Favorite Rejects 2022-10-22

Bloomberg Economics @economics

Ukrainian refugees are returning home in the millions, even as the war rages on

trib.alBloomberg - Are you a robot?

Timothy B. Lee @binarybits

I love this @jonst0kes post on machine learning and creativity. It’s not obvious that there’s a fundamental difference between what a machine learning model does when it imagines a scene and a human artist does so.

jonstokes.comCreative AI Is Here, Whether You Believe In It Or NotAI content generation is rapidly passing from the novelty phase to the utility phase

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

Important life lesson — a successful career as a member of an authoritarian regime is no guarantee that you won't end up getting purged. Try liberalism!

Danson Cheong @dansoncj

Early drama: Hu Jintao seen being led out soon after reporters are led into the main hall https://t.co/pRffGZF60I

Adam Kovacevich @adamkovac

Arsonists Sue Smoke Detector Company

axios.comScoop: RNC sues Google claiming spam filter blocks email“The timing of Google’s most egregious filtering is particularly damning.”

Lenny Rachitsky @lennysan

One month payback on out-of-home ads 🏆

natasha @nmasc_

Brex founder and co-CEO Henrique Dubugras finally shares the billboard budget In the early days, the company spent 300K for most of the billboards in SF for 3 months. @hdubugras says that Brex made more revenue than that cost in the first month of billboards. https://t.co/iox3FkzdE1

M.G. Siegler @mgsiegler

“Only with distance from the minute-to-minute anxieties of caring for a small child does its sweeping beauty come into full view.” theatlantic.com/family/archive…

Laura Foote 🌇 @NeverSassyLaura

A fabulous discussion about malls, the suburbs, and 80's & 90's teen culture that will have every YIMBY feeling both hopeful and anxious about whether America can change how we live, work, shop and hang out.

Alexandra Lange @LangeAlexandra

By the end of this Slate Money recording even the skeptic had coughed up his favorite mall (in other words, we had a good time) https://t.co/Z7VSCMB5n7

Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦 @Noahpinion

Actually it seems like a smart move to get the CCP to be dependent on food from U.S. farmland that they "own". In a war situation we can easily just nationalize the farmland.

Lauren Boebert @laurenboebert

What has the Democrat Party done to combat the CCP buying up strategic farmland all across our country? If you answered NOTHING, then you’d be right.