Haha ex-Twitter employees have created their own Mastodon instance 😅
"This server is intended for current and previous twitter employees and their friends/family. We filter signups to try keep the server focused for community reasons." - https://macaw.social/about/more
Welcome to the Fediverse! :)
No really THIS time it’s safe. Uh huh, right. Scam.
Binance proposes fund to save crypto from future failures
Walmart offers to pay $3.1 billion to settle opioid lawsuits
RBA signals it may pause further interest rate rises
New Omicron-specific COVID booster to be available in Australia from next month
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-11-15/pfizer-omicron-covid-booster-available-australia/101654846
Airline passengers set to receive more than $600M in refunds over canceled flights
Wine barrels and Melbourne weather: Making the world’s most awarded whisky
@deNew_John check down on the github page. They have a few examples.
The popular NEP reports for new economics working papers that Twitter repeatedly blocked are now available on Mastodon
@citynews Go Winterpeg! says this Ticats fan. Show Tronna some Prarie-Power!
There is now a Mastodon feed for new research papers on the economics of migration: @RePEc_NEP_MIG
Huge thanks to @czimm_economist
best thing is the full stop. No conditional. Because it's a universal truth. 🏆
#crypto crash
It looks as if FTX crash might take down High Frequency Trading firms responsible for much equity trading. Does this contagion extend further. I don't have a clue and I suspect the regulators don't either https://newmoneyreview.com/index.php/2022/11/13/ftx-hft-contagion/
"I’m just really fearful of what’s going to slip through the cracks"
Twitter is gutting the teams that battle misinformation, further raising concerns about an increase in abuse on the social media platform https://toronto.citynews.ca/2022/11/13/twitter-cuts-outsourced-content-moderators/
@pcmichaud do you have an example?
Delighted to see that there’s a @laborecon group here.
@maximananyev it is most definitely reversible. See what the US is doing with attempts to become significantly more conservative, indeed christian fundamentalist. Same-sex marriage is not safe under US GOP. Well actually no social program is safe under these US GOP extremists.
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