Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
A broader media point — Amazon is a widely beloved American institution, and the level of near-uniform hate it gets in digital media
slowboring.com/p/amazon-wages
11:10 AM · Oct 14, 2021
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molly conger@socialistdogmom
forcing soft handed white collar employees to work overtime on the factory floor is a terrible idea if the goal is to actually make tractors but perhaps a brilliant way to help them understand why those factory workers are striking in the first place. https://t.co/JUavplfs7e
Jonah Furman @JonahFurman
From a salary worker @ Deere:
"The Deere "strikebreakers" are currently ~650 salary employees pulled from engineering & mgmt positions across Deere. Note: I say "Strikebreakers" because I can guarantee that with our lack of skill and numbers, we will not be breaking the strike."
1:01 PM · Oct 14, 2021
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Charlie BRAIN WORMS Stross@cstross
TLDR for non-Americans who are GDPR-walled out of this article: the whole “abortion is a sin” thing is based on a comically bad mistranslation from Aramaic (ancient Hebrew) into Greek in the 3rd century. Augustine latched onto the mistranslation and ran with it.
Washington Post Opinions @PostOpinions
An ancient mistranslation is now helping to threaten abortion rights, @TheRaDR and @kateyzeh write in @PostEverything https://t.co/iseNPjf6Jr
1:23 PM · Oct 14, 2021
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
High levels of incarceration are caused (for better or worse) by legislative decisions to dole out more person-years of incarceration to people who are convicted.
Police funding levels are an unrelated issue.
Jacob Kaplan @JacobKaplanCrim
@AaronChalfin and I have a paper on almost this exact topic, we look at the effect of increased funding for police on incarceration at the state-level. We find that there is no statistically significant effect of increased funding on prison incarceration. https://t.co/rV69utoGcr https://t.co/nh1VDEAhuM
2:43 PM · Oct 14, 2021
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
A sanity check on US-specific claims about this is to look internationally.
European countries have many fewer people in prison, but generally more police per capita.
2:43 PM · Oct 14, 2021
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sarah jeong@sarahjeong
2:53 PM · Oct 14, 2021
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sarah jeong@sarahjeong
man…. look… let’s completely set aside the part where this is dicta in overturned precedent… but can we like… consider the metaphor for 30 seconds
2:55 PM · Oct 14, 2021
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sarah jeong@sarahjeong
what if my guy literally thinks there’s a fire? or worse, what if there’s actually a fire?? you can’t just going around jailing people willy nilly because they trying to evacuate people from a death trap
2:57 PM · Oct 14, 2021
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sarah jeong@sarahjeong
these motherfuckers are like fully brows furrowed sweat dripping down their foreheads when they’re asked to decide whether a phone looks like another phone and this is a society where least everyone knows what a phone is
3:12 PM · Oct 14, 2021
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caitie delaney@caitiedelaney
It's halloween so you know what that means, the fake Addams Family scene I wrote as a joke is once again making the rounds as a real thing
constans @constans
Possible the greatest scriptwriter’s note ever https://t.co/nTC5hZNlgp
4:59 AM · Oct 14, 2021
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
Best possible thing for the economy at this point would be for everyone to go to the movies more https://t.co/aiTU6Vt8SG
David Klion @DavidKlion
I reviewed Dune, which as a true fan I absolutely loved, for @newrepublic. https://t.co/DySr7Lzlc2
4:07 PM · Oct 14, 2021
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Melissa S. Kearney@kearney_melissa
An interesting 🧵on the cosmic forces and collaboration behind this year’s Nobel Prize in Econ….
scott cunningham @causalinf
I always wonder things like “would Einstein or Nash have made as important work if they’d been born now and still became a scientist or mathematician?” Like was it *them* or was it *then*? I think the same abt this award 1/n
5:15 PM · Oct 14, 2021
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Noah Smith 🐇@Noahpinion
Can't wait for "Teaching about the Holocaust is Critical Race Theory"
Mike Hixenbaugh @Mike_Hixenbaugh
In a secret recording, an administrator in Southlake advised teachers that if they have a book in their class about the Holocaust, they should also have one from an "opposing" perspective.
Our latest on the war over books in schools: https://t.co/Kdkyixkm2G @ahylton26 @NBCNews
7:48 PM · Oct 14, 2021
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
This is, I guess, an unpopular twitter take but:
— I, personally, love to read books about history and do so frequently.
— If someone does not love to learn about history, I think that's fine.
— What's very important is that kids learn to read.
David Neiwert @DavidNeiwert
@mattyglesias @Alesis_Turner History schmistory, then, I gather.
9:01 PM · Oct 14, 2021
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
It seems to me that a lot of Twitter Takes are being driven by the assumption that students' worldviews are deeply shaped by the content of K-12 history classes, which I think is pretty patently absurd.
Too many teachers' pets and A students on here.
9:03 PM · Oct 14, 2021
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
This is not to say that schools shouldn't teach history.
You can't teach reading and writing without giving kids stuff to read and questions to write about. And that should be a mix of fiction and non-fiction because kids' interests vary and you want them to be engaged.
9:07 PM · Oct 14, 2021
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
But he’s … wrong and frankly keeps discrediting reasonable inflation concerns with very intemperate and alarmist remarks. https://t.co/7JvvZkpMtL
Benn Steil @BennSteil
Larry Summers is not delicate. https://t.co/mLUDhXmbvJ
10:03 PM · Oct 14, 2021
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
The internet, by making basic factual information about a huge range of things much easier to access, has reduced the relative value of subject matter expertise across a huge range of domains.
The Last Contrarian @lastcontrarian
The bitter fact that the credentialists never want to face up to is that, yes, a 99 percentile smart person can ABSOLUTELY come in and do their job MUCH MUCH better than them.
I'm talking 10-100x better output.
10/N https://t.co/a8kcNtg4Kx
10:24 PM · Oct 14, 2021
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