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Why has US productivity outperformed since COVID? One big reason is that Americans are doing different jobs than in 2019—the COVID shock and strong labor demand reallocated millions of workers, with employment in high-wage industries rising 8.3% vs 3.4% in low-wage industries

Eclectic Public Library Eclectic, AL

According to my rough guesswork and envelope math, printing the entire English text of Wikipedia onto clay tablets might cost $10-30 million, and occupy 4000 cubic meters when done. I think it's feasible.

EFF was proud to call Aaron Swartz a friend and ally. eff.org/deeplinks/2024…

@JosephPolitano Seems like more of a move toward "not what we have right now" vs a reaction to particular policies or messages. Seems also true of the 2020 election, tbh

Men in Blue collar unions moved heavily towards Trump, including the ones whose pensions were directly bailed out by Biden. Just saying “unions, pensions” isn’t enough. Dems need a new plan to win blue collar union members or replace them by winning compensating votes elsewhere.

Waffle House of America Lawrence, MI

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Just insane that America had the best productivity growth of comparable major nations in the years pre-COVID, then went "hold my beer" post-COVID and had ~double the productivity growth of the next-closest country

Just published at the wonderful (open access) journal First Monday, my long-in-progress article on a general theory of how innovation events train us to forget: "Innovation amnesia: Technology as a substitute for politics" firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/…

A new whitepaper from the Public AI Network: how public institutions can build AI infrastructure for the common good. publicai.network/whitepaper

News about AI may sometimes be misleading, but TechCongress alums B Cavello & Eleanor Tursman @AspenInstitute hope to combat this, starting with media literacy. 🔍 The Interpreting AI in the News toolkit for teachers is now available online for free: aspendigital.org/report/ai-medi…

Mini update: The furor at the WaPo is such that its chief tech officer is getting engineers to block Qs about its decision to not make an endorsement pm the Post's own AI site search, This according to internal WP correspondence I've reviewed

President Biden's formal apology is a historic first step towards justice and healing for Native peoples. The federal government has never apologized for what happened to Native children and acknowledged the impact boarding schools continue to have in our communities.

@AlexCTaliadoros Angelika pop-up by Union just because it's like a private screening 😅

DC! What’s your favorite movie theater? 🎞️🍿

The Collective Intelligence Project has been doing incredible work lately with bringing democratic practices to AI, incl. w/ OpenAI and Anthropic. I've joined them to take this work one step further: bringing democracy into companies themselves. Read here: ...

#PublicAI I am sharing an extremely interesting paper with a vision for a different path for #AI ht @joshuaztan @AlbertCanig "building AI infrastructure for the common good" publicai.network/whitepaper/

We just published a new essay in collaboration with @ntnsndr of @MEDLabBoulder. "Shared Code: Democratizing AI Companies" ⬇️ cip.org/blog/shared-co…