Favorite Rejects 2022-12-02

Max Burns @themaxburns

Alex Jones broke character for a minute to tell Kanye West a story about his grandfather, who helped liberate a Nazi death camp at the end of WW2. Jones is, for once, being serious. Kanye responds, "Yeah but Nazis are kind of cool."

Dare Obasanjo 🐀 @Carnage4Life

Still marveling at how the media & Congress treated Zuck and Jack like bank robbers over running social apps while today they treat SBF like a cute kid who got confused by big numbers.

Carly Maris, PhD @vintagehistoria

Some of my friends are discussing why Harrison Ford is still playing Indiana Jones but honestly, having an 80-year-old professor not retire is like the most accurate part of the franchise

Matt Levine @matt_levine

still it does seem most likely that humanity will end due to a combination of (1) rapidly improving AI plus (2) people baiting it to make a good Twitter joke.

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

Garbage placed in bins instead of lying around on the street — only in New York!

nytimes.comThe Rats Are Absolutely Going to Hate the New Sanitation CommissionerJessica Tisch is determined to clean up New York.

The New York Times @nytimes

From @TheAthleticFC: Cho Gue-sung had to turn his phone off because he was getting too many marriage proposals. At the start of the #FIFAWorldCup he had around 20,000 Instagram followers. At the time of writing, he has 1.6 million. nyti.ms/3Vpr8sI

NASA Astrobiology: Exploring Life in the Universe @NASAAstrobio

We’re planning one of our biggest feats ever – bringing Mars samples to Earth – and you can play a part. @NASA is looking for your feedback on Mars Sample Return in a series of in-person meetings. Find details and updated meeting locations here: go.nasa.gov/3gniufj

Raphael van Lierop (He/Him) @RaphLife

All games should have a Main Menu item called "Relearn Controls" and it's just a 2 min tutorial. If you haven't played the game in over 2 months, it also asks you if you want to play the Relearn Controls tutorial before you start. Will try to add this to our next game.

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

There shouldn’t be a presidential primary at all, but if there has to be it should be a national primary on the first Tuesday in January and if it can’t be that then California should go first followed by Texas, Florida, New York, etc to wrap it up as soon as possible.

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

Ideally you should just let me pick the nominee. Failing that select at random seven people who voted D in the midterms and let them talk it out over one weekend and pick someone. The goal should be to minimize the time and money spent on the process by any means necessary.