Favorite Rejects 2022-11-24

Elex Michaelson @Elex_Michaelson

.@Schwarzenegger says Thanksgiving has "special meaning" for him. He first arrived in the U.S. a week before Thanksgiving & barely spoke English. A family invited him into their home & he first got to see the generosity of the American people. More: youtube.com/watch?v=9myTaX…

non functional tubule @meatspacemaxima

when the definitive narrative of the 2010s gets told it’s going to blow peoples minds and violate all sorts of narratives (and counterintuitively _not_ be some RW redpill)

non functional tubule @meatspacemaxima

what’s misunderstood is the decade started basically w/o smartphones and ended w/ everyone way too online — at the level where even Putin was downstream of like, gamergate level gripes.

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

Base rates are another statistical concept more people should learn about. https://t.co/zR7PJFcB9L

James Woods @RealJamesWoods

There you have it. https://t.co/fz081Mlpo4

Ethan Mollick @emollick

Something to be thankful for: we are finally winning against mosquitoes, the deadliest scourge in history. They may have killed 52 billion people since modern humans emerged Mosquito nets prevented 500M cases of malaria since 2000 And a new malaria vaccine is over 75% effective

John Gruber @gruber

I love James Cameron’s oeuvre (who doesn’t?) but the commercials for Avatar 2 make it look like an animated film, no?

Jason Snell @jsnell

@gruber It's "live action" the same way Jungle Book and Lion King were, it appears. Photorealistic CGI.

Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦 @Noahpinion

China, I love you, but please think of some insults other than "ghost"

Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦 @Noahpinion

Arab insult: "Why don't you go crawl back inside your mother's vagina, oh sorry it's because it's home to a gang of raccoons" Chinese insult: "...Ghost."