Favorite Rejects 2022-12-06

Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦 @Noahpinion

This is the dumbest shit I have ever heard of or seen

semafor.comIndonesia bans sex outside of marriage | SemaforThe parliament unanimously voted for the controversial revision to the criminal code amid a rise of religious conservatism in the Muslim-majority country.

Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦 @Noahpinion

@octal Samsung just started work on a $17B chip plant in Texas, and is planning a number of others!

sammobile.comSamsung could build 11 chip factories in the US with an investment of $200 billionSamsung recently started working on its $17 billion semiconductor chip plant in Texas. However, the company’s investment plans don’t end ...

Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦 @Noahpinion

@octal Hyundai is now building EV factories in the U.S.!

electrive.comHyundai launches construction of EV factory in the USA - electrive.comHyundai Motor Group has started construction of its new electric car plant in the US state of Georgia. The Bryan County plant is scheduled to begin production in the first half of 2025 with an annual capacity of 300,000 Hyundai, Kia and Genesis electric cars and batteries. Hyundai announced the p

Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦 @Noahpinion

Delete social media, throw your smartphone in the ocean

Rutger Bregman @rcbregman

Chat GPT3 seems like the opposite of blockchain. With the latter you can mull endlessly over a serious use case, but with GPT3 there are so many applications that it's hard to know where to start. Well, first to go I guess: school / undergrad essays

theatlantic.comThe College Essay Is DeadNobody is prepared for how AI will transform academia.

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

People say a lot of crazy shit on here but genuinely the dumbest criticism of a politician I’ve ever heard was the Republicans complaining that gas prices were falling because Biden did SPR releases — just accusing the guy of making smart decisions that improve people’s lives.

Donald Shoup @DonaldShoup

The multilane arterials known as “stroads” remain dangerous fixtures of US cities. In an excerpt from his book "Walkable City," planner Jeff Speck outlines how to tame them bloomberg.com/news/features/… via @CityLab

bloomberg.comBloomberg - Are you a robot?

Timothy B. Lee @binarybits

It’s incredible how much mileage you can get out of innuendo on right wing Twitter. I read this thread several times and it doesn’t seem to come close to allege any inappropriate behavior by anyone. But hundreds of quote tweeters are treating it as a major revelation.

Matt Taibbi @mtaibbi

THREAD: Twitter Files Supplemental

Science Is Strategic @scienceisstrat1

Good news alert 👇 Solar PV’s installed power capacity is poised to surpass natural gas by 2026 and coal by 2027, becoming the largest in the world, reports the @IEA (1/2) Cc: @dwallacewells @ramez @JesseJenkins @Noahpinion

Bloomberg Next China @next_china

EXCLUSIVE: China is set to further relax Covid rules, allowing home quarantine as a nationwide policy and scrapping “unnecessary” testing, as soon as today trib.al/3TOp69Q