Favorite Rejects 2022-01-05

Coco Feng @CocoF1026

Notice from a Shanghai stand-up comedy club: "due to regulatory requirement, English stand-up shows will be paused from Jan 3rd onwards"

mp.weixin.qq.comCancellation noticeFirst Chapter of the New Year

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

I believe what they actually did in Ireland was impose strict vaccine requirements on adults

Aaron 🥑🚈🚰🏀 @aceckhouse

1) this fucking rips! 2) we cannot allow New York to pass SB 50 before California; calling on Governor Newsom to take decisive action to prevent a TOD gap between California & New York

Ben Wetzler @bd_wetz

https://t.co/m8iagyuIi0

Brendan Nyhan @BrendanNyhan

Fascinating thread on the cutting edge of political organizing

Aaron Strauss @aaron_strauss

To win tough races in politics you can’t just follow your your passions, you also have to meet the voters where they are. A🧵on an innovative and scaled tactic that helped us win the Senate: https://t.co/udiLC55SX4

Daryl Fairweather 📊 @FairweatherPhD

Twenty-three percent of African-Americans own cryptocurrency, compared to 11% of white Americans and 17% of Hispanics. Excellent reporting by @theMarquiseF

finance.yahoo.comWhy Black Americans are leading the NFT, crypto revolutionIn many ways, Black Americans, like Buchanan, are leading the crypto revolution. Twenty-three percent of African-Americans own cryptocurrency, compared to 11...

Caleb Watney @calebwatney

A really excellent overview of the explosion in exciting new philanthropic science funding experiments that have launched in the last year or two. Now it's time for the NIH + NSF to get on board. endpts.com/inside-the-mul…

Liam Denning @liamdenning

Michigan's legislative contortions to entrench car dealer protectonism capture perfectly just how outdated and contrived these laws are bloomberg.com/opinion/articl… via @bopinion $TSLA $F $RIVN $GM

bloomberg.comBloomberg - Are you a robot?

Richard Florida @Richard_Florida

"'superstar cities' have been a defining technological advancement. ...Remote work could change that."

vox.com3 ways remote work could remake AmericaFrom climate change to political polarization, remote work could change it all — even for in-person workers.

Ezra Klein @ezraklein

Most interesting thing I've read today.

danwang.co2021 letter | Dan WangGetting worse and getting better; Jesuits; common prosperity; Rossini’s glittering realm; slow-casual chains; Lem’s ocean; vowelsongs.

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

The Biden administration is good. https://t.co/5AjaZA1NIq

Leana Wen, M.D. @DrLeanaWen

"The President couldn't be clearer--schools in this country should remain open." --Jeff Zients at @WHCOVIDResponse briefing today. Reminds us that teachers were prioritize for vaccinations, before most adults. There are vaccines for 5-year olds +. And $130B given to schools.

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

At Slow Boring of course we target an audience of working-class monolingual speakers of the Galician language but there is room on the internet for many business models.

fades away, like morning dew* 🌁🇨🇦🇹🇼🚀✈️ @accidentalflyer

As Beijing Takes Control, Chinese Tech Companies Lose Jobs and Hope

nytimes.comAs Beijing Takes Control, Chinese Tech Companies Lose Jobs and HopeThe crackdown is killing the entrepreneurial drive that made China a tech power and destroying jobs that used to attract the country’s brightest.