Rob Crawford

@RobinCrawford
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Increase in worker productivity: 65%

Increase in worker hourly pay: 17%

Productivity has grown 3.7x as much as pay from 1979-2021.

This is what I mean when I say the system is rigged.

Two years ago, when Axios ran a Q&A with Kellyanne Conway, I wrote about media's role in the reputation rehab business:

"Allowing one of the most visible liars of government over the last four years the ability to be seen as a serious person diminishes the work and power of journalism."

Today, the NYT gives her a whole column.

It's frankly pretty nuts that a majority of House Republicans supported a failed coup attempt, and then two years later to the day American voters returned them to power. Doesn't speak well for us at all.

RT @PaulSzoldra
On this day in 1944, an American commander in Bastogne was surrounded. His men were low on supplies and freezing. The Nazis demanded his surrender.

His reply: "Nuts!"

https://taskandpurpose.com/history/us-army-nuts-bastogne-surrender/

Surrounded. Low on supplies. Freezing. The Nazis demanded his surrender. He replied: 'Nuts!"

On Dec. 22, 1944, 4 German soldiers walked to American lines in Bastogne, Belgium with a message asking for surrender. The general said no.

Task & Purpose
I've waited a few days to post this about the #mastodonmigration. Here is the evolution of the new accounts in #mastodon after the events in the last week. After each new ban/suspension in the #bluebird we see a spike in new accounts in #mastodon. But recent growth seems to be more steady at around 50k per day. Since the #bluebird purchase by Musk, more than 3 million new accounts were created in #mastodon.
Elliott Downing has the solution