Favorite Rejects 2022-11-23
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none of these reactionaries understand that the last time they made liberal democracy upset, effete Berkeley liberals (followed by communists) invented a way to drop the sun on an entire city
BillMaster2 @Bill_Master2
The Verge: "“It may seem as though Twitter is US-centric but if anything it’s Japan-centric,” he said. “There are roughly the same number of daily active users in Japan as there are in the US, despite the fact that Japan has one third of the population of the US.”"
NHKニュース @nhk_news
Riots have reportedly broken out at the Foxconn IPhone Factory in the Chinese City of Zhengzhou, the recent Civil Unrest is due to COVID Lockdowns where over 100k Workers have been locked in their “Factory Dorms” for weeks with a majority not being paid during the Lockdown. https://t.co/qL15ZYZ6zx
Land value tax would solve this
Jim Russell @ProducerCities
Per capita CO₂ emissions over the last two decades.
There are now several European countries – including Spain, France, and the UK – that have lower emissions than China.
These are adjusted for trade, as the subtitle says.
Good thread here.
Let me say more broadly it’s weird that the discourse has collapsed “thinks climate change is very unlikely to cause literal human extinction” and “thinks climate change is no big deal” — there is a broad middle ground here!
Matt Burgess @matthewgburgess
The boring non-politics thing about Twitter is that unlike Facebook/Instagram/podcasts they never built a strong direct response ad business.
When you’re relying on brand advertising direct adjacency to “ironic” frog nazis isn’t great.
If elevators didn’t exist, there would be tremendous amounts of hype about the possibility of emerging elevator technology to transcend land scarcity and solve housing affordability problems.
This is really neat. USPTO is launching a new experimentation center!
Heidi L. Williams @heidilwilliams_
