The US is second only to the Cayman Islands in facilitating the secrecy of illicit money flows—not a single tax haven, but many.
↩︎ Africa Is a Countr…
“King’s nightmare of racism is being presented as King’s dream.” Ibram X. Kendi on the distortions of Martin Luther King Jr.
↩︎ The Atlantic
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Some tips for planning out the first days of ghosthood after death.
↩︎ The Paris Review
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“I believed, and others believed, that men who commit violence would not call us to ask for help. But something is happening, and maybe it’s that those old masculine models don’t work anymore.”
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One cost-effective way of sequestering carbon dioxide? Buying a coal mine (only $7.8 million!) and shuttering it.
↩︎ Marginal Revolution
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For your weekly wanderlust, another cycling adventure in Alaska with Bjørn Olson.
Hidden in the far north is a range of remote mountains where one can imagine the Aesir, Frost Giants, trolls, and cave bears reign supr…
From the close of this year’s Tokyo Paralympic Games, a dance for 126 performers designed by French choreographer Sadeck Waff. (Though honestly better with sound off.)
From 1921, a frightening patent application for a concealed weapon for bank tellers.
↩︎ Futility Closet
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Other uses for a large abandoned swimming pool: how about an amphitheater with terraced seating?
↩︎ designboom
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A thread of lightly interesting stuff (because understanding the impacts of likes and retweets isn’t nothing).
You may have heard about this year’s Economics Nobel Prize winners – David Card, Josh Angrist (@metrics52) & Guido Imbens.
Their publicly available work has helped us solve tough problems @Twitter, and we’re excited to celebrate by sharing how their findings have inspired us.
— Twitter Engineering (@TwitterEng) October 18, 2021
We use Double Machine Learning to understand the causal impact of engagement actions. Our work leverages research by Chernozhukov et al. (2018), and is influenced by Imbens & Rubin (2015). https://t.co/BicSMhnsoghttps://t.co/Sjphq081Xq
— Twitter Engineering (@TwitterEng) October 18, 2021