Favorite Rejects 2021-10-14
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
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
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
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
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.
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
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
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
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
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
An interesting 🧵on the cosmic forces and collaboration behind this year’s Nobel Prize in Econ….
scott cunningham @causalinf
Can't wait for "Teaching about the Holocaust is Critical Race Theory"
Mike Hixenbaugh @Mike_Hixenbaugh
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
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.
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.
But he’s … wrong and frankly keeps discrediting reasonable inflation concerns with very intemperate and alarmist remarks. https://t.co/7JvvZkpMtL
Benn Steil @BennSteil
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