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Favorite Rejects 2022-12-27

David Watson
Dec 28, 2022
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Prison_Health @Prison_Health
This is the first Christmas that Connecticut prisoners will be able to make and receive phone calls for free. The state was the first in the nation to stop charging for prisoner calls. ctpublic.org/news/2022-12-2…
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12:50 PM ∙ Dec 25, 2022
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The War on Cars @TheWarOnCars@mastodon.social @TheWarOnCars
“What’s finally sunk in with many people is that we have parking minimums and yet housing maximums, which means we have too many cars and too little housing. We have things the wrong way around."
theguardian.comShifting gears: why US cities are falling out of love with the parking lotCities are loosening rules on building parking spots with new buildings: ‘It’s about the climate, it’s about walkability’
8:37 PM ∙ Dec 26, 2022
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Sarah Jones @sbjinsfo
Also problematic about the UC Berkeley case - in CEQA you can conclude there's not an impact where something is addressed through code or ordinance. Excessive noise is handled via noise ordinance. It's really bad precedent to take position that compliance w law isn't adequate.
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Chris Elmendorf @CSElmendorf
This use of demographic statistical associations as the basis for a conclusion about CEQA impacts is, as best I can tell, unprecedented. (The CEQA cases about noise impacts cited by the court involve noise from the activity for which the project sponsor sought a... /7
5:11 AM ∙ Dec 27, 2022
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Brian Albrecht @BrianCAlbrecht
Here are the 5 best papers I read in 2022 that you should read too: 1. "The Economics of Intangible Capital" by Crouzet, Eberly, Eisfeldt, and Papanikolaou kellogg.northwestern.edu/faculty/crouze…
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2:32 PM ∙ Dec 27, 2022
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Market Urbanism @stephenjacobsmith@mastodon.social @MarketUrbanism
Penn professor gentrifies West Philadelphia, opposes new housing, then bravely stands up against the ruinous environmental quality of the students who pay her salary. NIMBY Twitter is a bleak place, and Valerie is its dark, barely beating heart https://t.co/SZUC4wvdqJ
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Valerie Ross @ValerieRoss14
Love to see YIMBYs in the comments insisting that student neighborhoods aren't noisy & don't engage in late-night revelry. This suggests that YIMBYs a) didn't go to college; b) didn't make any friends in college; c) are lying. https://t.co/vS8HFY6IcZ
7:25 PM ∙ Dec 27, 2022
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Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias
The exception that proves the rule is they should at least try the idea of a period Bond set against the backdrop of decolonization, the early Cold War, and an acute sense of British imperial decline — the original Bond setting is very compelling in a way that updates aren’t.
7:54 PM ∙ Dec 27, 2022
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Tracy Hadden Loh @lohplaces
I would love to see this level of federal outrage and oversight over transit service, which is far more essential every day and gets disrupted for ridiculous, indefensible nonsense on a regular basis. https://t.co/rQoMY9WZc2
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Edward Russell @ByERussell
INBOX: @SenMarkey, @SenBlumenthal Call for Southwest Airlines to Compensate Passengers for Avoidable Holiday Cancellations https://t.co/feQvtaNgtI
8:05 PM ∙ Dec 27, 2022
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Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias
IMO we should talk more about how a few simple, tweaks* to land use policy would let Americans live in even bigger houses. (*eliminating all restrictions on FAR, building height, lot occupancy, parking, and quantity of units on all residential parcels everywhere)
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Brent Toderian @BrentToderian
The average INDIVIDUAL U.S. resident now has as much living space in their home as entire families shared in the 1950s. That’s 3X as much space per person. We’ve convinced ourselves we NEED that space & the stuff we fill it with. We don’t. V/@TreeHugger @lloydalter @conradhackett https://t.co/NASyIENhd1
9:29 PM ∙ Dec 27, 2022
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Armand Domalewski @ArmandDoma
New research finds that immigrants… ➡️ Are 16% of all US inventors ➡️ Produced 23% of total innovation output ➡️ Are responsible for 36% of aggregate innovation, 2/3 of which is due to their innovation externalities on their native-born collaborators
nber.orgThe Contribution of High-Skilled Immigrants to Innovation in the United StatesFounded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, and business professionals.
10:12 PM ∙ Dec 27, 2022
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Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias
Sorry: To be more clear, what I’m saying is that to advance their partisan political objectives Republicans are misstating the situation at the border and these misstatements encourage more people to come which is exacerbating the genuine substantive problems.
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Isaac Schorr @isaac_schorr
I get that this is meant to be a dunk on Republicans. I just can’t for the life of me see how it’s a compelling one. https://t.co/wNXVQfQDlF
11:24 PM ∙ Dec 27, 2022
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Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias
If AI image generators cause the elimination of 100% of illustrator jobs that would be ... not very many people.
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12:55 AM ∙ Dec 28, 2022
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Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias
The most common BLS category in America is "Retail salespersons" at about 3.7 million.
12:58 AM ∙ Dec 28, 2022
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Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias
Retail is so big that even "First-Line Supervisors of Retail Sales Workers" is over a million jobs.
1:02 AM ∙ Dec 28, 2022
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Reza Zadeh @Reza_Zadeh
With recent advances in generative AI, Active Learning is primed for a major breakthrough. When an algorithm is unsure of correct label for some part of encoding space, it can actively generate from that section to get input from a human.
12:56 AM ∙ Dec 28, 2022
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