Favorites August 5th 2022

May 2017, Idaho

Joe Weisenthal @TheStalwart

BREAKING: JOBS REPORT OBLITERATES EXPECTATIONS 528K new jobs. Unemployment rate drops to 3.5%, wages accelerate to 5.2% YOY Economists had expected 25K new jobs and the unemployment rate to hold steady at 3.6%

bloomberg.comLive: Follow the US Payrolls Report for July

Yea, we're not in a recession the jobless rate just tied its 53-year low, although the Fed is definitely still gonna need to keep tapping the brakes.

Jesse Walker @notjessewalker

"Slang truly has no owners. Who knows? Maybe a few years from now, at the DNC, the floor will be chanting 'Let's Go Brandon,' completely unironically."

slate.comThe “Dark Brandon” Meme That Liberals Suddenly LoveWe started at “Let’s Go,” and ended up … here?

If you've never heard of Dark Brandon memes, Biden's recent successes have really brought out a lot of them.

Emma Llanso @ellanso

This is appalling. It's mind-boggling to try to understand how any decision-makers at Tiktok or Telepresence thought broadly sharing examples of CSAM with moderators was legal, let alone a good idea.

Forbes @Forbes

TikTok content moderators were shown sexually explicit images of children as part of their training. “Parents don't know that we have this picture, this video, this trauma, this crime saved." A @Forbes investigation: https://t.co/h1Ux8JRDc2 https://t.co/FZpzqR7Hby

Popehat did not mince words: "that's go-to-federal-prison stuff"

Terry Taplin🚰🏳️‍🌈🥑🌹🚲🚍✍️🏾 @TaplinTerry

In 1970, Governor Reagan signed the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA). It turns out, you can absolutely judge this book by its cover. THREAD: 1/

I try to associate CEQA with Regan whenever I can, hopefully this picture will help remind me.

Threads

• Short thread by Andy Zhang about Chinese attitudes towards Taiwan. Oh, btw, Chinese ambassador to France says that they'll be doing 're-education' in Taiwan once they retake it, not exactly appealing for Taiwan. Also, if you're wondering why CCP propaganda is so clumsy and counterproductive, it's because it's honed for an internal audience.

• Aaron Eckhouse had a short thread of examples of horrible problems caused by traffic engineers.

• Chinese internet users are turning to Mastodon, a distributed Twitter style social network in response to heavy censorship on Weibo, although it's still miniscule in comparison. Unfortunately there's no equivalent way to respond to China's crackdown on tourism.