Thursday Tweets (because it's been that kind of week)

Reveal does important work, which makes this all the more appalling.

"Planet Aid’s actions in its lawsuit against Reveal are a manifest example of what deep-pocketed interests can do to a news organization even when the facts are on the journalists’ side." https://t.co/Tf1tbguzHu Three years and millions of dollars in legal fees fighting this.

— Jay Rosen (@jayrosen_nyu) November 6, 2019

Most screwed up story of gaming the metrics I've ever seen.

Colleges are sending brochures to people who get low scores on SAT practice tests so they can reject their applications later because US News uses rejection rate as a factor in ranking schools.https://t.co/ULBzPMRbV0

— Dare Obasanjo (@Carnage4Life) November 6, 2019

 
If you want utopian urbanists to ignore you, bring this up.

Add a few miles to the 30 and you could say exactly the same thing about Silicon Valley workers who want to live in a trendy SF zip code. https://t.co/VxW3xXHOLz

— Mark Palko (@MarkPalko1) November 6, 2019

Andrew has some thoughts on this. I wonder how you can account for the substitution effect in the analysis, but getting the musings to thought-status is too much work.

An obscure but influential argument made for not worrying about inequality is that the poor face a lower inflation rate than the rich. These arguments were everywhere ~2009 and still remain.

Turns out new, actual research on the topic finds the opposite. https://t.co/dTxG9TmLjZ

— Mike Konczal (@rortybomb) November 5, 2019

  


 "Most useless and over-hyped technology ever!"? -- the hyperloop would like to have a word with you.

There is still NOT a single application of blockchain - defined as a public, decentralized/distributed, permission-less, trustless ledger technology - that works or is widely used in spite of billions spent on it for a decade now. Most useless and over-hyped technology ever!

— Nouriel Roubini (@Nouriel) November 6, 2019

 

'It is the right moment for me to leave to pursue an entrepreneurial opportunity.'
G/O Media Editorial Director Who Told Deadspin to 'Stick to Sports' Resigns (after entire staff resigns) https://t.co/WFaAUO3eN3 via @vice

— Margaret Sullivan (@Sulliview) November 5, 2019

 

Here's another beautiful quote from his resignation note: 'I admire the journalism that you produce and the unique voice that is otherwise missing from mainstream media.'

— Margaret Sullivan (@Sulliview) November 5, 2019

  

Accidentally duplicated every item in my @zotero library.

A sane person would've written a script to automate the merging process.

I took the analogue approach. pic.twitter.com/kAF9c6tUs3

— Dooley Murphy (@DooleyMurphy) November 5, 2019