Favorite Rejects 2022-11-08

Scott Hechinger @ScottHech

This should be a national scandal: When Chesa Boudin took office, San Francisco police stopped working. Told people asking for help they were “powerless” bc of him. Then when they succeeded in ousting him: They went back to work. Nearly $1billion for this:

sfchronicle.comAre S.F. police behaving differently under Brooke Jenkins than under Chesa Boudin? Study finds immediate shiftSan Francisco police officers stepped up street enforcement in significant ways after...

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

Did not reach the heights of the 110th Congress but given the slender majorities involved the 117th were real ones.

Lakshya Jain @lxeagle17

Whatever happens tonight, looking at the legislative progress made towards goals like clean energy, affordable healthcare, and better infrastructure under Joe Biden and the Dem trifecta makes me remember that I'm so proud to be a Democrat and that this trifecta was really good. https://t.co/WQ6jalFnW7

Zoid Kirsch @ZoidCTF

When you see Samus’s visor affected by electrical “noise” in game, you’re actually seeing the bits and bytes of the Metroid Prime software code itself being rendered on the screen. Turns out machine code is sufficiently random to work great as a static noise texture!

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

Love to see a dril take out in the wild

Matt Navarra @MattNavarra

Researchers Claims TikTok's Suppressing Get Out The Vote Effort

gizmodo.comResearchers Claim TikTok’s Suppressing Get Out The Vote EffortsIn the study, TikToks where users spoke in political terms performed three time worse than nearly identical videos where the same terms weren’t used.

The San Francisco Standard @sfstandard

A "news" website gave SF Supervisor @DeanPreston glowing coverage before & after his re-election in 2020. It turns out his political party—the Democratic Socialists for America—secretly ran the site. And it appears some of the writers aren't real people.

sfstandard.comSupervisor Dean Preston Stars on Shadowy ‘News’ Website Created by His Political GroupSF’s democratic socialist supervisor received glowing coverage from a website quietly backed by the DSA. It appears to feature fake writers.

Mountain View YIMBY 🥑 @MVyimby

The planet is getting baked by GHGs, & our restrictive zoning forces MV workers into long, polluting commutes. It's so bad that 1 in 4 workers drive 25+ miles to work in MV. See below for where they're driving from ⤵️ Let's build more housing locally so we can cut down commutes

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

Trump and I agree about this open.substack.com/chat/posts/7ea…