Thread by @doctorow

Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: 80% of Britons want happiness, not growth; Shanghai Disneyland re-opens; The bailout is working (for Wall Street); NLRB nukes Hearst's union-busting; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2020/05/11/del…

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80% of Britons want happiness, not growth: Defeating Goodhart's Law.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1259856523729211392

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Shanghai Disneyland re-opens: Social cohesion and pandemic countermeasures.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1259871035886759938

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The bailout is working (for Wall Street): How's that trickle-down treating you?

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1259879686278021123

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NLRB nukes Hearst's union-busting: "Company unions" are a fiction.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1259885044937551872

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Podcast of "Rules for Writers": More what you call guidelines.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1259892660917043213

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Facebook's "supreme court": You can't fix something from the inside if it shouldn't exist in the first place.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1259907357280047104

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#15yrsago Journal of Ride Theory amazing zine is now an amazing book lulu.com/shop/dan-howla…

#10yrsago U Texas/Austin's ACTLab to close web.archive.org/web/2010051817…

#10yrsago Literary sports jerseys novel-t.com

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#10yrsago Open source hardware business booms: 13 companies making $1M+ singularityhub.com/2010/05/10/13-…

#10yrsago FOR THE WIN launches today craphound.com/category/ftw/

#10yrsago Crucimickey in an upscale Beijing mall flickr.com/photos/frankyu…

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#5yrsago Copyfighting, jailbreaking legend Ed Felten is the White House's new deputy CTO obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/2015/05/1…

#5yrsago Librarians: privacy's champions thenation.com/article/archiv…

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#1yrago Facebook's "celebration" and "memories" algorithms are auto-generating best-of-terror-recruiting pages for extremist groups securityweek.com/whistleblower-…

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#1yrago Beto O'Rourke just hired a "senior advisor" who used to lobby for Keystone XL, Seaworld and private prisons theintercept.com/2019/05/11/bet…

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#1yrago Bipartisan groups call on Congress to reinstate the Office of Technology Assessment, which Gingrich killed in 1995 techdirt.com/articles/20190…

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#1yrago British jury ignores judge and frees self-represented climate activists based on the "necessity defense" climateliabilitynews.org/2019/05/10/nec…

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Yesterday's threads: Probability and pandemics; Striking New Orleans garbage collectors replaced with prison labor; Factchecking virologist/conspiracist Judy Mikovits; Pandemic countermeasures from the porn industry; and more!

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1259563537032048642

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On Jul 14, my first picture book comes out! It's called Poesy the Monster Slayer and it's an epic tale of bedtime-refusal, toy-hacking and monster-hunting, illustrated by Matt Rockefeller. It's the monster book I dreamt of reading to my own daughter.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1228033537867014145

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Today's top sources: Naked Capitalism (nakedcapitalism.com), Late Stage Capitalism (reddit.com/r/LateStageCap…).

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