Favorite Rejects 2023-01-18

Carl @HistoryBoomer

I know they mean it as slur but I think it may backfire. I mean, doesn't "Reactionary Centrist" sound kinda badass? Like we could get our own motorcycle jackets and ride into town to scare the Vox staff. "Hey Johnny, what are you reacting against?" "Whaddya got?"

Jeremiah Johnson 🌐 @JeremiahDJohns

There are cities that build lots of housing and where housing is cheap (green). There are cities that build little housing and are expensive (purple). There is no city in America that builds lots of housing and is also expensive. That giant red box is completely empty.

Stan Oklobdzija @stan_okl

NYC lost 190 market-rate and 80 deed-restricted affordable homes, but at least they prevented the Manhattinization of [checks notes] literal Lower Manhattan.

Tribeca Trib @TribecaTrib

Opponents win lawsuit against Howard Hughes Corp. tower in South Street Seaport Historic District. Judge declares Landmarks Commission approval "null and void." https://t.co/esvsMTzRQ1 https://t.co/OunZAJ1xZk

Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦 @Noahpinion

This was a great move on OpenAI's part (and good for Kenya!). But it unfortunately prevented me from getting ChatGPT to speculate on how we might go about creating a horde of 2-foot-tall gonad-chomping robots.

Billy Perrigo @billyperrigo

🚨Exclusive: OpenAI used outsourced Kenyan workers earning less than $2 per hour to make ChatGPT less toxic, my investigation found (Thread) https://t.co/302G0z7vy3

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

The way the official poverty rate is calculated, in-kind service provision by definition doesn't count as reducing poverty, but if you look at consumption-based measures of material well-being then you see big improvements. leo.nd.edu/assets/339909/…

Rutger Bregman @rcbregman

I’ve never made it a secret that I’m not a big fan of our prime minister, but this is a powerful interview about our support of Ukraine. Tapper: ‘Will there be at any point a limit..?’ Rutte: ‘No. We will continue doing this. (…) He cannot win.’

The Lead CNN @TheLeadCNN

Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte @MinPres tells Jake Tapper the Netherlands is in the “top league” of countries providing aid to Ukraine @NLintheUSA https://t.co/KXJc6RAjvQ

Lee Harris @leee_harris

Scale of the new Texas green hydrogen megaplant is insane. Consumes more energy than the city of Austin. Will produce enough fuel to meet 0.1% of daily U.S. diesel demand.

insideclimatenews.orgTexas Project Will Use Wind to Make Fuel Out of Water - Inside Climate NewsOil made Texas an energy giant, but even this petroleum powerhouse is working hard to secure a footing beyond fossil fuels. It already generates more wind energy than any other U.S. state, and soon the mighty air that lashes its high plains will power a novel new process: the production of vehicle f…

Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦 @Noahpinion

🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬 Add Bulgaria to the informal anti-Russian alliance of Ukraine, Poland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithualia, Czechia, Slovakia, and Finland...

Melinda Haring @melindaharing

Bulgaria secretly provided up to 1/3 of Ukraine’s ammo in early days of war and up to 40% of diesel https://t.co/nysyRgAnSm