Open post Alexander Ruthol @Je5usaurus_rex@universeodon.com · 45mo ago Replying to @zoeschiffer@mastodon.social <p>Twitter is closing its Seattle office and asking employees to work from home, per an email to staff.</p> @zoeschiffer Paying rent is hard. EDIT: That's not a joke. Twitter stopped paying rent for its offices.
Open post Alexander Ruthol @Je5usaurus_rex@universeodon.com · 38mo ago Replying to @Pwnallthethings@mastodon.social <p>Russian state media reports that Prigozhin--Wagner's leader who a few weeks ago staged a major mutiny inside of Russia--has been killed in a plane crash in Russia <a href="https://t.me/tass_agency/206513" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">t.me/tass_agency/206513</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p> @Pwnallthethings@mastodon.social And video shows the aircraft falling straight down, on fire. No accident.
Open post Alexander Ruthol @Je5usaurus_rex@universeodon.com · 44mo ago Replying to @dynarski@mastodon.social <p>How safe is your childbirth, and your baby?</p><p>In the US it depends on the color of your skin</p><p><a href="https://tinyurl.com/39vz295j" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">tinyurl.com/39vz295j</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>Link to the original research is broken in NYT; here it is</p><p><a href="https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w30693/w30693.pdf" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nber.org/system/files/working_</span><span class="invisible">papers/w30693/w30693.pdf</span></a></p> @dynarski@mastodon.social That graph isn't in the linked article, and the graphs which are, are not nearly that clear-cut.
Open post Alexander Ruthol @Je5usaurus_rex@universeodon.com · 44mo ago Replying to @dynarski@mastodon.social See Figure 3(d) in the paper @Je5usaurus_rex@universeodon.co @dynarski@mastodon.social What 3(d) suggests is that race is less of a factor than random variation.