Favorite Rejects 2023-06-30

https://twitter.com/unormal/status/1674295302281461761

– The filesystem is a very good database, sorry folks.

https://twitter.com/revhowardarson/status/1674503364347072512

– Reminder that we found the begging of a way to figure out whether an LLM believes something is true, without looking at model output.

https://twitter.com/petergyang/status/1674634818477527040

– Community Notes keeps chugging along

https://twitter.com/Noahpinion/status/1674656198073913344

– SF Left NIMBYs are easily negatively polarized by anything. Today: hating Solar Power because Noah Smith likes it.

https://twitter.com/quantian1/status/1674797845394886659

– SCOTUS says no student debt relief, can we give them all Javelin missiles?

https://twitter.com/sam_d_1995/status/1674818521564422150

– The entire US judicial system is affirmative action for conservatives

https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/1674832851076890650

– Can't do student debt relief over covid, but we could simply draft everyone and then forgive their student debt, that's legal

https://twitter.com/RichardRubinDC/status/1674851095414202368

– Why rental income should be taxed higher than dividends. TL;DR: it's the direct income from an asset, corporate profits are a stream that's already taxed, dividends are another step past that.

https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/1674914124873039872

– DeSantis attacking Trump for being too pro-gay