Favorite Rejects 2023-01-20

Kyle Huey @khuey_

Wow 25%. That's much higher than San Francisco. Atherton must be a really equitable and progressive place.

Anne Paulson @KrampusSnail

Apparently Atherton is planning on a ~25% inclusionary zoning ordinance on the sites upzoned for multifamily. Wow, that's ridiculous.

na'vi seal @revhowardarson

i wish it was possible to pack an entire movie theater full of medieval peasants and show them a Mission Impossible movie

Matt Rosoff @MattRosoff

Google Calls In Larry Page and Sergey Brin to Tackle ChatGPT and A.I. Chatbots - nice scoop

nytimes.comGoogle Calls In Help From Larry Page and Sergey Brin for A.I. FightA rival chatbot has shaken Google out of its routine, with the founders who left three years ago re-engaging and more than 20 A.I. projects in the works.

Alec Stapp @AlecStapp

It’s now “overblown groupthink” to believe the Chinese Communist Party shouldn’t control the most popular social media app among young Americans 🤔

Nate Silver @NateSilver538

Are there more persuasive #MintTheCoin advocates than these guys? Because these responses are not very reassuring (and that's putting it *very* politely) especially later in the thread where one of them says it would be good if we defaulted since it would force change to SCOTUS.

Jeff Stein @JStein_WaPo

I asked @rohangrey & @NathanTankus — 2 of the leading theorists behind the “Mint the $1 Trillion Coin” idea — about some of the concerns I’d been hearing from those close to the White House about their plan Their responses, shared w/ permission, are worth reading https://t.co/7HijRiohXp

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

This coffee shop I'm at could probably make their coffee more compelling by sneaking cocaine into it, but I would not want them to do that — sane people don't want everything they use to be the maximally-compulsive version of itself.

Peer Richelsen 🗓🍊 @peer_rich

giggling at all the startup founders tweeting “open to hiring google engineers” my friend, their comp expectations is the amount of your preseed round

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

IMO underrated that the IT revolution has certain anti-productivity properties — I’m tweeting now instead of finishing my column, you who are reading this tweet are probably supposed to be working too.

Joe Weisenthal @TheStalwart

OMG, check out the "note" at the very end

Alec Stapp @AlecStapp

Good news of the day: Costs for solar panel manufacturers are plummeting as supply chain problems ease This bodes well for solar production going forward ☀️

Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦 @Noahpinion

This story by @blipstress is just so goddamn good. One of the best sci-fi short stories I've read in years. I want to be the character T.A.R.C.T.I.L. lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/infini…

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

Gotta keep talking about the platinum coin so that when the high-yield bonds get sold everyone is like “well that seems boring and normal.”

Joey Politano 🏳️‍🌈 @JosephPolitano

As American car manufacturing recovers from the semiconductor shortage, Canadian output is being left behind. Canadian motor vehicle output is still barely half its pre-pandemic level and has been trending downwards recently.

Kelsey D. Atherton @AthertonKD

Going to the bank of "I print my own money" & asking if I can put down "the world's second largest nuclear arsenal" as collateral for a loan to myself, and if that fails suggest perhaps "the world economy bends to my currency" or "foremost conventional military power" as backups

Genevieve Roch-Decter, CFA @GRDecter

Would you invest in this business? Total debt: $31 trillion Assets: $4.8 trillion Annual revenue: $4.9 trillion Annual Income: $1.4 trillion Loss This is the US Government.