Favorite Rejects 2022-11-11

Kelsey D. Atherton @AthertonKD

This is just to tweet I have ruined the site where you spent your days And which you were planning to use forever Forgive me I was So rich and so stupid

kluge @BarneyFlames

The kid who got plastic straws banned everywhere is now a hedge fund quant lol

Andrew Prokop @awprokop

Dafuq? nytimes.com/2022/11/11/tec…

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

Selling shovels in a gold rush is good business and that’s true even if the miners have actually just found a bunch of fool’s gold. The problem is that when your clients are suckers it’s tempting to make even more money by selling fake shovels…

Molly Wood @mollywood

Side note but addressing a thing that's bugged me for a long time. This is who ACTUALLY puts the rockets into space.

Becky Peterson @beckpeterson

Scoop: There's a reorg at Starbase and SpaceX’s Gwynne Shotwell is taking over https://t.co/OAofrl10tC

John Scalzi @scalzi

Musk tweeting happily about how Twitter engagement is up giving off the same vibe as an arsonist pleased his efforts have drawn spectators to watch a building burn

Daniel M. Lavery @daniel_m_lavery

-foreward written by fictional character author pretends is real -fictional Oxbridge college -deckle-edged paper -more than one moon on cover Other Signs, Besides Having A Map In The Front, That The Fantasy Novel You've Just Picked Up Will Be Good

thechatner.comOther Signs, Besides Having A Map In The Front, That The Fantasy Novel You’ve Just Picked Up Will Be GoodA diagram of a family tree (real or fictional equally good) Description of an invented game with concealed rules Fictional epigraphs (regular epigraphs fine, but epigraphs from equally-fictional characters the author also invented but is pretending are as real as Churchill or Dante is much better)

Velina Tchakarova @vtchakarova

“India is often in the middle of geopolitical jostling between the US, China and Russia. But as the Biden administration promotes what it calls “friend-shoring,” it is making clear that it wants India to be in America’s orbit of economic allies.” #trends

nytimes.comU.S. Seeks Closer Ties With India as Tension With China and Russia BuildsTreasury Secretary Yellen wants India to be part of the Biden administration’s “friend-shoring” agenda, but trade tensions linger.

FSI Stanford @FSIStanford

"The United States is not just another country; it's an important linchpin in building a broader, stable global order. And if we don’t live up to those responsibilities, then the world is not going to be better." — @FukuyamaFrancis in @BulletinAtomic ow.ly/Yxqe50LAlJz

maia @maiamindel

New Substack post: why I think Why Nations Fail is bad someunpleasant.substack.com/p/why-why-nati… I promise, I deliver

someunpleasant.substack.comWhy “Why Nations Fail” FailsOr how I learned to stop worrying and hate Acemoglu

Tiffany @tiffmgraves

I have never laughed so hard. This place is sheer comedy at this point. https://t.co/PFBjSIq58I

Daniel P. Aldrich urbanists.social/web/@dpaldrich @DanielPAldrich

https://t.co/3xCYWrovAx

Andrew Prokop @awprokop

It was never confirmed, and maybe it doesn't matter anymore in the present GOP, but, let's just say it wasn't because McCarthy made a gaffe about the Benghazi investigation on Fox News. This is what @mattyglesias wrote at the time: vox.com/2015/10/9/9488…

Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦 @Noahpinion

Chinese exports to Russia of manufactured goods with potential military applications crashed after the sanctions were imposed, but have soared in recent months. China is keeping Russia's military machine somewhat afloat.

Joey Politano 🏳️‍🌈 @JosephPolitano

(for people who don't get the steppe-nomad risk joke)