Ramez Naam@ramez
Cautiously good news about Long Covid and the brain. It seems more and more that covid seldom directly infects the brain, and that brain fog and other neurological symptoms should be reversible. We don't know that for sure, but this finding is encouraging.
newscientist.com
Covid-19 brain fog: What we know about lingering neurological effects
7:41 AM · Jan 24, 2022
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Noah Smith 🌐+🧦=🐇@Noahpinion
This is why unrest is a macro variable that modulates all the micro variables in politics and culture; when the music plays, everyone has to get up and dance.
10:14 AM · Jan 24, 2022
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Noah Smith 🌐+🧦=🐇@Noahpinion
This does not mean there is no good side and no bad side in a Time of Unrest; instead it means that when we look back at the period from a time of reasoned calm, even the side we eventually recognize as "good" will seem fairly wacko.
10:15 AM · Jan 24, 2022
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Tom Gara@tomgara
Full credit to Bill Maher, taking the vaccine but steadfastly refusing a booster is such a pitch-perfect parody of his I'm liberal but the libs have gone too far thing
outkick.com
Bill Maher: ‘I Will Never Get A Booster Shot’
2:17 PM · Jan 24, 2022
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
IMO the Canadian setup with a mostly-fake senate and a Supreme Court that is fairly low-key and can be overruled by parliament seems pretty great.
3:22 PM · Jan 24, 2022
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David Schleicher@ProfSchleich
It was me -- here's the full argument papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…
Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias
@zackbeauchamp People disagree about this, but I think it was @ProfSchleich who convinced me the key difference is that our primaries are so wide open — AOC can waltz in and beat not just an incumbent, but a key caucus leader, so there's no need to launch an NDP.
5:54 PM · Jan 24, 2022
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depths of wikipedia@depthsofwiki
we've all been there
6:22 PM · Jan 24, 2022
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Nate Silver@NateSilver538
Some of the most efficiently-run restaurants in the world are at casinos because it's the one place where wasting your time costs *them* money.
11:20 PM · Jan 24, 2022
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Noah Smith 🌐+🧦=🐇@Noahpinion
I want to start a secret society of people who just want to be free to build stuff.
Thinking of calling it the "Free Masons".
11:50 PM · Jan 24, 2022
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Ezra Klein@ezraklein
Great piece by @tressiemcphd on why crypto has appeal way beyond tech bros. It's also what makes me nervous about a bunch of these frothy currencies/assets collapsing. A lot of the people likely to lose money here will really hurt.
nytimes.com
Opinion | The Strange Allure of the Blockchain
2:12 AM · Jan 25, 2022
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Noah Smith 🌐+🧦=🐇@Noahpinion
Starting to wonder why Luke Skywalker was so desperate to get off Tatooine when everything interesting or important in the galaxy happens there.
non functional tubule @meatspacemaxima
Making Tatooine space burning man, between the Tusken raiders doing Lizard DMT and there being cyborg hipsters, might be the most substantial new world building Star Wars has done since the prequels concluded.
4:28 AM · Jan 25, 2022
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vaheder 🍞@vaheder
A neglected California city reinvents itself with electric cars — and plots a road map for the nation
getpocket.com
A neglected California city reinvents itself with electric cars — and plots a road map for the nation
4:41 AM · Jan 25, 2022
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