Favorite Rejects 2023-02-23

Mike Bird @Birdyword

My piece this week explores how a patchwork of Asian economies from Hokkaido to Gujarat stacks up as an alternative to China for global manufacturers. Whether it works in practice is a test of both cross-border business and a nascent geopolitical order. economist.com/business/2023/…

Hamed Aleaziz @Haleaziz

BREAKING: The Biden administration announced a policy Tuesday that would limit asylum access to immigrants who cross into the U.S. without authorization and fail to apply for protections on the way to the southern border with Mexico.

latimes.comNew Biden policy limits asylum access at the southern borderThe policy is being unveiled ahead of the expected end in May of Title 42, a Trump-era policy that allows border agents to quickly turn back migrants.

Blake Allen @Blake_Allen13

Moldova’s Prime Minister Dorin Recean confirmed that Moldovan security forces have discovered a plot by Russia to seize the international airport in the capital city of Chișinău that the RuAF would then use to ferry Russian soldiers into the country

moldova1.mdDorin Recean confirmă planul Rusiei cu privire la Republica Moldova și dă asigurări – autoritățile sunt pregătite să intervinăPrim-ministrul Republicii Moldova, Dorin Recean, confirmă declarațiile președintelui ucrainean Volodimir Zelenski, potrivit căruia Kremlinul și-ar dori să deschidă un nou front prin Republica Moldova. Șeful Guvernului de la Chișinău declară că acesta este doar unul dintre planurile Rusiei și dă asig…

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

What happens when physicians face new competition from expanded scope of practice for nurse-practitioners? Physicians hand out more prescriptions for addictive painkillers and for combo prescriptions of opioids opioids and benzodiazepines. 😬😬😬 nber.org/papers/w30889

Murtaza Hussain @MazMHussain

"Mohsen insisted that he and other religious Iranians “are fed up with our religion [being] damaged by the establishment, and we do not want our Shiite ceremonies to be seen as a propaganda tool and representative of the establishment.”

amwaj.mediaInside story: How Iran’s religious classes are turning increasingly secularThe Islamic Republic is facing a growing and often overlooked crisis with the rise of secular sentiments among religious classes in Iran. Some religious officials and ordinary Iranians increasingly disapprove of the state’s behavior and governance, fueling an expansion of the conviction that religio…

Sundar Pichai @sundarpichai

Our latest quantum milestone, in @Nature today: for the 1st time ever, @GoogleQuantumAI has experimentally demonstrated that it's possible to reduce errors by increasing the # of qubits, bringing us a step closer to large-scale quantum computers. #GoogleAI

blog.googleOur progress toward quantum error correctionFor the first time ever, our Quantum AI researchers have experimentally demonstrated it’s possible to reduce errors by increasing the number of qubits.

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

If "people who care a lot about politics" tend to break your way, then you get really focused on information as a virtue (Limbaugh used to complain about low-information Obama voters) whereas if it goes the other way you become romantic about mobilization and turnout.

StratoCat @stratoballoon

Impressive details of the Chinese balloon from above, in the full resolution image taken by an U2, just released.

David Byler @databyler

When Roe was overturned and Rs started facing fallout, they had three options: 1) cross fingers/ ride it out 2) moderate on abortion 3) find an issue that the base likes, but is more popular than full abortion bans Looks like they're going for 3) New: washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/…

Tweets from Zach Weinberg @zachweinberg

Social Media is a Major Cause of the Mental Illness Epidemic in Teen Girls. Here’s the Evidence., by @JonHaidt

open.substack.comSocial Media is a Major Cause of the Mental Illness Epidemic in Teen Girls. Here’s The Evidence.Journalists should stop saying that the evidence is just correlational

juan @juanbuis

alright, we're officially living in the future 🤯 this app that lets you relive your memories in VR is just *incredible*

M|§F|T 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @am_misfit

"The Czech company delivered 35 Himars and M270 MLRS inflatable models to Ukraine every month." What?! 🤯