Favorite Rejects 2023-01-19

Alec Stapp @AlecStapp

Just thinking about how the United States could have been the world leader in 5G technology instead of China if we had just given *one guy* a green card when he needed one

🧧 Bryan Cheong @bryancsk

This is twice the Kenyan median income. Who are we to begrudge people providing jobs to Kenyans.

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

Reuters @Reuters

A new high-tech study has revealed nearly 1,000 ancient Maya settlements, including 417 previously unknown cites linked by what may be the world's first highway network and hidden for millennia by the jungles of northern Guatemala and southern Mexico reut.rs/3HfkeS5

Neoliberal 🌐🇺🇦 @ne0liberal

Fantastic news. All states should be moving in this direction, making it easier to move occupational licenses across state lines.

reason.comOhio to honor occupational licenses from other statesGood news for laborers of all kinds in Ohio: The state will now honor occupational licenses earned elsewhere.

Neoliberal 🌐🇺🇦 @ne0liberal

This is really, really cool

Secretary Antony Blinken @SecBlinken

The United States is launching the Welcome Corps, the boldest innovation in refugee resettlement in four decades. This initiative enables Americans to directly support refugees and show the best of American hospitality and generosity. #JoinTheWelcomeCorps https://t.co/MFp3lO1fQN

Benedict Evans @benedictevans

It appears that the EU’s approach to tech regulation will be to fine companies under the GDPR for complying with the DSA and then fine them under the DSA for complying with the GDPR, all the while telling itself it’s the envy of the world.

b-boy bouiebaisse @jbouie

more convinced than ever that it was either alito or thomas

Chris “Subscribe to Law Dork!” Geidner @chrisgeidner

OK, so, I just finished the Marshal's report. It's wild. But, at the end of the day, this is really all that matters: The justices themselves were not asked questions or investigated, per what I gather from the Marshal's report. https://t.co/6Dl29JiE9D

Matthew Zeitlin @MattZeitlin

one funny thing is that the culture is very anti the idle rich, everyone likes to think of themselves as some kind of hard worker, not some 19th century rentier living off bond coupons, but the tax code actually thinks the latter is way better

Matthew Zeitlin @MattZeitlin

this leads to the funny situation outlined in owen zidar's research where people who do work for their money are lying to the IRS about actually being idle rentiers eml.berkeley.edu/~yagan/Capital…

Robotbeat🗽 ➐ @Robotbeat

Your regular reminder that more people work at Arby’s than there are coal workers.

Dr. Mary Finley-Brook 🕷🕸 🌍 @geoyapti

For how many decades are people going to shut down the conversation on the necessary transition to renewables because of supposed impacts on coal workers? There are only 59,456 people employed in the coal mining industry in the US as of 2023. We can create 60,000 healthy jobs.

Timothy B. Lee @binarybits

I think this is basically correct, but I think an underlying issue is that there are inherent limits to how much material wealth or technological progress can improve the living standards of human beings.

elidourado.comHeretical thoughts on AIRobert Solow quipped, “You can see the computer age everywhere but in the productivity statistics.” What if AI is the same way? What if it changes everything except the economy?

TheOmniZaddy 🌹🔰🏗 @TheOmniZaddy

People who present this as some kind of negative position should probably ask themselves what they think “immigration” is

M. Nolan Gray @mnolangray

At California YIMBY, we like to do things differently—which is why we're launching a research bounty program. Able to put together research/maps/data/platforms we need to advance housing affordability? Help out and get rewarded:

cayimby.orgThe California YIMBY Research Bounty ProgramThe YIMBY movement is lucky to have a base that is both technically sophisticated and eager to chip in. To fully leverage this, California YIMBY is launching a research bounty program to make our research and data needs clear, reward those who volunteer to help fill these needs, and generally increa…