Favorites August 22nd 2022

June 2022, San Diego

Paul Byrne @ThePlanetaryGuy

My God. Jupiter, seen by #JWST, for your Monday morning.

There's also wider shots where you can see the rings and moons.

Robert Showah @robertisnthere

In a Senate apportioned by state population share and seats awarded based on the statewide vote, Dems would hold a one-seat majority. cc: @NateSilver538, @SeanTrende, @davidshor, @mattyglesias, @PatrickRuffini statehood.substack.com/p/would-a-reap… #ElectionTwitter

Noah Smith has a short thread explaining why "abolish the senate" is probably not good messaging. It's doubly bad.

Zack Stentz @MuseZack

I always do a doubletake when I see photos of Arnold Schwarzenegger looking like an 8-year-old child when standing between Wilt Chamberlain and Andre the Giant on the Conan the Destroyer set.

Plus there's that photo where they pick him up.

Graeme Wood @gcaw

I am totally convinced that car seat laws after the age of two are misguided and should be eliminated

thezvi.substack.comOn Car Seats as ContraceptionOr: Against Car Seat Laws At Least Beyond Age 2

The article is long, and I've only read parts so far seem pretty serious. You know they make car seats for 8 year olds?

W. Gyude Moore @gyude_moore

"If the technology can scale up, it could ultimately allow power plant operators that burn coal to retrofit generators to run on green hydrogen without having to construct a completely new plant."

Bloomberg @business

A lab working on nuclear fusion accidentally found a way to generate 700C heat from green hydrogen without burning it https://t.co/OEB8MQwO5k

Just a terrific opportunity to find something to do with all that Hydrogen that will be subsidized by the Inflation Reduction Act.

Threads

• Thread summarizing Iran's vaccine development situation. Long story short: lots of graft.

• Heartwarming thread starting with a medical emergency.

• A critique of Walnut Creek's Housing element draft. The number of units being argued over is smaller than Mountain View's but the city's proposal is also less plausible.

• Thread summarizing Trump's legal filing in response to the Mar-a-Lago search. Imagine "a lawyer who doesn’t quite know what he’s doing and then Trump taking a Sharpie to the draft and insisting on passages that read like tweets"