I was looking at some maps for a future article and saw something interesting about Italy.
The Po River Valley is the richest and highest-density area because it's the most fertile.
But then there's this line of cities. That's so weird. Why?
@GeneralTheorist Tbqh I doubt he had much to do with the referendum and find much worse than his game theory calculations his beliefs about party and electoral politics
@guillemvidal_@JeromeRoos Most of them did not get there via a hyper-competitive culture, they mostly got there because they were born in the 50's/60's
This week Amazon started creating astroturf accounts that search & reply to tweets criticizing Amazon's working conditions, a normal & regular thing companies do.
Russian billionaire living in Greece gave hundreds of thousands of euros to Macedonian opponents of the country’s proposed name change, @OCCRP reveals.
Recipients include politicians from various parties & soccer hooligans.
https://t.co/4HC23HZymt
Appena partito a Figline Valdarno il corteo dei 318 lavoratori licenziati dalla #Bekaert. Una delle crisi più grandi in Italia, e nessun rappresentante del governo del cambiamento è presente!
@dsquareddigest@OwenJones84 Yes, the program under which greek debt has ballooned by 80% seems a wild success in terms of them getting their money back
@eborbath @guillemvidal_ The most amazing thing is he was(?) being paid 300,000 to just never be there. I bet I can find easily 3-4 speeches/texts of him speaking about 'hard choices' blablabla
1/ Steven Pinker has a new book out. It is, predictably, getting a lot of praise. So I would like to make a few comments about Pinker’s last book, “The Better Angels of Our Nature,” which was riddled w/ bad analyses, cherry-picked data, and, in many regards, TERRIBLE sourcing.
The battle by Yanis Varoufakis and his Syriza comrades against the intolerable state of affairs in Greece is, even in defeat, a rare spot of genuine heroism in today’s discouraging political landscape: https://t.co/MI6J2gSgdl