Noah Smith 🐇@Noahpinion
Still impressed that Frank Herbert managed to write an allegory for America's wars in the Middle East decades before they actually happened
4:20 AM · Oct 24, 2021
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
Like what share of the “experts” given screen time to pontificate about the war in Afghanistan on television over the past six months speak the local languages? I think the number is closer to zero than to ten.
11:53 AM · Oct 24, 2021
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Market Urbanism@MarketUrbanism
What the climate movement needs is a little less interest in which American Jewish groups (?) are participating in DC statehood rallies (??) and a little more interest in promoting low-carbon urban land use
Sunrise DC @SunriseMvmtDC
Our statement on future coalition spaces with Zionist organizations: https://t.co/oBj6pbtv6r
2:53 PM · Oct 24, 2021
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dune opinions account@fellawhomstdve
I love that the Atreides national anthem is just screaming “ATREIDES! ATREIDES!” imagine if the military invaded Iraq yelling “AMERICA! AMERICA!”
11:12 PM · Oct 23, 2021
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Scientific American@sciam
After devastating setbacks at the turn of the century, gene therapy is now successfully treating diseases including neuromuscular disorders, cancer and blindness.
scientificamerican.com
Four Success Stories in Gene Therapy
5:43 PM · Oct 24, 2021
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
In his new book @ScottGottliebMD argues that US public health agencies overprepared for a flu pandemic and were caught flat-footed by aerosol transmission but it seems like the latest thinking is that flu transmission is also largely airborne.
5:46 PM · Oct 24, 2021
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Colin McMillen@mcmillen
As a former Googler, I strongly agree with this statement. Any Google employee who talks publicly about an ongoing legal matter would likely get in trouble with Legal & PR & management. Asking individual Googlers for comment is not likely to be fruitful for anyone involved.
Jake Archibald @jaffathecake
In terms of the stuff going around about AMP and ads, the general rule for Googlers is not to comment on ongoing legal stuff. So, silence doesn't mean we have inside info, or support anything in particular etc etc. I won't speak for others, but I feel totally in the dark & angry.
6:39 PM · Oct 24, 2021
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Noah Smith 🐇@Noahpinion
In many fields, we don't know what will happen until it happens.
In macroeconomics, we usually don't even know what happened AFTER it happened.
8:40 PM · Oct 24, 2021
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Noah Smith 🐇@Noahpinion
One way Dune manages to create an exotic, irreducibly weird setting is that it has names like "gom jabbar" and "bene gesserit" with names like "Duncan Idaho". You can never quite tell if this is supposed to be our future or some bizarre alternate universe.
8:43 PM · Oct 24, 2021
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
Wisdom of the Atreides — generating abundance is highly progressive, scarcity is inherently regressive.
10:27 PM · Oct 24, 2021
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Noah Smith 🐇@Noahpinion
Degrowthers: We've never decarbonized our economy before, so of course we can't do it now
Ketan Joshi @KetanJ0
If Vaclav Smil can't imagine it, then it isn't likely to happen. That's the rule, folks https://t.co/92D1FPrnPc
11:19 PM · Oct 24, 2021
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Noah Smith 🐇@Noahpinion
The social credit system just sends you a text every day that says: "You're French. Don't even bother going outside. You're just going to riot."
Michael P Senger @MichaelPSenger
Lin Jinyue, lead designer of China’s social credit system, extolls its value and his hope for worldwide adoption:
“If you had the social credit system, there would never have been the Yellow Vests, we would have detected that before they acted.”
https://t.co/6JKC8tDVzP
11:49 PM · Oct 24, 2021
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