Favorite Rejects 2022-12-03

Jason Hornyak @colfaxmachine

15 years ago, 5 friends and I drunkenly painted a crosswalk on a dangerous street in our College Town. Shockingly, people actually used it and the city installed a legitimate crosswalk there soon after. Now it's in a national publication bloomberg.com/news/articles/… via @CityLab

bloomberg.comThe Case for Guerrilla CrosswalksActivists are painting unsanctioned DIY crosswalks at intersections in cities like Seattle and LA. Transportation officials should understand why.

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

Okay, it actually is really good.

boxd.itA ★★★★★ review of Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975)Is this actually the greatest film ever made? I don’t know and I don’t know how meaningful the question is. I’m glad Sight & Sound put it at number one because that got me to watch it and I’m glad I saw it and I hope this works and gets more people to sign up for a Criterion Channel 14 day free tria…

meme bastard 🍕 @mask_bastard

howling laughing at this one

Alex Stamos @alexstamos

Let's steelman @elonmusk's concern about political influence on the content decisions of major platforms. and come up with practical steps Musk could take to set a new standard: 1) Commit to releasing all communications by global political actors related to content moderation.

Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec

1. Some thoughts on the Twitter thread put out by @elonmusk and @mtaibbi. My purpose here isn't to promote or rebut, but evaluate and consider. I will try my best to be fair-minded.

Andrew Prokop @awprokop

It's hard to come up with a generalized rule banning stories based on illegal material, but banning leaked sexual material of celebrities/notable figures is something social media companies have lots of experience with, they're on firm ground there

Andrew Prokop @awprokop

But it’s very hard to come up with a generally applicable rule that no media stories based on hacked or stolen material is permitted. A fair amount of journalism is based on material that is or at least might be stolen

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Waiting for George Bush to tweet "Kanye West doesn't care about black people"

Tyler Rogoway @Aviation_Intel

This Is The B-21 Raider Stealth Bomber

thedrive.comThis Is The B-21 Raider Stealth Bomber (Updated)The B-21 isn’t just America’s next stealth bomber, it’s the most advanced aircraft ever built and we’re finally allowed to see it.

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

Obviously there’s an element of gotcha to this but it’s honestly a really big deal that the owner of an important communications platform also runs a car manufacturing company that depends on the goodwill of the PRC leadership. https://t.co/9jYEdhSOib

Tommy Vietor @TVietor08

I asked Elon if his commitment to free speech, which he says is crucial to the future of humanity, extends to Chinese & Iranian protestors (earlier he ducked a question about Twitter supporting them). Elon scolded me & the right-wing hosts jumped in & kicked me out. Free speech!

Andrew Prokop @awprokop

One reason media was cautious about the Hunter docs is: they were being given to conservative journos predisposed to find what Trump’s team wanted rather than people who might take a more skeptical eye. In unrelated news, Musk is giving Twitter docs to Taibbi and Bari Weiss…

Andrew Prokop @awprokop

Of course if a more skeptical journalist was given the docs they probably would not have ominously tweeted this out without checking and finding out these “handled” tweets were sexual material about Hunter Biden

Matt Taibbi @mtaibbi

8. By 2020, requests from connected actors to delete tweets were routine. One executive would write to another: “More to review from the Biden team.” The reply would come back: “Handled.” https://t.co/mnv0YZI4af

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

If Elon Musk wants to give me exclusive access to internal twitter documents, I’d be happy to do some PR for the world’s richest man — and if he really has the goods on the libs, probably a little more credible coming from me than Taibbi.