Favorite Rejects 2022-09-26

Azeen Ghorayshi @azeen

I wrote about transgender adolescents getting top surgery — how frequently it’s really happening, why, and what the risks may be:

nytimes.comMore Trans Teens Are Choosing ‘Top Surgery’Small studies suggest that breast removal surgery improves transgender teenagers’ well-being, but data is sparse. Some state leaders oppose such procedures for minors.

Doug Gordon @BrooklynSpoke

"...the proportion of journeys by car in Paris has dropped about 45 percent since 1990. At the same time, the use of public transit has risen by 30 percent and the share of cyclists has increased tenfold." reasonstobecheerful.world/cars-are-vanis…

Eric Topol @EricTopol

Nanopore-based DNA sequencing is already portable via a smartphone A review of what is next up: proteins, liquid biopsy, single molecule diagnostics, and more nature.com/articles/s4156… @NatureNano

Joey Politano 🏳️‍🌈 @JosephPolitano

When your mortgage financing system sector blows up and leads to a global recession, so you nearly abolish the adjustable rate mortgage just to then lead the largest global hiking cycle in 50 years and screw over every country that kept the adjustable rate mortgage system.

Samuel Tombs @samueltombs

If mortgage rates rise to 6%—as implied by markets’ current expectations for Bank Rate—the average household refinancing a 2yr fixed rate mortgage in the first half of 2023 will see *monthly* repayments jump to £1,490, from £863. Many simply won’t be able to afford this (1/2) https://t.co/hkoZCcSfjJ

Joshua March @joshuamarch

Impossible sales increased 70% year on year. The problem with Beyond being the only big public plant based meat co is that it gets conflated with the whole sector. The reality is that product quality and taste is key.

Bloomberg @business

Fake meat sales are falling with prices and "wokeness" turning off shoppers https://t.co/yv7TIYgyXo

Jonathan Rick ✍️ @jrick

“I simply cannot believe Apple didn’t come up with some kind of new case for the iPhones 14 Pro that allowed you to lay it flat, as the lord intended.”📲 —@mgsiegler 500ish.com/the-apple-sees…

500ish.comThe Apple SeesawWhat is up with the iPhone 14 Pro cases?

Kim-Mai Cutler @kimmaicutler

I has the receipts. Good job, lol. 40% of 0 is 0.

Jane Kim 金貞妍 @JaneKim

San Francisco went from 10% to 15% to 18% and even 33% and 40% affordable + middle income housing in market rate housing projects I’m really proud to have led this for my city. Don’t hate the player. I played the game + we won for San Francisco.

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

One of my monstrous opinions is that people are better off sleeping in small SRO-style dwellings with a door that locks, a roof over their head, and access to a bathroom than sleeping on the street.

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

“Coal Baron Manchin will never agree to climate action no matter what we do” [Manchin agrees to climate action in exchange for a permitting bill with benefits for his state whose emissions implications are small and ambiguous] “Fuck that guy, we don’t owe him anything!”

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

Principled climate champion Mitch McConnell is whipping against the Manchin permitting bill.

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

I’m still maxing out my tax advantaged retirement accounts like a chump who expects AI alignment to be solved.

Robert Wiblin @robertwiblin

An enduring impact is that I no longer make mental or life plans beyond about the next ten years. If something's not worth prioritising over that sort of timescale I largely disregard it. But such things only modestly affect day-to-day activities.

Mike Masnick @mmasnick

Subreddit is stress testing Texas' content moderation law by requiring every comment to include a statement about how Texas governor @GregAbbott_TX "is a little piss baby."

techdirt.comSubreddit Discriminates Against Anyone Who Doesn’t Call Texas Governor Greg Abbott ‘A Little Piss Baby’ To Highlight Absurdity Of Content M…Last year, I tried to create a “test suite” of websites that any new internet regulation ought to be “tested” against. The idea was that regulators were so obsessively focus…

Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦 @Noahpinion

To the ancient Greeks, this would look like Zeus fighting Typhon. Modern humans are what ancient humans imagined gods were.

Is it HIMARS o'clock? @HIMARStime

You could say that. https://t.co/UJUKWhzSCr

Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦 @Noahpinion

EndGameWW3 🇺🇸 @EndGameWW3

Russia Tells U.S. to ‘Cool Down’ Over Putin’s Nuclear Warning https://t.co/7BtKxnX3iL

Zoey @Zoeytrope

Walking around my apartment whispering to myself, "Sunni Microsystems"

Warty @warty_dog

omg guys what's happening https://t.co/p0Wx42xRVe