Favorite Rejects 2022-12-15

April King 🌀 @CubicleApril

If there is consolation for @Twitter being destroyed, it’s that the price of used @Tesla cars has been in absolute free fall over the last 90 days.

Andrew Prokop @awprokop

Has Musk owning Twitter spurred a change of heart among conservatives about repealing Section 230 and letting social media companies be sued for speech on their platforms?

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

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Ben Smith @semaforben

.@bariweiss is also curious about Elon and China https://t.co/yPJuSruv1p https://t.co/cpsznddPS0

Andrew Prokop @awprokop

My attempt at describing the politics of @bariweiss @mtaibbi @elonmusk without using the word "conservative" vox.com/policy-and-pol…

Bye bye Elon @binarybits

I changed my mind. The Times and the Post should just ban their reporters from using Twitter period. The sooner people move to Mastadon the better.

Bye bye Elon @binarybits

Honestly I hope the @nytimes and @washingtonpost ban their reporters from tweeting until their reporters are reinstated. Other media organizations should follow suit. It would not be acceptable to have elon holding the threat of account suspension over reporters’ heads.

Stuart Wellington @flophousecat

Fingers crossed it’s about a muscle-man trying to become the best painter of little Warhammer guys in the whole world https://t.co/su6aNgDbAV

DiscussingFilm @DiscussingFilm

Henry Cavill is officially attached to star in and exec produce a live-action ‘WARHAMMER 40,000’ series. Amazon is in final talks to acquire the series. (Source: https://t.co/RyXBMSQ07S) https://t.co/obllFnn40X

Quantian @quantian1

Was browsing Weibo and lo and behold, China has a bunch of quack doctors promoting HCQ and Ivermectin as "cures" for COVID now too. Truly we are brother nations (full of fucking idiots)

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

I’ll just say I’m glad she’s interested in GiveDirectly and hope she will continue to ponder the cost/benefit of some of this other stuff relative to a cash baseline.

dylan matthews @dylanmatt

MacKenzie Scott's finally revealed her grants to date: https://t.co/cdaDk2huDn Many of them are for various chapters of big national orgs. Here's how it's looks if you add those together https://t.co/lAxgVAy0i8

Luke Bornheimer 👨‍👧 @LukeBornheimer

San Francisco has a rare opportunity to create a new, oceanfront park (Great Highway Park). We need the Board of Supervisors and Mayor to lead on it. Read my piece on this amazing opportunity and talk to your supervisor and mayor about taking action now 🧵sfgate.com/politics-op-ed…

sfgate.comHow SF politicians can create a 17-acre park overnightCommunity organizer Luke Bornheimer on the natural next step for Great Highway Park.

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

Frozen juice concentrate cans as a normal middle-class American experience has been memory-holed.

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

@asymmetricinfo We decanted our OJ because it was made from those cans of frozen concentrate not like you fancy uptown people with your cartons

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

Started / going

Nate Silver @NateSilver538

News organizations like the NYT already had mixed feelings about their reporters using Twitter and if you can now be suspended from Twitter for doing fairly straightforward reporting, you have to wonder if that's the tipping point.

Philip Michaels @PhilipMichaels

Truly, the “I’m gonna build a rescue submarine” of tweets. First rate craftsmanship.

Paul Dokas @pauldokas

Twitter right now