Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦@Noahpinion
This is comparable to the surge in anti-Asian hate crimes.
Shalom Lipner @ShalomLipner
"The surge was part of a nationwide trend that saw 2,717 antisemitic incidents across the United States, including 88 assaults, an increase of 167 percent from the year before." @liamstack https://t.co/KFU1PRCwIK
6:02 AM · Apr 27, 2022
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
Good thread here. I am much more worried about a situation in which Musk’s varied business interests lead to too little free speech on Twitter rather than too much.
Melissa Chan @melissakchan
Elon Musk has a Tesla factory in China and he wants to sell more cars there, as many China observers note. What happens if Beijing leans on him about say, a Uyghur or Hong Kong activist account? Or about Chinese disinformation bots leveraging this platform?
10:06 AM · Apr 27, 2022
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
To the extent that the real goal of US policy in Ukraine is to weaken Russia, Putin could (and indeed should) foil this plan by ceasing the invasion.
11:27 AM · Apr 27, 2022
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
This from Hobbes is a popular but the situation is Tweeters are richer than the general population.
But because they are also younger and better-educated, it’s a more left-wing group than the electorate — so left-wing people like it when elites are responsive to Twitter.
2:12 PM · Apr 27, 2022
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
Twitter is basically “what if you could do politics without non-college old people?”
The answer is leftists would have a lot more influence and rightist politics would be techy edgdelords instead of observant Christians.
But you can’t do politics that way.
2:19 PM · Apr 27, 2022
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Donald Shoup@DonaldShoup
sightline.org
One in Three Garages Has No Car in It
3:59 PM · Apr 27, 2022
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Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦@Noahpinion
@MattBruenig But notice that 8chan does NOT include equivalents of tons of 1st Amendment compliant speech restrictions -- noise ordinances, anti-harassment laws, and so on. You can include equivalents of all those and still be aping the 1st Amendment.
5:26 PM · Apr 27, 2022
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
Seems pretty good
David Patrikarakos @dpatrikarakos
"I want to say one thing: @elonmusk's Starlink is what changed the war in #Ukraine's favour. #Russia went out of its way to blow up all our comms. Now they can't. Starlink works under Katyusha fire, under artillery fire. It even works in Mariupol." https://t.co/C2QnVTE3tc
9:02 PM · Apr 27, 2022
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
Neither of these things is happening.
Mercedes Schlapp @mercedesschlapp
Bill Gates is buying up the majority of American farmland and BlackRock is buying the majority of single family houses but I'm supposed to believe the biggest threat to us is Elon Musk buying Twitter?
9:52 PM · Apr 27, 2022
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Alex Melendrez (He/him)@ACMelendrez
Appreciate @KQED for giving me a brief moment to talk about impacts and organizing for housing on one of my favorite podcasts, SOLD OUT! Great season, @solomonout, @e_baldi, @naldana22 and to their entire team. kqed.org/news/11911130/…
YIMBY Action @yimbyaction
"Policies don't organize people. It's stories and impact."
-YIMBY Action Organizing Manager @ACMelendrez via @KQED
https://t.co/SVtSDYcnDO
10:58 PM · Apr 27, 2022
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Kameron Hurley@KameronHurley
Ukrainians are fucking metal.
nyti.ms
They Flooded Their Own Village, and Kept the Russians at Bay
11:18 PM · Apr 27, 2022
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
I really don’t think shaming people for taking the cure for Covid is a good idea — we now have more doses than people taking it.
politico.com
Why did Kamala take the Pfizer pill?
12:53 AM · Apr 28, 2022
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Bill Weir@BillWeirCNN
I can peer-review the hell out of this with a firm “amen”
Katy Milkman @katy_milkman
A new paper out in @Nature shows that we’re worse at generating creative ideas on Zoom than in person. #BehavioralScience
https://t.co/iuKLyPmGrd https://t.co/QjQ98m0xjo
1:29 AM · Apr 28, 2022
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