Favorite Rejects 2023-01-26 pt1

Yea rejects has to be split in 2 today.

But let’s start with a gif and a Hamilton joke!

Merlin Mann @hotdogsladies

Who lives, who dies, who tells your story?

Steven Rattner @SteveRattner

The debt ceiling has been raised or suspended 52 times since 1978: 32 times under Republican Presidents, 20 times under Democratic Presidents. Avoiding a default isn’t a partisan goal – it’s a basic gov’t responsibility. @Morning_Joe

Alec Stapp @AlecStapp

Computer scientists trying and failing to communicate with the police lmao

(((Matthew Lewis))) progressive federalism SOS @mateosfo

It’s wild, the extent to which Americans express preferences through markets — electric bike sales 2-3x electric car sales, walkable neighborhoods still expensive during a tightly orchestrated housing downturn — and the VSP response is, No, Americans want sprawl and traffic.

cromwellian @cromwellian

OpenAI's GPT-3 embedding API is really affordable for people to experiment. I embedded 220,000 documents for about $80. Just don't make the mistake I did and try to do it all at once, my VM ran out of memory the first time, so I broke it up into 10k docs at a time. :(

Michael Girdley @girdley

An old timer at my first job told me: “Never take 2 week vacations. Everyone just saves work for your return. Make it 3 weeks or more so they just take care of things without you.”

Aaron Green @AaronGuhreen

GREAT new bill. AB251 from @AsmChrisWard would require the California to "study the relationship between vehicle weight and injuries to vulnerable road users, such as pedestrians and cyclists, and to study the costs and benefits of imposing a passenger vehicle weight fee."

dylan matthews @dylanmatt

"Andrea Mitchell and Alan Greenspan trying to block construction of a sidewalk outside their $1.5 million by arguing that the sidewalk would be an assault on black history" is one of the funniest things to ever happen washingtoncitypaper.com/article/566081…

Hannah Ritchie @_HannahRitchie

Are electric cars better for the climate than petrol or diesel? Yes, in almost all cases. In my latest Substack, I go through all the numbers:

hannahritchie.substack.comElectric cars are better for the climate than petrol or dieselElectric cars emit less CO₂ than gas cars. But to get maximum benefits, we need to decarbonise our electricity quickly.

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

A few points worth noting on the SPR dispute: — Biden’s policy worked — 2022 was the second-highest year for US oil production ever — Average monthly oil production has been higher under Biden than any prior president — EIA estimates we will hit a new record in 2023 https://t.co/m92QcT6TjY

President Biden @POTUS

Our petroleum reserve releases worked to bring down prices at the pump – and we have a plan to refill the reserve at a profit to taxpayers. House Republicans are trying to weaken that critical tool. And gas prices would go up because of it. https://t.co/Ji5xZ9rfCW