Favorite Rejects 2023-03-20

James Medlock @jdcmedlock

Important to remember that many poor children currently don’t receive free lunches, as paperwork burdens and stigma often stand in the way. This is why studies have shown expanding free lunches to kids with higher income parents has improved test scores for already eligible kids

Dan McLaughlin @baseballcrank

These people are unaware that poor children already get free school lunches. Not at all what's at issue in the Minnesota bill, but you can't expect progressives to understand policy https://t.co/jkKKOrWZzT

John C @BadSocialism

I'm sorry the Dutch did not exchange their entire North American holdings for one spice island for you to pretend that rich Europeans didn't have a massive hard-on for spices

I do not want this dumb ass checkmark @TheHoneyMa

White ppl not seasoning their food actually rly is based in racism & classism lol. The reason white ppl don’t season food is bc historically, rich white ppl began to think seasoning was for brown ppl who had to season their food bc they couldn’t afford better tasting meat. They… https://t.co/WVoCNjmozN

Market Urbanism @stephenjacobsmith@mastodon.social @MarketUrbanism

Love it – somebody added a double-loaded corridor section to the IBC Wikipedia page under "Controversies"

en.wikipedia.orgInternational Building Code - Wikipedia

Patrick McKenzie @patio11

Infinitely patient zero marginal cost tutors are a bit wild relative to our historical expectations. Sounds like a GPT-4 tweet but my daughter (8) just discovered a few weeks ago that YouTube has videos of piano songs with a chart of which keys to hit when.

Juliet Lapidos @julietlapidos

Nice to see someone (@scottlincicome ) turning their monomaniacal obsession into content

theatlantic.comThe Obscure Maritime Law That Ruins Your Commute“Ship American” might sound nice in theory. This is what it looks like in practice: not shipping much of anything in America at all.

Timothy B. Lee @binarybits

"I see the success of LLMs as vindicating the use theory of meaning."

secondbest.caWe’re all Wittgensteinians nowThe philosophical winners from LLMs

Eli Sennesh @EliSennesh

Dark Brandon overthrows the Israeli government nbcnews.com/news/world/isr…

New York Times Pitchbot @DougJBalloon

The US invasion of Iraq, which I did support, was much worse than Russia's invasion of Ukraine, which I also support. by Glenn Greenwald.

Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein

DeSantis is so far out of his depth I almost feel sorry for him

Travis R. Eby @travis_robert

Here's the guy who killed 2 (maybe more) people in Brooklyn today. **27** violations in the past two years. New York City looked the other way and allowed him to continue to vroom vroom vroom — now people are dead and survivors are shattered.