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Derek Thompson

@dkthomp

Writer @TheAtlantic. "Plain English" podcast host @Ringer. Mondays on NPR's @hereandnow. Co-writing a book about abundance.

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Isaac Saul (@ike_saul) 's Twitter Profile Photo

This is, probably, the smartest political thing I've ever seen AOC post or say. It's a reminder about what real-world experience does to idealism, and it's only coming after the left has turned on her. But still, it's 🎯 "You can't build power by recreating the punitive, angry,

Paul E Williams (@pewilliams_) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Interesting—the OECD country where people are least dissatisfied with housing is Japan. Is there anyone on this site who knows why that is?

Derek Thompson (@dkthomp) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Saw my first cybertruck in a parking lot last weekend, and it's funny bc on the one hand, it is a genuinely unique design in an era of brutal over-optimized sameness, and that's kind of neat. And on the other hand, it absolutely looks like a 1st grader inherited an auto

Rutger Bregman (@rcbregman) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Devastating review of the degrowth literature (561 studies): --> 'few studies use quantitative or qualitative data...' --> [those that do] 'tend to include small samples or focus on non-representative cases' -->'large majority (almost 90%) are opinions rather than analysis'

Devastating review of the degrowth literature (561 studies): 
--> 'few studies use quantitative or qualitative data...' 
--> [those that do] 'tend to include small samples or focus on non-representative cases' 
-->'large majority (almost 90%) are opinions rather than analysis'
Tyler Austin Harper (@tyler_a_harper) 's Twitter Profile Photo

I wrote about Montauk, a fisherman, and a dying extreme sport for the October Issue. It’s a story of a gentrifying town, a changing ocean, obsession on the knife-edge of madness, and a man who swims through shark-infested water—at night—in pursuit of a great American fish. 🧵

Derek Thompson (@dkthomp) 's Twitter Profile Photo

I'm always interested in how controversial historians and political scientists (on the left and right) selectively wield the concept of agency. The easiest way to revise history is to assume highest agency for your villain and lowest agency for your anti-villain. So you get -

John Arnold (@johnarnoldfndtn) 's Twitter Profile Photo

We Arnold Ventures were frustrated that the US publishes data on the # of hogs slaughtered each day with a one day lag but national crime stats only annually, 9 months later. Since the FBI can't/won't publish more timely data, we funded the creation of realtimecrimeindex.com

We <a href="/Arnold_Ventures/">Arnold Ventures</a> were frustrated that the US publishes data on the # of hogs slaughtered each day with a one day lag but national crime stats only annually, 9 months later. Since the FBI can't/won't publish more timely data, we funded the creation of realtimecrimeindex.com