Favorite Rejects 2022-12-18

Ethan Mollick @emollick

Tom Lehrer has put all his songs online (including lyrics & sheet music), and given away all rights to them. The site will only be up for a limited time. This is a very niche tweet that will make a small segment of people very happy. tomlehrersongs.com

Jake Anbinder @JakeAnbinder

Found this great interview with Alvin Duskin, who led the anti-highrise campaigns in the '70s in SF (and died last year), and was shocked by the amount of contrition he expresses about it—and not only that, but also about his anti-nuclear activism later!

archive.orgEcology Emerges: Alvin Duskin : Shaping San Francisco : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet ArchiveAn interview under the Ecology Emerges project of oral histories on the arc of environmentalism, ecology, environmental and social justice, running from the...

Science Is Strategic @scienceisstrat1

The economic costs of climate disasters in 2022: - Hurricane Ian caused $100bn in damage across Florida & South Carolina - Pakistan floods caused $40bn in damages - Summer heatwaves caused more than $10bn in losses in Europe @dwallacewells @Noahpinion

reuters.comRising cost of climate change will challenge countries and companies in 2023In a year marked by yet more climate-linked floods, hurricanes and droughts, governments and companies were forced to look more closely at the financial risks and their exposure to liability.

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

All around the country you see evidence of less pollution in our water supplies and new projects are under way to drive further improvements. slowboring.com/p/the-good-new…

Bloomberg Opinion @opinion

America's politicians have spoken, says @mattyglesias: They want more nuclear power plants. Unfortunately, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission isn't listening

trib.alBloomberg - Are you a robot?

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

Tweets are public! https://t.co/fJyhanNEV2

Tom Fitton @TomFitton

The FBI is reading your tweets.

Alec Stapp @AlecStapp

It is kind of insane that we have more consulates in Spain (population 47 million) than we do in India (population 1.4 billion)

Scott Weinberg @scottEmovienerd

the frog asked the scorpion.

jack @jack

@TwitterSupport Why?

Bye bye Elon @binarybits

Really makes you think.

Elon Musk @elonmusk

The acid test for any two competing socioeconomic systems is which side needs to build a wall to keep people from escaping? That’s the bad one!

Armand Domalewski @ArmandDoma

jobs are not a zero sum pie that gets devoured by each additional job taker—immigrants work, consume, and innovate. Basically every study on this question—every study—shows that immigrants grow the economy and make natives richer, not poorer. https://t.co/B5bxquaN76

ib @lndian_Bronson

The US does not need seven hundred and fifty THOUSAND Indians flooding into its job and housing market. America has its own comp sci, physics, and math graduates. It has its own underemployed smart people who can change careers. https://t.co/qtW2o6u2X1