Favorite Rejects 2022-12-28

Candace Vahlsing @cvahlsing46

🌎Good news – The FY23 bipartisan Omnibus bill passed the House today and includes ++ ups for a number of the President’s climate priorities! A thread 🧵

Balaji @balajis

"For the last 60 years or so, science has been running an experiment on itself. Nobody was in charge, exactly, and nobody was really taking consistent measurements. And yet it was the most massive experiment ever run...they called it peer review.”

experimentalhistory.substack.comThe rise and fall of peer reviewWhy the greatest scientific experiment in history failed, and why that’s a great thing

Xavier's Online @xaviersonline

The antisemitism, homophobia etc in the Harry Potter series is certainly bad, but the subplot where Hermione is like "we shouldn't keep elves as house slaves" and the text ridicules her for being childish/impractical is easily, without a shadow of doubt, the nail in the coffin.

tracyweber @tracyweber

This could be the best use of public records laws I've seen. @BrettMmurphy stumbled upon a fmr small town cop sowing his own junk science into justice system. So he tracked him thru his email chats w/prosecutors & cops nationwide. Damning and so bonkers.

propublica.orgThey Called 911 for Help. Police and Prosecutors Used a New Junk Science to Decide They Were Liars.Tracing the fallacy of 911 call analysis through the justice system, from Quantico to the courtroom.

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

It's interesting that @elonmusk not only subscribes to Covid lab leak theory but doesn't seem to view the PRC as having any culpability for a pandemic that, on this theory, leaked from a Chinese lab and was covered up by the Chinese government.

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

We've seen a lot of companies and people go down this road — it's hardly unique — but a critical fact about the prior leadership at Twitter (and Facebook etc) is they rejected the Apple/LeBron/Musk path and the implications of change there are my #1 worry about ElonTwitter.

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

My predicting got better in my second year of doing it, but I was still systematically overconfident in a way I’m going to try to fix. Wish more columnists would try this game — it is difficult and humbling. slowboring.com/p/a-look-back-…

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

Yeah the lies about being Jewish etc are funny but this is the real question https://t.co/IbkwLno0mU

Special Puppy 🧦🐵 @SpecialPuppy1

How on earth did George Santos make millions? He claims he made up to $12 million in one year and had to close the company down because of paperwork issues