Favorite Rejects 2022-09-01

Finbarr Bermingham @fbermingham

🚨BREAKING: The UN report is finally out, just before midnight It says that actions of the Chinese government in Xinjiang, "may constitute international crimes, in particular crimes against humanity" ohchr.org/sites/default/…

Jim Dalrymple II @Dalrymple

this is also wild. 10 yrs old to play in your own front yard? Parenting culture is a disaster rn

David Ingles @DavidInglesTV

JUST IN: China locks down Chengdu to contain virus. Mass testing from today to September 4. Residents ordered to stay at home from 6pm.

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

Anti-popularists on the left should ask themselves, would things get better or worse for the Republican Party if people started organizing large marches at which the crowd demanded immediate action on banning all abortions?

Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦 @Noahpinion

Social networks to content creators: Hehehe you think that's your ad revenue? That's OUR ad revenue, baby. 😃 Phone platforms to social networks: Hehehe you think that's your ad revenue? That's OUR ad revenue, baby. 😃

Dare Obasanjo @Carnage4Life

Apple now gets money in two ways thanks to "privacy" 1. They get 30% of subscription fees from Snapchat, Twitter and others. 2. They get more ad revenue because their ad system is now more accurate than those of social apps as they're exempt from ATT. https://t.co/JKASPFnJe1

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

Guys only want one thing and it's point-access blocks.

build decarbonized passivhaus ecodistricts now @holz_bau

looking at floor plate efficiencies of 3 different vertical egress typologies... left: 6-unit single loaded corridor. 83,5% floor plate efficiency middle: 12-unit double loaded corridor. 87% floor plate efficiency right: 6-unit point access block. 93,5% floor plate efficiency https://t.co/jE7TAK9Sc3

Matthew Zeitlin @MattZeitlin

“The goal, for the most part, seems to be to keep all the hierarchies within the system and simply make the end result perfectly match the racial demographics of the country. This…is a catastrophic and ultimately impoverished way to think about education”

nytimes.comOpinion | A Farewell to ReadersBinary thinking in politics, race and inequality has distracted us from processing everything else that takes place in the country.

Matthew Martin @hyperplanes

shifting car->ebike is a big win for traffic congestion, land use, housing affordability, environment. This is an insanely lucky break for us and we'd have to be really dumb not to lean into it

Just Suomio 🇺🇦🇫🇮🇪🇺 @SuomioGen

BREAKING: China continues to create propaganda depicting America as one of the most badass countries ever in a bizarre attempt to demoralize own troops

Nat Bullard @NatBullard

What will we need 50% more of by 2040? Copper. How much new primary production capacity is planned? 16%. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Mick Ryan, AM @WarintheFuture

This is a superb piece on the Chinese potential for building an invasion fleet for #Taiwan. It is well-referenced & full of useful insights. Reassessing China’s Power Projection Capabilities Against Taiwan - ⁦⁦@WarOnTheRocks⁩

warontherocks.comHedging with Humility: Reassessing China’s Power Projection Capabilities Against Taiwan - War on the Rocks“Andrew Higgins is the man who won the war for us. If Higgins had not designed and built those we never could have landed over an open beach. The whole

Wally Nowinski @Nowooski

Dark Brandon Rises

Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦 @Noahpinion

Womp womp

Rob Lee @RALee85

"In early tests by the Russians, the Iranian drones experienced numerous failures, the officials said. 'There are a few bugs in the system,' said an allied security official...“The Russians are not satisfied,' the official said." From @nakashimae https://t.co/zdoIYNx8K9 https://t.co/O7D7fqbdka

Misha Chellam 🇺🇸 🏗️ @mishachellam

CA budget is $300bn, economy is $3trn, and housing is the #1 issue, yet we’ve only allocated $4m to enforcement (or maybe $8m counting DOJ strike force). What would it take to 10-100x the enforcement budget? Cc @anniefryman @Scott_Wiener @RobBonta @GavinNewsom @CSElmendorf