Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
Left-wing people have started describing really banal obviously true points as "contrarian" to try to create an unrealistically high evidentiary bar for ideas they happen to find uncongenial or inconvenient.
1:29 PM · Sep 29, 2021
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
A UK/EU space race to Mars would be a hilarious outcome of Brexit.
Michael Lambert @MichaelLamberta
BREAKING: Prime minister Johnson expected to announce UK manned mission to Mars at Tory conference next week.
A No 10 spokesman said “This would not have been possible if we had stayed in the EU”
3:32 PM · Sep 29, 2021
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
So it used to be that when people said "racism" they meant "prejudice" like a mortgage lender decides he hates Black people so he won't lend them money.
Today people (especially younger and better-educated ones) mean something more comprehensive.
Jerusalem @JerusalemDemsas
Black person: gets mortgage denied
Pinker: well, was it really racism? or was it simply because the US government, banks, real estate agents and millions of Americans engaged in a multi-decade project of segregation and disinvestment? https://t.co/nugJ8GzWAo
4:03 PM · Sep 29, 2021
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
I think it is a little obtuse of Pinker, an actual linguist, to pretend he is not aware of how language change works and that this is what has happened here.
4:06 PM · Sep 29, 2021
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
I think if you read @awprokop's profile of Joe Manchin, *the* thing that he wants to believe is that the impediments to progress are roughly symmetrical and that he is a voice of reason brokering bipartisan deals impeded by extremists on both sides.
vox.com
Joe Manchin wants to save Democrats from themselves
5:21 PM · Sep 29, 2021
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Noah Smith 🐇@Noahpinion
A post about how the Chinese government is trying to change Chinese culture. By @AngelicaOung.
taipology.substack.com
🇨🇳The Great Cancellation
5:29 PM · Sep 29, 2021
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Noah Smith 🐇@Noahpinion
First Elizabeth Warren becomes a Tight Money Bro, now Teen Vogue?
Time to get progressives into Bitcoin
dylan matthews @dylanmatt
Truly wild to see Teen Vogue arguing for tighter monetary policy / against QE
https://t.co/4TMCzCKUzp https://t.co/qWseZCep66
6:33 PM · Sep 29, 2021
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Noah Smith 🐇@Noahpinion
Good, if late
Kaleigh Rogers @KaleighRogers
Whoa. YouTube is banning all anti-vaccine content: https://t.co/ldd2ZItT36
6:52 PM · Sep 29, 2021
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
This is my dream, omnivaxxed
Hanna Ziady @hannaziady
.@guyplatten of the @shippingics tells me he knows of one seafarer who has received SIX vaccine doses because some countries only recognise certain vaccines. Something's gotta give! https://t.co/Q2ui6KLevE via @CNNBusiness
7:00 PM · Sep 29, 2021
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Noah Smith 🐇@Noahpinion
Fun fact: The only known room temperature superconductor -- something scientists had been questing after for decades -- is literally COMPRESSED FART GAS (hydrogen sulfide + methane).
quantamagazine.org
Room-Temperature Superconductivity Achieved for the First Time
7:28 PM · Sep 29, 2021
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Noah Smith 🐇@Noahpinion
The secret to limitless power was in our own butts the whole time
7:29 PM · Sep 29, 2021
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
Perfect attendance is the only academic award I ever won, so I am committed to the view that it is good. https://t.co/Gq05ZPfboL
Betsey Stevenson @BetseyStevenson
Perfect attendance awards encourage parents to send kids to school sick! They instill the idea that we should show up under any circumstances. And schools still have them! It's not anachronistic, but it should be. https://t.co/ymri4Mhk9Q
8:37 PM · Sep 29, 2021
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
It would be interesting to see a Republican try to draft a bill embodying the conservative movement view that we should have absolute at-will employment but then with exceptions for anti-vaxxers and allegedly racist speech.
Rep. Jim Jordan @Jim_Jordan
If you want the vaccine, get the vaccine. But if you don’t want the vaccine, you shouldn’t have to worry about being fired.
9:08 PM · Sep 29, 2021
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