Favorites July 23rd 2023

David Watson

Jul 24, 2023

John Siracusa @siracusa “If I had to describe the Barbie movie in three words, it would be: Men ruin everything.” — My daughter (16) 1+ gummibando Oliver Busch @gummibando@mastodon.social @siracusa Description probably applies to Oppenheimer as well. — (src)

Both Barbie and Oppenheimer are over 90% or Rotten Tomatoes, seems pretty good. Tyler Cowen liked Barbie, but I had to look up what "Straussian" means, just like almost every time I read his blog.

𝙲𝚑𝚊𝚛𝚕𝚎𝚜 𝙲. 𝙼𝚊𝚗𝚗 @CharlesCMann There is much, much more to do, but from what I can tell it is not widely understood that US per-capita CO₂ emissions have fallen below WWI levels: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/co-emissions-per-capita?tab=chart&country=~USA — (src)

Ideally we want not just zero emissions, but net negative emissions, but this is still very good progress. Hopefully we can see China do the same.

Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @perdricof today in fukuyama laser eyes: only forty percent of iranians still identify as muslim theconversation.com Iran's secular shift: new survey reveals huge changes in religious beliefs A huge new online survey of Iranians reveals only 40% identify as Muslim. — (src)

Noah Smith replies: "Unifying church and state eventually destroys church."