The year is 2026 and we’re still using plastic stays to structure point collars. Can AI solve this?
“I have a very particular set of skills, and…it’s not this.”
Walker Bragman@walkerbragman.bsky.social · 8mo agoSCOOP: Academy Award-nominee Liam Neeson narrated a recent anti-vaccine documentary that glorifies RFK Jr.’s rise to power. In the film, Neeson—a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador—calls the COVID-19 vaccines “dangerous experiments.” www.importantcontext.news/p/liam-neeso...
Americans 90 days after the World Trade Center attacks: “We’re basically content!”
Pew Research Center@pewresearch.org · 8mo agoFrustration has long been Americans’ dominant emotion toward the federal government. This sentiment is common across the political spectrum regardless of which party holds the presidency.
Ah, yes—the famously wealthy illegal immigrants. Putting upward pressures on median-priced housing stock in urban centers.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 9mo agoJD Vance: "A lot of young people are saying housing is way too expensive. Why is that? Because we flooded the country with 30 million illegal immigrants who were taking houses that ought by right go to American citizens."
The purpose of Trump’s tariff plan isn’t to enact 10-20 percent tax on all imported goods, but to require businesses and industries beg before him for exception.
NBER@nber.org · 2y agoTariffs enacted during the Trump administration had many products excluded from the tariffs at the request of US firms, so the costs of the tariffs were lower than expected, from Robert C. Feenstra and Chang Hong https://www.nber.org/papers/w33007
Maybe a national newspaper with some reporting resources can interview a split-ticket Gallego voter.
jamelle@jamellebouie.net · 2y agoi’m just very skeptical that we’ll get a split result like this in november. if harris is 3 points ahead in georgia, i’d be shocked if she lost arizona.
But that’s exactly it. Everyone was so poor and underemployed, we all lived in communal houses in cheap city centers, started bands/art collectives, threw wild parties in dilapidated warehouses. There was nothing about the job market to take seriously—so we didn’t.
Faine Greenwood@faineg.bsky.social · 2y agoIt also blows my mind to see people around my age act like it was awesome to be in college and then a young adult in the late 2000s and early 2010s Did they somehow miss the part where no one could find a job? did they memory hole that? i mean i too enjoy MGMT but that didn't really COMPENSATE