@eyesquash :blobfoxcryreach:

@grantimatter (fun!)

@conradhackett what do Alaska and South Dakota have in common...

i my finally be able to turn on icloud backup of my iphone. see @matthew_d_green https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2022/12/07/apple-icloud-and-why-encrypted-backup-is-the-only-privacy-issue/ ht @mmasnick

The Great Wordle Strike of December 8 2022.

US Labor History will never be the same.

(I really will be skipping the Wordle! A streak is a small price to pay for solidarity!)

Long time econ blogger @maxbsawicky is exploring a run for Virginia House Delegate! https://maxspeak.net/hello-world

An accessible source of cyclone (hurricane, typhoon, etc) data http://tropical.atmos.colostate.edu/Realtime/index.php?arch&loc=global

ht @PatrickTBrown31@twitter.com @EricLevitz@twitter.com

The right to sue for defamation on balance __________ free speech norms.

from Matt Bruenig on the US Child Tax Credit https://www.peoplespolicyproject.org/2022/12/06/what-to-do-with-the-child-tax-credit-now/

[New Post] Tackling inequality from the demand side https://www.interfluidity.com/v2/9713.html

@vbuterin not yet in a snafu

pretty soon, real life will have subtitles.

ChatGPT has its own politics.

To what degree is that an artifact of the text that's "out there". To what degree is it sensitive to the intentional or unintentional biases of its developers and trainers?

cf @mhendricks https://fediscience.org/@mhendricks/109467581564969493

in life and diplomacy, never treat friendship as a zero-sum game.

smash your draft card? smash your phone. https://t.me/United24media/1195 ht @SocraticEthics

"Corporate media, man!" can be a whine overdone, there's lots of great work in the so-called mainstream media.

But one critique that rings true is that corporate media dramatically underplays—effectively suppresses by editorial bias—labor stories.

I had no idea there was a strike on at Twitter. (TBF, this one started just yesterday.) https://twitter.com/CaliforniaLabor/status/1599845784178294784

In general, I really appreciate being informed about labor action, please pass stories along.

will China have a post-COVID roaring twenties?

Scratch ‘n Sniff

i think it would be good if all the embassies and ministries of foreign affairs that have accounts on the bird site came here. they might behave more, um, diplomatically.

i guess i understood it was a little unbalanced but i never expected that post to go chiral.