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We did it! HB 215 has passed the Utah State Legislature with a supermajority and is on its way to @GovCox to sign!
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Great article on HB 215 and school choice efforts across the country.
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Maybe by listening in on Hungarians’ phone calls, the Orban administration can figure out how to make more babies
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Vodafone Hungary is set to become a nationally-owned company on January 31st!
The acquisition will make a Hungarian company one of the market leaders in the strategically important national telecom sector, boosting Hungary's competitiveness and strengthening its economy.
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National conservatism in action!
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Vodafone Hungary is set to become a nationally-owned company on January 31st!
The acquisition will make a Hungarian company one of the market leaders in the strategically important national telecom sector, boosting Hungary's competitiveness and strengthening its economy.read image description
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ChatGPT passed a Wharton MBA exam.
Time to overhaul education.
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I’ve learned more about #bitcoin mining in five days visiting sites than I have in five years reading about it.
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Now do Medicaid
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WATCH: Senator @JDVance1 calls for oversight on US gov't spending in Ukraine
"Whether you support Ukrainian funding or not, the fundamental question is the American people deserve to know how their money is being spent - especially when we're talking about $120 billion of it."
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Interesting thread on how the Director, Warde Manuel, has gone out of his way to oppose NIL for players. More here: twitter.com/TJA4Michigan/s
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Folks, I worked ALL ‘22 on a large, 501c3 nonprofit NIL platform, The Winningest Team (named by Jim) to “unlock the sleeping giant of UM.” Planned to create a funded endowment to support NIL. Warde shot it down. Would NOT support our donors sharing their support with our players.
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Everything you need to know about the Biden administration's proposed new income-driven repayment plan, in one thread. 
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Leadership of both parties doesn’t like it because it slightly reduces their control of the legislative process. But in the long term, parties benefit from rewarding the members in their parties who have useful policy ideas. is an evangelist for these reforms.
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Because individual members of Congress can’t offer amendments, they are basically stripped out of the lawmaking process. Which discourages the good eggs who actually care about policy (leading many to quit Congress). ’s reforms would address this problem.
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If McCarthy can't get the votes, the idea of intrigues me. He has some sound ideas for improving House parliamentary procedures so that indiv. members can propose amendments again (that process has been heavily centralized in recent years).
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Speaker Amash??
“I’m here because I think this process is really uncertain where it goes. And I think I provide a good alternative to a lot of the options being discussed,“ former Rep. Amash tells reporters.
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China is hitting the pause button on public investment in the semiconductor industry just as the US is ramping up... Why? China's efforts haven't really worked...
Fascinating piece from my colleagues in China.
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I wrote a piece for New York Times today laying out the stakes and the process, were the House fail to elect a speaker on the first ballot tomorrow. I think it might be helpful for what is shaping up to be quite a day tomorrow in Washington. Check it out:
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Obviously this is a test for McCarthy, but it’s also perhaps a bigger one for the Republican conference: Are they going to give up and let these troublemakers win? Or will they finally say they’ve had enough? Huge implications for how this majority operates.
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It's wise to be humble about predicting what might happen today, but I urge you - beg you - not to spend even a moment contemplating Rs and Ds working together to elect a speaker, or that some non-member will take the gavel.
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This is terrific news—congrats to for the excellent decision to add as a columnist!
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I've got some news: nytco.com/press/david-fr
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Instead of New Year's fireworks. russia launched 45 Iranian-made kamikaze drones at Ukraine throughout New Year's Eve.
All 45 of them were shot down.
The kremlin terrorist cannot waver the determination of Ukrainians.
2023 is the year of new victories.
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people are so shook by the transfer portal they're praising guys who have already transfered for being loyal and waiting their turn at their second school
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The sheer perseverance and defiance of Ukrainians should inspire people everywhere.
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Most expensive New Year's salute ever. Russia fired 120 missiles, trying to plunge UA into darkness on New Year's Eve. Most of them are intercepted, family in Kyiv has no more home. Billions spent to strengthen our mindset: without light, but without Russia. Greetings from Kyiv
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Can’t have all those Asians winning National Merit awards.
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Outstanding coverage by @thesierrafox @fox5dc on the scandal of @fcpsnews @TJAnnB withholding @nationalmerit awards from students at @TJHSST_Official. @Srilekha_Palle and @HarryJ4Justice speak from the heart 
and express the voices of parents. @FCPSSupt?
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37. Twitter made a decision, via the political leanings of senior staff, and govt pressure, that the public health authorities’ approach to the pandemic – prioritizing mitigation over other concerns – was “The Science” . . .
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24. In my review of internal files, I found countless instances of tweets labeled as “misleading” or taken down entirely, sometimes triggering account suspensions, simply because they veered from CDC guidance or differed from establishment views.
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This is incredible. A completely accurate tweet by —explaining that recovery from prior #COVID19 infection confers natural immunity—was censored by random bureaucrats because politicized guidelines disagreed with Kuldorff.
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21. Internal emails show an “intent to action” by a moderator, saying Kulldorff’s tweet violated the company’s Covid-19 misinformation policy and claimed he shared “false information.”
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17 Third, most importantly, the buck stopped with higher level employees at Twitter who chose the inputs for the bots and decision trees, and subjectively decided escalated cases and suspensions. As it is with all people and institutions, there was individual and collective bias
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16. Second, contractors, in places like the Philippines, also moderated content. They were given decision trees to aid in the process, but tasking non experts to adjudicate tweets on complex topics like myocarditis and mask efficacy data was destined for a significant error rate
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15. There were three serious problems with Twitter’s process:
First, much of the content moderation was conducted by bots, trained on machine learning and AI – impressive in their engineering, yet still too crude for such nuanced work.
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14. But Twitter did suppress views—many from doctors and scientific experts—that conflicted with the official positions of the White House. As a result, legitimate findings and questions that would have expanded the public debate went missing.
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13. Twitter executives did not fully capitulate to the Biden team’s wishes. An extensive review of internal communications at the company revealed employees often debating moderation cases in great detail, and with more care than was shown by the government toward free speech.
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1. THREAD:
THE TWITTER FILES: HOW TWITTER RIGGED THE COVID DEBATE
– By censoring info that was true but inconvenient to U.S. govt. policy
– By discrediting doctors and other experts who disagreed
– By suppressing ordinary users, including some sharing the CDC’s *own data*
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New from Jonathan : Between police defunders on the left, and old-guard defenders on the right, there is a bipartisan movement for constructive reform.
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The Ohio State fan meltdown right now is pretty impressive 🍿
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I just smashed my TV in front of 30 guests at my party because of Ryan Day. My wife just took our crying kids and said they’re all spending the week at a hotel. This team has ruined my life and my party. I can’t handle this anymore. Goodbye Ohio State. I am no longer a fan.
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1/Here's an opinion that's going to make some folks mad: If Elon rules Twitter as essentially a conservative-leaning moderator, that's much less bad for society than what Twitter's old management did, which was to stoke maximum ideological combat to boost engagement...
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