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    Alon (alon@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Mar-2025 04:03:24 JST Alon Alon

    Trickles of the IDF investigation into the failures on 7.10 are starting to appear. Those failures are massive, showing rank amateurism: weapons were locked in armories, troops were not moved in even while the attack was happening, troops had difficulty entering a kibbutz because the electricity powering the gate was damaged. And this is Nahal Oz, the least badly hit of the Gaza Envelope kibbutzes; Kfar Aza, Beeri, and Nir Oz fared far worse. https://www.timesofisrael.com/civilians-police-stopped-1st-wave-of-terrorists-at-nahal-oz-idf-arrived-7-hours-later/

    In conversation about 2 months ago from mastodon.social permalink

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      Civilians, police stopped 1st wave of terrorists at Nahal Oz; IDF arrived 7 hours later
      Investigation finds guns of most members of security team were locked in armory, inaccessible due to power outage; 3 cases of 'friendly fire' as troops entered kibbutz to clear it of terrorists
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    Alon (alon@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 17-Feb-2025 06:57:22 JST Alon Alon

    1. 🧵 about trust and extremism, mirrored from Bluesky. It's often said that extremist voting and behavior (like anti-Semitic conspiracy theorizing) is the result of low trust; see for example https://bibliothek.wzb.eu/pdf/2024/zz24-603.pdf and https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1016/j.soscij.2019.03.004. But what's missing from this analysis is how *high*-trust societies can produce racist attitudes that are then weaponized by extremists - for example, in the Nordic countries, but also the Netherlands, Austria, Switzerland, etc.

    In conversation about 3 months ago from mastodon.social permalink

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    Alon (alon@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Feb-2025 11:54:21 JST Alon Alon

    1. 🧵 about Germany and normalization of nationalism here. It's well-known in English-language discourse that romantic nationalism is unacceptable in the mainstream here and that there's a baseline expectation of Holocaust guilt. But what's less remarked on is that Germans crave outside affirmation, on AfD, WW1 guilt, colonialism, etc.

    In conversation about 3 months ago from mastodon.social permalink
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    Alon (alon@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 03-Jan-2025 14:45:34 JST Alon Alon
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    6. I think the average citizen, here and in North America, still hates low-skill immigrants more than high-skill ones; sensationalist media focuses on the crimes of low-skill immigrants the most. But the core nativists flip this - they believe in the same myths of immigrant criminality and welfare collection as your average Bild or New York Post reader, but they are even more offended by the idea that any immigrant can be more successful than them. /end

    In conversation about 4 months ago from mastodon.social permalink
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    Alon (alon@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 03-Jan-2025 14:32:56 JST Alon Alon
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    5. We race the natives to the top, not the bottom.

    And this is what pisses off the nativists the most: it inverts the hierarchy.

    A few years ago, an Indian immigrant in Singapore posted on Facebook she was looking for a maid, but only a citizen or PR because of difficulties sponsoring a foreigner. This went viral as Singaporean nativists complained, "we let immigrants in and now we're reduced to being maids in our own country." The hierarchy inversion was more offensive than the job creation.

    In conversation about 4 months ago from mastodon.social permalink
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    Alon (alon@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 03-Jan-2025 14:32:56 JST Alon Alon
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    4. Germany's immigration profile is lower-skill - we let in way more refugees and have open borders with most of Eastern Europe - but among the tech workers, the same pattern as in the US occurs. The firms that hire in English, hiring disproportionately an immigrant workforce, pay better than the ones in German; for one, a Polish immigrant, let alone an Indian one, has much less willingness to work at reduced German wages compared with UK ones (or US if that's available) than a native German.

    In conversation about 4 months ago from mastodon.social permalink
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    Alon (alon@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 03-Jan-2025 14:32:56 JST Alon Alon
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    3. Tech firms, same - it's a chore to deal with immigration paperwork and so it's usually the big firms with high profitability per worker that are most willing to hire H-1B workers. Again, you can cherrypick lower-end firms that do this, or tell stories about Ph.D. immigrant taxi drivers in Canada, but the higher-end firms on net have more immigrants than the rest of the industry.

    In conversation about 4 months ago from mastodon.social permalink
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    Alon (alon@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 03-Jan-2025 14:32:56 JST Alon Alon
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    2. The math departments at elite universities have grad student bodies that are almost entirely foreign. My year at Columbia had 13 students, with only three Americans. This only changed during years with citizenship-restricted grants (RTG). Less prestigious universities tend to have more natives and fewer immigrants. It's easy to cherrypick one scam university that only takes in India, but on average immigrants go to the top much more than to the bottom.

    In conversation about 4 months ago from mastodon.social permalink
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    Alon (alon@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 03-Jan-2025 14:26:37 JST Alon Alon
    • Adrianna Tan

    1. Thread about immigration, inspired by Bernie Sanders' latest bout of nativism and by what @skinnylatte keeps getting in her mentions.

    The starting point is that immigration in the US and Canada is fairly high-skill these days (e.g. post-2000 immigrants have higher education levels than natives), and that it especially lands at the highest- rather than lowest-end places - the most elite universities, the richest cities, the highest-paying tech firms.

    In conversation about 4 months ago from mastodon.social permalink
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    Alon (alon@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 30-Nov-2024 06:18:19 JST Alon Alon

    An Israel that had a geopolitical strategy, rather than just tactics about how to keep Netanyahu out of prison for corruption, would know that it could negotiate with Abbas to end the Occupation and secure enduring friendship and normalization with a post-Assad Syria.

    A counterfactual Israel, if you will.

    In conversation about 6 months ago from mastodon.social permalink
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    Alon (alon@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 24-Nov-2024 02:24:06 JST Alon Alon
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    • mekka okereke :verified:
    • Otte Homan - remember Geordie
    • 14mission

    @otte_homan @mekkaokereke @14mission Yeah, there are a bunch of companies of various levels of seriousness trying to build this, but they focus on solving the easiest bit (the capsule) and not the hardest bit (the civil engineering).

    In conversation about 6 months ago from gnusocial.jp permalink
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    Alon (alon@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 23-Nov-2024 14:55:36 JST Alon Alon
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    • mekka okereke :verified:
    • 14mission

    @mekkaokereke @14mission Or why the tunnel boring is the most solved part of urban infrastructure tunnel construction. The US has a huge cost premium, but little of it is the tunnel boring (except in San Jose, which is doing stupid things with the BART subway) - the premium is mostly in everything else, like ancillary structures, systems, junctions, subway stations, etc.

    In conversation about 6 months ago from mastodon.social permalink
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    Alon (alon@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 23-Nov-2024 01:25:50 JST Alon Alon
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    @mekkaokereke I want to be a hipster and say I was in the hatedom starting 2013, but it was specific to Hyperloop and then the Boring Company and I don't expect everyone to be enough of a public transport nerd to have known how he was blowing smoke even back then.

    In conversation about 6 months ago from mastodon.social permalink
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    Alon (alon@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 03-Nov-2024 08:12:22 JST Alon Alon

    Ann Selzer has Harris up 3 in Iowa. She only polls Iowa, her track record over decades is very strong, and she doesn't herd to what other pollsters are saying. If it's right - see above on why it likely is - it's going to be a blowout. https://eu.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/politics/iowa-poll/2024/11/02/iowa-poll-kamala-harris-leads-donald-trump-2024-presidential-race/75354033007/

    In conversation about 7 months ago from mastodon.social permalink

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      Iowa Poll: Kamala Harris leapfrogs Donald Trump to take lead near Election Day. Here's how
      from Brianne Pfannenstiel
      The new Iowa Poll shows Kamala Harris leading Donald Trump by 3 points. Pollster J. Ann Selzer: “It’s hard for anybody to say they saw this coming.”
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    Alon (alon@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 02-Nov-2024 23:18:15 JST Alon Alon
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    • Mike McGraw

    @Radaghaz @mekkaokereke This is an exit poll, so pollsters ask voters randomly and separately. (And, because people asked on Bluesky: the gap between married women and men in 2022 was the same three points - it's unmarried women who blueshifted. https://edition.cnn.com/election/2022/exit-polls/national-results/general/us-house/0)

    In conversation about 7 months ago from mastodon.social permalink

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      https://www.cnn.com/election/2022/exit-polls
      View National Results exit polls for the 2022 midterm elections. For official voting results, visit cnn.com/election.
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    Alon (alon@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 02-Nov-2024 23:18:10 JST Alon Alon
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    • Mike McGraw
    • Colin Parker
    • Alien software, human hardware

    @Colinvparker @mavu @Radaghaz @mekkaokereke There's a poll by YouGov on it that finds some people vote differently from their partners without telling them, but the net gender impact is low (1 man in 10, 1 woman in 8, for a net of 1 in 40). https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/11/01/women-voting-secret-choice/

    In conversation about 7 months ago from mastodon.social permalink

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    Alon (alon@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 02-Nov-2024 21:10:02 JST Alon Alon
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    • Grassroots Joe

    @joeinwynnewood @mekkaokereke Check link elsewhere in thread: married women voted like married men in 2022, same as 2020.

    In conversation about 7 months ago from gnusocial.jp permalink
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    Alon (alon@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 02-Nov-2024 14:40:19 JST Alon Alon
    • mekka okereke :verified:

    I'm glad I'm seeing pushback by @mekkaokereke against the "women hiding their votes from their husbands" meme. I'm sure it exists, but it's not a big factor, and in exit polls in the US, married women vote almost the same as married men - the gender gap is about younger and unmarried voters, whereas a large majority of women married to Republican men are Republican themselves. Go to https://edition.cnn.com/election/2020/exit-polls/president/national-results and scroll down to gender by marital status.

    In conversation about 7 months ago from mastodon.social permalink

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      National Results 2020 President exit polls.
      See National Results 2020 President exit polls.
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    Alon (alon@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 02-Oct-2024 21:46:21 JST Alon Alon

    I'm familiar with two parts of the world where otherwise-reasonable people keep insisting to me that immigrants really are bad, it's not like in other countries like the US and Germany: Canada, and Scandinavia. In Canada, it's bullshit about how immigrants all go to scam unis and are driving up housing costs (and not, say, enticing developers to build more housing). In Scandinavia, it's about crime and economic integration, which is never blamed on white racism, only on immigrant behavior.

    In conversation about 8 months ago from mastodon.social permalink
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    Alon (alon@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 19-Sep-2024 01:24:03 JST Alon Alon

    Yesterday Israel remote-triggered thousands of booby-trapped pagers used by Hezbollah; today it's following up with an attack on radio devices. 12 dead, thousands wounded. https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2024-09-18/ty-article-live/lebanese-security-source-mossad-planted-explosives-in-5-000-pagers-ordered-by-hezbollah/00000192-02f1-df36-ad96-0afbea560000

    Among yesterday's 9 dead, Hezbollah says 8 were members. The 9th was the young daughter of a member. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cd7xnelvpepo

    But none of them was important for Israel to kill. Barak Ravid reports the timing was pure tactics, no strategy: Hezbollah was about to switch pagers, so it was now or never.

    In conversation about 8 months ago from mastodon.social permalink

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    I write about public transport and do research for NYU's Marron Institute. I've previously lived in Tel Aviv, Singapore, the Riviera, New York, Providence, Vancouver, Stockholm, Paris.

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