Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
What I'd like to see is a world where Vox, Vice, Buzzfeed, Huffington Post, etc. each implicitly or explicitly adhere to *distinctive* ideological positions.
Then they can be as narrow-minded as they like.
4:09 PM · Nov 2, 2021
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
When I started out, I could really explain to you how The American Prospect differed from The Nation or The Washington Monthly or Mother Jones or The New Republic.
Each publication was fairly narrow, but the ecosystem was diverse and healthy.
4:10 PM · Nov 2, 2021
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Jeremy Hoffman@jeremyhoffman
"When will you YIMBYs be satisfied?! What is 'enough' homes for you?"
We'll be satisfied when there are 602,252,000,000,000,000,000,000 homes.
This is known as Avocado's Number. 🥑
4:17 PM · Nov 2, 2021
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Casey Newton@CaseyNewton
In China, the prize for creating a dominant global entertainment app is … fleeing into hiding forever?? What a nutso turn of events
Rui Ma 马睿 @ruima
ByteDance founder Zhang Yiming has left its (global) board of directors.
I just checked the website, they've removed the Board section, and there's no mention of any management either.
I guess he really wants to recede into the shadows eh.
4:50 PM · Nov 2, 2021
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Noah Smith 🐇@Noahpinion
Your periodic reminder that Henry George was right and we should redistribute land wealth.
4:56 PM · Nov 2, 2021
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Noah Smith 🐇@Noahpinion
If you think redistributing the wealth from land is "untethered from economics", you don't know economics.
The efficiency of land value redistribution is called the Henry George Theorem. It's a standard result that pops out of plenty of economic models.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Geo…
Chris Oldman @ChrisOldman4
Your periodic reminder that Noah Smith has strong socialist, untethered from economics and reality opinions. https://t.co/a2T5wrs5rF
5:07 PM · Nov 2, 2021
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NotJFKJrHat@Popehat
“Here at Newsmax you can count on Santorum covering everything!”
Justin Baragona @justinbaragona
Newsmax announces that they've hired Rick Santorum as a senior political analyst. https://t.co/yMe2pYcZbk
6:01 PM · Nov 2, 2021
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Noah Smith 🐇@Noahpinion
I like the Witcher because it's European medievalist fantasy but based on East European culture instead of the usual British culture tropes, which makes it feel different enough to be surprising.
7:11 PM · Nov 2, 2021
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