What a confused story. If Ikea’s stuff were cheap crap, reuse wouldn’t be on the table, so to speak. I find most Ikea stuff almost weirdly solid & durable. Which makes disassembly much more interesting.

Get ready US: "Europe recorded 1 million new COVID-19 cases last week, an increase of 9% from the previous week and a reversal that ended a six-week decline in new infections" apnews.com/article/europe…

Oh, the many payoffs of a strong, super-inclusive, nationwide primary-care system. The US can dream of the day.

Liz Cheney's ouster makes a third political party more likely. Via David H. Freedman Newsweek newsweek.com/liz-cheneys-ou…

Excusable: Scientists feeling early on the case for lab origin was weak; & sci writers trusting them. Less-excusable: Dismissing that case, likely partly in reaction to its ugly popularity on the right. Kudos to Fred Guterl as a lone voice making the case 1yr ago.

Today on The Atlantic: David H. Freedman argues in favor of vaccine incentives. Plus, how cicadas could make outdoor dining a nightmare, and how to avoid the remote-work penalty. Read all this and more here: on.theatln.tc/uYX8xbW

Looking to the future of the crypto industry, Ripple's lawsuit with the SEC could have a lasting impact. @DHFreedman shows us how: 10/14 fortune.com/2021/07/29/rip…

Pretty damn impressive Thanks Darren Lu Reddit, Inc.

Siri, can you give me an example of a base-rate fallacy?

#AI-infused #VR can run on top of medical applications to empower some areas of healthcare sector such as diagnostics, surgery, rehabilitation and behavioral health. buff.ly/3vIVYAM David H. Freedman Cedars-Sinai Darshan Shankar TytoCare @SyncThinkInc XRHealth Dr. Samuel Browd #telehealth

Thanks 𝙲𝚑𝚊𝚛𝚕𝚎𝚜 𝙲. 𝙼𝚊𝚗𝚗 for documenting how lazily dishonest that stupid, dangerous story is. Being stubbornly unworried about Covid is different than being oblivious to &/or falsely denying what's happening around you. A lie is not a point of view.

Pushback fr right on my article. OK, “seize power” headline a bit much. But: If Trump loses in ‘24 & calls on u to come out to defend democracy vs a 2nd big steal, will u? Will u bring a legally carried gun? Maybe? If so, I got it right. newsweek.com/2021/12/31/mil…

Read past headline, folks. Nothing in article on planned insurrection. Says if Trump tells fans to hit streets to stop ‘24 “steal,” a small % responding w legal guns = millions swarming DC/state Capitols newsweek.com/2021/12/31/mil…

In downplaying my article, gun-industry mag BearingArms says no armed uprising in ‘24, unless Biden tries a Big Steal—which 75% of R’s say he did in ‘20. & I don’t hear libs saying they’ll grab their guns if CNN claims a Trump steal. bearingarms.com/tomknighton/20…

Add this to the mountain of academic & everyday evidence that $ & other simple external incentives work. Astonishing that some academic psychologists still make careers of finding ways to "disprove" it, bc intrinsic motivation seems nicer

Most of us operate as if feelings are something that happens to us, or are simply part of who we are. Doubtless that's often a fair model. But maybe in many case we have more agency with feelings than we realize. Should we take more responsibility for them?

I think the most salient single philosophical difference between liberals and conservatives is the amount of power they assign to “will” as opposed to “systems/structures.” Will can be individual or collective.

If the other side’s claims are sneaking into our Twitter etc feeds, we don’t recognize them as legitimate, never mind consider them. Effectively, it's a bubble

I think the polls have been and remain pretty accurate predictors—if you just add 4 points to whatever the polls are saying Republicans will get nytimes.com/2022/09/12/ups…