Marginal Revolution@MarginalRevolt
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11:33 AM · Nov 4, 2021
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TheSapper@InfosecSapper
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8:10 PM · Nov 7, 2021
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
The upshot of these tends is that during a period when educators *talked* more about antiracism, racial gaps in academic achievement got much larger and the edu-left’s main response was to stigmatize efforts to measure that.
slowboring.com/p/critical-rac…
11:40 AM · Nov 8, 2021
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
From @DLeonhardt the high cost (to conservatives) of conservative anti-vax messaging.
12:34 PM · Nov 8, 2021
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
Ibram Kendi has the cute move of calling his ideology "antiracism" so as to try to set up a scenario where people who disagree with him must accept the idea that they are "pro-racism" and it's easy to see why that's not a mutually acceptable label.
3:52 PM · Nov 8, 2021
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
But these are pretty distinctive ideas, that are deliberately meant to contrast with the past generation or two of liberal thinking and the movement that embraces them should have a name.
slowboring.com/p/critical-rac…
3:54 PM · Nov 8, 2021
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Julian Sanchez@normative
This is wild. DC’s police union had a racket selling liquor illegally. And the folks involved are still saying: “How could it be illegal? We’re cops!”
washingtonpost.com
The rise and fall of the Jack Daniel’s committee: How D.C.’s police lodge made thousands selling whiskey online
6:25 PM · Nov 8, 2021
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
I think I got the phrase / concept “selective demands for rigor” from @juliagalef’s book and once you hear it you see it all over the place.
6:26 PM · Nov 8, 2021
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Noah Smith 🐇@Noahpinion
Bully: *lifts Noah's head out of toilet*
Noah: The conflict between China and its rich-world rivals is the last great conflict of the Global North. After this, falling fertility rates mean that the Global South will take over as the --
Bully: Sigh. *dunks Noah's head again*
7:55 PM · Nov 8, 2021
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
I'm going to try not to be trigger happy about the merits of this change since I haven't read any relevant research, but again don't try to tell parents who feel queasy about these changes that nothing is happening.
latimes.com
Faced with soaring Ds and Fs, schools are ditching the old way of grading
7:56 PM · Nov 8, 2021
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Noah Smith 🐇@Noahpinion
America badly needed someone to go around and make videos of the reality of modern dense development.
Now we have the hero we need, and his name is @jake_gotta.
Jake Gotta @jake_gotta
Isla Vista’s multi-plexes are soft density done right https://t.co/cq6Pmq8DX3
8:03 PM · Nov 8, 2021
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Todd Vaziri@tvaziri
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6:13 PM · Nov 8, 2021
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Darrell Owens@IDoTheThinking
I'm listening to this hilarious democracy lecture at an outdoor cafe by a Berkeley homeowner to a prospective Chinese buyer and his mom.
"Not everyone can live in California, espesially [Berkeley] so our home prices are very high. It's very messy but that's part of democracy."
7:23 PM · Nov 8, 2021
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Noah Smith 🐇@Noahpinion
Yep. And it was still the morally right thing to do.
Lee Fang @lhfang
Virginia for the 2021 elections repealed voter ID, enacted 45 days of absentee voting, made Election Day a state holiday, enacted automatic voter reg w/drivers licenses, and cleared ex-felons to vote. Turnout went up for Republicans.
8:32 PM · Nov 8, 2021
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