Favorites July 20th 2022

Walter Hickey @WaltHickey

this is a colossal shift in how people listen to music in an extremely short period of time numlock.com/p/numlock-news…

I wonder if this is people getting better at finding what they want, or apps are getting better at giving people what they want...

Larry Levitt @larry_levitt

New: Suicide death rates vary tremendously by state, and that variation is due largely to suicides by firearms. kff.org/other/issue-br…

Something real weird going on in Hawaii

Josh Marshall @joshtpm

Truly remarkable numbers. In just under two years public approval of the US Supreme Court has fallen from 66% to 38%. Simply unprecedented in rapidity. This is what fatal loss of institutional legitimacy looks like. law.marquette.edu/poll/

Thomas and Alito have been going around complaining about lack of respect for Institutions, especially SCOTUS. Very hot dog guy behavior.

An Urban Futurist Democrat @UrbFuturistDem

I wondered if this 2016 broad upzoning in Auckland (whose impact on construction the paper below demonstrates) had an impact on rents. Sure looks like it, per official stats.

Cowles Foundation @YaleCowles

Can zoning reforms increase housing supply? New research examines the impact of upzoning in Auckland, New Zealand: https://t.co/9nH2Wk1q68 By @McgrevyRyan (@AucklandUni) & Peter Phillips (@Yale) https://t.co/FRrvpb7BS1

They have a whole paper if you want to click through, but the graphs are quite striking.

Juan Outs @MADSVPERVILLAIN

found this while browsing Japanese auction sites and i think you should all behold the memory card slab

To those wondering how many gigs this is, someone ran the numbers and "my friend this is a grand total of sixty four of god’s own megabytes"

Threads

• Short thread about car manufacturing and chip shortages. Key element is that the design cycles are super long: "By the time the automotive companies finish designing a car, the chips are out of date."

• A few tweets summarizing a report on why Defense R&D got so much less effective since the 50s. (Robert McNamara made some big mistakes, you know, besides Vietnam)