Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
The decision to let foreigners get DUNE first should have prompted congressional hearings. What are we doing here? https://t.co/lpsekiLWAb
ethan winter @EthanBWinter
unconscionable that we got a second venom movie before DUNE. biden must act
2:39 AM · Oct 4, 2021
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Noah Smith 🐇@Noahpinion
The 1980s obsession with making welfare conditional on work turned out to be counterproductive. Let's leave this fossil in the past where it belongs.
Richard Baldwin @BaldwinRE
Work requirements in social programmes? New evidence that they don’t work @voxeu
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https://t.co/Mlb1IBwzsj https://t.co/3bRWAdf8Sn
7:01 AM · Oct 4, 2021
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Michael Hobbes@RottenInDenmark
I feel like people forget that the top 1% of income earners are, by definition, just 1% of the population. If we're worried about millionaires getting free college or whatever, universal programs have over a 99% success rate.
Melissa Hillman @bittergertrude
Means testing isn't free. It costs a lot of money to create & administer a means-testing system for any program. When you're spending 3x the $ you're saving by eliminating ppl who earn $1 over the "poverty line," the cruelty is the only remaining point
4:30 AM · Oct 3, 2021
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Market Urbanism@MarketUrbanism
US commuter rail’s problem has always been catering solely to existing riders, rather than considering the much larger pool of people who aren’t riders but could be https://t.co/8vcm7FekKb
Union Tpke @Union_Tpke
The LIRR "asked its riders how much more they would be willing to pay for improvements that would lead to a faster ride, a seat on the train, and new parking... Getting a seat or having a parking space were worth over 5x more to riders than a 10-minute savings in travel time." /1 https://t.co/AXkTmG84TW
12:33 PM · Oct 4, 2021
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Andrew Prokop@awprokop
Rough first line of the obit
politico.com/news/2021/10/0…
4:52 PM · Oct 4, 2021
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Noah Smith 🐇@Noahpinion
Kishida's economic plan sounds a lot like Bidenomics. Innovation + redistribution. Seems like a model that a lot of people are converging on, around the world. I feel like we need an "-ism" to describe this combo.
Gearoid Reidy @GearoidReidy
Kishida says he has a growth strategy and redistribution strategy. Growth strategy incl:
- spend large sums on innovation
- a digitalization strategy
- economic security including stopping leaking of technology
- relieving concern over aging in an age where people live to be 100 https://t.co/5QPIEA2rBe
5:22 PM · Oct 4, 2021
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Cariad 🏳️🌈狐魔@KateLibc
In all seriousness, the broken state of Facebook's DNS has cascading ramifications upstream. Your ISP is probably suffering too.
lol
awlnx @awlnx
#GoogleDNS 8.8.8.8 becomes much slower because of #Facebookdown and all the client retries. https://t.co/4aTyFAykMq
6:21 PM · Oct 4, 2021
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Daniel W. Drezner@dandrezner
Perspective | Some questions for the Chinese Foreign Ministry.
washingtonpost.com
Perspective | Some questions for the Chinese Foreign Ministry
5:32 PM · Oct 4, 2021
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
This is a stance I often see people take up, but honestly I don't think anyone truly means it.
As a citizen you need to decide which candidates to support, which marches to join, which causes to urge politicians to prioritize, and the politics is relevant to all of that.
Liam Bright @lastpositivist
I don't like it when political intelligentsia render themselves unpaid political strategists for a party. We should use the public sphere to hash out what is good, what state and society ought do. That's only orthogonally related to what's popular or electoral-strategically wise.
6:57 PM · Oct 4, 2021
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
For example, I have controversial and extreme views on zoning and land use. I spend a lot of time trying to convince people that those views are correct.
But I also try *not* to inject these ideas into high-profile partisan conflict, which I think would be unproductive.
7:01 PM · Oct 4, 2021
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Kashana@kashanacauley
According to Facebook, the only way to fix the FB outage is to cover its servers in horse paste.
7:26 PM · Oct 4, 2021
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Noah Smith 🐇@Noahpinion
I feel like America-China conflict has been put on a brief hold, as America focuses on finding reasons to keep its people in economic hardship and China focuses on finding ways to prevent its people from having any fun
8:05 PM · Oct 4, 2021
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Noah Smith 🐇@Noahpinion
China's total fertility is now officially lower than Japan's (1.36).
Amazing.
The Economist @TheEconomist
In 2020, China’s total fertility rate fell to 1.3 births per woman, well below the 2.1 needed to maintain a stable population https://t.co/1Eksd498uO
8:21 PM · Oct 4, 2021
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AntifaHat@Popehat
https://t.co/fby5CirV4x
BNO News @BNONews
Facebook has sent a team to one of its California data centers to try to manually reset its servers - NYT
8:25 PM · Oct 4, 2021
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