– China's official government position has been decoupling since 2014 (src)
– EU is implementing some dumb requirements for people to get visas to travel between EU countries. (src)
– LA wanted fewer stories in a building, this guy sued and is now gonna build more stories. (src)
– Portugal outsourced their drug treatment system to nonprofits and everything has gone downhill (src)
– Standing Nap Pod (src)

– Trump now 1st, 2nd, and 3rd president to be charged with a crime (src)
– US Manufacturing construction continues to hit record highs (src)

– Visiting Japan is a very good deal right now (src)
– We should be expecting public sector pay to rise significantly in the medium term, many can't be done remotely. (src)
— poor Cory Doctorow is so nostalgic for his prime (src)

– AIs are more accurate than most radiologists (src)

– Allowing townhomes to be built helped Houston collect more taxes (src)
– Biden administration is switching to a different lawyer for handling voting rights. (src)
– China's Gini coefficient is way worse than the US' (src)
– France has automated enforcement of parking with license plate readers on police cars (src)
– Germany deindustrializing (src)
– Germany really screwed up by not doing fiscal stimulus during the 2008 recession (src)
– Glenn Greenwald has dumb legal opinions (src)
– Introduction to AI course for teachers and students (src)
– Matt Yglesias likes Harris' book (src)
– Remaining Twitter employees are about to get their RSU cliff (src)
– Renewables are on course to surpass coal worldwide for electricity generation (src)
– Rumors of an LLM based assistant from google (src)
– Star Wars / LOTR joke combo (src)
– US Carbon emissions are really falling quite fast (src)

– Classic response to improving public transit is 'people need cars'. That's the issue we aim to solve (src)
– Disney had a horrible showing for their newest movie, I've never even heard of Haunted Mansion (src)
– Dynamic programming are the worst (src)

– Kids in poorer countries have elevated blood lead levels (src)

– Pointers are the worst (src)

– Thread showing that there's a massive housing shortage nationwide (src)
– US vs China on 'unethical' AI (src)

– world average air temperatures are scary high this year (src)

– Taylor Swift broke curfew at Levi Stadium, although she'll probably just be fined $1000 (src)

– Darrell Owens will call it 'subsidized housing' now rather than 'affordable housing' because most people misunderstand the second term. (src)
– Ezra Klein is not impressed by the UFO claims being discussed in Congress. (src)
– Facebook Reels is on course to exceed TikTok revenue by next year. They're very good at copying a competitor really fast. (src)
– Letting kids play on their own is good for them and much cheaper than childcare (src)
– Now that you con't attack Biden from the left on Drone warfare, no one is talking about US drone warfare. (src)
– Poland has the same population as California, a smaller economy, and 2.5x the housing production. (src)
– Recovery based housing shown to work in clinical trail, but is illegal in California (src)
– Seems like Dan Ariely was uh, quite a liar (src)
– Stable Diffusion amplifies existing stereotypes (src)

– Superhuman intelligence may not be a coherent concept (src)
– The big LLM article from yesterday as a short tweet thread (src)

– Employment numbers look terrific as well (src)

– Russia's failure in Ukraine comes down to everything besides their weapons. (src)
– The Proximal Origins paper scandal seems bad (src)
– The UK is adding regulations specifically disallowing A/C in new construction. Seems dumb (src)
– There's a new statue of Harry Truman in South Korea (src)
– Weather forecasts are very good now (src)

– The single tweet that lead to builder's remedy becoming a big deal (src)

– Real world NIMBYs admit that it's actually all about parking (src)
– The builder's remedy homes in Menlo Park may be the tallest in the Peninsula. (src)
– Trying to make permitting reform happen via regulatory changes, it’s a start (src)
– White people give different answers about tests vs other options depending on what they think will help their kids. Here’s the paper (src)

– Reminder: Mental hospitals closing is not actually the cause of prison populations going up (src)

– Russia trying to avoid economists reading their economic numbers by publishing only in russian, as if we don't have Google Translate. (src)
– Seems like the "Proximal Origin" paper authors did not believe their own paper. (src)

– The Game industry is much bigger than the other entertainment industries. (src)

– Pandemic is over in the US. (src)

– Poland is welcoming refugees from Ukraine, who have started businesses there. (src)

– Since you were wondering, Barbie vs Oppenheimer popularity by state. (src)

– There was a plan to create a harbor in Alaska with nuclear weapons. It was stopped for many reasons, including that no one needed a harbor there. (src)

– There's a subreddit where people complain their recipes went badly because they made substitutions (src)
– Thread from a history professor analyzing Florida's new american history curriculum. (src)
– Tony Bennett seems like he was a nice guy. (src)
– YIMBY is a view held by people in many different groups. NIMBYs all think it's some other group. (src)

– Australia must be a huge thorn in China's side. (src)

– Authors of article arguing COVID was not a lab leak appear to have privately thought that lab leak was plausible, made plans to deceive the public about this. (src)
– Builder's remedy project proposed in Menlo Park, 300 feet tall. Awesome (src)
– China's gotten pretty good at building cruise ships, which they can use for amphibious assault should the need arise (src)
– Chinese youth unemployment at 46% (src)
– Japan's inflation is now higher than that of the US (src)

– Just realized that RFK running third party would hurt Trump more than Biden (src)
– Lifetime risk of incarceration for black men has fallen significantly. (src)

– China emits the most CO2, but they're also hurt the most by those emissions. (src)
– It really is in Meta's interest to add ActivityPub federation to Threads. (src)
– New movie called 'command-z' not 'control-z', Windows is no longer dominant. (src)
– RSV Vaccine is now available for the elderly (src)

– Things are going surprisingly well since the collapse of SVB. (src)

– Trump wants McCarthy to get his impeachments 'expunged' (src)

– Anchor Brewing Union wants to purchase the brewery and run it as a co-op (src)
– Long press the share button to go straight to share sheet in Threads! (src)
– Asians in the US have a negative opinion of China. (src)

– Chinese in the US view China less positively than any other country. (src)

– Noah Smith argues that Tokyo is currently the world's greatest city. (src)
– NSF did their own version of Fast Grants and no one talked about it (src)

– Nuclear and Solar are not in conflict! (src)
– The No Labels 'third-party-ism' rests on ignorance of the structure of american politics (src)
– We still build big projects, they're just way cooler than cathedrals (src)

– China doesn't actually want the people of Taiwan, just the land. Which is an even worse situation. (src)
– Chinese are about to install as much solar this year as the US has in all time (src)

– First AB2011 project in San Francisco looks pretty cool (src)
– If you don't want speed camera tickets, stop breaking the law (src)
– Rich capitalist countries redistribute income more. There are no rich countries without massive social spending. (src)
– The chinese state position is that the people of China evolved directly from Homo Erectus in the Yellow River region. (src)
– The US has an unusually low inflation rate worldwide right now (src)
– Ways in which 3 dimensions are unique amongst dimensions. The only number of dimensions where knots work! (src)
– Where will the AI moats be? (src)

– DeSantis opposes cluster munitions for Ukraine, but voted to give them to the Saudis (src)
– Massive eye overlooking a golf course (src)

– Nuclear power's main flaw is that it's too safe! (src)

– Robert Oppenheimer's brother created the original exploratorium in SF in 1969. (src)
– Taylor Swift explains how great walkability and the agglomeration effect are. (src)
– Yet another downside of excessive surface parking: it results in higher temperatures! (src) (article)

– Gilmore girls / Sopranos paradox (src)
– We trade more with Mexico now than China (src, axios report)

– AI Writing detectors say the constitution was written by AI, perplexity is too low (src)
– Is Elon lucky or smart? (src)
– Tyler Cowen is wrong on congestion pricing (src)
– Tom Cotton actually saying good things about Ukraine. (src)
– Again and again, more vaccine research is such an obvious net good for the country (src)
– English common law countries have more NIMBYism? (src)

– GOP vs Democrats on biblical policy proposals (src)
– ChatGPT helps writing a letter from the tooth fairy. (src)

– Paint streets white (src)
– Powell might be the GOAT Fed Chair? (src)
– Sprawls can be good actually (src)
– Threads is more pleasant because they're better at stopping recidivism (src)
– Uber was considered overvalued in 2014 because the entire taxi market was 100 billion. Now Uber's gross billings are 125 billion. (src)