Favorite Rejects 2022-09-12

CNN @CNN

Exclusive: "I'm just not going to leave." Trump repeatedly insisted he wouldn't leave the White House after his election loss, a new book by NYT reporter Maggie Haberman reveals.

cnn.itExclusive: ‘I’m just not going to leave’: New book reveals Trump vowed to stay in White HouseFormer President Donald Trump repeatedly told aides in the days following his 2020 election loss that he would remain in the White House rather than let incoming President Joe Biden take over, according to reporting provided to CNN from a forthcoming book by New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman.

James Medlock @jdcmedlock

A key difference between YIMBYism and Reagan style trickledown is that one correct and the other is incorrect aeaweb.org/articles?id=10… papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

There’s a lot of dunking on low-earning X Studies major because dunking on the actual lowest-earning groups — education and social work — makes you sound like an asshole.

Divam Gupta @divamgupta

Introducing Diffusion Bee, the easiest way to run Stable Diffusion locally on your M1 Mac. Comes with a one-click installer. No dependencies or technical knowledge needed. Link : github.com/divamgupta/dif…

Ilhan Omar @IlhanMN

Studies show us the best way to end hunger is to feed people, the best way to end homelessness is to house them, and the best way to end poverty is to give families cash support. When we don’t do those things, it’s because we choose not to. https://t.co/hHVUsih5Iz

Geoff Bennett @GeoffRBennett

NYT: "With little public notice and accelerating speed, child poverty fell by 59 percent from 1993 to 2019, according to a comprehensive new analysis that shows the critical role of increased government aid." https://t.co/aaxeVo6AkA

John Cole @Johngcole

One of the more appalling things about modern conservatives is that they want to be able to do awful things AND demand we like them Roberts joins the chorus of Supreme Court whining

washingtonpost.comOpinion | Roberts joins the chorus of Supreme Court whiningConservative justices’ refusal to acknowledge their self-inflected wounds reveal a Supreme Court in collapse.

roon @tszzl

text is the universal interface, always has been, read all about it! the compute fabric of the world is falling under the dominion of text once again new blog post just dropped, guest authored @scale_AI

scale.comText Is the Universal Interface - ScaleRoon guest-authors a post on large language models and the future of computing.

Michael Lane @michaeldlane

“When you add all of those factors together, it has really seized up the pipeline,” said Michael Lane, state policy director with Bay Area think tank @SPUR_Urbanist. “The economics simply don’t work.”

mercurynews.comBay Area apartment construction lags as rest of the country boomsWhile U.S. apartment construction is at a 50-year high, San Francisco is expected to see a 58% drop in the number of apartments completed this year.

Neuroscience News @NeuroscienceNew

Children Don’t Believe Everything They Are Told As children age, they become more skeptical of what adults tell them. Older children, therefore, are more likely to effectively test surprising claims made by adults. #neuroscience #science

neurosciencenews.comChildren Don’t Believe Everything They Are Told - Neuroscience NewsAs children age, they become more skeptical of what adults tell them. Older children, therefore, are more likely to effectively test surprising claims made by adults.

Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦 @Noahpinion

Radical Online Ideology M&A activity is heating up as the overall market contracts, as I predicted.

Forced Birth Punks Fuck Off 🇺🇦 @spooknine

MAGA Communism coming soon to a theater near you https://t.co/6eqOww1WOL

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

DCPS has already rightly adopted a phonics-first curriculum and now they’re pushing that to a new level by getting phonics-aligned books into classrooms. washingtonpost.com/education/2022…

Scott Lincicome @scottlincicome

"The punitive rates will add costs for home buyers. Tens of thousands of US direct and indirect jobs—from importers and fabricators to distributors and installers—rely on competitively priced quartz slabs.... This is case study in how businesses use trade law to undermine rivals"

MaryAnastasiaO'Grady @MaryAnastasiaOG

Raising U.S. home prices, disrupting supply chains and killing off manufacturing jobs are not among President Biden’s stated economic goals. But you wouldn’t know it from the Commerce Department’s latest trade “remedy.” https://t.co/a5veYSeX2W via @WSJ

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

Was made not a great idea for Biden's appointees to set this in motion...

Oriana Pawlyk @Oriana0214

“Almost 40% of long-distance freight ton-miles move on rail, more than any other mode of transportation. 🚛 can’t possibly absorb all of that. Work stoppage would make our last supply 🔗 worries look like kid stuff. It could cause shortages/raise prices.” https://t.co/IdulJsFtsG