Kathryn Watson@kathrynw5
Someone should name a bar/speakeasy in D.C. "That's Classified" so that when someone asks where you're going, you can say, "That's Classified"
6:08 PM · Jan 24, 2023
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Todd N. Tucker@toddntucker
“When people talk of friend-shoring, I get a little nervous because I don't know who is a friend,” WTO DG Okongo-Iweala said during a panel discussion. “A friend today maybe tomorrow will not be a friend. When you say that, I never hear any countries in Africa mentioned.”
Bryce Baschuk @bbaschuk
President @JoeBiden’s renewed bid to improve ties wi#/ Africa still lags China’s Belt & Road projects (💰 💰 💰 ) and Russia’s political efforts to sustain its historic and ideological relations. 🤝 https://t.co/lv4luz8LU8
2:44 PM · Jan 25, 2023
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Science Is Strategic@scienceisstrat1
Annual US government spending on climate is skyrocketing 🚀🚀
3:50 PM · Jan 25, 2023
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Avner Strulov-Shlain@AvnerShlain
ChatGPT is like economists:
Always confident,
Sometimes correct.
4:20 PM · Jan 25, 2023
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
Real wages back to growing — to the extent inflation is now driven by prices in labor-intensive services, I think that’s probably less of a big deal politically than inflation in commodities or manufactured goods.
politico.com
Biden finally gets a win against inflation
4:21 PM · Jan 25, 2023
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
I wish we could get stories like this headlined “Washington State might allow four-unit buildings” — I think a lot of people read this as a proposal to prohibit single-family homes or something.
axios.com
Washington state might nix-single family zoning
4:23 PM · Jan 25, 2023
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rohit@krishnanrohit
🚨New Essay🚨
It's 2023. Where are all the robots we were promised !?
Here's why we desperately need a Henry Ford of domestic bots.
strangeloopcanon.com/p/where-are-al…
strangeloopcanon.com
Where are all the robots?
5:55 PM · Jan 25, 2023
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Linette Lopez@lopezlinette
"Twitter’s annual interest burden has increased by over $100 million since he announced the takeover deal last April, as the overnight rate has increased. At the time of the announcement, the overnight rate was 0.3%."
Now it's 4.3%ish — wow.
7:54 PM · Jan 25, 2023
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David Wallace-Wells@dwallacewells
The U.K.'s struggles are bigger than the crisis of the N.H.S., but the struggles of the N.H.S. are truly staggering at the moment. (1/x)
nytimes.com
Opinion | Britain’s Cautionary Tale of Self-Destruction
9:19 PM · Jan 25, 2023
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
@awprokop Liquidating Jose’s college fund to go short-Newsom, long-Biden
10:52 PM · Jan 25, 2023
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
Hideous
nytimes.com/2023/01/25/us/…
10:53 PM · Jan 25, 2023
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David Broockman@dbroockman
1978: SF NIMBYs downzone SF, banning 180,000 potential homes
Less than a decade ago: the YIMBY movement is born in SF
This week: the SF BOS voted to make over *HALF A MILLION* new homes legal, counteracting the '78 downzoning by >3x
Thank you @Scott_Wiener @SFyimby @cayimby!
Senator Scott Wiener @Scott_Wiener
🧵 SF Board of Supervisors is poised today to approve a strong housing plan (housing element) that plans for 82k new homes in next 8 years: 3x the # of homes planned for in the last plan.
This transformative moment didn’t happen randomly. We changed state law to MAKE it happen:
11:31 PM · Jan 25, 2023
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Nate Silver@NateSilver538
This is one of my recent experiments with ChatGPT. If you ask it questions like this, the "person" sounds like a 9th grader in a creative writing seminar and the "AI" sounds almost stereotypically spectrum-y.
1:09 AM · Jan 26, 2023
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