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Ahead of the upcoming Canadian theatrical release, we are hosting a special screening of 100 Sunset at @TIFF_NET on Thursday, April 9th. Introduction by MDFF Selects co-founder and curator @redvineski who will be joined by writer/director @kkyirong for a post-screening Q&A.
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Very few films made in Toronto are actually about Toronto. Even fewer manage to capture something true about this city. It’s a huge feat and KC did that with her first feature. She is the future. Make sure you see this movie.
MDFF@MDFF
Ahead of the upcoming Canadian theatrical release, we are hosting a special screening of 100 Sunset at @TIFF_NET on Thursday, April 9th. Introduction by MDFF Selects co-founder and curator @redvineski who will be joined by writer/director @kkyirong for a post-screening Q&A.
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The minimum wage literature has completely changed in the 2020s. Almost all evidence point to the econ 101 model being correct.
NBER@nberpubs
California’s $20 fast-food minimum wage raised restaurant prices approximately 3–4 percent. Other prices including food-at-home exhibit no differential movement, pointing to wage-driven pass-through, from @jeffreypclemens, Olivia Edwards, Jonathan Meer, and Joshua D. Nguyen nber.org/papers/w34990
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@alz_zyd_ There is one thing here that is true, which is that the "academic-ese" impossible to read writing is worse in the humanities because the definitions are not precise. "Eigenvalue" and "liminal" are both not common, but 100% agreement among readers about the meaning of the former.
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In the modern academic humanities, there are a bunch of words that sound cool but mean nothing, like "liminal". Like, if you say "Eataly lies in the liminal space between restaurant and grocery store", the word "liminal" literally means nothing, but sounds really cool
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@krisgulati it’s good for your soul and mind to be bored in a bad seminar sometimes
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In general I hate the rule that laptops/phones are banned for graduate students from seminars for several reasons:
1. If the speaker is not relevant/presenting well — let the market decide where attention is allocated
2. Sometimes I can only engage with parts of a presentation
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Sam retuiteado
Rick Mercer really fell off
Pierre Poilievre@PierrePoilievre
BREAKING: Conservatives will introduce a motion tomorrow to cut back deluxe benefits for fake refugees and deport non-citizens and foreign nationals who do crime. Time to take care of our health care, our taxpayers, our safety, and our country: conservative.ca/cpc/healthcare…
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Apparently my brain can't process Italian opera as music!? It's intermission at an (I'm told) very good performance of La bohème and I could barely tell that they're singing and not just talking in a funny voice. Had a great time at German operas in the past
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@StatisticUrban uk fixed effect. they sour on all of their PM more quickly than any comparable country. six PMs in ten years, starmer’s drop in approval just the latest iteration
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@maiamindel stale c 2010 take. jmps of 2025 restud tourists: labor market power/monopsony, industrial policy in india, innovation in cancer treatment, class political realignment in US, capital markets, production networks, behavioural auctions sites.google.com/view/restudtou…
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The demands of the economics job market has pushed talented and brilliant people to waste their minds on bullshit like "do sumo wrestlers cheat on their matches" or "did gay men become straight to avoid catching AIDS", which have nothing to do with econ but get reliably published
New Left EViews@NewLeftEViews
The problem is decidedly not the lack of talent. Many economists who do advanced degrees are prodigiously gifted or at least become very proficient in mathematics but waste their talents on hyper-stylised overly formal nonsense that is inappropriate to the object of study. Here, ‘rigour’ has become largely about in-group signalling and not epistemic necessity. It is therefore very telling but not at all surprising that much of this conversation is not about substance but about rank pulling based on degrees, grades and accolades.
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@our_decay i've heard there was a secret chord
that david played, and it pleased the Lord
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Enshittification is a useful term when applied narrowly. There's a real dynamic, especially in tech, of "provide an amazing user experience to grow, then pivot to extracting value once you're huge"
The problem is when enshittification is used as "anything I personally dislike"
Joe@JoePostingg
Enshittification is the fakest thing ever. Computers are faster. Running shoes give you more energy return. You can get macro friendly junk food at the grocery store. There is so much good in the world.
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shouldn't have named it enshittification then
Anders Sandberg@anderssandberg
@AndyMasley Enshittification used to mean something - how platform-customer-user chains have misaligning incentives. Now people use it for anything they think is getting worse. I refuse to use the word in the second sense to describe its loss of meaning, but it would be very meta.
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Papaw always said, "if your podcast is being sneeringly alluded to in the LRB, you're doing something right."
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