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Peter Gratton
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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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Peter Gratton @petergratton.bsky.social · 1d
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.

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Peter Gratton @petergratton.bsky.social · 1d
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…”

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Peter Gratton @petergratton.bsky.social · 1d
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.

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Peter Gratton @petergratton.bsky.social · 1d
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?’”

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Peter Gratton @petergratton.bsky.social · 1d
Imagining some 80s local TV commercial version of this—“No Sally Jenkins—Guaranteed!”

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Peter Gratton @petergratton.bsky.social · 2d
In case you need citations for Xmas dinner discussions.
nytimes.com The New York Times @nytimes.com · 2d
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.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 2d
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

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Peter Gratton @petergratton.bsky.social · 2d
The 80s were a wild time—just didn’t understand redundant phrasing yet.

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Peter Gratton @petergratton.bsky.social · 2d
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?

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Peter Gratton @petergratton.bsky.social · 2d
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.

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Peter Gratton @petergratton.bsky.social · 2d
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.

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Peter Gratton @petergratton.bsky.social · 2d
One of the more memorable investigative pieces in…well ever.

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Robson Fletcher @robsonfletcher.com · 2d
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...

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Peter Gratton @petergratton.bsky.social · 2d
www.investopedia.com/what-would-i...
What Would It Would Cost To End Global Poverty?
It would take $318 billion per year, or 0.3% of the world's economic output, to end most extreme poverty worldwide, according to newly published research.
www.investopedia.com

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Peter Gratton @petergratton.bsky.social · 2d
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.

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Peter Gratton @petergratton.bsky.social · 2d
This must be the most shared video since something from the Kardashians in the aughts.

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Paul Fairie @paulisci.bsky.social · 3d
The 2025 Headline of the Year Nominees

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Peter Gratton @petergratton.bsky.social · 3d
This btw is the cost of immigration enforcement in OBBBA.
johnholbein1.bsky.social John Holbein @johnholbein1.bsky.social · 3d
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."

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Peter Gratton @petergratton.bsky.social · 3d
It’s like “dude, you’re not even better than Heraclitus, and we only have fragments.”

Reposted by James P. Collins, Peter Gratton

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John Holbein @johnholbein1.bsky.social · 3d
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."

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Peter Gratton @petergratton.bsky.social · 3d
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.

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Peter Gratton @petergratton.bsky.social · 4d
Should have filmed myself the first time I read this—the dawning horror that it was all-too-really sincere.

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Peter Gratton @petergratton.bsky.social · 4d
To which i say: Thank you.

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Peter Gratton @petergratton.bsky.social · 4d
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.

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Peter Gratton @petergratton.bsky.social · 4d
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
Understanding the Employment Effects of Opportunity Zones
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...
www.nber.org

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 4d
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 …
spdbump.bsky.social David M Weigel @spdbump.bsky.social · 4d
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.

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Peter Gratton @petergratton.bsky.social · 5d
TBH I might enter even if you're just promising to let me use the bulldozer in a random parking lot.

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Peter Gratton @petergratton.bsky.social · 6d
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.

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Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 6d
Some of these redactions are almost like modern art

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Peter Gratton @petergratton.bsky.social · 6d
If you’re a Republican, your career is over if you come out against him and he comes out for you.