Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla
B of A: “Grandma Isn’t Back at Restaurants. .. concerns around COVID likely continued to weigh down spending by the older generations but it suggests further upside potential in spending for these households in the coming months once the Omicron wave fades.”
12:15 PM · Feb 3, 2022
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Kai Ryssdal@kairyssdal
Huh
Elise Hu @elisewho
None of Beijing's snow will be real. It's the first Winter Olympics to rely 100% on fake powder https://t.co/RHUL7JER4o
3:08 PM · Feb 3, 2022
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Nate Silver@NateSilver538
The White House's COVID messaging strategy sounds pretty incoherent. They want to "reset people's expectations" but they don't want to do a "hard pivot" and they also don't want to do anything substantive like revising mask guidance.
politico.com/news/2022/02/0…
3:21 PM · Feb 3, 2022
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Nate Silver@NateSilver538
Irony is that one thing the Biden administration probably *could* do is signal to Northeastern liberals—where COVID has fallen dramatically and vax rates are high—to fully resume social/civic life. But maybe the WH is staffed by people who need to hear that message themselves.
Josh Barro @jbarro
“an attempt to convince people they’ll *soon* be able to relax after two years” hmmm seems like another instance of the Warren voters who staff the administration projecting their friends’ mental states onto the median voter. https://t.co/wtAcb5uv7y
4:54 PM · Feb 3, 2022
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roon@tszzl
dropping my post on the wordcel v rotator history. there's a lotta newcomers so i want to give them context (and also stake my claim). for the love of god don't take this too seriously, and the document is a work in progress
roonscape.substack.com
A Song of Shapes and Words
6:06 PM · Feb 3, 2022
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
So, yes, everyone wants to move on in some sense.
The debate is, as a matter of public policy, when should NPIs end?
Republicans say “now.”
Democrats are at risk of drifting toward “whenever we lose power and Republicans take over.”
Chris Hayes @chrislhayes
The problems are that:
1) America has higher vaccine resistance than any other peer country, driving far far more death and illness than other peer countries
2) A majority does desperately want to move on.
3) The virus gets a vote on how much we can. https://t.co/jVjlM7HNLy
7:22 PM · Feb 3, 2022
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Nate Silver@NateSilver538
As others have noted, saying a lot of people are still dying from COVID (awful) or that the pandemic isn't over (true) is not a policy, nor is it obvious what policy it necessitates, especially given restrictions are most likely to be enacted in places where they're least needed.
7:27 PM · Feb 3, 2022
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Noah Smith 🌐+🧦=🐇@Noahpinion
The debate over Covid NPIs is mystifying to me at this point. I was a huge supporter of NPIs in 2020. I made a website about them. And yet now it's clear that NPIs just cannot contain Omicron. And we have effective vaccines. So what is the debate about, exactly?
7:41 PM · Feb 3, 2022
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
I think everyone knows where I stand on this, but for the sake of steel-manning I think everyone impatient with how hard it is to build things in the contemporary United States should consider Holden Karnofsky’s points.
cold-takes.com
Cost disease and civilizational decline
7:55 PM · Feb 3, 2022
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David Lieb@dflieb
Quick thread by @thechrisperry on the design of search / object recognition in Google Photos 👇🏻
Chris Perry @thechrisperry
Respecting constraints is the most underappreciated aspect of product design. Refusing to respect constraints leads to product failures. My favorite personal example of this principle is when I helped launch Google Photos 1/
7:58 PM · Feb 3, 2022
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Ben Dreyfuss@bendreyfuss
This is not only a really good story but also sort of, incredibly, the first one I’ve ever come across like it.
b-boy bouiebaisse @jbouie
this story on a conservative white student who took a class on critical race theory is very good. from @mintamolly. https://t.co/HckodELvIU
9:36 PM · Feb 3, 2022
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
Someone managed to deliver a 250-foot pedestrian bridge that was completely late at a cost of $41 million and generated *positive* media coverage.
mercurynews.com
Fremont’s $41 million BART Warm Springs pedestrian bridge opened Thursday
9:47 PM · Feb 3, 2022
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