Anthony DeRosa@Anthony
"the document also makes clear that TikTok has done nothing to sever its ties with its Chinese parent, ByteDance"
Ben Smith @benyt
I obtained an internal TikTok document explaining their algorithm; here's what I learned https://t.co/NVlJgrv7d3
4:56 AM · Dec 6, 2021
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urbanmountain@urbanmountainv
If you do this too much and everyone rides the bus, then the congestion will be less, making driving better?
Brent Toderian @BrentToderian
How to significantly increase bus transit ridership. In 5 seconds.
Via @Daniela17C #BRT https://t.co/C1OKR9l0PF
5:24 AM · Dec 6, 2021
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skullsinthestars - Black lives matter@drskyskull
I kinda love that when you google "famous science fiction authors" you get a series of dignified photographs of people and then you get to @scalzi
5:29 AM · Dec 6, 2021
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Noah Smith 🐇@Noahpinion
I sympathize with Darrell's let's-all-stay-calm approach to the Bay Area store break-ins, but I think people are going to demand action now. And the murder wave he highlights will only increase the demand for immediate law-and-order stuff.
darrellowens.substack.com
The Bay Area Crime Wave
7:39 AM · Dec 6, 2021
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Noah Smith 🐇@Noahpinion
@paulg @cdixon Google is the Bell Labs of A.I.
It's driving the entire technological field.
9:56 AM · Dec 6, 2021
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John Scalzi@scalzi
A guy on this airplane just talked about "doing an OJ Simpson" to get to the gate on time, and I can't help but think that his perception of what "doing an OJ" means to the average person is wildly outdated.
1:30 PM · Dec 6, 2021
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Stephen Diehl@smdiehl
Some hopeful news from the national labs.🧑🔬
sciencealert.com/for-the-first-…
sciencealert.com
Finally, a Fusion Reaction Has Generated More Energy Than Absorbed by The Fuel
2:00 PM · Dec 6, 2021
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Akiva Cohen@AkivaMCohen
Some of us did
Akiva Cohen @AkivaMCohen
@Neoavatara Only if he didn't mean it. He doesn't have to vote with them, just cost McConnell the majority leadership.
But no, it'll never happen
3:19 PM · Dec 6, 2021
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
Incidentally, Peter Trudgill's book (which is not about politics) "Millennia of Language Change: Sociolinguistic Studies in Deep Historical Linguistics" changed the way I think about this stuff.
cambridge.org
Millennia of Language Change
3:57 PM · Dec 6, 2021
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
Here's a good summary of Trudgill's view.
My hypothesis is that small professional communities — including activist communities — develop distinctive jargon just like the "societies of intimates" that were the norm for at least 98% of human history.
4:05 PM · Dec 6, 2021
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
But in mass politics it's not helpful to speak like a member of a small society of intimates, you want to speak to a very large audience of strangers.
4:06 PM · Dec 6, 2021
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🥀_Imposter_🕸️@Imposter_Edits
Cop left his hatch open and his spike strip fell out the back... then he proceeds to reverse over said spike strips..
3:37 PM · Dec 6, 2021
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John Arnold@JohnArnoldFndtn
5:05 PM · Dec 6, 2021
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
This is a lot of wrongful convictions
static.nytimes.com/email-content/…
5:43 PM · Dec 6, 2021
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Noah Smith 🐇@Noahpinion
Yes. Time to take the fight to the NIMBYs.
(ht @ritholtz)
capx.co
It’s time to increase the cost of Nimbyism - CapX
8:31 PM · Dec 6, 2021
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James Comey@Comey
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Acyn @Acyn
Trump: If I didn’t fire Comey, they were looking to take down the President of the United States… I don’t think could’ve survived if I didn’t fire him https://t.co/AHxYyPBZA6
8:38 PM · Dec 6, 2021
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Jake Sherman@JakeSherman
of course, there are prohibitions on negotiating jobs when you are a member of Congress.
Alex Weprin @alexweprin
Inbox: Congressman Devin Nunes will be CEO of Donald Trump's media and tech company. He retires from congress and starts at TMTG in January.
10:23 PM · Dec 6, 2021
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Noah Smith 🐇@Noahpinion
Abolishing the police really just means privatizing the police. We've horseshoed ourselves all the way around to Ludwig von Mises
Josiah Neeley 🤔 @jneeley78
Reimagine public safety https://t.co/QNBZT1jN4c
10:44 PM · Dec 6, 2021
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
Business interests supporting an undemocratic but business-friendly regime would be in line with the behavior of business interests in basically every democratic crisis in the history of every country. https://t.co/da6u1T0EeE
Judd Legum @JuddLegum
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the massive lobbying group that represents nearly every major American corporations, will endorse House members who VOTED TO OVERTURN THE 2020 ELECTION but is drawing the line at anyone who supports paid family leave or action on climate change https://t.co/tqQdu6bkQ2
11:07 PM · Dec 6, 2021
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
Under one popular theory of corporate governance, if by encouraging the extinction of American democracy the CEO of a company can lock in slightly lower corporate taxes and a more business friendly regulatory environment he is ethically required to do.
11:11 PM · Dec 6, 2021
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