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Favorite Rejects 2023-02-12

David Watson
Feb 13, 2023
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Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias
It really is funny that the AI systems are so bad at drawing hands, but who can possibly look at how far they've come over the past 18 months and not see that this limitation is going to be gone soon?
12:06 PM ∙ Feb 12, 2023
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Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias
A good take. Something you should ask yourself as someone who reads and complains about articles is “what do I do with my personal media consumption habits that financially incentivizes managers to tell their reporters to do slower, more careful research?”
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Jane Singer @JaneBSinger
Cartoonish claims of bias annoy journalists, who readily dismiss them. But UK report on BBC economics coverage suggests a real, but different, problem, @jbenton: Journalists don't fully understand the issues, so their reporting is often shallow and lazy. https://t.co/8aDBHHzbUT
3:54 PM ∙ Feb 12, 2023
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Darrell Owens @IDoTheThinking
Cars are amomg the most anti social devices we have. Ordinary people turn into homicidal maniacs.
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East Bay Bike Party @ebbikeparty
The victims suffered varying degrees of injury, and least two people were seriously injured and had to be taken to the hospital. At this time it appears that at least two different vehicles were used in these attacks, which occurred several hours apart in different locations....
4:04 PM ∙ Feb 12, 2023
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Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias
Love to see this! But we need regulatory parity with fossil fuel drilling for geothermal projects. slowboring.com/p/we-need-perm… https://t.co/509r7O5CRK
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Secretary Jennifer Granholm @SecGranholm
These pilot demonstrations are going to help us realize the enormous potential of geothermal — the heat beneath our feet — and will make it possible to deliver clean, renewable energy to millions of Americans. https://t.co/0yxhMHA3Pr
5:43 PM ∙ Feb 12, 2023
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Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦 @Noahpinion
Interesting chart via @ryanlcooper.
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6:14 PM ∙ Feb 12, 2023
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Darrell Owens @IDoTheThinking
US rail is basically gripped in a state of permenant disrepair by substandard anachronistic private companies that shouldve been nationalized and modernized decades ago.
cnn.comAfter a train derailment, Ohio residents are living the plot of a movie they helped make | CNNWhen Ben Ratner’s family signed up in 2021 to be extras in the movie “White Noise,” they thought it would be a fun distraction from their day-to-day life in blue-collar East Palestine, Ohio.
6:31 PM ∙ Feb 12, 2023
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Nat Bullard @NatBullard
My annual presentation: trends in decarbonization. The long view; trends and transience; net zero as evolution and revolution. Everything from surface humidity to Nordic heat pump sales to hydrocarbon gravimetric density to hyperobjects. nathanielbullard.com/presentations
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1:49 PM ∙ Feb 12, 2023
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Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias
Scooter club is damning enough on its own even before you bring Nazis into it.
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Mirror Politics @MirrorPolitics
Rishi Sunak’s new deputy Tory chairman faces mounting questions over his links to alleged Nazi-supporting members of a scooter club. https://t.co/FxU3AFnAPt
7:22 PM ∙ Feb 12, 2023
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Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias
“Farmer Wants a Wife” is part of a trend where actual new shows increasingly sound like 30 Rock bits.
8:10 PM ∙ Feb 12, 2023
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Josh Gad @joshgad
Imagine going back to 1989 when Batman and Last Crusade are in theaters & your younger self asks what are you all excited about in 2023 & answering Michael Keaton playing Batman and Harrison Ford playing Indiana Jones.
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1:09 AM ∙ Feb 13, 2023
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