When I was young, middle-class wages grew as worker productivity grew. But since the end of the '70s, worker productivity has boomed while wages have stagnated. Here's why. If you read only one part of this essay series, make it this one.

https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-declining-power-of-the-middle

Since Bill Ackman and his followers have so many questions about how Wikipedia works now that his wife has been accused of plagiarizing from it, I figured I'd help him out.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_jM6aoTDK0
#Wikipedia #BillAckman #plagiarism

Here's my #ChristmasTree for y'all! At the base, one of the Auxiliary Telescopes at ESO's Paranal Observatory. Above it, the Magellanic Clouds, two small galaxies orbiting our own. The tree-topper is 47 Tucanae, a globular cluster containing millions of #stars.

The light from this and other telescopes can be combined to get the same level of detail as that of a huge "virtual" telescope using interferometry: https://www.eso.org/public/teles-instr/technology/interferometry/

#astrodon #astronomy #astrophotography #space #Christmas

#Twitter was partially down this morning worldwide. Search and trends showed no results, and both the “For you” and “Following” timelines were completely down. Posting did work, but nobody other than you was able to see your posts.

At 1:45 a.m. Eastern time, the website came back online fully. Total downtime was much over an hour.