He's not just defending AI energy use. He is smuggling in a whole anthropology where humans are basically inefficient meat computers that you have to pour food and years into before they become useful. And once you accept that, the next move is obvious. If people are just costly

Hind Rajab's mom, Wesam, made this brilliant speech on Saturday: Ladies & gentlemen, I'll begin with no introductions. On January 29, 2024, my daughter Hind Rajab was trapped inside a car, under direct fire. Hind was a five-year-old child. At that age, children don't think

Why are Korean women having so few kids? Amazing graph via Kleven et al.

1/3 UNICEF is deeply alarmed by reports of violence against children during today’s protests in Nepal. The use of force against children is unacceptable and must stop immediately.

Protesters have a right to peacefully protest and express their frustration and outrage against corruption and the government’s restriction on the right to freedom of expression including the social media ban in Nepal. Amnesty calls for the immediate de-escalation of the

#Nepal: We are shocked by the killings and injury of protesters today and urge a prompt and transparent investigation. We have received several deeply worrying allegations of unnecessary or disproportionate use of force by security forces during protests organized by youth

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I know everyone is talking about Matt Gaetz but please don't miss this: Georgia fired every single person on its maternal mortality review committee. Why? They didn't like that reporters found out that the state's ban killed two women https://t.co/sOzwxrrky0

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🚨 New paper in the Journal of Development Econ. Are migrants from poor countries relatively high or low productivity workers? What happens to migration as incomes rise? @MariapiaMendola and I note: These are closely related questions with a counterintutive answer (thread)

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@JeremyKonyndyk & I interviewed Palestinians who fled #Gaza, and these are some of their stories. Encourage you to read and share.

There is a lot more that we need to do in Nepal when it comes to improving health, but let's also look at what we have already achieved. Nepal is an #Exemplar country in reducing neonatal and maternal mortality among our global peers.

Our new paper in Nature Comms found that net-appropriated labour from the South accounts for nearly half of total consumption in the North. Without unequal exchange, Northern consumption would drop by 50%, or Northern workers would need to work 2x more https://t.co/u3U5UwXsvN

What do tax cuts for the rich do? They increase inequality. They have no effect on economic growth or unemployment. "Our results provide strong evidence against the influential political–economic idea that tax cuts for the rich ‘trickle down’ to boost the wider economy."

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There are two sets of implicit assumptions dominant in western academia & the development community that irk me: (a) Democracy is a western idea that was brought to the global south by colonial rule. (b) Feminism is a western idea that was brought to the global south by western

Or, the system is working as designed. It is a sad reality, but we have to face it: the purpose of a system is what it does. As systems theorist Stafford Beer argued, there is "no point in claiming that the purpose of a system is to do what it constantly fails to do."

I came across something I wrote some years back, and I think it is relevant to the "Man or Bear?" conversation. So, a thread, but first some observations: When a woman is in an abusive relationship, what's the first thing people say? "Why doesn't she just leave?"

Does work from home work for women in India? an RCT that assigned jobs shows 56% of wives started working from home, while only 27% took office jobs. Higher wages did not affect this. Enforcing office check-ins reduced job take-up @suhani_jalota Lisa Ho https://t.co/1qSTjcLK6o