Favorite Rejects 2022-09-20
White House confirmed in a press call that they're specifically including 'foods made with cultured animal cells' in their biomanufacturing initiative.
Cultivated meat FTW! 🍔
whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/…
Just reflecting on the fact that today alone there was an @AEI event on the need to build more housing and a @jacobin essay on the need to build more housing. Just an incredible degree of consensus around this issue that has coalesced over a relatively short period.
do you know how pathetic you have to be make California look better than you on HOUSING
Dana Rubinstein @danarubinstein
Vladimir Putin must return the Black Sea peninsula, including Crimea, to its “rightful owners,” Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said.
His remarks come after the leaders of India and China also dealt Putin a rhetorical blow in recent days.
Oh God this is insane—the 1950s Russian IFF system in use over Ukraine only has 12 possible response codes and they're hardwired, so new daily codes can be rapidly cloned by Ukr air force?!?
Design: mil-airfields.de/equipment/sovi…
Leading to:
I wrote a book!
Land Is A Big Deal: Why rent is too high, wages too low, and what we can do about it.
Forward by @slatestarcodex and @Noahpinion
Coming out October 15, 2022, available for pre-order right now:
landisabigdeal.com
There's never been a database of who owns every property in the Bay Area, making it difficult to understand the powerful forces shaping the housing market.
So we built one.
Just enter an address.
Amazing work by @emma_stiefel @susieneilson & many others
In (I think) an NYT interview, Ted Chiang talked about how fantasy/magic is fundamentally about being special, while sci-fi is more egalitarian (everyone can access the tech, in theory). It completely changed the way I think about fantasy.
Joyce Carol Oates @JoyceCarolOates
TikTok is growing as a source of news in the US. The share of adult TikTok users who say they regularly get news there has risen from 22% in 2020 to 33% in 2022, even as news use is declining or flat for most other platforms. New data from @pewjournalism: pewresearch.org/journalism/fac…
Be skeptical of any research that shows the health risks / benefits of a behavior that can also be correlated to wealth.
Is quinoa good for you? Or do rich people get better healthcare?
Soft on crime Trump judges https://t.co/XOMt9DiaIN
Mark Joseph Stern @mjs_DC
It's probably not an accident that the only US city where it's legal to build an SRO by-right is also the only one on track to end homelessness. (Also the only one without zoning. Many strange coincidences!)
Going to start going to SF tech-house parties again so I can pour drinks on every ketamine-addled 30-year-old AI engineer who thinks talking about "robots taking jobs" is a way to simultaneously virtue-signal their social awareness and brag about the importance of their field
I recently attempted to install a smart controller for my garage door, which is a mega-project relative to my competencies and exactly as @BentFlyvbjerg would predict I am already badly behind schedule and over budget.
Sandy Johnston 🚰 @sandypsj
