you gotta admit this all makes Zuckerberg's steady hands on 18 years of unilateral power look commendable.
The pressures of geopolitics are stronger than morality. We allied with a lot of people much worse than the Saudis in WW2, and it was the right decision.
Bloomberg Opinion @opinion
Twenty years ago @paulkrugman introduced us to āDepression Economicsā a funky upside-down world where the normal gravitational pull of micro 101 doesnāt apply.
But now itās time for āregular economicsā when efficiency is king.
slowboring.com/p/the-fed-cantā¦
Tesla still dominates the US electric vehicle market, but the competitive landscape is changing. experian.com/content/dam/noā¦
Today weāre announcing new legislation (Senate Bill 58) to decriminalize possession & use of plant-based psychedelics in California.
Psychedelics have huge promise for mental health & addiction treatment.
SB 58 is backed by a coalition of veterans & others committed to reform.
Some limitations of monarchy evident in the last two major Twitter policy changes being conceived around the monarch's personal desires rather than what users wanted, provoking immense backlash from users, leading to promise of voting rights & loss of plebiscites cc @DouthatNYT
I think loss-leader propaganda is going to be a huge part of the future of news
Emily Atkin @emorwee
It's kind of ludicrous that our main video entertainment platform is owned by China, and funnels our data to the CCP, and essentially the Biden administration and everyone else is just...š¤·āāļøš¤·āāļøš¤·āāļø
Carl @HistoryBoomer
I wonder if someone out there is keeping track of how many Left-NIMBYs are from old-money families with a bunch of real estate.
Steven Buss š„ š @sbuss
Most of this is just perennial "is some huge amount of cash really poor" debate, but the thing that jumped out to me is the assertion that "regular overseas holidays" were part of the middle class experience in the 90s.
Passport data from the census doesn't support this.
Jacob Shell @JacobAShell
Itās interesting that @elonmusk is āimpulsiveā and āundisciplinedā but never accidentally says anything critical of the PRC.
The problem with this style of argument is that while Large Language Models donāt meet this bar for genuine tbinking itās not clear that Homo sapiens do either.
slowboring.com/p/were-asking-ā¦
Sarah Constantin @s_r_constantin