Favorite Rejects 2022-11-15

Ben Sandofsky @sandofsky

12 years ago, Twitter’s office used a Mac Mini to tunnel into the servers. One day, an IT guy found it in the closet. “Anyone know who owns this?” “Unplug it. Someone will show up.” Everyone lost access to servers. Huge crisis. It became known as the “Load Bearing Mac Mini.”

Christopher Robbins @ChristRobbins

The driver was not given a summons for having an illegal plate. When I asked the NYPD about why they did this, they responded with a basic narrative of what happened, only they referred to the driver as the "victim."

hellgatenyc.comNYPD Arrests and Jails Cyclist For Fixing Driver’s Illegally Obscured License Plate - Hell GateMeanwhile, the police let the driver off without a summons.

Matt Duss @mattduss

It’s not an internal affair when you killed an American citizen in occupied Palestinian territory. https://t.co/wmlBz4YjPU

Barak Ravid @BarakRavid

BREAKING: MoD Gantz: “The U.S. justice department decision to investigate the death of Shireen Abu Akleh is a grave mistake. I have made it clear to the U.S. that we won’t cooperate with any external investigation & won’t allow any interference in Israel’s internal affairs”

Taffy Brodesser-Akner @taffyakner

Got to talk to the one and only @sepinwall, who asked the exact right questions with an efficiency that I'm kind of in awe of and definitely don't have myself. As you'll see.

rollingstone.comSex and the Single Jewish Doctor: How ‘Fleishman Is in Trouble’ Turned a Writer’s Life Into Prestige TVWriter-producer Taffy Brodesser-Akner tells all about adapting her novel into a brilliant new FX series and getting Lizzy Caplan to play a “cool” version of her

dylan matthews @dylanmatt

New housing permits fell nearly 80% YOY in St. Paul after they passed a big new rent control bill as they nearly quadrupled in Minneapolis (which passed big supply reforms in 2019 and clearly absorbed some construction displaced from St. Paul). Not nec. causal but … suggestive.

Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner

@basquith827 @UpjohnInstitute @basquith827 brings 🔥 https://t.co/npPGz51PqE

Jessica Valenti @JessicaValenti

Leaked audio of a strategy session between Tennessee lawmakers and Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America reveals the anti-abortion group telling politicians to wait a year or two before going after IVF and contraception

jessica.substack.comAbortion, Every Day (11.15.22)Leaked audio: Anti-abortion group tells TN lawmakers when to go after IVF & contraception

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

Crypto prices falling seems like one of the most benign possible channels of disinflation.

Owen Barcala @obarcala

I think we now have a federal court in DC saying Biden can't continue to use Title 42 to expel migrants, and a federal court in Texas saying Biden can't stop using Title 42 to expel migrants

Camilo Montoya-Galvez @camiloreports

BREAKING — U.S. Judge Emmet Sullivan voids the Title 42 order that has allowed U.S. border officials to quickly expel migrants, finding it "arbitrary and capricious in violation of the Administrative Procedure Act" https://t.co/E9tzNDtZpq

Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦 @Noahpinion

Jack Dorsey has nothing to do now. The SF Police Department is on unofficial strike. Why doesn't Jack become San Francisco Batman and fight the crime the police refuse to fight?

Sarah McLaughlin @sarahemclaugh

Incredible. The Chief Executive of Hong Kong says police are investigating whether rugby organizers in *South Korea* who played a protest song violated the national security law. Remember, the NSL is written to apply globally, not just Hong Kong or China. scmp.com/news/hong-kong…

Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦 @Noahpinion

L(MAO), as they say

foreignpolicy.comMao offered Kissinger 10 million Chinese womenUSAToday’s “OnDeadline” blog finds some choice morsels from newly released transcripts of Henry Kissinger’s 1973 meeting with Mao:You know, China is a very poor country,”…

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

DeSantis is definitely moderate on the issue of "was the 2020 election stolen?" but on boring stuff like Medicare his voting record is to the right of Trump.

Special Puppy 🧦🐵 @SpecialPuppy1

People understate how conservative DeSantis’s voting record was in the house. He would probably be the most ideologically extreme presidential candidate nominated by a major party https://t.co/D6ZLluQICU