Matthew Yglesias

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

@andymeyers10 People have been disagreeing with each other politely for thousands of years. — PolitiTweet.org

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In that view the real oddity of pre-Musk Twitter isn’t that they were too harsh on rightist edgelords but I think they were maybe too lax about the hammer & sickle crowd — brand advertising normally means optimizing for blandness. — PolitiTweet.org

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The boring non-politics thing about Twitter is that unlike Facebook/Instagram/podcasts they never built a strong direct response ad business. When you’re relying on brand advertising direct adjacency to “ironic” frog nazis isn’t great. — PolitiTweet.org

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That seems like an important job at a company whose main source of revenue is brand advertising. — PolitiTweet.org

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@karlbykarlsmith @olivertraldi @MattBruenig @DanRiffle @melfromstl_ @NebraskaMegan Yeah though this is also where teenage peer effects are a big deal. — PolitiTweet.org

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Good thread here. Let me say more broadly it’s weird that the discourse has collapsed “thinks climate change is very unlikely to cause literal human extinction” and “thinks climate change is no big deal” — there is a broad middle ground here! — PolitiTweet.org

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A ton of interesting stuff is happening in the economy and it all mostly tracks back to the Fed raising interest rates faster than people thought they would. https://t.co/VSUCWznryw — PolitiTweet.org

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@olivertraldi @MattBruenig @DanRiffle @melfromstl_ @NebraskaMegan I'm sure you were better at it than I was. I'm just saying my students absolutely got better scores even though I was doing essentially nothing beyond saying "do the practice tests." — PolitiTweet.org

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If you think I’m full of shit, that’s fine. If you want to show up in my mentions and *say* I’m full of shit, that’s rude and you’re blocked. Everyone needs to learn some manners. — PolitiTweet.org

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Some more examples — would you say this to a stranger at a party? How would you react if someone said this to you? Block block block block. https://t.co/VoB1TkdwcB — PolitiTweet.org

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@eerac Right now I think the norm is just to too little blocking — I really want to encourage people to feel good about blocking over low-level rudeness. — PolitiTweet.org

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@MattZeitlin Now that Effective Altruism has been discredited, I think getting America’s billionaires to invest in achieving US dominance in handball and other obscure sports should be top priority. — PolitiTweet.org

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Good example — your duty as a citizen is to block people like this and encourage a norm of people trying to make pleasant conversational contributions. https://t.co/Z4AqtBDkgk — PolitiTweet.org

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Still want to insist the best thing you can do on here is block (not mute) more people. Ask yourself “if someone said this to me at a party, would I would think that guy was annoying and want to walk away?” If the answer is “yes” then block without hesitation or remorse. — PolitiTweet.org

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Positive change in the Musk Era: — Fewer ads, better user experience Negative trend: — Doubt this is an actual product change but more rightists feel emboldens to reply to me in annoying ways with no offsetting decline in annoying leftists, need to block even more people. — PolitiTweet.org

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@MattBruenig @DanRiffle @melfromstl_ @NebraskaMegan The value-add I provided as an LSAT tutor is that I would make the students actually do the practice tests — conscientiousness will get you far in life but it’s not something everyone has. — PolitiTweet.org

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I personally enjoy Twitter a great deal, but you need to understand that fundamental aspects of the way it operates are emotional quicksand designed to make you angry and annoyed. — PolitiTweet.org

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If something happens that 99% of people think is bad and that 99% of published articles *say* is bad, then the 1% of articles that say it’s good will get wildly outsized distribution and attention and people will walk away believing “the media” said the bad thing was good. — PolitiTweet.org

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These are obviously interesting stories that people want to read about, but giving attention to spree shooters is generally bad. — PolitiTweet.org

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With greater value on Money Now a bunch of things change: — Less investment in longshot speculation (crypto) — It’s more costly to waste money (layoffs at profitable tech companies) — Costly long-term plays (Disney+) look worse https://t.co/VSUCWznryw — PolitiTweet.org

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Money Today is better than money in the future. But how much better? That’s a function of risk-free interest rates which have been rising very fast thanks to Jay Powell — the higher this interest rate goes, the more people prefer Money Today. https://t.co/VSUCWznryw https://t.co/gQwwmWEFAL — PolitiTweet.org

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The Fed’s actions have a mechanical effect on things like how much you can pay for a house and still afford the monthly payments, but they also warp time in way that is roiling the whole economy and especially the tech sector. https://t.co/VSUCWznryw — PolitiTweet.org

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Carreyrou’s Theranos exposé came out in 2015, Holmes was indicted by a grand jury in 2018, she was found guilty in January 2022, and sentencing happened this week. These cases move slowly. — PolitiTweet.org

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@StefanFSchubert @tribsantos @slatestarcodex Once upon a time, EA also put a lot of emphasis on the idea that people should be more altruistic in their personal behavior (we even used to spell out the word) which really distinguished it from most ideologies though that’s become much less true in recent years. — PolitiTweet.org

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New BAD TAKES in which @lkmcgann says my takes on Sam Bankman-Fried were bad. https://t.co/k0zoBMZgJO — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @mattyglesias: @MuadsDib Yes, John Fetterman is great — a champion of Social Security and abortion rights who I’m thrilled to have in th… — PolitiTweet.org

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@MuadsDib Yes, John Fetterman is great — a champion of Social Security and abortion rights who I’m thrilled to have in the senate and a stark contrast to Herschel Walker who Republicans are trying to put in the senate to take away people’s health care. This is what I’m saying. — PolitiTweet.org

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Even with two minders, you can’t stop Walker from talking. — PolitiTweet.org

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At the end of the day, if you’re genuinely passionate about cutting Medicaid and banning abortion then you vote for the guy who’s incapable of getting through a friendly television interview without backup and that’s fair enough. But I don’t agree with those policies. — PolitiTweet.org

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@rex_the_reptile Journalists read twitter and often write about what they see on here — PolitiTweet.org