Favorite Rejects 2022-11-02

Linus @thesephist

Made a little CLI that just pipes my programming questions to GPT-3, so I now can ask it stuff when I'm in the command line! LLMs are better than Stack Overflow now — I just ask it, and it gives me a comprehensive answer in one shot, right there in my terminal, in a couple secs.

Trung Phan @TrungTPhan

For anyone threatening to leave Twitter, good luck trying to find this fire content on any other platform

Mike Bird @Birdyword

Really becoming very heavily energy abundance-pilled. Large-scale helicopter tourism feels like it'd be a crazy luxury now, let alone in the 1960s. And yet (apparently) tickets for this service were $4.50 for adults, less than $40 in today's money.

Zach Klein, Yes on J, No on I @zachklein

TIL that SFO once had a popular helicopter service with destinations to Fisherman’s Wharf, Ferry Building, Oakland, Emeryville and Marin. At its peak it annually carried 320,000 passengers on more than 100 flights a day. https://t.co/KAToY6AQv9

Brynn Tannehill @BrynnTannehill

The credible, close-call attempt to kill or maim Speaker Nancy Pelosi for a second time, and the GOP response, signals how close the US is to the end of the road as a Democracy. It also tells us about what comes after the fall. 1/n

Mike Masnick @mmasnick

Hey folks, so there's been a lot of discussion about Elon is speed running the content moderation learning curve. I thought it might help if I gave him a cheat sheet for doing it:

techdirt.comHey Elon: Let Me Help You Speed Run The Content Moderation Learning CurveIt’s kind of a rite of passage for any new social media network. They show up, insist that they’re the “platform for free speech” without quite understanding what that actua…

Mike Masnick @mmasnick

@theintercept I went through every single claim in the document, and every underlying document. And NOT A SINGLE CLAIM about coercion and content suppression holds. NOT ONE.

techdirt.comBullshit Reporting: The Intercept’s Story About Government Policing Disinfo Is Absolute GarbageDo not believe everything you read. Even if it comes from more “respectable” publications. The Intercept had a big story this week that is making the rounds, suggesting that “leak…

Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦 @Noahpinion

Every leftist argument about the Ukraine War is just literally this meme.

Mike Wawszczak @mikedotwaves

we should expand enrollment at elite colleges for the same reason we should build more housing there’s just more of us now. society needs to scale https://t.co/h0D4iD0UUZ

Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦 @Noahpinion

Class-based affirmative action will strike Americans as more fair than race-based policies. But the real task should be to expand enrollment at elite colleges, so that admissions aren't such a vicious zero-sum game. https://t.co/UvXbcE6knt

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

The fact that Donald Trump displayed some tactical flexibility about his ideological commitments in crunch time mattered a lot. The crew of maniacs he’s assembled tend to lack this quality.

Igor Bobic @igorbobic

Bolduc says he wouldn't have voted for COVID relief bills, including ones passed under Donald Trump. "I wouldn't have voted for them, they were unnecessary"