign and susceptibility to waning impact https://t.co/NFoD1Ujkvf
@EricTopol There was almost no politicization of vaccination; all politicians (both in power and opposition) supported the vaccination process. Also, although there are a few crazy anti-vaxers, it is a really very very small number.
🧵4/n #Pathology is increasingly important with advances in #Genomics and #MolecularTesting – its impact is encapsulated in @EricTopol article & I hope he won't mind me quoting "from pre-womb to tomb" - pathology works with all medical/research teams via: https://t.co/KFWigciBzO https://t.co/5Du5zL6NzA
@EricTopol @AnnalsofIM @ACPinternists @EileenBarrettNM @DarilynMoyer Proud of you, @EileenBarrettNM !❤️
I still see people wearing Yale branded cloth masks around campus. Why haven’t @Jabaluck @mushfiq_econ gone around snatching them all up and replacing with surgical masks?! 😉 https://t.co/6wCXdaeT04
RT @BenMazer: I still see people wearing Yale branded cloth masks around campus. Why haven’t @Jabaluck @mushfiq_econ gone around snatching…
@BristOliver @JamesWard73 Guys, flip to fuel crisis analysis. That’s where the action is.
New evidence on the intersection of gender inequality and caste discrimination in Uttar Pradesh https://t.co/pQT1Cscp1B https://t.co/35JKucrXTV
@deaneckles @johnjhorton Guido is a dear friend and collaborator. And you gotta love his accent and sly smile when he tells these stories, no?
1. Create a fake email address 2. Connect potential investors to fake email address 3. Use excuse in order to phone into a Zoom call 4. Impersonate someone during due diligence Feels like we're using pretty liberal interpretations of "mental health issue" here. https://t.co/oAEgwaUPMv
That the “beautiful walkable city with no cars” idea everyone loves to pine over on Twitter is completely unrealistic for the vast majority of American cities, even if we weren’t completely terrible at building public transport. https://t.co/e0q2bDG8t7
Honoured to have been appointed global CEO of Ipsos - a company led by researchers and built over decades by Didier Truchot to 90 countries and 17000 people. Market and social research makes our world a better place https://t.co/j5qOuMz5gp
https://t.co/Ihq0kn6y7g https://t.co/ZKnu5a5ike
New note on why I created a limited company for my business instead of remaining as a sole trader (proprietor). It came down to the perspective shift it gave me: I wanted to be encouraged to work *on* the business and not just *in* it. https://t.co/gE9mWw5hl8
@merott don't need no weak hands around here https://t.co/FotDlJt5WF
People tend to over-index on seeking advice and under-index on learning from direct experience, maybe because it’s scarier and more frustrating.
A vote to hike the debt ceiling is a vote to legitimize the debt ceiling.
This is Sampson. He had a serious infection at just 5 weeks old. He survived, but with permanent damage to the left side of his brain. He’s healthy now, but does a few interesting things as a result. One of which, is somersault. 14/10 https://t.co/CxcCdkErBG
Remote work innovation or no? https://t.co/NC2nQ5z7L3
Exactly 3 years ago, I was on vacation in NYC and had breakfast with @jeffjarvis. He persuaded me to come to @newmarkjschool to build an Executive Program. I came, we built it (and then some), and I'm so happy I took the leap. #nyc #love https://t.co/OJXrZvuXuU
@andrew_lilico @JamesWard73 @ThatRyanChap Agree, but agree with James comms can lead to umbrage because people can't abide the wrong word being used even if the meaning is clear (or leverage the use of the wrong word to present a skewed worldview). For example, see "severed the link", meaning reduced the conversion rate.
COVID in England peaks among 11-15 year olds. This peak is 60% higher in the least deprived areas (blue) than in the most deprived (red) Infections then pass to parents, who are on average older in the least deprived areas @jburnmurdoch @Zubhaque @dgurdasani1 @Kit_Yates_Maths https://t.co/OGJMOXF0OD
It's not locked https://t.co/dSpJcUWUrG
Low cost harm reduction tips welcome
Starting to get some serious hand nerve/muscle issues (maybe carpal?) from laptopping during this extended WFH. Is extended laptop use a common cause? Only explanation I can think of. Return to office and mixing it up a bit can't come fast enough in any case.
maybe her phone's on silent, happens to me a lot https://t.co/5XyR7qQUFh
house and senate https://t.co/9ZQbqt3uGT
and in the opposing corner https://t.co/n4J1PhwE4f
This is a case where the recipient lends prestige to the prize. Hard to think of many people who span the range from real grassroots activism to RCTs and massive data collection the way Rukmini does. She fundamentally changed the way folks in development talk about education. https://t.co/XSHkcg6RKd
Having seen fieldwork pictures of this one, I'm glad I chose to study outsourcing *education*. https://t.co/h2UCTVDwsG
@srajagopalan Thanks. Not to forget, the suberb lyrics by Balkavi Bairagi, a remarkable poet-politician from Madhya Pradesh. https://t.co/YNqcMQ62mj
@econhist_allday @ModeledBehavior There's no higher recognition than having someone read your dissertation and say it's quite important 😂
@alt1na1 it’s just too much!
@visakanv @AbstractFairy YESSS It would be so fun
@MilanV what fresh hell is this
@MilanV This will never sully my freezer.
Very much looking forward to this talk. https://t.co/ASDDghHHqu
@MilanV Milan, we are not speaking about ‘that which shall not be named’ …..
@qfint Yes! The lyrics are so lovely!
Since twitter is buzzing with Lata Mangeshkar’s birthday, my favorite Lata song is Tu Chanda Main Chandni from Reshma aur Shera. Lovely music by Jaidev Verma who was Ali Akbar Khan’s student. And Waheeda Rahman makes everything lovelier. https://t.co/y3DaqpB6UR
Super important effort! And an incredible team. 👇 https://t.co/DXg3k6Phry
RT @AngadDaryani: We eat 2-4 times a day, and put thought into what we eat. We breathe 22,000 times a day. Why not put thought into it? Hav…
@MilanV We shall not speak of such matters ever again…
RT @ATabarrok: @joshgans Here’s another even more apropos example https://t.co/KgqiaHfTGr
Art is a passion not profession until we get to next stage of capitalism/automation. Then creatives may finally be valued (will be the only thing left we can't automate). I'm here for this world! https://t.co/BQTHWft5MK
@visakanv YouTube and TikTok are really the only ones who are good at this. They surface completely unknown creatives to me daily which is amazing. Spotify and Soundcloud all out refuse to do this (there's even MORE musicians than video too).
RT @S_OhEigeartaigh: Reminder that this role closes next monday! Come work with us on topics ranging from horizon-scanning for emerging ris…
Today’s my first day at @Shopify! Excited to join the Editorial & Media team to tell stories about entrepreneurs, creators, and builders. 🚀
@movebetterproj hello ziggy!!! 😍
omg i may have found my next tatt idea 😻 https://t.co/mIajIkUfDs
@visakanv Not being like my older family w massive dysfunction and savior complex (and buy love) was a major W on my part
This weekend I 🐐 met a goat 🏞 ran a Central Park loop 👨‍🎤 saw my favorite musician 💨 sped up a dev workflow 100x You should move to New York! https://t.co/lBgkld2Zhp
Sometimes I want to be as prolific on Twitter as @visakanv, sometimes I wish my account to be the Twitter equivalent of these paintings Can’t really have both at the same time, unless? https://t.co/B5EkgI1RLl
its so weird how introspecting makes me better at understanding and helping others like yo wtf i thought i was being selfish
@movebetterproj @visakanv @Caroline30 Oh looks like you did already reply amazing https://t.co/PjOOEGj7VC
@visakanv but i love hawkeye https://t.co/8Iw6l2CANI
@visakanv also there are many uncurious people who mainly ask questions for "gotcha" social attack purposes, and if too many of them do this, you can end up with norms about not asking "irrelevant questions" (& a curious person who actually wants to know is mistakenly perceived as hostile)
@fadeke_adegbuyi @Shopify oh nice! great team, enjoy!
@LingTolls hell yea ❤️💪🏾🔥
@AdamSinger @sftechbr0 clarifying further still, a lot of the people hoping to catch a lucky break still don't quite properly understand the nature of audience-building, and so you get a lot of flash-in-the-pan types
@AdamSinger @sftechbr0 if we were to get precise about it I would say, there's a subset of people who are obsessed with exposure, and they are of course overrepresented but the majority of creators I talk to, founders, ppl running platforms, etc don't quite *properly* appreciate distribution
@made_in_cosmos https://t.co/v57BHvrGiM
@tomcritchlow bright red jars a little weird with the background color instinctively i'd pick the top one... but not a very significant difference overall i think
@AdamSinger yep. distribution is continually disrespected, underestimated, and yet the primary multiplier of value
41. https://t.co/PnFcHbRFQK
this still feels like "the best avengers are captain america, iron man and hawkeye" 😅 https://t.co/ubFlQCadmV
@m_ashcroft always good to shake off the half-hearted
@WeftOfSoul i like taking deep slow breaths because it calms me down and makes me feel more lucid and alert, ppl make too big a deal out of "meditation" imo
@dcanosa I agree with LOTR, tho maybe Star Wars is on the same level
@cronokirby sometimes, sorta!
@AbstractFairy https://t.co/VMsz3w74cI
ok i have to call it a night working on my book is physically exhausting I can tweet 20 hours straight but I can't do more than 4 hours of bookwork
@nickcammarata @SamoBurja +1, it's my favorite thing I indirectly just helped like a dozen people fix chronic pain issues by introducing them to a super physio who was hanging out in my mentions https://t.co/bQU19Am1yJ
@RichardMCNgo haha yea I was expecting to get my ebook done much, much earlier I'm cool with either option, up to you
stating this a little more strongly than I usually state things but I've been thinking about this for hours and I think I stand by it
I'm less than halfway through this playlist. After completing a set of isometric lunges my constant lower back pain is gone. Gonna cry 🥺 Follow @movebetterproj!!! Dr. Martin seriously changed my life!!! Also tysm @visakanv for rec! https://t.co/60ZvxjWKOc
"no bystanders" https://t.co/pIw5iBcMP8
@movebetterproj Thank you so much for what you do! Now a loyal follower. Hope Ziggy has a great fetch session!!
For reference I previously went to doctor + urgent care after developing a fever, chills, and blacking out while sitting down. They just gave me antibiotics + scrip for 600mg ibuprofen. Pain went away for a few days then came back. No more pain today. Can't believe it. 😢❤️
@not__false @visakanv https://t.co/nJoy5xqezp
@visakanv https://t.co/WqH4tPz7fC
@IonaItalia I am torn about this. The original was so good! I don’t want anything of it to be lost. But I also know it could have been better without Executive Meddling… So, with JMS at the helm, I’m hopeful.
This one ethical solution to this wild ass hypothetical https://t.co/IakRJXIbW0
@the_aiju @visakanv Working on a vid later today to help w neck stuff. For now, do the first 3 videos on this playlist: https://t.co/r3WTgUhvWM plus this exercise: https://t.co/oxUpN8656c
Just woke up to ~50 notifications! This is new territory for me lol. I will try to get to everyone today, but first, Ziggy must have his fetch game. https://t.co/o2DwLMPXil
@NathanpmYoung @anthrowittering Agreed, hunter gatherers never really stood a chance Idk anything about the Amish but good shout, now I'm curious about their work week. I hear they are less depressed than the rest of us https://t.co/NSvFvxTxy5
Folks I have an imposter. @TheStqlwart. As far as I can tell, the person is anti #MTFC. Please report. Thank you.
“Thank you from the very bottom of my heart!!!” https://t.co/4yTg2k2W5A
@dyudkin It’s so good on pancakes 🥞
@julien @vishnusupreet No.
@vishnusupreet Manifest destiny
there is a guy on here who copies every high performing take in my sphere a few hours later and gets more likes. Tiger Global strategy
This little boy just kills me https://t.co/jGv6IwLBGj