Tweets from 01/13 to 01/17
As promised (or threatened), this is the weekly Twitter roundup. Note that tweets of articles generally include header images from the articles, which are not included here unless they happen to be available under a free license. Most are not.
9:05 AM ¡ Mon 13 January 2020
New York Is Proposing the Creation of a âPublic Venmoâ from VICE
âŚit would create the countryâs first publicly owned electronic banking platform, as well as a digital currencyâŚ
12:04 PM - Mon 13 January 2020
Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure that there is one rascal less in the world.
Thomas Carlyle
9:04 AM - Tue 14 January 2020
Salty drinking water may take a toll on education from Futurity
âŚcorrelation between too much salt and repeating a grade only affected young children.
12:05 PM - Tue 14 January 2020
I regret the time I have been eating instead of being in pursuit of learning - for time is precious.
Fakhr al-Din al-Razi
9:02 AM - Wed 15 January 2020
Joe Bidenâs Role in Creating the Student Debt Crisis Stretches Back to the 1970s from The Intercept
Biden helped write a separate bill that year blocking students from seeking bankruptcy protections on those loans after graduation.
12:01 PM - Wed 15 January 2020
The remedy the world needeth in its present-day afflictions can never be the same as that which a subsequent age may require.
MĂrzĂĄ Husayn-`AlĂ
9:01 AM - Thu 16 January 2020
Raising the minimum wage just $1 would cause suicide rates to drop from Fast Company
âŚthe study saw no effect between minimum wage increases and the suicide rates of those with a college education or higher, and that strengthens this studyâs evidenceâŚ
I didnât have space to mention this in the tweet, but itâs worth pointing out somewhere that the House of Representatives passed a minimum wage bill back in July of 2019, but itâs one of the hundreds of bills waiting for Mitch McConnell to bring to the Senate floor.
Itâs difficult to not bring partisan politics in an issue when one party is literally sitting on a law that would provably save lives.
12:02 PM - Thu 16 January 2020
Who can measure the worth of a Shakespeare, a Michelangelo or Beethoven in dollars and cents?
Lucy Parsons
9:03 AM - Fri 17 January 2020
Facebook makes a decision: microtargeted, false political ads are fine from Quartz
Experts worry the practice will allow campaigns to suppress the vote or say different things, possibly opposing things, to different people.
Again, not mentioned in the tweet for space reasons, but whenever these Facebook manipulation issues come up, itâs worth a reminder that Zuckerberg almost certainly wants to run for President, at some point, and already has a stated bias.
12:03 PM - Fri 17 January 2020
There is but one coward on earth, and that is the coward that dare not know.
W. E. B. Du Bois
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