Favorite Rejects 2023-01-31

M. Nolan Gray @mnolangray

Population decline in the richest/most productive metro area in the country really should be a five-alarm national emergency, the basis for a radical overhaul in metropolitan governance, but oh well.

Jim Russell @ProducerCities

Bay Area population falls for third straight year: "If it weren't for positive foreign immigration & net births, the region would have lost 111,000 people in 2022" https://t.co/j4V0XHrw02 https://t.co/QepFOmdvKI

Gavin Newsom @GavinNewsom

Texas' gun death rate is 67% higher than California's. https://t.co/j9CH3nl1MW

Senator John Cornyn @JohnCornyn

California Has More Than 100 Gun Laws. Why Don’t They Stop More Mass Shootings? https://t.co/R6do7Fdheg

Joe Lonsdale @JTLonsdale

In October, I wrote this in @WSJ about the embarrassing visa delays at State/USCIS. 3 months later and no relief in sight. New @IFP website visalimbo.org shows the wait times. 814 days in Lima for an appointment! @AlecStapp @calebwatney

blog.joelonsdale.comThe Other Immigration Crisis: Endless Visa WaitsThe U.S. will lose talent and jobs to Canada and other countries if it keeps making it difficult to live and work here legally.

Hannah Ritchie @_HannahRitchie

This should have been headline news. One of the world’s biggest oil companies thinks that global oil demand peaked in 2019. In the same report it highlighted the rapid rise in renewables and shift to electric vehicles. https://t.co/Q7zumB4GDg

Hannah Ritchie @_HannahRitchie

BP projects global oil demand to slowly fall in the next few years, followed by a rapid from around 2030 onwards. 'New Momentum' here is following similar trends to the last few years. The others are accelerated climate action. https://t.co/J5kZ9FZbxg https://t.co/A41wbjNuXT

Eric Topol @EricTopol

The 1st results for the @BharatBiotech nasal vaccine (BBV154, approved in India) randomized trial vs shots now posted, superior antibody and cellular immune response (vs ancestral and Omicron); 4-fold less side effects papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

Chris Elmendorf @CSElmendorf

Today's the deadline for Bay Area cities to adopt their housing element. A 🧵 on what comes next. 1/16

Ethan Mollick @emollick

So there is now an official tool from OpenAI to detect ChatGPT content! It is unreliable below 1,000 characters, and may not always work, but this might help reduce some fears of undetectable plagiarism so we can focus on the benefits of AI in education.

openai.comNew AI classifier for indicating AI-written textWe’re launching a classifier trained to distinguish between AI-written and human-written text. We’ve trained a classifier to distinguish between text written by a human and text written by AIs from a variety of providers. While it is impossible to reliably detect all AI-written text, we believe g…

Ed Conway @EdConwaySky

Truly grisly assessment for the UK economy from the IMF this morning. - UK to fare worse than any other major economy this year - worse even than Russia(!) - Britain's downgrade came as most other countries saw their growth prospects upgraded Full story: news.sky.com/story/uk-econo…

Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦 @Noahpinion

Interesting post about medieval warfare. (ht @MargRev)

press.uchicago.eduCastles, Battles, and Bombs: How Economics Explains Military History by Jurgen Brauer and Hubert van Tuyll, an excerpt

Chris Pope @CPopeHC

Fiscal policy is about to become a lot less pleasant: cbo.gov/publication/58…

Justine Moore @venturetwins

I don’t think people understand how many Gen Zers spend HOURS a day on YouTube. Passive, long-form content (music, ASMR, video podcasts) is the background audio to their lives.