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6 Mar, 5 tweets, 1 min read
I was always hoping for Twitter to turn into a giant flame war between partisans of Golden Grahams and Cinnamon Toast Crunch, but it hasn't happened yet
Which is better?
Also, which of these is better?
And which of these is better?
And finally...

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8 Mar
1/OK, here are my thoughts on Biden's big relief bill.

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2/People are sleeping on how big a deal this bill is.

3/Almost all of the bill is just "mailing out checks" in one form or another.

This indicates a general shift in econ policy that I think has been building for a while now -- a shift toward unconditional cash transfers.

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4 Mar
1/Today's @bopinion post is about how Clubhouse, Substack, TikTok, and other new social media are helping move public discussion away from Twitter, and in doing so are helping to build a better Internet.

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2/Twitter is great for many things -- meeting people, getting news quickly, giving voice to the excluded, etc.

But it's also a place filled with rage, where negative emotions create virality, and everyone is incentivized to be angry all the time.

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3/Misinformation also travels quite rapidly on Twitter.

And as Trump showed, bad actors can leverage Twitter to destabilize society.

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1 Mar
1/Let's talk about something actually important for a change: Africa!

noahpinion.substack.com/p/all-futurism…
2/You can't understand how important Africa is unless you look at a population projection.
3/Here's another view.

And remember, Africa's proportion of the YOUNG population will be far larger even than this graph shows.

The future of Africa is literally the future of humanity.
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27 Feb
Anti-Asian hate crimes have gone way up in Vancouver too.

globalnews.ca/news/7647135/h…
The fact that this is happening in one of the most liberal Canadian cities makes me think that this wave of hate crimes isn't mainly due to Trump or to any sort of Asian-Black tensions, but is just a sort of self-sustaining meme. Which is pretty terrifying...
My working hypothesis is that this meme was kicked off by a general worldwide surge of negative opinion toward China (probably over COVID), of which Trump's rhetoric was just one manifestation. And after attacks on Asians started being reported on, copycats swarmed.
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25 Feb
1/Today's Substack post is about a neat idea I had:

Tie minimum wage to local rent.

I think it would help make sure minimum wage is a living wage, AND provide an incentive to build more housing.

noahpinion.substack.com/p/why-not-tie-…
2/The minimum wage debate has brought attention to the fact that the minimum wage that's appropriate for small-town Oklahoma isn't the same as the minimum wage that's appropriate for New York City.

Regional differences matter!

noahpinion.substack.com/p/the-minimum-…
3/One idea is to tie minimum wage increases to changes in PRODUCTIVITY, since many people believe that productivity differences are the source of local cost and wage differences, and because making wage=productivity feels fair.

But there are big problems with that approach.
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25 Feb
Wow, deforestation is heavily concentrated in Latin America. Did not know that.
Here's the article where the chart came from:

ourworldindata.org/what-are-drive…
Interestingly, most Latin American deforestation goes to Latin American consumption. The same is true of Africa and Asia.

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