Favorite Rejects 2023-02-10

Ethan Mollick @emollick

📸If you want to remember something, take a picture! This works even if you never look at the picture again, or even if you delete the photo immediately afterward, or even if you just IMAGINE taking a picture. We remember what we direct our attention to. faculty.wharton.upenn.edu/wp-content/upl…

Michael Lane @michaeldlane

SB 405 introduced by Sen. Cortese to require for the 7th cycle housing element that the planning agency notify the owner of a site included in sites inventory. If owner doesn't intend to develop at least 80% of the number of units indicated, the site cannot be included. #CALeg

Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦 @Noahpinion

China is scaring and alienating pretty much all of Southeast Asia by demanding sovereignty over the South China Sea. Big unforced error. It shows the disdain with which Chinese leaders view Southeast Asian countries.

economist.comChina’s put-upon maritime neighbours are pushing backChina can no longer count on getting its way in the South China Sea

Andrew Prokop @awprokop

"The American Enterprise Institute (AEI), a stalwart of the center-right intellectual and philanthropic ecosystem, recently had to hold an all-hands meeting to discuss whether it was still a conservative institution." -@JuliusKrein philanthropydaily.com/what-do-conser…

Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦 @Noahpinion

1/Might as well explain the references in my "We make shirts" thread!

Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦 @Noahpinion

🇮🇳: We're going to skip industry and go directly to services! 🇧🇩: We make shirts 🇮🇳: We're going to ban physical money! 🇧🇩: Buy our shirts 🇮🇳: Here's an incredibly complicated tax plan! 🇧🇩: Would you like a shirt? 🇮🇳: Education? Who needs it!! 🇧🇩: Shirts

Alex Trembath @atrembath

"Legitimacy is not solely, not even primarily, a product of the procedures that agencies follow. Legitimacy arises, more generally, from the perception that government is capable, informed, prompt, responsive and fair." via @nicholas_bagley

niskanencenter.orgThe Procedure Fetish - Niskanen CenterThe lawyers need to get out of the way.

Julian E. Barnes @julianbarnes

SCOOP: Pentagon shoots down an unidentified object over Alaska. Possibly a second balloon. @helenecooper @ewong

nytimes.comU.S. Shoots Down High-Altitude Object Over AlaskaThe incident comes less than a week after a U.S. fighter jet brought down a Chinese spy balloon over the Atlantic during a diplomatic crisis.

Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff

As promised/threatened, a defense of Fukuyama's The End of History in response to @RottenInDenmark and @The_Law_Boy

resnikoff.substack.comA Defense of FukuyamaLeave Francis alone!

Steven Rattner @SteveRattner

.@washingtonpost reports that the IRS - w/ new staff & funds made possible by the Inflation Reduction Act - has been able to answer nearly 90% of phone calls this tax season thus far, up from just 13% last year. If we want gov't to work, we have to give it the tools to work.

Chris “Subscribe to Law Dork!” Geidner @chrisgeidner

BREAKING: Nearly two dozen states support effort to reverse FDA approval of mifepristone. New, at @lawdorknews: lawdork.com/p/republican-a…

Lior⚡ @AlphaSignalAI

The implementation of Microsoft's biomedical text-generation model is going viral on Github. BioGPT is trained on biomedical literature and achieved human parity. It is now the leader on the PubMedQA benchmark (81%). 🔗You can get code/models/weights: github.com/microsoft/BioG…

Alex Kozak @alexkozak

Tesla has seriously messed up here IMHO. They could have either adopted or beaten CCS a decade ago, but now they'll fall way behind and make their drivers use adapters everywhere, unless they seriously change course.

The Washington Post @washingtonpost

Senior White House officials asked Elon Musk during a private meeting last month for Tesla to make its extensive charging network available for use by other electric vehicles, according to two people with knowledge of the meeting. https://t.co/MiEJsPOYd0

Berk @AwayBerk

I believe in deregulating barriers to housing and employment.