Merlin Mann@hotdogsladies
🦉 Wisdom Project updates.
gist.github.com/merlinmann/09a…
5:51 AM · Nov 29, 2021
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Robinson Meyer@yayitsrob
There’s a gap between the way that experts talk about mild infection when arguing against boosting (“vaccines aren’t perfect—and, look, you weren’t hospitalized!”) and the huge social burdens that we impose on people who get a mild Covid infection.
washingtonpost.com
Perspective | We don’t need universal booster shots. We need to reach the unvaccinated.
3:53 PM · Nov 29, 2021
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
It's kind of upsetting when you realize that basically all of human history was nightmarishly awful.
I guess the upside is it puts a more positive spin on today's problems.
4:04 PM · Nov 29, 2021
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
Everyone knows that farming was bad, but hunter-gathering was also bad.
cold-takes.com
Pre-agriculture gender relations seem bad
4:34 PM · Nov 29, 2021
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Jay Willis@jaywillis
Genuinely incredible that The Washington Post ran a 10,000-word essay persuasively arguing that a 6-3 conservative Supreme Court dooms us all, and then with no further support dismisses Court expansion as "worse than the disease" in the very last paragraph washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/…
5:01 PM · Nov 29, 2021
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Kim-Mai Cutler@kimmaicutler
Immigrants! 💪💪🏿💪🏼💪🏽💪🏾💪🏻
Patrick Collison @patrickc
Google, Microsoft, Adobe, IBM, Palo Alto Networks, and now Twitter run by CEOs who grew up in India. Wonderful to watch the amazing success of Indians in the technology world and a good reminder of the opportunity America offers to immigrants. 🇮🇳🇺🇸 (Congrats, @paraga!)
5:54 PM · Nov 29, 2021
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Jake Anbinder@JakeAnbinder
I don't think the WH is totally in the clear here—there was clearly some hesitance around October to make too big a deal about universal boosting. But yes this phase of the pandemic response should be understood as the public health establishment kneecapping the political side.
Josh Marshall @joshtpm
Worth noting that Biden White House has been full booster for months and got lots of criticism from clinicians saying the science wasn’t in yet or that vaccines aren’t for infections but to keep you out of the hospital. https://t.co/x1I4N9WF0c
7:50 PM · Nov 29, 2021
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Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla
(Reuters) - Walmart has seen a 26% increase in shipping containers going thru clogged United States ports over the past four weeks, chief executive Doug McMillon said at the White House Monday, ahead of a meeting with President Joe Biden on supply chain
reuters.com
Containers going thru U.S. ports up 26%, Walmart CEO McMillon says
8:53 PM · Nov 29, 2021
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Barry Ritholtz@ritholtz
WTF: 20% of patients who were presumed to be vegetative were actually awake
newyorker.com
The Science of Mind Reading
10:11 PM · Nov 29, 2021
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
Me, @delong, and @Noahpinion podcasted about patriotism and the history of capitalism and decided we basically agreed with the 1619 Project treatment of this despite some quibbles.
braddelong.substack.com
PODCAST: “Hexapodia” Is þe Key Insight XXXI: History, Slavery, & National Narratives
10:33 PM · Nov 29, 2021
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Aaron 🥑🚈🚰🏀@aceckhouse
this is standard practice in California as well (and refusal to adopt it is what made SB 827/SB 50 so controversial)
if you allow redevelopment of existing apartments but not owner-occupied houses, you are planning for displacement
Gray Kimbrough @graykimbrough
People often ask how zoning can be discriminatory. Here's a great example.
Prince George's County upzoned properties near a purple line station that currently have apartment buildings, but refused to remove exclusionary zoning restrictions on nearby lots zoned for detached SFHs. https://t.co/hQ4ldu9bTc https://t.co/8ST9JiiEFv
10:39 PM · Nov 29, 2021
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
I see @pareene built a column around
1. saying he wasn’t sure why I tweeted something
2. deciding to make up an erroneous idea and attribute that idea to me as his motive
3. criticize me for believing the thing he made up
Interesting method
theap.substack.com/p/the-mess-age
11:54 PM · Nov 29, 2021
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
I think the Canadian system (mandatory retirement at age 75, parliamentary override power via Section 33 of the Charter, few legislative veto points so it’s easy to react to controversial statutory interpretation issues) is about right.
Demon Possessed Crack Smoker @neoglobalist
@mattyglesias How do you think the Supreme Court should operate in an ideal society?
12:48 AM · Nov 30, 2021
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Ezra Klein@ezraklein
Early exits look good for Omicron, but that’s not counting those who got sick by mail.
Andrew Prokop @awprokop
Current "Omicron: deadlier or less deadly?" speculation reminds me of election day tea leaf reading about who will win before polls close.
So little to go on, and what there is is so thin, but can't look away...
2:57 AM · Nov 30, 2021
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