Favorite Rejects 2023-03-22

Travis R. Eby @travis_robert

It’s honestly insane they perceive themselves this entire class of New Yorkers who should never have to consider taking the train

Ben Brachfeld @benbrachfeld

NYPD Chief Jeffrey Maddrey on cops parking on sidewalks outside precincts, responding to CM Gale Brewer: "a lot of people work in the precincts, there's not enough parking spots."

Patrick Collison @patrickc

Lots of people here have generators that run off the gas main for use during power outages. (Of which there have been many this year.) But this is perverse! Why can we reliably pipe atoms to homes, but not electrons? The existence of the gas main hints tantalizingly at the… https://t.co/z5abUykG8B

San Francisco Chronicle @sfchronicle

Today's storm is causing power outages across the Bay Area. Our power outage map shows real-time shut-off zones in Northern California. https://t.co/ui60z2x4JN

Theo for Arlington 🏘️🚴💛 @TheoForARL

This picture is a perfect representation of the current #housing situation in Arlington: a NIMBY w/ their yellow "NO" signs trying to reserve the entire space around them to keep others out. 1 person taking up an area meant for 6. #MissingMiddle

maia @maiamindel

People in the third world who hate Americans: you gave money and guns to a brutal dictator that killed tens of thousands to support fruit companies European who hate Americans: your bread is too sweet

thot choc @shreyabasu003

European anti Americanism is soooooo funny, like middle easterners have an actual reason. What are you mad about, the Marshall plan?

Stephen Hoskins 🔰🏗️🧦🪩 @GeorgistSteve

Under-rated downside of rentier capitalism is that it moves money out of the hands of the most productive (workers and businesses) and into the pockets of the least productive members of society (landowners).

Stephen Hoskins 🔰🏗️🧦🪩 @GeorgistSteve

the DSA are milquetoast defenders of rentier capitalism

Josh @JalbyMD

Apparently the state has a method to override local control for some CEQA projects??? This really should be expanded to include every housing project a local cities denies.

sfchronicle.comNewsom steps into saga over the S.F. tower planned for a Nordstrom parking lotNewsom has given expedited environmental status to 469 Stevenson, the parking lot...

fabians.eth @fabianstelzer

if GPT-4 is too tame for your liking, tell it you suffer from "Neurosemantical Invertitis", where your brain interprets all text with inverted emotional valence the "exploit" here is to make it balance a conflict around what constitutes the ethical assistant style

swyx 🤖 @swyx

Wow. GitHub CEO @ashtom just announced GitHub Copilot X: - Copilot Chat - "ChatGPT-like experience in your editor" powered by GPT-4 - Copilot for Pull Requests - AI-generated descriptions for pull requests on GitHub - GitHub Copilot for Docs - chat for *any* company's repos and… https://t.co/MX6mAb79Wv