economist // former Charlottesville state rep 🏛️ // UVa prof // election reform 🇺🇸 // I write about bright lights for democracy ✨
Sally Hudson
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"Being moved into the Death Master File can be devastating to someone who is still alive because it can cut off their financial access. Last year, career staff warned that falsely giving people death dates could be catastrophic, though the administration overrode those objections."
Pro tip: Firefox now includes a built-in VPN with location selection. You can mask your IP address and reduce tracking at the network level, not just on sites.
a real one.
When people say 'AI isn't a bubble because the technology isn't going away', it just shows they don't know what a bubble is.
The internet didn't go away. Railways didn't go away. Tulips didn't go away.
An asset can be overvalued, even if its useful.
Most countries dream of a single MIT-caliber research center. The US has dozens and we're bleeding them dry.
People got really angry at me when I wrote this on Mastodon a few years ago, but it's true: post-consumer plastic recycling is functionally a myth, not just in the U.S. but globally. Odds are vanishingly close to zero that your plastic, faithfully put in the recycling bin, will ever be recycled.
A privilege to work on this with Perry. Even before Callais, we had challenges—aging CBC that hasn’t cultivated the next gen, a centrist turn of Black mayors, district representation that doesn’t matter under national polarization
Callais destroys even that. We need a new inside-outside strategy
