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Noah Smith quoted
Economics writer; author of the Noahpinion newsletter
Their wordsBut whatever the correct numbers are, the basic point remains the same: AI is now one of the two biggest infrastructure booms in American history, by a large margin.
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Paul Krugman quoted
Trade economist, Nobel laureate in 2008 for his work…
Their wordsAbove all, he will retain immense capacity to inflict destruction on America, not to mention America’s allies.
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Matthew Yglesias quoted
Writes Slow Boring, a near-daily newsletter on American…
Their wordsSo it should be easy for a country like the United States to substantially increase the number of permanent residency slots we hand out while making all of the increase selective in the sense of bringing over people with above-average earnings.
↗The right-wing obsession with “The Indian Question”slowboring.com
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Brad DeLong quoted
Economics professor at the University of California
Their wordsBut after 1917 the axis of global political economy and strategic polity was that everyone was much better off when the countries that were to become Valery Giscard d’Estaing, Helmut Schmidt, and Gerald Ford’s G-7 hung together (even though Germany and Italy required some—persuasion before they would see it that way). Trump has reversed that.
↗CROSSPOST: SEVA GUNITSKY: Trump’s “Near Abroad”braddelong.substack.com
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Noah Smith quoted
Their wordsunder Trump, the U.S. has switched our alliance from Europe to Russia
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Federico Viticci quoted
Founder and editor-in-chief of MacStories
Their wordsIt costs $149, which seems fair given the product’s features, and is available for pre-order today in the U.S. and 23 other countries.
↗Apple Reveals HomePod mini 2 with New Colors, Richer Sound, and Siri AImacstories.net
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Paul Krugman quoted
Their wordsI might add that this is general issue with Trump: he often touts trivial policies as major achievement, and it often seems obvious that he has no idea how big America and the world are.
↗Arithmetic Suffers from Trump Derangement Syndromepaulkrugman.substack.com
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Noah Smith quoted
Their wordsEverything bad in American society, culture, and politics is partly a Russian op
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Katelyn Jetelina quoted
Epidemiologist; founded Your Local Epidemiologist in March…
Their wordsTrust in systems (and each other) has been eroding for years (decades?) in the U.S. because people are being repeatedly failed by the systems around them.
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Bill McKibben quoted
Writer and climate campaigner
Our readingThe United States is currently engaged in a battle against the transition to clean electricity.
Their wordsUnlike the 25 Asian countries that have outlined a strategy for transition to clean electricity, we’re currently engaged in a battle against that transition.
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Zvi Mowshowitz quoted
Writes Don't Worry About the Vase
Their wordsBy next year most Americans on the internet will be using AI daily.
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Noah Smith quoted
Their wordsThroughout most of the 2010s, there was a popular notion that society should basically ignore and shun people like that, and that if we all simply shunned them, and pressured our friends and colleagues to shun them, they and their views would vanish from American society — or at least remain marginalized. That approach failed.
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Noah Smith quoted
Their wordsBut if we are going to flourish as a nation, the project of creating an American ethnicity is essential.
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Katelyn Jetelina quoted
Their wordsthe risk of the plague reaching the U.S. from Russia is essentially nil
↗Top 8 questions about the “plague” situationyourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com
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Brad DeLong quoted
Their wordsOnly the American racist right is fearful that immigrants are not assimilating.
↗CROSSPOST: NOAH SMITH: There Is No “Indian Question”braddelong.substack.com
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Brad DeLong quoted
Their wordsWhat is this American identity? It is not ethnic, not blood-and-soil.
↗CROSSPOST: NOAH SMITH: There Is No “Indian Question”braddelong.substack.com
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Noah Smith quoted
Their wordsRightists are not interested in *reforming* the immigration system. Sure, they'd love to halt all immigration. But really, what they're interested in is targeting immigrants, in order to prove that they still have the power to exclude someone from American society.
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Matthew Yglesias quoted
Their wordsEfforts to influence global fossil-fuel consumption by constraining American fossil-fuel production have a terrible cost-benefit profile and always will.
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Noah Smith quoted
Their wordsAmerican children's entertainment is movies and TV, and it emphasizes hard work and practice.
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Noah Smith quoted
Their wordsPaul Krugman says of AI: "This is a technology of, by and for oligarchs, with hardly any of the benefits trickling down to regular Americans." He is wrong.
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Daniel W. Drezner quoted
Political scientist writing Drezner’s World on international relations
Their wordsSo, on the whole, Trump’s trade agenda is alienating allies and angering the American public.
↗So How is the Trump Trade Agenda Going?danieldrezner.substack.com
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Paul Krugman quoted
Their wordsThe level of corruption that Trump has engaged in and enabled in others is completely unprecedented – self-dealing that, as Trump would say, is like nothing anybody has ever seen before.
↗The Trump Administration is a Cesspit of Corruptionpaulkrugman.substack.com
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Paul Krugman quoted
Our readingDemocrats will have to prove they are immune to the influence of Big Money once in power.
Their wordsIn addition to battling Trump in his two remaining years of power, they will also have to prove to the American people that they will be immune to the inevitable attempts by Big Money to buy them off through campaign contributions and back-room deals.
↗The Trump Administration is a Cesspit of Corruptionpaulkrugman.substack.com
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Noah Smith quoted
Their wordsAI has plenty of issues, but it also creates plenty of benefits for regular Americans: 1. Huge consumer surplus (people love using chatbots) 2. Lots of construction jobs 3. Property tax revenue 4. Supporting the whole macroeconomy
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Noah Smith quoted
Their wordsThere are a lot of Nazis in America now, but as a percent of the population they're still tiny
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Nate Silver quoted
Forecaster, founder of FiveThirtyEight
Our readingPolls may be biased in either direction
Their wordsSystematic polling errors are common. Polls might be biased against Republicans again. Or against Democrats.
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Nate Silver quoted
Their wordsIn the 9 midterms or presidential years I’ve covered since FiveThirtyEight launched in 2008, polls have had a systematic bias against Democrats once, in 2012, a systematic bias against Republicans four times (the three Trump presidential elections + 2014), and were basically unbiased in the other four elections, including in the past two midterms.
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Noah Smith quoted
Their wordsRightists will scream "Colorblind meritocracy!" right up until the point where Indian people start doing well, at which point every rightist turns into Ibram Kendi
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Noah Smith quoted
Their wordsTrump has done lots of things to make inflation worse in his second term: 1. Tariffs 2. Massive deficits that he says we can "pay back" with inflation 3. The Iran War
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Noah Smith quoted
Our readingAmerica's power is not collapsing
Their wordsI can’t rule out the possibility that someday we’ll all look back on Trump’s second presidency as a success.
↗The second Trump presidency is a world-historic failurenoahpinion.blog