Josh Constine š¶š„@JoshConstine
you gotta admit this all makes Zuckerberg's steady hands on 18 years of unilateral power look commendable.
3:57 AM Ā· Dec 19, 2022
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Noah Smith ššŗš¦@Noahpinion
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
That US-Saudi rift? The two sides have kissed and made up https://t.co/L9rIe2gA5M
6:38 AM Ā· Dec 19, 2022
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
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¦
11:34 AM Ā· Dec 19, 2022
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Nat Bullard@NatBullard
Tesla still dominates the US electric vehicle market, but the competitive landscape is changing. experian.com/content/dam/noā¦
2:48 PM Ā· Dec 19, 2022
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Senator Scott Wiener@Scott_Wiener
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.
3:08 PM Ā· Dec 19, 2022
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Andrew Prokop@awprokop
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
3:25 PM Ā· Dec 19, 2022
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
I think loss-leader propaganda is going to be a huge part of the future of news
Emily Atkin @emorwee
If you let any story cut through all the Twitter noise today, please let it be this:
At least six local news websites across Alabama and Florida have been secretly taking payments from power companies to run stories attacking clean energy + other policies
https://t.co/Z9hCG8IOHU
5:11 PM Ā· Dec 19, 2022
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Armand Domalewski@ArmandDoma
science is amazing
interestingengineering.com
We can now 3D print as much wood as we want without cutting a single tree
6:54 PM Ā· Dec 19, 2022
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Noah Smith ššŗš¦@Noahpinion
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
"The average American viewer watches TikTok for 80 minutes a day ā more than the time spent on Facebook and Instagram, combined."
https://t.co/aOUDz3fJ7R
7:12 PM Ā· Dec 19, 2022
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Noah Smith ššŗš¦@Noahpinion
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
What I don't understand about Dean is his willingness to tweet easily refutable lies. His family trust owns several multifamily buildings and so he is, in fact, a landlord. This isn't hard. You can look up the various Goosby trusts (his wife) and their assets! https://t.co/JH7D10zhvh https://t.co/MOx0zQN4qa
8:08 PM Ā· Dec 19, 2022
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Wally Nowinski@Nowooski
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
"1990s middle class lifestyle" means 3-bedroom house, 2 cars, annual family road trip holiday, every 5 years overseas holiday, the 2-3 kids go to solid 4-year colleges, something like home roof repairs is financially non-catastrophic.
In 2022 I've described a 400K/yr+ household.
8:57 PM Ā· Dec 19, 2022
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
Itās interesting that @elonmusk is āimpulsiveā and āundisciplinedā but never accidentally says anything critical of the PRC.
10:56 PM Ā· Dec 19, 2022
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
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
https://t.co/DSNunWX37y
Nice non-mystical explanation of why an LLM isnāt literally āthinkingā.
11:50 PM Ā· Dec 19, 2022
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