Favorite Rejects 2022-11-12

Jeff Richards @jrichlive

We have to re-learn this every 10 years or so Jeff Bezos once asked legendary investor Warren Buffett, “You’re the second richest guy in the world. Your investment thesis is so simple. Why doesn’t everyone just copy you?” Buffett replied, “Because nobody wants to get rich slow.”

Michael McFaul @McFaul

Italian government is not as crazy as feared. Peaceful transition in Brazil. No violence or election deniers rallies in US. Putin losing in Ukraine. Xi decisions at 20th Party Congress will weaken China's rise. Iranian protests continue. Fall 2022 has been good for democracy.

libby watson @libbycwatson

this isn’t just one of the best tweets of all time but one of the best jokes on any medium. it’s perfect https://t.co/gVJImUNnBo

Stev D @Stev_D

We're a modest company with modest goals: 1: sell a quality product at a fair price 2: drain the world's oceans so we can find and kill god

Charlie Stross @cstross

'Tried & Failed': Vladimir Putin Suffers Another Devastating Loss After 'Doomsday' Nuclear-Powered Torpedo Fails To Launch Turns out that "Status-6" was a paper tiger. Oops. (Probably an attempt to look tough without actually nuking Ukraine that failed.)

msn.com‘Tried & Failed’: Vladimir Putin Suffers Another Devastating Loss After ‘Doomsday’ Nuclear-Powered Torpedo Fails To Launch‘Tried & Failed’: Vladimir Putin Suffers Another Devastating Loss After ‘Doomsday’ Nuclear-Powered Torpedo Fails To Launch

Michael Bishop 🇨🇦🇺🇸 @thatMikeBishop

Many people don’t know building housing lowers prices and rents. No wonder they aren’t #YIMBY yet! @ATabarrok blogs the excellent research into peoples beliefs about housing prices by @CSElmendorf @stan_okl @ClaytonNall

marginalrevolution.comThe Folk Economics of Housing is Folked Up - Marginal REVOLUTIONWhen confronted with a puzzle, economists instintively look for an explanation based on the incentives of rational people acting within institutional constraints. The economic approach is humble–rather than assuming that something is wrong with other people, the economists begins to unravel a puzzle…

Read Jackson Rising by @CooperationJXN @JoshuaPHilll

Twitter: $44 billion Musk trying to correct Bernie about insulin prices just to be called a liar by his own website: priceless

William Pietri @williampietri

I want to dig in for a bit on this set of Slack replies from a Twitter manager talking about undoing some of the layoffs.

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

I would not confuse people finding his flailing funny with an actual desire to see the site go under — it’s objectively a very funny situation.

Sam Altman @sama

the people rooting the hardest for elon to fail are also the most dependent on twitter. what's step two in their plan?

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

The facts known about FTX have been getting worse and worse every 6 hours for days so I’m not going to say anything more until we fully know how bad it gets. I shouldn’t have commented earlier this weekend, like trying to catch a falling knife.

Matt Levine @matt_levine

everybody's going to have their own favorite paragraph in this jaw-dropping FT story about FTX's balance sheet but here's mine https://t.co/29DDIpcewI https://t.co/r71UTIeIv9

roon (impersonator) @tszzl

it’s funny how detached people are from tech salaries. i wouldn’t be surprised if mr senior director is making $3-4m

William Pietri @williampietri

Who's this guy? A Senior Director of Engineering at Twitter. I'd guess he's clearing $350k or more for this. https://t.co/2RYVILaUVV

Rachel Barkow @RachelBarkow

No one will believe this guy (or anyone else for that matter) wanted to have a beer with Ted Cruz

Dallas Texas TV @DallasTexasTV

The man who threw a White Claw at Ted Cruz wanted him to catch it and chug it according to his lawyer https://t.co/yT8Wlmosif

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

The Supreme Court is closer to House GOP than Senate GOP in terms of temperament and political judgment. https://t.co/tlCVpV41x1

Kaivan Shroff @KaivanShroff

WATCH: Amy Coney Barrett cracking jokes about pro-choice protestors at a private Federalist Society event, meanwhile she plays victim in the press when Americans exercise this fundamental right. https://t.co/Wp7QeLcENV

Blake Allen @Blake_Allen13

Taiwanese volunteers fighting for Ukraine’s independence and saying they’re fighting to try and help prevent China from invading their country https://t.co/oyTjfkRjlv

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