Favorite Rejects 2023-03-08

ruby 👁💫🧙🏻‍♂️🌲 @timeforwizards

take me back to the split second when i was convinced this was meant to be a frame for a photo of a great meal

Alec Stapp @AlecStapp

Reminder that Jimmy Carter — not Ronald Reagan — was the Great Deregulator noahpinion.substack.com/p/much-of-what…

Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦 @Noahpinion

YESSSSSSSSSS Suicide drones kill artillery

Chuck McManis 🇺🇦 solidarity 🇺🇦 @ChuckMcManis

One can observe that Ukraine has begun taking out more artillery systems. It seems that "something changed" and as a curious person I've been analyzing various sources and trying to puzzle it out. One thing that changed is the US is now sending Switchblade-600's. 1/n

Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦 @Noahpinion

Any time you wonder why Taiwan doesn't want to unify with China, just remember how a Chinese ambassador talked about how Taiwanese people would undergo "reeducation"...

scmp.comChinese envoy to France doubles down on Taiwan re-education aimsTsai government has ‘indoctrinated and intoxicated’ Taiwanese population with anti-Chinese education, Lu tells French station.

M.G. Siegler @mgsiegler

New lab leak just dropped…

James Vincent @jjvincent

LLaMA on the loose: here's my report on Meta's latest AI language model, which leaked on 4chan a week after it was announced. How powerful is LLaMA? How easy to use? And what do leaks like this mean for the future of open AI research? Answers here: https://t.co/axCVwnswsa

Garry Tan 陈嘉兴 @garrytan

“For very poor people, money clearly helps a lot,” Killingsworth told New Scientist. “But if you have a decent income and you’re still miserable, the source of your misery probably isn’t something money can fix.”

bloomberg.comBloomberg - Are you a robot?

util renormalization @revhowardarson

god this is dumb

The Guardian @guardian

End ‘colonial’ approach to space exploration, scientists urge https://t.co/1lvoRONmq9

Josh Wolfe @wolfejosh

China 🇨🇳has BANNED WhatsApp Wikipedia Facebook Instagram Pinterest LinkedIn YouTube Twitter Google Reddit Twitch AND... TikTok! US 🇺🇸should ban TikTok.

sam lessin 🏴‍☠️ @lessin

A year ago banning TitTok in the US would have had massive consumer (kid) backlash because the content was great and unique / now that TitTok, Reels, and Youtube shorts are all basically the same product it is kinda a big *meh* seems far more possible a ban will actually happen.

Timothy B. Lee @binarybits

The right way to deal with ai training copyright controversies would be for congress to broker a compromise between tech companies and artists such as a compulsory licensing regime. But congress is broken so the courts are forced to pick which side gets a raw deal.

Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦 @Noahpinion

China has probably cut the internet cables to one of the small Taiwanese islands next to the Chinese mainland.

apnews.comTaiwan suspects Chinese ships cut islands’ internet cablesNANGAN, Taiwan (AP) — In the past month, bed and breakfast owner Chen Yu-lin had to tell his guests he couldn’t provide them with the internet. Others living on Matsu, one of Taiwan’s outlying islands closer to neighboring China, had to struggle with paying electricity bills, making a doctor’s appo…

Patrick Skinner @SkinnerPm

Don’t commit war crimes and you won’t be prosecuted for war crimes.

The New York Times @nytimes

Breaking News: The Pentagon is blocking the U.S. from sharing evidence on Russian atrocities in Ukraine with the International Criminal Court, officials said. Military leaders fear setting a precedent that might pave the way for it to prosecute Americans. https://t.co/xnHCjkkZnK

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

I guess unless you have a written document that says “THIS IS A QUID PRO QUO IN EXCHANGE FOR HACKING THE OPPOSING CAMPAIGN” there’s basically no problem here

Peter Baker @peterbakernyt

Trump tells Hannity on his radio show that he would have been willing to let Russia "take over" parts of Ukraine while he was president (a comment edited out when later played on Fox News). ⁦@justinbaragona⁩ https://t.co/7Q4Ecd2jJ7