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"This will “devastate the economy,” said Jacques Nel, head of Africa Macro at Oxford Economics... Lesotho is already a poor country. It has a population of two million and its entire national output is about $2 billion a year with an annual per capita income of $975." www.nytimes.com/2025/04/05/b...

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Fun fact: 19 out of 20 humans are not Americans

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Looking forward to this next week —

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Hoping for more Wikler-Musk showdowns in the future

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I wrote a new short story! And @theatlantic.com published it today! It's called Relatable Mom and features social media, weight, friendship, and assorted other topics www.theatlantic.com/culture/arch...

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This kind of backtracking is making the current political landscape much more divisive between generations. Younger people are losing trust as institutions betray what they claimed as their principles.

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Why don’t books have ads?

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Every day brings a reassessment.

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Gen X embraces its inner nihilism

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Jesus fucking Christ. 15.3% REAL wage gains from 2019-2024. This isn't total Stancil Victory. This is totally Stancil Conquest.

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Do people realize to what extent Amazon is now a subsidiary publisher? It’s now extremely common for the paperback you order to be printed by Amazon and shipped to you, rather than from the original publisher.

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A niche question, but — is this good for Signal or bad for Signal?

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Even if this were true, wouldn’t it be even more problematic if senior officials were planning military actions in a place where anybody could let himself in?

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My new piece is up. open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...

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Join us TODAY at 4pm ET in person or on Zoom with @jillhasday.bsky.social to discuss her new book, We the Men: How Forgetting Women’s Struggles for Equality Perpetuates Inequality. Free registration here: shorturl.at/pSeyL @auwclhealthlaw.bsky.social

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“If you allow corporations to consolidate power, they can use that power to inflate prices, to suppress wages, and to squeeze out small businesses. But they can also use that power politically in all sorts of ways.” Exactly. 🙏 @linamkhan.bsky.social

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Looks like 23andMe might be on the verge of shutting down. If you or a family member have used their services, now’s a good time to download and remove your data from their servers before it gets sold off. oag.ca.gov/news/press-r...

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🧵; big difference between ‘17 and ‘25 is not that mass resistance is more muted now (the opposite appears to be the case); it’s that elite resistance is more muted

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Sea turtles continue to be a bright spot in marine conservation - my news to me good news for Mar 22 #OceanOptimism #EarthOptimism #BeyondTheObituaries. www.fisheries.noaa.gov/feature-stor...

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From 2010 to 2016 (latest data I have ), NIH research contributed to EVERY drug approved by the FDA

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Can’t believe this — so irresponsible.

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A case for why "Large (language) models should not be viewed primarily as intelligent agents but as a new kind of cultural and social technology, allowing humans to take advantage of information other humans have accumulated." www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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The two possible reactions to logging on to Bluesky and seeing what’s been happening

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It's part of a broader assault on other-regarding institutions.

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It’s a workers party now

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Professor @matthewtbodie.bsky.social spoke on a panel at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Investor Advisory Committee in early March about the implications of the use of AI for corporations in relation to operations and financial disclosures. z.umn.edu/aace

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April Fools came early this year

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I haven't heard a single member of Congress from either party acknowledge he really wants to annex Canada, it's not just some joke or distraction, and express serious opposition to the idea. Or for that matter, even serious support. It's all still a game to them, oh there he goes again, crazy Donny.

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This isn't going to get the attention of Columbia, but it's at least as bad: the University of Maine is having its funding cut off because the governor of Maine dared to challenge Trump.

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I was fairly shocked to get the call from the American Law Institute committee that I had won, it's really an honor. Thank you to my colleagues at BU Law for believing in me and nominating me

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FULL KEYNOTE -- me + Guy K at SXSW on why privacy is a fundamental guarantor of a gorgeous, good life (not an absence, not a vacuum, not abstract). And how AI threatens privacy. And why Signal is so special and why you should use & love & support it ❤️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyH7...

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“Mundus sine caesaribus.” “a world without Caesars.” techcrunch.com/2025/03/10/a...

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A nation of laws (if we can keep it).

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NLRB employees line the sidewalk to welcome back Board Member Gwynne Wilcox at HQ this morning after a federal judge ordered her reinstatement. Trump fired Wilcox Jan 27 in what the judge ruled was an illegal removal.

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