Favorite Rejects 2022-04-21

Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦 @Noahpinion

Why does China keep trying to hack India's power grid? What is the point of that???

780th Military Intelligence Brigade (Cyber) @780thC

According to Recorded Future, in early April 2022 alleged Chinese state cyber actors attempted to gain unauthorized access into seven power grid hubs in north India threatening the supply of electric power. https://t.co/3mRx1UJhjM @ooda

Sudden Beth @bethdanger

The five stages of grief, as represented by butter substitutes.

Timothy B. Lee @binarybits

Senators Leahy and Tillis want to give the Copyright Office the power to mandate new anti-pirating filters across the web every three years. Forever. This does not seem like a good idea.

arstechnica.comSenators want to mandate anti-piracy technology across the webWebsites could face mandatory anti-piracy technology upgrades every three years.

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

"Elon Musk skepticism" has not been a great bet so I think the odds are good that he sees something I don't, but I sincerely do not understand how digging narrow tunnels is going to solve traffic congestion.

Doug Warren @DougWar40K

@Popehat THE JUSTICES MEET FROM TIME TO TIME TO DISCUSS VITAL ISSUES LIKE THESE HERE SIGNS BURMA SHAVE

Donald Shoup @DonaldShoup

Don't Wokewash the Status Quo

planetizen.comDon’t Wokewash the Status QuoThere might be good reasons to oppose speed cameras and red light cameras—but racial justice is not one of them.

Benjamin Ross @BenRossTransit

This might be the worst "we don't have a housing shortage" take yet. The definition of "household" in the data is "Household is an occupied housing unit."

Kevin Drum @kdrum

We don’t have a housing shortage https://t.co/JZMOWUpNhI https://t.co/YW3NUdtldk

Josh Barro @jbarro

We should force the Chinese to sell TikTok to an American owner or else seize it from them. It's like Matt says: Would we have let the USSR own a US broadcast TV network? Of course not! So why should the CCP control a major social network used here?

slowboring.comData privacy is not the issue with TikTokWe can’t let China control a popular media platform

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

FDA: We can’t approve a safe and effective vaccine for children for complicated social psychology reasons we have no evidence for. Also FDA: Here’s an expensive Alzheimer’s drug that doesn’t work — enjoy!

Visegrád 24 @visegrad24

Japanese news anchor tries to hold back the tears when she informs her viewers that Putin bestowed honors on the unit of soldiers behind the Bucha Massacre.

Matthew Zeitlin @MattZeitlin

That McKinsey is being blamed for the wildly optimistic CNN+ subscriber projections is a good insight into why companies hire McKinsey

David Roberts @drvolts

Fascinating story about Portland's efforts to reduce cars ... while trapped between NIMBYs fighting density & a state DOT committed to expanding freeways.

nytimes.comCan Portland Be a Climate Leader Without Reducing Driving?The city famous for its bike lanes is struggling to cut car pollution. Now Portland faces a major battle over whether to keep expanding highways.