Favorite Rejects 2022-12-11

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

My impression from the US context is that in the old debate the right pole was “there should be as much construction as the market provides” and the Old Left pole was “no the market will generate too little construction.” Hence the US interest in Fannie/Freddie subsidy schemes.

sam @sam_d_1995

it’s really something to see all the silliest left-NIMBYs on here go to the mat defending the Berkeley Academic who called apartment buildings “eco-apartheid”

Dan Federman @dfed@sfba.social @TheFederman

Twitter went from banning accounts that incite violence to the CEO inciting violence against former Twitter employees from his account.

Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦 @Noahpinion

Me, 10 years ago: Hahaha Mao was so insane, he made all the professors go work on farms, what a nutcase LOL Me now: 🤔

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

Gotta say when I RTed this “fusion is closer than you think” thread yesterday my timeline wasn’t quite as aggressive as “they’ll be achieving net energy gains literally tomorrow” and yet here we are.

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

The heroes America deserves — even their husbands come off as at least okay!

boxd.itA ★★★★ review of She Said (2022)This is an exemplar of the lost genre of mainstream Hollywood filmmaking — which is to say it’s sentimental, emotionally manipulative, and almost cartoonish in its good vs evil plotting. The only time I believe I’ve ever seen a modern CMS (the NYT’s proprietary Scoop software that I’ve never seen IR…

Ethan Mollick @emollick

We worry about technological plateaus for a decade, and then in the space of a week AI passes both the Turing Test & the Bar Exam and we get a net gain fusion reaction. https://t.co/CgYNJy4cRj

David Sheppard @OilSheppard

FUSION ENERGY BREAKTHROUGH: US scientists have made one of the most significant leaps in decades in the search for the Holy Grail of energy - limitless, carbon free power - by achieving net energy gain in a fusion reaction https://t.co/3uYRD7QL1R Huge scoop by @thomas_m_wilson

Stefan Schubert @StefanFSchubert

The total cost of owning and running an electric vehicle is now the same or lower than the cost of owning and running a petrol or diesel car in nearly every European country