Favorite Rejects 2022-10-06

Andrew Prokop @awprokop

Walter Lippmann's take on FDR in 1932 got him dunked on by the Twitter of his day (though he insisted it was not as wrong as it seems). Related to recent @slatestarcodex post on predictions that get you dunked on astralcodexten.substack.com/p/from-nostrad…

David Roberts @drvolts

Rapid technology change has made the clean energy transition inevitable and beneficial. rmi.org/insight/the-en…

Henry Foy @HenryJFoy

Extraordinary photo. Impossible to imagine, prior to Putin’s war, that the leaders of Armenia and Azerbaijan would hold four-way peace talks with Macron and Michel The Russian sphere is eroding

Darrell Owens @IDoTheThinking

him: voting doesn't matter man, nothing changes. *literally gets his drug offenses struck from his record and can now vote in 11 more states and get rental housing*

jason wilson @jason_a_w

Sounds promising

arstechnica.comA bold effort to cure HIV—using CrisprKey is whether the gene-editing technology can stop the virus from replicating.

Kian Sharifi @KianSharifi

A girls' school in Iran brought a member of the IRGC-run Basij paramilitary to speak to students. The girls welcomed the speaker by taking off their headscarves & chanting "get lost, Basiji". Teenage girls have been at the forefront of protests for days.

Unworthy Hand @kisstheblade_

Ron DeSantis should, I am not joking, fire his press office for allowing him to step directly into this hilarious Chad vs Virgin meme living tableau.

max seddon @maxseddon

A lot of interesting stuff on the CIA’s miscalculations early in Russia’s invasion. There was also so much that wasn’t widely known even in the Russian system: Russia’s awful intel on Ukraine, the degree of Putin’s isolation and how it radicalized him

theintercept.comThe CIA Thought Putin Would Quickly Conquer Ukraine. Why Did They Get It So Wrong?High-tech surveillance may have blinded the U.S. to how corruption has weakened the Russian military.

Matt Fuller @MEPFuller

Herschel Walker says he has no idea who this woman is who claims she had an abortion at his urging. We can now reveal, with her permission, that the woman is actually the mother of one of his children. She has a lot to say:

thedailybeast.comShe Had an Abortion With Herschel Walker. She Also Had a Child With Him.Herschel Walker has claimed he has no idea who this woman could be. Here’s why that’s surprising.

NBER @nberpubs

Condo development does not encourage high-income households to move to central cities; condos are built in cities where high-income residents, from @leah_boustan, Robert A. Margo, Matthew M. Miller, James M. Reeves, and Justin P. Steil nber.org/papers/w26170

Patrick Collison @patrickc

Human capital post-pandemic, Michigan. detroit.chalkbeat.org/2022/9/1/23333…

The Kyiv Independent @KyivIndependent

⚡️ Reuters: Most Americans think US should keep supporting Ukraine, despite Russia's nuclear threats. A recent poll shows 73% of U.S. citizens agreed for their country to continue to support Ukraine, despite Russia's threats to use nuclear weapons, Reuters reported.

Sarah McLaughlin @sarahemclaugh

In the University of Hong Kong’s now-required national security law education course, one of the examples given to students involves political speech in the UK and students are told that the law applies globally. hongkongfp.com/2022/10/04/hku…

Yair Rosenberg @Yair_Rosenberg

In case you weren't already aware, the United Nations "Human Rights Council" is stacked with authoritarian regimes and exists primarily to protect the very violators it's ostensibly supposed to police. That's how you get disgraces like this.

Josh Rogin @joshrogin

The UN Human Rights Council rejected the motion to debate the Uyghur genocide 17-19. Shame. https://t.co/uptqAvqY7y