#2021

hypocaust

_hypocaust

Well worth taking the time to read FICA's Women's Global Employment report 2020.The report covers the 2018-2019 period, and lays bare the scale of the challenges at hand even before

Noah Smith 🐇

Noahpinion

1/Today's @bopinion post is about debt and green investment. There is no reason to fear deficit spending for this kind of investment.https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-02-02/the-federal-deficit-is-no-reason-to-fear-biden-s-

Ulysses Mouse

MouseUlysses

Hay big spender! Farmer Bill is now the biggest owner of agricultural land in the US - billionaire Gates buys up 242,000 acres across 18 stateshttps://landreport.com/2021/01/bill-gates-americas-top-farmland-owner/No worries...https://natura

Max Burns

themaxburns

Perhaps the complete collapse of the Texas power grid is a good opportunity to discuss the importance of power infrastructure in the United States and how much our lack of

Troy Hunt

troyhunt

Looks like we could be witnessing the final hours of Parler:“Every vendor from text message services to email providers to our lawyers all ditched us too on the same day”“Matze

Ari Berman

AriBerman

After record turnout in Georgia, state Senate Republicans introduce bills to end automatic voter registration, no-excuse absentee voting & ballot drop boxes. This would impact millions of voters & be

Kai Kupferschmidt

kakape

Getting a lot of questions about vaccines and variants and why @moderna_tx is developing a booster based on variant discovered in South Africa if vaccines are thought to protect against

Liam Denning

liamdenning

When electric vehicles rule, where does the power come from? The answer is surprising. Today's piece is a graphics-fest JV with @hecharts https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2021-opinion-renewables-will-power-future-of-us-

Carl T. Bergstrom

CT_Bergstrom

It has not been a good news day when it comes to vaccines—particularly AstraZeneca—and the B.1.351 variant that arose in South Africa. But buried amidst the bad news of a

🇧🇧 Ethereal Bisexual Chanda Prescod-Weinstein

IBJIYONGI

Wages for housework: my grandmother did all of the typing for decades and this is how people talk about her “James would have documents typed, annotate them, and then dispatch

Mark Toshner

mark_toshner

Have to admit I have eased off on talking about vaccine safety. In my bubble everyone is just desperate for a vaccine. Thought job done. Reminded it is not. 1/nhttps://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jan/10/coronavirus-covid-19-vaccine-hesit

Amanda Marcotte

AmandaMarcotte

The lack of violence so far today is yet more evidence that Trump’s incitement was the central factor. No doubt troops, etc. were important. But the right wing chatter was

Gina Anne Tam 譚吉娜

DGTam86

"Language is more than a medium for communication. It’s an instrument of power, a measure of humanity, a map for world-making. It is also never neutral." Nuanced insight on the

John Onwuchekwa

JawnO

My thoughts on reading Carl Trueman's article. I read it all and walked away with an uncanny sense of freedom, relief, and energy to continue doing the work of addressing

Joan Donovan, PhD 🦫

BostonJoan

This is one of the most dangerous uses of social media by a researcher. (Well, there was that other guy that posted extremist content to his own feed to test

Andrew Chen

andrewtychen

Every country seeking to use digital contact tracing needs to give their population assurances that this won't happen in their jurisdiction. Aus-style legislative protections could be used here in NZ,

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