Favorite Rejects 2021-11-30

Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan

See, if Dems were smart they would immediately turn this into an attack ad/talking point: "Republicans want to ban your kids from learning about Martin Luther King!" That's what Republicans would do, if the situation was reversed. But Dems just aren't good at brawling.

Judd Legum @JuddLegum

A Tennessee chapter of "Moms for Liberty" filed a complaint with the Tennessee Department of Education alleging that assigning 2nd Graders a book about MLK Jr's March on Washington violated the state's new law banning Critical Race Theory https://t.co/STDiPY48jH

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

Can some philanthropist give Piketty money to hire a better graphic designer?

Brian Chappatta @BChappatta

From the latest Conference Board data: Those U.S. households responding that jobs are "plentiful" hits an all-time high.

Noah Smith 🐇 @Noahpinion

This is a very interesting change for Twitter to make. No more viral videos of police brutality?

indianbronson.substack.com @lndian_Bronson

Rather than prevent doxxing, which they'll continue to selectively allow, this will be used to prevent the public seeing what happened at a protest, or a crime scene, etc. wherein who is public and what can be shown is a determination of media/tech entities. https://t.co/rpLrzMeeU1

Noah Smith 🐇 @Noahpinion

This is going to be... interesting.

Federico Vaggi @F_Vaggi

@Noahpinion in the blog post, they add a clause that basically gives them total discretion to what content will be deleted and won't: https://t.co/SSaUS3NMGE

Noah Smith 🐇 @Noahpinion

@Samhale72 @TheStalwart @conorsen Yes, Conor is wrong here and the data are strongly against his thesis. I gathered a number of studies in this post: noahpinion.substack.com/p/the-left-nim… That said, Joe is also right that a huge campaign of government housing construction would be highly effective and good.

noahpinion.substack.comThe Left-NIMBY canonStanding athwart urban history, yelling Stop

Dan Federman @TheFederman

Local control is inherently exclusionary, since it by definition caters exclusively to the needs of those who are already a member of the current community.

Noah Smith 🐇 @Noahpinion

"Population control, mass roundups"

theguardian.comLeaked papers link Xinjiang crackdown with China leadershipSecret documents urge population control, mass round-ups and punishment of Uyghurs

Paul Duke Former “Tech will save us” cult member @nullvoidstar

https://t.co/c6yLsi6GyT

Lauren Kaori Gurley @LaurenKGurley

NEW: A judge has ruled that Google must disclose more than 70 secret documents related to its union-busting campaign with IRI consultants. Docs include anti union training materials for managers and messaging advice https://t.co/y2ki23DJAE

Julia Galef @juliagalef

1) "Could a neuroscientist understand a microprocessor?" The authors perform a reductio ad absurdum on common methods of understanding the brain, by applying them to a microprocessor and showing that they fail

journals.plos.orgCould a Neuroscientist Understand a Microprocessor?Author Summary Neuroscience is held back by the fact that it is hard to evaluate if a conclusion is correct; the complexity of the systems under study and their experimental inaccessability make the assessment of algorithmic and data analytic technqiues challenging at best. We thus argue for testing…

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

Increasing spending on scientific research is relatively unpopular compared to increasing spending on highways, education, or law enforcement. (feel like the masses have this one wrong)

Noah Smith 🐇 @Noahpinion

Reducing carbon emissions is in China's own interests. Already, climate change is starting to compromise the country's food security.

apnews.com‘Ordinary people suffer most’: China farms face climate woes | AP NewsJIAOZUO, China (AP) — Wang Yuetang’s sneakers sink into the mud of what was once his thriving corn and peanut farm as he surveys the damage done by an unstable climate. Three months after torrential rains flooded much of central China’s Henan province, stretches of the country’s flat agricultural h…

Laura Foote 🌇 @NeverSassyLaura

Yes. Except it should be six and we need to annex Marin. And maybe also seven and Walnut Creek. And then all of the transportation agencies merge into one! BWAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHA

Jake Gotta 🚲 @jake_gotta

San Francisco bay area as one city with five boroughs would be too powerful https://t.co/jGln3TJEoq