Favorites December 10th 2021

Aaron 🥑🚈🚰🏀 @aceckhouse

this seems very much like a case where the inability to cut any element from BBB is destructive of the deliverable quality of each element

Paul E Williams @PEWilliams_

The BBB proposal is neither universal pre-k nor universal childcare—it's effectively blue state childcare and blue state pre-k. Good for kids and families in blue states, status quo for kids and families in red states. https://t.co/YxlGW2uNiF

And since the funding is set to expire during what will probably be a Republican legislature, it won't last very long anyway.

Adam Tooze @adam_tooze

Investment in hydrogen production has exploded. thedailyshot.com/2021/12/08/cou…

All that zero-emission steel?

Timothy B. Lee @binarybits

One of the most interesting facts in @JamesTFrith's latest battery survey is that the batteries in Chinese buses are about 1/3 the cost of those in Western buses. Makes me wonder if this would be a good place for the US federal government to play catchup.

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He suggests guaranteed purchase agreements, once again, individual large states could also probably move the needle on this.

Noah Smith 🐇 @Noahpinion

I talk about income and education a lot, but one other way Hispanic Americans are catching up to (and overtaking) White Americans is in terms of low incarceration rates. The Hispanic population is MUCH younger than the White population, but the rate of jail is now lower!

Noah Smith 🐇 @Noahpinion

Progressives need to tell a positive story about immigrants fighting their way upward into the middle class and winning a place in the American tapestry. Because frankly, that story is true. https://t.co/xeFfoSj9Sr

Wow, look at that.

Michael Tae Sweeney @mtsw

What does building state capacity look like? It looks like this: bentflyvbjerg.medium.com/madridss-modul…

State capacity 🤤

Ethan Mollick @emollick

This study gives one of the most powerful illustrations of technical progress: our increasing laziness. Throughout the world, as countries developed, the average worker went from spending 50% of their life working in 1856 to around 20% working in 1981. pure.iiasa.ac.at/id/eprint/4461…

Gotta tell you, I do like the direction of that graph

David Zhou @dz

Keanu's laugh in response to NFTs in this @verge interview is everything I wanted for Christmas youtube.com/watch?v=0OK80e…

This is also my feeling about NFTs

Randall Munroe @xkcd

Incident Report xkcd.com/2553

May 2020