Favorite Rejects 2022-08-05

Dmitri Alperovitch @DAlperovitch

I am sure the Taiwanese people just can’t wait to be “re-educated” in concentration camps like the Uyghurs in Xinjiang. I mean, who wouldn’t, right?

巴丢草 Badiucao @badiucao

Taiwan: "After reunification, we will do re-education", says the Chinese ambassador to France Re-education is refering to Uyghur concentration camps and genocide https://t.co/l8YyK1qqEX

Reza Zadeh @Reza_Zadeh

Real unicorns are companies that have 1bn+ in ARR.

wsj.comDatabricks Says It Has Surpassed $1 Billion in Annualized RevenueDatabricks Inc. says it has topped $1 billion in annualized revenue, a milestone that comes as the nine-year-old data analytics company looks to acquire other tech startups to drive growth.

Comfortably Numb 🇺🇦 @YGalanter

@SpiroAgnewGhost

Edward-Isaac Dovere @IsaacDovere

in latest edition of his monthly newsletter, @Schwarzenegger (a proud Republican) endorses the Inflation Reduction Act reconciliation deal expected to get 0 votes from Senate Republicans. "The biggest investment any country has ever made in clean energy is a big fucking deal."

Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦 @Noahpinion

Good thread. I do think that Google's AI research divisions are our closest modern-day equivalent of Bell Labs. Google dominates every top university in terms of AI publications!

Kweku Opoku-Agyemang @KwekuOA

Another thread on classic industrial R&D labs. Bell Labs was the birthplace of information theory. Nine Nobel prizes(!) and four Turing awards(!!). I’m mostly quoting this neat new .@Nature article on how they operated with actual quotes. https://t.co/zEqhxcxRts

Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦 @Noahpinion

The best formula for a viral tweet is: 1. Reasonable, well-grounded point in the first half 2. Ideologically appealing Big Lie in the second half

Senator Stanley Chang @stanleypchang

After four years of frustration in the Legislature, this year we finally enacted the enabling legislation to build Singapore style social housing in Hawaii.

newsweek.comSocial housing gains momentum in Hawaii | OpinionTruly inclusive programs are the ones that enjoy enduring popular support. Public schools, public highways, and public parks are open to all, regardless of income. The largest federal programs by budget, Social Security and Medicare, have no income limits.

Matthew Zeitlin @MattZeitlin

because @JerusalemDemsas is a smart and thoughtful person, she zooms out from the obvious gotcha to make a serious point about how asking local governments to do the right thing on housing is doomed theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

Hal Brands @HalBrands

This crisis is only the beginning. US is running out of time to prevent an aggressive, insecure China from starting a cataclysmic war in the Western Pacific. A ⁦@WSJ⁩ long weekend essay adapted from Danger Zone, my new book with Mike Beckley.

wsj.comThe Coming War Over TaiwanWith its global power at a peak and domestic problems mounting, China is likelier than ever before to make good on its threats.