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Alexander Boyd 李乐
alboyd_aka_LiLe
(very short) thread re: the fascinating mini-profile of Ren Yi aka 兔主席 in last week's Chaguan by @DSORennie thesis: Ren is a sophist eerily similar to America's #1 huckster-philosopherRen says,
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Cory Doctorow #BLM
doctorow
Happy #BookBirthday to @StephanieKelton on the publication of her long-awaited "The Deficit Myth," a book that could NOT be more timely in this moment of massive structural unemployment and trillions
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Cory Doctorow #BLM
doctorow
It took decades after the passage of America's landmark antitrust laws - the Sherman Act and the Clayton Act - for trustbusting to occur in earnest, and what spurred the
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Cory Doctorow #BLM
doctorow
It's disturbingly easy to forget that China is operating a genocidal program of ethnic cleansing against Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslims in Xinjiang province. The secrecy of the concentration camps
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Joe Pitts
jpittsaz
The systematic misunderstanding of America’s international role & our processes of gov’t are entirely the fault of a generational failure to properly educate students. We have an education system that
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Cory Doctorow #BLM
doctorow
Say it with me now: a fine is a price. When companies profit from inflicting harm on the rest of us, a fine is just part of the price of
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Greg Ip
greg_ip
1/ China beat the U.S. in 2020 because its authoritarian, centralized system better met the challenge of Covid and economic conflict than the U.S.' pluralistic, decentralized system. Will China keep
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Jonathan West 🌺🕉️🇺🇸🇮🇳🇪🇨
MycoJonathan
1/ In America, Europe, Canada, Australia, India & every Islamic country, we've rampant out of control bigotry. Bigotry to a level it's institutionalized. It exists in government, Academia & media.
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Cory Doctorow #BLM
doctorow
We are living in a golden age of predatory capitalism, in which businesses that generate real value and stable employment are being destroyed by deep-pocketed quasi-tech firms that lose money
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Cory Doctorow #BLM
doctorow
In the early days of the pandemic, the term "contact tracing" vaulted into the public consciousness: that's the shoe-leather- and labor-intensive process whereby skilled heath experts establish a personal rapport
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Cory Doctorow #BLM
doctorow
The early Disney company had several near-death experiences, some due to exogenous shocks and some self-inflicted (bad labor practices, weird technology choices), and all through it, a power struggle between
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Cory Doctorow #BLM
doctorow
A couple days back, I wrote up my best understanding of what happened with /r/wallstreetbets and meme stocks like Gamestop, trying to show how all the different, seemingly contradictory takes
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Edward Butler
EPButler
Some truth here, but also an overestimation of the benefits likely to accrue from striving for respectability. https://twitter.com/Robin_C_Douglas/status/1334929195399573510 I think that Hutton doesn't sufficiently recognize the extent
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Cory Doctorow #BLM
doctorow
Accountancy is more likely to be mocked than celebrated (or condemned), but accountants, far more than poets, are the unacknowledged legislators of the world. 1/ Though "bean counters" are employed
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Cory Doctorow #BLM
doctorow
When you hear the phrase "free market," you probably think of "a market that is free from regulation" but that's the opposite of the phrase's original meaning! 1/ Adam Smith
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Cory Doctorow #BLM
doctorow
The Obama administration inherited a vast economic crisis. They responded with Quantitative Easing, pumping trillions into the finance sector to rescue the banks that had knowingly gambled on bad mortgages,
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