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Facebook knows it’s making the world a worse place by promoting mostly conservative misinformation, but refuses to do anything about it because that would be bad for its stock price wsj.com/articles/faceb…
“What’s more important: our democracy, or sharing baby photos with people you knew in high school?” is a question Mark Zuckerberg gets wrong every single day because he’s paid billions and billions of dollars to get it wrong.
Facebook might actually be worse than Fox News. Facebook spreads propaganda all over the world instead of just in the U.S.

Not to mention that Facebook has let itself be used by genocidaires. nytimes.com/2018/10/15/tec…
“We’re just a platform” is the new “We were just following orders."
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Two months ago, we had the lowest unemployment rate in 50 years.

Today, we have the highest unemployment rate in 80 years.
We officially have the worst unemployment rate in 80 years, but it’s probably even worse than that.

Why? Because back in the 1930s, lots of government workers (the ones on “work relief”) were still counted as unemployed! fraser.stlouisfed.org/files/docs/mel…
Our unemployment rate is officially 14.7%, but the BLS thinks they made a mistake counting a lot of people who don’t have a job right now as having one. It’ll probably get revised up to 20%.

Going by more accurate unemployment numbers, that’d be the highest level since 1933.
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"People whose professional role is making wrong fiscal and economic forecasts have moonlighted as makers of wrong epidemiological forecasts.” nymag.com/intelligencer/…
The more we learn about Kevin Hassett’s Covid-19 model, the worse it sounds. It “projects" that U.S. deaths are going to fall to zero in … TWO WEEKS.

I didn’t think he could possibly make a worse prediction than Dow 36,000, but I underestimated him. washingtonpost.com/health/governm…
The amazing thing about Kevin Hassett is that he’s arguably not even the worst person at making predictions in the Trump administration—and that’s despite a record of never being right about anything.

His record really is incredible. Some highlights:
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My wife and I tested positive for Covid-19 about a month and a half ago, and found out last week that we do in fact have Covid-19 antibodies. (There are reports about some recovered patients not having much, if any, of an immune response).
Not only do my wife and I have Covid-19 antibodies, but we also have a strong enough immune response that we qualify to donate plasma to try to treat people with.

The crazy thing, though, is we haven't heard back in almost a week about if or when they want us to donate.
My understanding (which might be wrong!) is that NY blood banks are so backed up that they don't have space to take any more plasma donations right now. So even though we signed up to donate, and have been confirmed as potential donors, we're still waiting.
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