Peter Gratton
@petergratton.bsky.social
Peter Gratton, PhD, is an editor at Investopedia, book author, and professor of philosophy. He covers political theory, technology, finance, and political economy. Views are definitely my own.
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I remember the moment in a course I had to show how some basic element of Google Docs or Word worked and was like, welp, growing up on smart phones does not make one tech savvy.
Yes, I don’t get that either—just say we all make mistakes during long days with lots happening. But then we did get treacherous Canadians out of this. And that’s grace there.
Of course, there’s the 90s infomercial version, where they always have you the solution to a made-up problem: (camera pans to a woman dramatically massaging her neck) “Are you tired of the neck pain from shaking your head ‘no’ at mainstream media defenses of Bari Weiss? At Liberal Currents…”
That said, in recent years, you can watch students starting to do that fist hold of pencils just to get through short written quizzes but maybe we’ll get better adult handwriting out of this.
Philosophy major so it was “here’s two blue books, you have 1:30, and referencing at least two philosophers, answer the question, ‘What is the good?’”
Imagining some 80s local TV commercial version of this—“No Sally Jenkins—Guaranteed!”
Research from recent decades shows that children that were disfavored by their parents during childhood are more likely to have poorer mental health, worse family relationships and less academic success than their siblings.
Do Parents Have Favorite Children? Of Course They Do.
And research shows the less favored children suffer for it.
nyti.ms
In case you need citations for Xmas dinner discussions.
Reposted by Peter Gratton
Do Parents Have Favorite Children? Of Course They Do.
And research shows the less favored children suffer for it.
nyti.ms
Research from recent decades shows that children that were disfavored by their parents during childhood are more likely to have poorer mental health, worse family relationships and less academic success than their siblings.
The 80s were a wild time—just didn’t understand redundant phrasing yet.
Nice case study for the a journalism ethics class: do you continue to take notes and report, help the person asking for it, or wait for the Trump administration to comment so you can publish?
Not for nothing but they have a press team—you can call and ask them for how it happened instead of just making it up, since we're talking about journalism and someone wanting people called up first.
I mean it’s terrible and one thing when someone higher up goes “that’s our main advertiser” but these people do it for free.
One of the more memorable investigative pieces in…well ever.
The Atlantic suggesting, without evidence, that Canada's Global TV broadcasting the '60 Minutes' segment on CECOT that CBS distributed to it may have been an act of "treachery."
🔗: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
🔗: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Even her supporters say she's new to this (like that's a good defense of an executive), which she proves by not understanding that in TV news, you can't just dial up sources for a quote on a Friday night.
This must be the most shared video since something from the Kardashians in the aughts.
The 2025 Headline of the Year Nominees
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What would it cost to end extreme poverty?
"We estimate that reducing the poverty rate to 1% ... would cost $170B nominal per year."
"The results correspond to a cost of (approximately) ending extreme poverty of roughly 0.3% of global GDP."
"We estimate that reducing the poverty rate to 1% ... would cost $170B nominal per year."
"The results correspond to a cost of (approximately) ending extreme poverty of roughly 0.3% of global GDP."
This btw is the cost of immigration enforcement in OBBBA.
It’s like “dude, you’re not even better than Heraclitus, and we only have fragments.”
Reposted by James P. Collins, Peter Gratton
What would it cost to end extreme poverty?
"We estimate that reducing the poverty rate to 1% ... would cost $170B nominal per year."
"The results correspond to a cost of (approximately) ending extreme poverty of roughly 0.3% of global GDP."
"We estimate that reducing the poverty rate to 1% ... would cost $170B nominal per year."
"The results correspond to a cost of (approximately) ending extreme poverty of roughly 0.3% of global GDP."
The tricky thing to discussing this is noting the constructivism behind both types of population (it’s not real vs unreal pops) while not losing the salience behind the ways they’re killing means of measuring populations…but I’m sure you’re way further up the line on this than I am.
Should have filmed myself the first time I read this—the dawning horror that it was all-too-really sincere.
To which i say: Thank you.
This post is going to lead—one can hope!—to what happens every time one mentions that site: a list of the most cringe and narcissistic "I'm the best philosopher ever" type posts.
Understanding the Employment Effects of Opportunity Zones
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More evidence that neoliberalism's favored policy for cities—opportunity zones—are a costly boondoggle that don't produce jobs. www.nber.org/papers/w34589
Not a historian but like to research. The AI might summarize what I'm looking for, but it doesn't find what I'm *not* looking for. The book on the shelf next to the one I wanted. The insight in chapter 6 based on the quote I needed from chapter 4.
Absolutely right.
AI might be able to summarize (poorly) what we currently know, but a major goal of historical research is to find the hidden surprises out there.
Let me illustrate …
AI might be able to summarize (poorly) what we currently know, but a major goal of historical research is to find the hidden surprises out there.
Let me illustrate …
TBH I might enter even if you're just promising to let me use the bulldozer in a random parking lot.
Maybe but the original post makes no sense—I mean it’s the AI writing the article so it not reading the citations is not analogous to humans actually writing.
