Favorite Rejects 2022-04-27

Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦 @Noahpinion

This is comparable to the surge in anti-Asian hate crimes.

Shalom Lipner @ShalomLipner

"The surge was part of a nationwide trend that saw 2,717 antisemitic incidents across the United States, including 88 assaults, an increase of 167 percent from the year before." @liamstack https://t.co/KFU1PRCwIK

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

Good thread here. I am much more worried about a situation in which Musk’s varied business interests lead to too little free speech on Twitter rather than too much.

Melissa Chan @melissakchan

Elon Musk has a Tesla factory in China and he wants to sell more cars there, as many China observers note. What happens if Beijing leans on him about say, a Uyghur or Hong Kong activist account? Or about Chinese disinformation bots leveraging this platform?

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

To the extent that the real goal of US policy in Ukraine is to weaken Russia, Putin could (and indeed should) foil this plan by ceasing the invasion.

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

This from Hobbes is a popular but the situation is Tweeters are richer than the general population. But because they are also younger and better-educated, it’s a more left-wing group than the electorate — so left-wing people like it when elites are responsive to Twitter.

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

Twitter is basically “what if you could do politics without non-college old people?” The answer is leftists would have a lot more influence and rightist politics would be techy edgdelords instead of observant Christians. But you can’t do politics that way.

Donald Shoup @DonaldShoup

One in Three Garages Has No Car in It sightline.org/2022/04/27/one… @Citizen_Cate via @Sightline

sightline.orgOne in Three Garages Has No Car in ItYou can build it, but they won’t park there.

Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦 @Noahpinion

@MattBruenig But notice that 8chan does NOT include equivalents of tons of 1st Amendment compliant speech restrictions -- noise ordinances, anti-harassment laws, and so on. You can include equivalents of all those and still be aping the 1st Amendment.

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

Seems pretty good

David Patrikarakos @dpatrikarakos

"I want to say one thing: @elonmusk's Starlink is what changed the war in #Ukraine's favour. #Russia went out of its way to blow up all our comms. Now they can't. Starlink works under Katyusha fire, under artillery fire. It even works in Mariupol." https://t.co/C2QnVTE3tc

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

Neither of these things is happening.

Mercedes Schlapp @mercedesschlapp

Bill Gates is buying up the majority of American farmland and BlackRock is buying the majority of single family houses but I'm supposed to believe the biggest threat to us is Elon Musk buying Twitter?

Alex Melendrez (He/him) @ACMelendrez

Appreciate @KQED for giving me a brief moment to talk about impacts and organizing for housing on one of my favorite podcasts, SOLD OUT! Great season, @solomonout, @e_baldi, @naldana22 and to their entire team. kqed.org/news/11911130/…

YIMBY Action @yimbyaction

"Policies don't organize people. It's stories and impact." -YIMBY Action Organizing Manager @ACMelendrez via @KQED https://t.co/SVtSDYcnDO

Kameron Hurley @KameronHurley

Ukrainians are fucking metal.

nyti.msThey Flooded Their Own Village, and Kept the Russians at BayThe waters that poured into Demydiv were one of many instances of Ukraine wreaking havoc on its own territory to slow Russia’s advance. Residents couldn’t be happier. “We saved Kyiv,” one said.

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

I really don’t think shaming people for taking the cure for Covid is a good idea — we now have more doses than people taking it.

politico.comWhy did Kamala take the Pfizer pill?

Bill Weir @BillWeirCNN

I can peer-review the hell out of this with a firm “amen”

Katy Milkman @katy_milkman

A new paper out in ⁦@Nature⁩ shows that we’re worse at generating creative ideas on Zoom than in person. #BehavioralScience https://t.co/iuKLyPmGrd https://t.co/QjQ98m0xjo