Favorite Rejects 2021-10-18

Noah Smith 🐇 @Noahpinion

So Manchin is going to gut both of the actually transformative parts of BBB, and we're going to be left with subsidies for already-overpriced service industries.

Axios @axios

NEW: Sen. Manchin has told the White House the child tax credit must include a firm work requirement and family income cap in the $60k range, Axios has learned. These demands would dramatically weaken one of Biden's signature programs. https://t.co/ZL5PHUfpBY

Sarah Hutto @huttopian

No vaccine is *that* good.

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

Unfair of this evil monopolist to crush mom & pop with high productivity and pay.

Conor Sen @conorsen

In its latest hiring announcement, Amazon says it’s offering a signing bonus up to $3,000 and hourly wages of $21/hr depending on shifts in many locations: https://t.co/v7ZPoStPCU

Colin McMillen @mcmillen

i'm extremely unhappy to hear that Colin Powell has died of covid. for my whole life there has been a clear & unambiguous Worst Colin In The World. now that Colin Powell is dead, there's some chance it might be me https://t.co/3I2YEvshci

WEATHER IS HAPPENING @WEATHERISHAPPEN

COLIN POWELL JOINS DONALD RUMSFELD IN BURNING IN HELL

Lilah Sturges Is Being Herself For Halloween @LilahSturges

Judaism: here is our holy book, a collection of our sacred texts, compiled over a millennium Christianity: here is our holy book, we copied the Jewish one and then tacked on four versions of the same story and some internal correspondence at the end. Also: a vision a guy had.

Shawn A. Krueger @MacGeek27

Excited for the #AppleEvent today! Interesting observation from @daringfireball's podcast: The live events are like stage plays, and the new produced events are like TV shows… and it turns out that people like TV shows more than stage plays.

Noah Smith 🐇 @Noahpinion

Defenders of autocracy in China always like to claim that China is special and how unlike in Taiwan or South Korea, freedom of expression in China would lead to something horrible. Where's the evidence for this?

Kevin Tellier @kevtellier

This is too simplistic. More likely Chinese leaders have a deep-rooted aversion to factionalism and fear of returning to an environment like the cultural revolution. Also, no guarantee introducing free expression leads to liberal democracy. The opposite result may be more likely https://t.co/J12vsyCH4M

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

I like that Apple rolled out this "laptops with a normal range of ports on it" idea like it's an incredible new innovation rather than rolling back their own dumb idea.

Marco Arment @marcoarment

For the first time in five years, the MacBook Pro looks like it was designed by and for people who love computers.

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

Real yikes stuff here about the current state of faculty politics

David Romps @romps

I am resigning as Director of the Berkeley Atmospheric Sciences Center (BASC) @BerkeleyAtmo. To reduce the odds of being mischaracterized, I want to explain my decision here.

Noah Smith 🐇 @Noahpinion

When I raised this possibility earlier this year, a LOT of British people got VERY mad at me

Eric Topol @EricTopol

More reliance on Astra Zeneca vaccines offered as another possible contributing factor https://t.co/ohaadUWxAr