Favorites August 13 2021

Going Godward @goinggodward

So, this is hanging outside the door of the teacher who taught my oldest AP World History two years ago.

The third one is Stallman, I'd you're wondering

Noah Smith 🐇 @Noahpinion

Another story about how Covid nudged us to finally use the internet the way it was meant to be used.

beta.ctvnews.ca‘We’re not going back’: Doctors give high marks to virtual appointmentsVirtual doctor appointments grew exponentially during the pandemic and a new survey from the Canadian Medical Association and Canada Health Infoway suggests they are a success.

It's such a clear improvement, I wonder what else there is that can go this way.

Samuel Hammond 🌐🏛 @hamandcheese

I'm thrilled to endorse the Industrial Finance Corporation Act to create a US-owned development bank on the model of the RFC and TVA focused on domestic manufacturing, supply chain resiliency, and frontier technologies. Read Arnab's great thread for more info:

Arnab Datta @ArnabDatta321

THREAD (1/n): @ChrisCoons intro'd a great bill to strengthen supply chain resilience and revive America’s manufacturing, (w/ @MarkWarner, @SenatorBennet, @AmyKlobuchar, @SenatorWarnock, @ChrisVanHollen, @SenGaryPeters). Link: https://t.co/j3QAERuS6X

I've been reading about National development in How Asia Works, I'm interested to see what the direction could be for US manufacturing.

Tara Golshan @taragolshan

New CTC non-filer portal in the works it seems: “Treasury and the White House are announcing a new, mobile-friendly, bilingual sign-up tool created by Code for America — a civic technology non-profit — which will be available in the coming weeks.”

home.treasury.govTreasury and IRS Disburse Second Month of Advance Child Tax Credit PaymentsTreasury Plans Permanent Mobile-Friendly and Multi-Lingual Sign-up Tool for Non-Filers, Announces New Sign-up Tool Created by Code for America WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of the Treasury and the Internal Revenue Service announced today that more than $15 billion were paid to families that incl…

Exciting to see the IRS building websites to help people.

San Francisco Chronicle @sfchronicle

The presence of wildfire smoke last year during the pandemic may have been responsible for at least 19,000 additional cases of COVID-19 on the West Coast, and 700 subsequent deaths, a new study shows.

trib.alWildfire smoke linked to thousands of coronavirus cases on West CoastA new study suggests that last year’s devastating fire season may have amplified the...

In case you'd forgotten that smoke inhalation is bad.

Aaron 🥑🚈🚰🏀 @aceckhouse

hey I have a suggestion: the United States of America

Wladimir @vvanwilgenburg

In desperation, U.S. scours for countries willing to house Afghan refugees https://t.co/yvTpjrrIyI

Obviously the answer is clear, as many refugees as possible, not only is more immigration good for the US, but also, we caused this!

Finally, a special today:

I already was familiar with Level of Service being a bad metric, but this video really laid it all out with amazing clarity. Make sure your city is using VMT, not LoS for transport planning! California already made the switch last year.

Stanford, August 2020