Favorite Rejects 2021-08-26

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

One of the vexing aspects of the Afghanistan coverage is that "people risk their lives to flee to the United States" is the story *every day* at the southern border, but the conventional framing of that story is it's a policy failure when they succeed.

npr.orgDeaths At The Arizona-Mexico Border Are On Pace To Be Highest Ever RecordedThe remains of 227 migrants who tried to cross the border illegally were found along the U.S.-Mexico border in Arizona last year. It was a grim record, and officials say this year could be worse.

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

I think more openness to immigration would be good. But if you want to find people with sympathetic stories who are not currently able to migrate to the country, you don't need to look to a warzone halfway around the world.

Tahir Amin @realtahiramin

Pharma: Waiving IP doesn’t matter because the production capability isn’t there South Korea’s biotech sector: We are “poised to plough billions of dollars to expand factories to produce 1bn vaccines annually.” Pharma: Ok well, we still won't waive IP.

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Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

The SSRI fluvoxomine, normally used to treat OCD, seems to significantly reduce severe Covid-19 outcomes in rigorous trials. Would recommend over the worm thing.

vox.comHow a cheap antidepressant emerged as a promising Covid-19 treatmentMost Covid-19 drug treatments that have been included in trials haven’t panned out. A large new study suggests fluvoxamine might be different.

Guilherme Rambo @_inside

Apple PR has been doing confusing announcements recently lol You still can’t link to other payment methods in-app, only email customers about them.

Benedict Evans @benedictevans

Ooh. Apple will now (settling a lawsuit) allow developers to tell users about other payment methods. This is a BIG change. https://t.co/Yz49IJiKS3

Marco Arment @marcoarment

It’s so funny watching Apple PR’s song and dance, embarrassingly patting itself on the back, after yielding basically zero ground on the App Store’s most anticompetitive rules. You know this changes nothing. We know this changes nothing. Who are you performing for?

Noah Smith 🐇 @Noahpinion

Missed your chance to launch nukes by entering "password:password", folks

Massimo @Rainmaker1973

During the height of the Cold War, the US military put such an emphasis on a rapid response to an attack on American soil, that for 20 years the ICBM launch codes were 00000000 to minimize delay [read more: https://t.co/IMW3NXjuiR] https://t.co/fGb4VIM1GY