Kelsey Piper
@KelseyTuoc
We're not doomed, we just have a big to-do list.
accelerationism never works, making the world worse makes it worse and then it's worse. the way to make the world better is by making it better.
uh this is a pretty big narrative violation? 83% of Americans support giving medicine to developing nations 78% support giving them food and clothing 63% support economic development 61% support strengthening democracy close enough, welcome back liberal internationalism
Howard Lutnick's investment bank Cantor Fitzgerald is offering to buy the right to businesses tariff refunds, basically betting that the courts will overturn the tariffs.
The Soviets abolished weekends. Instead they created a rolling 5 day week so that factories were always open. Workers would get time off on different days so they couldn't be sure their day off would overlap with that of their spouse or friends. eyeondesign.aiga.org/a-failed-sovie…
You don’t hate Mondays.. you hate being exploited by capitalism
California's $20 fast food minimum wage reduced employment by 3.2 percent (roughly 18,000 jobs) over the first year since its enactment, from @jeffreypclemens, Olivia Edwards, and Jonathan Meer nber.org/papers/w34033
Last year was the largest one-year percentage point decline in murder ever recorded. This year is on track to do so again. In fact, nearly every category of crime is down sharply, with many at multi-decade lows or even the lowest per-capita rates ever recorded.
Low-income parents got $1,000 per month - what happened? They reported they supervised their children more closely; kids reported more stress. No meaningful effect on school outcomes, food security, homelessness, and self-reported stress reductions in Year 1 dissipated by Year 2
1000 low income adults were randomly selected to receive $1000/month for 3 years, with a control group receiving $50/month over that same period. Many of them had children in the household. How did it affect how they parented and their kids?
The zero-sum trap: the more people believe that wealth, status, and well-being are zero-sum, the more they back policies that make the world zero-sum. marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolu…
just wait until you hear about agriculture
This A1 story on Meta’s data centers, and others, use of water in an age of AI is incredible. /1
The plaque the Apollo 11 astronauts left on the moon.
why is it that about half of all high engagement rightwing accounts that focus on american politics aren’t even american
The IfindRetards account had a meltdown and admitted they’re not American. The MAGA folks are trying to dox him 😆