Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
One of the vexing aspects of the Afghanistan coverage is that "people risk their lives to flee to the United States" is the story *every day* at the southern border, but the conventional framing of that story is it's a policy failure when they succeed.
npr.org
Deaths At The Arizona-Mexico Border Are On Pace To Be Highest Ever Recorded
10:48 AM · Aug 26, 2021
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
I think more openness to immigration would be good.
But if you want to find people with sympathetic stories who are not currently able to migrate to the country, you don't need to look to a warzone halfway around the world.
10:52 AM · Aug 26, 2021
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Tahir Amin@realtahiramin
Pharma: Waiving IP doesn’t matter because the production capability isn’t there
South Korea’s biotech sector: We are “poised to plough billions of dollars to expand factories to produce 1bn vaccines annually.”
Pharma: Ok well, we still won't waive IP.
ft.com
Subscribe to read | Financial Times
7:33 PM · Aug 25, 2021
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
The SSRI fluvoxomine, normally used to treat OCD, seems to significantly reduce severe Covid-19 outcomes in rigorous trials.
Would recommend over the worm thing.
vox.com
How a cheap antidepressant emerged as a promising Covid-19 treatment
11:21 PM · Aug 26, 2021
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Guilherme Rambo@_inside
Apple PR has been doing confusing announcements recently lol You still can’t link to other payment methods in-app, only email customers about them.
Benedict Evans @benedictevans
Ooh. Apple will now (settling a lawsuit) allow developers to tell users about other payment methods. This is a BIG change. https://t.co/Yz49IJiKS3
12:21 AM · Aug 27, 2021
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Marco Arment@marcoarment
It’s so funny watching Apple PR’s song and dance, embarrassingly patting itself on the back, after yielding basically zero ground on the App Store’s most anticompetitive rules.
You know this changes nothing. We know this changes nothing. Who are you performing for?
12:57 AM · Aug 27, 2021
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Noah Smith 🐇@Noahpinion
Missed your chance to launch nukes by entering "password:password", folks
Massimo @Rainmaker1973
During the height of the Cold War, the US military put such an emphasis on a rapid response to an attack on American soil, that for 20 years the ICBM launch codes were 00000000 to minimize delay [read more: https://t.co/IMW3NXjuiR] https://t.co/fGb4VIM1GY
5:21 AM · Aug 27, 2021
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