Antonio Jr Luchini
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Antonio Jr Luchini
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So many wrong takes here.
To start, what makes the F-35 or the B-21 expensive is the software and the electronics, not the pilot per se (of course, having the pilot makes it more expensive, but the primary source of cost overrun and time delays was the software).
November 25, 2024 at 6:23 AM
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SNAP work requirements fail to increase employment.

Just plain getting on SNAP does improve labor market outcomes.

www.hamiltonproject.org/publication/...

#EconSky
November 18, 2024 at 5:38 PM
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Heartbreaking Nature article showing up to 72% rise in suicide attempts of US trans kids as result of anti-trans laws.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
State-level anti-transgender laws increase past-year suicide attempts among transgender and non-binary young people in the USA - Nature Human Behaviour
From 2018 to 2022, 48 anti-transgender laws were enacted in the USA across 19 states. This study shows that these anti-transgender laws increased past-year suicide attempts among transgender and non-b...
www.nature.com
November 17, 2024 at 11:18 AM
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It was never about “free speech” over in the bad place.
November 17, 2024 at 7:03 PM
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How cool is that, @georgetakei.bsky.social shared Pekka Kallioniemi @vatniksoup.bsky.social

I think @bsky.app is really going to be a very nice place...😉
It was never about “free speech” over in the bad place.
November 17, 2024 at 9:44 PM
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The Biden administration finally authorises Ukrainian use of U.S. provided long-range weapons - ATACMS - to strike military targets inside Russia.
Biden Allows Ukraine to Strike Russia With Long-Range U.S. Missiles
With two months left in office, the president for the first time authorized the Ukrainian military to use the system known as ATACMS to help defend its forces in the Kursk region of Russia.
www.nytimes.com
November 20, 2024 at 8:12 PM
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This is a good piece about what Bidenomics means, which includes a lot of what Dems are being told they needed to do to win back rural America.
Shame if the lesson from his term are:
*Don't do long term investments
*Unemployment is preferable to inflation
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Bidenomics Is Starting to Transform America. Why Has No One Noticed?
The full effects of the President’s economic policies won’t be felt for years. That might be too late for Kamala Harris and other Democrats.
www.newyorker.com
November 17, 2024 at 5:02 PM
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If you miss Twitter just pretend this post is an ad for a race science blog that sells supplements
October 21, 2024 at 5:08 PM
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Also, if anyone mentions that mass deportations are popular, remind them that people think it means “kick out the bad people only.” When you tell voters what mass deportations entails — breaking up families, internment, rounding up people here for years — it suddenly becomes a very unpopular idea.
November 17, 2024 at 3:54 PM
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No-one will stop Putin with phone calls. The attack last night, one of the biggest in this war, has proved that telephone diplomacy cannot replace real support from the whole West for Ukraine. The next weeks will be decisive, not only for the war itself, but also for our future.
November 17, 2024 at 1:33 PM
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Nikt nie powstrzyma Putina rozmowami telefonicznymi. Wczorajszy atak, jeden z największych w tej wojnie, udowodnił, że dyplomacja przez telefon nie może zastąpić realnego wsparcia całego Zachodu dla Ukrainy. Te tygodnie będą decydujące, nie tylko dla samej wojny, ale także dla naszej przyszłości.
November 17, 2024 at 1:29 PM
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And the last one I’ll do…. Think tanks. I thought this could be useful. Again, I’ll update as more join this place.

go.bsky.app/6xHtKYe
November 16, 2024 at 6:36 PM
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Anywho, YOUR job is to share the Polling USA Bluesky around so we can make an actual dent here :3
November 11, 2024 at 11:01 PM
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So between the Trump admin's domestic focus and the lack of direct backchannels to Trump himself, US allies in Europe and Asia may find themselves listening to busy signals and "Sorry, wrong number" recordings for a good part of early 2025.

/Ends
November 17, 2024 at 11:06 AM
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I went to an undisclosed location in eastern France to see the 🇫🇷 army training over 2,000 🇺🇦 forces. It is the first European effort to train and equip a full brigade, ready for deployment on the front

Ukraine’s secret army in France in The Economist
www.economist.com/europe/2024/...
Ukraine’s secret army in France
A new force is being marshalled to take on the Kremlin’s men
www.economist.com
November 17, 2024 at 9:56 AM
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Tante amiche e amici mi dicono un gran bene di questo posto nuovo in cui trovarci 😊
Da stasera ci sono anche io, e con tanta curiosità.
Un saluto a tutte e tutti 🌹
November 16, 2024 at 4:37 PM
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There is now some hard evidence that X boosted the Trump campaign and suppressed the Harris campaign. What's to stop Musk from doing the same in other countries?
www.threads.net/@profsander....
Sander van der Linden (@profsander.vanderlinden) on Threads
New computational analyses from the University of Queensland on algorithmic bias suggest that the X algorithm substantially boosted Republican accounts right after Elon Musk's endorsement of Donald Tr...
www.threads.net
November 17, 2024 at 6:13 AM
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As a highly-regarded public intellectual I have just come to Bluesky and found it extremely closed-minded and unreceptive to important new ideas, including the one about what a highly-regarded public intellectual I am. Also nobody with girl names responded to my chats, which were also intellectual.
November 17, 2024 at 6:58 AM
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Thomas Chatterton Williams has one thing, and thing only to say about the world: “Wokeness” is a threat! The root of all evil that plagues us!

You’ll see him around here on Bluesky now - complaining about “echo chambers” and “cancel culture.” That’s all he has. All you’ll ever get from this guy.
November 16, 2024 at 10:04 PM
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About the echo chamber thing.

1. I've had really thoughtful debates here w/ like-minded people who disagree w/ me on important stuff.

2. I've learned a lot from people who study & know things I don't.

3. I've had 0 flame wars.

The idea that the absence of 3 makes for an echo chamber is absurd.
November 16, 2024 at 8:44 PM
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Prediction: As BlueSky grows, there will be a slew of pieces by Atlantic/Free Press type writers about how they tried to join, but were rejected from the echo chamber.

So, don't engage with them. Don't give them material. Mute/block and move on.
November 16, 2024 at 7:45 PM
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💢 German opposition criticises Scholz for "showing weakness" towards Putin
German opposition criticises Scholz for “showing weakness” towards Putin
Jürgen Hardt, a member of the Christian Democratic Union/Christian Social Union (CDU/CSU) opposition bloc in Germany, has criticised Chancellor Olaf Scholz for calling Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin.
www.pravda.com.ua
November 16, 2024 at 3:36 PM