Laurie Voss@seldo
Forbes is going to be mostly owned by a Bitcoin exchange as a result of a SPAC merger so get ready for the most objective reporting you've ever seen
cnbc.com
Binance, led by the world’s richest crypto billionaire, is taking a $200 million stake in Forbes
6:08 PM · Feb 10, 2022
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Noah Smith 🌐+🧦=🐇@Noahpinion
Enthusiasm alone will never drive a revival of the labor movement in this country. Either change the law to mandate sectoral bargaining, or it's over.
8:03 AM · Feb 11, 2022
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Noah Smith 🌐+🧦=🐇@Noahpinion
"The internet must be destroyed, to save science!!" is a position I haven't seen anyone take yet, but it seems like something that would be fun to shout at people until they block you
techcrunch.com
Researchers warn that social media may be ‘fundamentally at odds’ with science – TechCrunch
9:25 AM · Feb 11, 2022
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
Plus lead pipe cleanup, plus abandoned well cleanup, plus grid upgrades — it’s a good law!
Alon (they/them) @alon_levy
American environmentalists and transit activists keep making up criticisms of the BIF, but it took the road:transit formula from 4:1 to 2:1.
11:46 AM · Feb 11, 2022
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
It’s in fact critically important that the world not allow democratic self-government to be replaced by heckler’s veto by whichever faction happens to own larger vehicles.
1:29 PM · Feb 11, 2022
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
People on foot blocking traffic for short periods of time isn’t great but society survives it happening because it’s a fairly ineffective tactic.
The truck blockade is more potent & would be a great tactic for bringing down a dictator, exactly why democracies can’t tolerate it.
1:31 PM · Feb 11, 2022
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
Well now I have unpaywalled the column in question so the whole senate can read it.
washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2022…
3:23 PM · Feb 11, 2022
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
Something that I think has been underrated is the extent to which Sinema's stubborn attachment to the (very unpopular) Trump corporate tax cut has denied Democrats their most baseline obvious class-oriented message.
9:50 PM · Feb 11, 2022
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Noah Smith 🌐+🧦=🐇@Noahpinion
This is the scariest version of the "Xi is incompetent" theory:
Chris Horton 何貴森 @heguisen
The moment I read this, I was struck by something I hadn't considered before: the possibility that some who have Xi's ear might encourage him to attack Taiwan in order to hasten Xi's downfall, and thereby create political opportunities for themselves https://t.co/dnd5UVmbZ8 https://t.co/CYQrbod3eP
3:58 AM · Feb 12, 2022
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Noah Smith 🌐+🧦=🐇@Noahpinion
Trying to think of reasons why this might be wrong, and failing
Cory Doctorow @doctorow
Uber is (still) a bezzle ("the magic interval when a confidence trickster knows he has the money he has appropriated but the victim does not yet understand that he has lost it"). And every bezzle - *every* bezzle - ends. 1/ https://t.co/KzixQfYYYU
4:23 AM · Feb 12, 2022
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Nate Silver@NateSilver538
@Noahpinion IDK I think rideshare companies score at a high percentile in serving a useful need that had reflected a real market inefficiency before it was met.
4:33 AM · Feb 12, 2022
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