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Posts by Sam Eyler-Driscoll 🍉🌻🍁

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Cinco de Mayo parade in Little Village canceled for second year as immigration enforcement concerns persist The parade typically draws hundreds to Little Village to celebrate Mexico's victory over Napoleon III’s French army in the Battle of Puebla in 1862. But the parade was canceled this year as the Trump ...

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These are documented migrants who are now terrified of interacting with the state. It would take a long time to restore this broken trust with even the most zealous effort.

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In case you think migrant families in blue cities are breathing any easier these days, my kid’s best friend is transferring to a school right next to her house because her mother wants to minimize their time in cars to avoid any interaction with the authorities

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Never will I recover from the fact that a majority of US voters made this oozing dripping id of a consciousness the president of the world’s hegemon

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Banks are going to love losing deposits to mattresses over this because they’re too afraid to stand up to the fash

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Lord Skidelsky obituary: leading historian of Keynes Historian and foremost authority on the British economist John Maynard Keynes who was founding chairman of the Social Market Foundation, dies aged 86

Sad to see that Robert Skidelsky has died. His three volume biography of Keynes is a timeless masterpiece, and so much more than the history of one (great) individual.

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Folks noting this is an obvious attempt to curry favor with the president. Yes. The means of currying favor is by devising increasingly shameless ways of interfering in the midterms. We’ll see more of it

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Folks noting this is an obvious attempt to curry favor with the president. Yes. The means of currying favor is by devising increasingly shameless ways of interfering in the midterms. We’ll see more of it

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This is forward- (not backward-) looking election interference

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I saw that. Julian Casablancas used to give rise to uhhh intense reactions in late-teenage me

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You WHAT

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Presumably they can’t sell overpriced wireless if the state won’t replenish people’s pockets picked by AI robber barons

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If you’re concerned about pitchforks you could simply add that to the firm’s objective function

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Don’t worry, CEOs begging for public spending to prop up their excess returns is CEOs’ whole job

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This is wishcasting

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No one is posting quite like FT alphaville

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I can’t wait till we have a special active labor market policy for anyone who makes a peep about raising interest rates during the AI rush

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The FOMC among the white-collar workers to be made redundant by AI, says finance guy
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I don't think I've ever read a sentence as unappealing as "Jim Caviezel is Jair Bolsonaro."

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This is forward- (not backward-) looking election interference

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Me, an editor, getting all in my feelings here

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In a different time I might have shared your enthusiasm but the politics of tech is so overwhelmingly directed toward social control and repression right now that it seems naive not to be wary. It’s a shame

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True, there is literally no innovation that I do not expect tech companies to sic on labor or protestors for obvious reasons. So “look how our robots can outrun the best of you” is hard to read as benign

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I mean sure! Just seems the comparison to human runners is not then particularly meaningful.

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Right?! I’m a runner and I don’t understand the point of this

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personally I agree that we should indeed reject the hollow pluralism of pretending that we shouldn't judge Klan, Nazi, and sparkling eugenicist subcultures according to what they have historically produced, and would enthusiastically endorse rejecting inclusion of them in public life

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help help i'm being negatively polarized into communion with the apostolic see

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“Overbearing genocidal cruelty but underneath there’s really a deeply fragile man struggling with his own mortality and constrained decision making” sir this is a Wendy’s

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To me it seems bad that the press only knows how to cover authoritarianism through the frame of identification with the fascist father

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