Favorite Rejects 2022-10-25

𝐏𝕒𝕦𝕝 𝕊𝕒𝕪𝕤 🎙 @BestPaulSays

Ten days trapped with a corpse: The strange death of a notorious Hollywood star sfgate.com/sf-culture/art… via @SFGate

sfgate.comTen days trapped with a corpse: The strange death of a Hollywood star“You’re supposed to speak well of the dead, but he put me in a compromising...

mcmillen @mcmillen

"all the big tech companies are overstaffed" and yet, of the half-dozen individual teams i worked on in 9 years at google, all of them were understaffed

Conor Sen @conorsen

There's a tension between "It costs $300k in total comp for a decent engineer, that's just the way it is" and "Everybody knows all the big tech companies are massively overstaffed" and I don't know how that shakes out over the next couple years.

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

A funny (but hopeful!) tidbit in @mchalfant16’s piece on House Republicans’ plan for a China Select Committee is this bit where they’re slotting Hunter Biden stuff into a different committee to segregate the bad faith bs from the China committee’s work. semafor.com/article/10/24/…

anjali @anjapatel

just explained to my partner that pumpkin spice is not pumpkin flavor but the spice mix that goes into pumpkin pie; an autumnal mélange; white people masala

(((The Daily Shot))) @SoberLook

China's developers’ offshore debt prices keep sinking as these firms show little willingness to pay their foreign creditors.

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

(a) A diplomatic settlement would be welcome and US & European officials need to be ready to seize opportunities that may arise (b) The proximate issue is that Russia is not expressing any interest in this so for no we have to work toward more Ukraine battlefield progress

max seddon @maxseddon

Kadyrov says Russia’s attacks on Ukraine don’t go far enough and proposes “wiping Ukrainian cities from the face of the earth” https://t.co/Vs97K7opDv

Scott McNulty @blankbaby

Stage Manager makes my iPad feel like a whole new device! One that I have no idea how to use and is super confusing.

Darrell Owens @IDoTheThinking

The Cali legislature should just legislate the mass annexation of Bay Area and LA-area cities into one or several large cities. Each with a massive city council representing a couple 10,000 residents. City and County jurisdictions are left over politics from the early 1900s.

Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff

Good explainer on the extremely fragmented, messy nature of LA governance. ("Byzantine" doesn't quite seem appropriate, because at least in Byzantium there was clearly one person in charge.) https://t.co/fhwK0jyizN

Darrell Owens @IDoTheThinking

- Emeryville & Berkeley exist, rather than being a part of Oakland, because of prohibition era liquor laws. - Piedmont exists because of anti-sewage taxes - Albany exists because Berkeley dumped trash there - Richmond is in Contra Costa because of 1800s port access It's dumb.

🎃 Ivan the K™🎃 @IvanTheK

FOMC Meeting POWELL: Everyone, I have a letter from the Chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, who's not pleased with our interest rate trajectory. I think we need to pivot immediately. [silence] POWELL: Bwahaha. I'm just kidding.

Nick Timiraos @NickTimiraos

Senate Banking Committee Chairman Sherrod Brown (D., Ohio) asks Jay Powell to slow down interest rate rises in a letter one week before the FOMC meeting (and two weeks before congressional elections) https://t.co/uSOZBnqv31 https://t.co/jcmJI9L8qD

Alexis C. Madrigal @alexismadrigal

Man, getting an alert on your phone right ~before~ an earthquake is one of the most futuristic experiences I’ve ever had. So wild that it actually works.

Timothy McSweeney @mcsweeneys

@OrganizerMemes

mcsweeneys.netIf I Emailed My Parents Like Democrats Email MeSUBJECT: I’m DESPERATE, Mom Mom, did you see this?!? FIRST: I got a $300 traffic ticket because I forgot about alternate side parking. THEN: I saw ...

Aaron 🥑🚈🚰🏀 @aceckhouse

Josh @JalbyMD

An application for a 16 story builders remedy project has been filed in Beverly Hills. Beverly Hills will not be in compliance for at least 8 more months so I expect a lot more to happen there.