Favorite Rejects 2021-09-07

Christine Burns MBE 🧜‍♀️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈📚⧖ @christineburns

This amazing woman co-designed the architecture of the processor at the heart of 50 BILLION devices. I’ve often told the story of Lynn Conway, another mega computer pioneer, but few know of Sophie Wilson and Britain’s most successful chip design.

youtu.beARM Instruction Set design history with Sophie Wilson (Part 3)The first ARM processor was designed in 1983-1985 to get more performance in Acorn Computers to enable low cost performance computing for the masses, these c...

Renee DiResta @noUpside

Vaccine mandates in the US date back to George Washington requiring the army be inoculated against smallpox. The Supreme Court has upheld constitutionality. We didn’t used to need mandates as often because being “American” didn’t mean being selfish me-first deniers of💉 efficacy https://t.co/axqP5f6fJf

Rep. Jim Jordan @Jim_Jordan

Vaccine mandates are un-American.

Eyes on the Right @EyesOnTheRight

The vaccine is free.

James Hamblin @jameshamblin

Before mocking the horse paste, please consider how our healthcare industry excludes and alienates and bankrupts so many people. As long as we perpetuate that system, don’t act surprised that many will ingest whatever flies in its face.

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

I support statehood for DC, Puerto Rico, the US Virgin Islands, Guam, the Bahamas, and Scotland.

STV News @STVNews

BREAKING: The Scottish Government intends to hold a second referendum on Scottish independence by the end of 2023. https://t.co/eYbw5JJROQ

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

To take this out of irony mode, the NYT ran an op-ed by an the Afghan National Army corps commander for Helmand complaining that he'd been betrayed by Joe Biden. Two weeks later, the New Yorker reports he was out there ordering the massacre of civilians.

Noah Smith 🐇 @Noahpinion

We post the prices of everything except labor and medical care

Dr. Mansa Keita @rasmansa

Job ads should be expected to include salary/wage ranges. No reason people should waste time applying for jobs that pay less than they'd ever accept.

Jake Anbinder @JakeAnbinder

We haven't fully reckoned yet with the minoritarian quality of the pandemic response. There has consistently been strong public demand for a much more interventionist approach to bring a quicker end to the pandemic than anything any government in the US actually done.

Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur

GALLUP: Majorities of Americans now favor businesses mandating proof of vaccination to travel by plane, stay in a hotel, attended crowded events, eat at restaurants and go to the office. https://t.co/3j4LWqE40Q https://t.co/csMkAhqrku