Favorite Rejects 2021-10-21

Liam Dillon @dillonliam

Not only is it inefficient for affordable housing developers to scrounge for many sources of funding, it makes projects much more expensive — which means less housing. Every new funding source increases per-unit costs by $6k plus we found last year. latimes.com/homeless-housi…

Darrell Owens @IDoTheThinking

Goetz: Today it takes nonprofit developers 8 to 10 different revenue and funding sources to finance a unit of affordable housing. That's not efficient.

Noah Smith 🐇 @Noahpinion

Gonna keep retweeting this paper til you believe it

Ethan Mollick @emollick

The Illusory Truth Effect is a key to understanding the impact of social media. If you see something repeated enough times, it seems true. A new paper shows it works on 85% of people. Other work shows that this happens even if the idea isn't plausible & even if you know better! https://t.co/2ZGAsAUN9F

Drew Harwell @drewharwell

Trump's social network TRUTH Social has a rule banning "excessive use of capital letters":

Aaron Schaffer @aaronjschaffer

@drewharwell Didn't Trump tweet in all caps...very often? https://t.co/J6WtngKfde https://t.co/dmalAQSIn3

Noah Smith 🐇 @Noahpinion

This was when immigration fell by about half

David Andolfatto @dandolfa

Wow, I did not know this -- U.S. prime-age population stopped growing over a decade ago. https://t.co/77wNTUes6S

Andrew Prokop @awprokop

Manchin says he offered to quit the Democratic Party (but keep caucusing with them) as a favor (?) for them and their messaging (?) thehill.com/homenews/senat…

Colin McMillen @mcmillen

My actual not-shitpost take on having created this silly little thread is: if you keep asking the same question with subtly different wordings, you can get whatever kind of answer you want. (The comparison to corporate legal departments is left as an exercise to the reader.)

Colin McMillen @mcmillen

okay, finally trying out this AI ethical advisor thing https://t.co/3CUmKaaccz

Noah Smith 🐇 @Noahpinion

It's just so insulting to claim that Black people, Asian people, etc. don't engage in intellectual debate or value rigor. I know the people saying these things think they're being anti-racist, but this is actually racist.

Michelle Goldberg @michelleinbklyn

This is just mortifying https://t.co/sV19rq4PpK https://t.co/lDkpx4ASrH

Jason Snell @jsnell

now this is how you do an announcement

Apple TV @AppleTV

BREAKING: Big announcement from Sir Anthony Hopkins and Jason Sudeikis (and Ron something) #MythicQuest is returning for Seasons 3 & 4 https://t.co/OugCaIWwjv

Noah Smith 🐇 @Noahpinion

Bernie: How about $3.5T Manchin: How about 0? Bernie: ...OK how about $6T? Great job, masters of negotiation

axios.com“How about zero?” Manchin, Sanders get heated behind closed doors“Joe said, ‘I’m comfortable with nothing,’” Sen. Jon Tester tells Axios.

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

I have been snarking on Twitter about this, but please read @nataliesurely’s much more thorough piece on the seemingly fake Havana Syndrome.

newrepublic.comWith “Havana Syndrome,” Washington Is Repeating Colin Powell’s Worst MistakeEvidence-free accounts of spooky weapons bedeviling American diplomats have lawmakers jumping at shadows—and talking of war.

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

Best way for Biden to turn things around would be to buy Greenland.