Favorite Rejects 2022-11-16

Ben @cinemashoebox

american judicial overreach has gotten even worse

Chris Green @ChrisGreenNews

Breaking: Supreme Court to announce ruling on Scottish independence vote next week Weds 23rd Nov, 9.45am

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

I liked @lionel_trolling's piece on Magness and Marx, but I think you can summarize the whole thing in brief meme form. johnganz.substack.com/p/an-attempt-a…

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

I think what's happening is that the Farm Bureau data @crampell was citing is the non-Thanksgiving price of turkey, which as USDA poultry economist David Harvey told me a decade ago is always higher than the Thanksgiving price. slate.com/business/2012/…

Tetrahedron @greenTetra_

[seinfeld A and B plots colliding]

Taras Grescoe 🚇 @straphanger@urbanists.social @grescoe

How one school made a street safer for kids. Not a full on "School Street," where all cars are banned, but a big improvement for health and safety of children. Before/After.

Anton Jäger @AntonJaegermm

I'm sorry but it has to be Graeber's Debt

stuart @punished_stu

name a book you read that felt like it changed your view of the world at the time and then later you realised was absolute garbage

David Kay @_David_Kay

MAJOR NEWS! Super excited to share that @upsidefoods is the first cultivated meat company in the world to receive a 'No Questions" letter from FDA. This means FDA has accepted our conclusion that UPSIDE's cultivated chicken is safe to eat. Truly HISTORIC!

wired.co.ukA Lab-Grown Meat Startup Gets the FDA’s Stamp of ApprovalThe US regulatory body has signed off on Upside Foods’ cultivated meat—but the company is still figuring out how to make enough of it to sell.

Darrell Owens @IDoTheThinking

Living in a dense area and then going to one that's not always trips me up because my sense of map scales are magnified. In suburban areas I feel like I'm looking at a 20 min walk with the denser scale but then you do the travel time and it's actually an 1 hour and 30 minutes.

Michael 🥥 @MichaelSFBA

always insane to me how small nyc is. midtown to lga is the same crow-flies distance as embarcadero to *stow lake*

Matt Levine @matt_levine

This is a wake up call. The adults need to run this newsletter. We need innovators, but also adults.

bloomberg.comBloomberg - Are you a robot?

Bill Bishop @niubi

“According to a U.S. official, there are now less than 300 American students in the entire country, down from over 11,000 students at the peak in 2018.” https://t.co/YS1PupFwDB

Aaron Mc Nicholas @aaronMCN

“As in Washington, I encountered a high degree of fatalism in Beijing about the trajectory of ties. The result was intensified planning for worst-case scenarios, which generates a vicious cycle of action and countermoves by both sides…” https://t.co/exiloi6PBQ

Alan Cole @AlanMCole

@JHWeissmann Look, I am one of those right-neoliberals everyone thinks is a jerk because he hates NEPA and the FDA and such. And even *I* support regulation like "if you say you're holding my deposits, you can't secretly loan them to a fund run by your eccentric ex-girlfriend."

Paul E Williams @PEWilliams_

Climate change is when poor people in poor countries have kids.

Josh Barro @jbarro

Oh man, that's rough that your journalist friend published the things that you told her. I hope your friend the FBI agent and your friend the SEC investigator show more discretion and tact!

SBF @SBF_FTX

25) Last night I talked to a friend of mine. They published my messages. Those were not intended to be public, but I guess they are now. https://t.co/yH9aKmESY8

Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦 @Noahpinion

Small modular reactors are the great hope for fission power to make a comeback. And it's not looking great. I like nuclear but I'm very bearish on the cost.

(((Alex Gilbert))) @gilbeaq

New cost estimates for NuScale's FOAK in Utah/Idaho put it at $100/MWh. Not a great outlook for the project https://t.co/mWfPPRRP38