Favorites February 22nd 2023

Mountain View, December 2022

Taniel @Taniel

Dems tonight —won a legislative special in NH, overperforming Biden in 2020 —won a congressional special in VA, also overperforming Biden —won a legislative special in KY, also overperforming Biden For now, they're also overperforming Biden in the supreme court first round in WI.

So, definitely good news for the Democrats, but education polarization means that Democrats are going to do ever better in low-salience elections. Yglesias expects a reversal of the two parties positions on turnout.

Senior PowerPoint Engineer @ryxcommar

lmfaooooo

This is from ChatGPT, it'll make the same mistake with a pound of feathers and almost any other object, including the moon. Interestingly, one reply indicates that Bing's chat doesn't make this mistake.

OSINTdefender @sentdefender

The U.S. Government is considering publicly releasing Classified Intelligence that proves China is supplying Russia with Non-Lethal Military Aid and additional Intelligence that indicates they are preparing to provide Lethal Military Aid.

The fact that China is planning to give lethal aid to Russia is very bad news, it makes Russia/Ukraine a proxy war between China and the US, and may indicate China intends to move against Taiwan relatively soon. The US' most likely response could be to further arm Taiwan.

Threads

• Very long thread describing how the UK has a 4 million home defecit, unusually bad in Europe, although not quite as bad as California, which has a similar numeric defecit, but a lot fewer residents. TL;DR: the UK passed NIMBY regulations earlier, and theirs were more focused on 'local control' than other European countries.

• Long thread about problems children face in Japan, it's pretty grim. TL;DR: high suicide rates for teenagers, low life satisfaction, high rates of abuse.