Alec Stapp@AlecStapp
Just thinking about how the United States could have been the world leader in 5G technology instead of China if we had just given *one guy* a green card when he needed one
7:36 PM · Jan 18, 2023
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🧧 Bryan Cheong@bryancsk
This is twice the Kenyan median income. Who are we to begrudge people providing jobs to Kenyans.
Billy Perrigo @billyperrigo
🚨Exclusive: OpenAI used outsourced Kenyan workers earning less than $2 per hour to make ChatGPT less toxic, my investigation found
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8:31 PM · Jan 18, 2023
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Reuters@Reuters
A new high-tech study has revealed nearly 1,000 ancient Maya settlements, including 417 previously unknown cites linked by what may be the world's first highway network and hidden for millennia by the jungles of northern Guatemala and southern Mexico reut.rs/3HfkeS5
6:55 AM · Jan 19, 2023
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Neoliberal 🌐🇺🇦@ne0liberal
Fantastic news. All states should be moving in this direction, making it easier to move occupational licenses across state lines.
reason.com
Ohio to honor occupational licenses from other states
2:40 PM · Jan 19, 2023
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Neoliberal 🌐🇺🇦@ne0liberal
This is really, really cool
Secretary Antony Blinken @SecBlinken
The United States is launching the Welcome Corps, the boldest innovation in refugee resettlement in four decades. This initiative enables Americans to directly support refugees and show the best of American hospitality and generosity. #JoinTheWelcomeCorps https://t.co/MFp3lO1fQN
4:10 PM · Jan 19, 2023
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Benedict Evans@benedictevans
It appears that the EU’s approach to tech regulation will be to fine companies under the GDPR for complying with the DSA and then fine them under the DSA for complying with the GDPR, all the while telling itself it’s the envy of the world.
7:16 PM · Jan 19, 2023
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b-boy bouiebaisse@jbouie
more convinced than ever that it was either alito or thomas
Chris “Subscribe to Law Dork!” Geidner @chrisgeidner
OK, so, I just finished the Marshal's report. It's wild. But, at the end of the day, this is really all that matters: The justices themselves were not asked questions or investigated, per what I gather from the Marshal's report. https://t.co/6Dl29JiE9D
8:04 PM · Jan 19, 2023
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Matthew Zeitlin@MattZeitlin
one funny thing is that the culture is very anti the idle rich, everyone likes to think of themselves as some kind of hard worker, not some 19th century rentier living off bond coupons, but the tax code actually thinks the latter is way better
8:05 PM · Jan 19, 2023
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Matthew Zeitlin@MattZeitlin
this leads to the funny situation outlined in owen zidar's research where people who do work for their money are lying to the IRS about actually being idle rentiers eml.berkeley.edu/~yagan/Capital…
8:07 PM · Jan 19, 2023
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Robotbeat🗽 ➐@Robotbeat
Your regular reminder that more people work at Arby’s than there are coal workers.
Dr. Mary Finley-Brook 🕷🕸 🌍 @geoyapti
For how many decades are people going to shut down the conversation on the necessary transition to renewables because of supposed impacts on coal workers? There are only 59,456 people employed in the coal mining industry in the US as of 2023.
We can create 60,000 healthy jobs.
8:18 PM · Jan 19, 2023
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Timothy B. Lee@binarybits
I think this is basically correct, but I think an underlying issue is that there are inherent limits to how much material wealth or technological progress can improve the living standards of human beings.
elidourado.com
Heretical thoughts on AI
10:04 PM · Jan 19, 2023
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TheOmniZaddy 🌹🔰🏗@TheOmniZaddy
People who present this as some kind of negative position should probably ask themselves what they think “immigration” is
11:10 PM · Jan 19, 2023
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M. Nolan Gray@mnolangray
At California YIMBY, we like to do things differently—which is why we're launching a research bounty program. Able to put together research/maps/data/platforms we need to advance housing affordability? Help out and get rewarded:
cayimby.org
The California YIMBY Research Bounty Program
1:24 AM · Jan 20, 2023
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