
Santa Monica's City Attorney told the city they have to approve the 16 #BuildersRemedy projects they've received. So Tuesday the City Council is discussing finding a different lawyer who'll tell them something different. π€£


China now has a black market for tutors, incredible

Wen-Ti Sung @wentisung

Xi is replacing a distributed bureaucratic oligarchy with a personalistic dictatorship, and I do not think this will end well.

Shigesaburo Okumura @NikkeiAsia @ShigesaburoO

Automated deletion of comments violating policies on violence and incitement reduce subsequent violations in shorter threads and deter future violations arxiv.org/pdf/2210.10454β¦
Related to our finding showing spirals of toxicity in online comments (below)


Brendan Nyhan @BrendanNyhan

i'd have to go look, but i suspect i have multiple games for which this is true

the prince with a thousand enemies βοΈ @jaketropolis

GOLDMAN SACHS: "The US economy does not appear to be on the brink of recession at the moment." More:


This is a good thread on promotions in big tech companies. 3 points resonate
1. Promotions are all about your manager making the case you deserve it.
2. The real promo criteria are tribal knowledge not whatβs in the career ladder.
3. <50% of people who should be promoted are.

Dan Luu @danluu