Favorites June 03 2021
kottke.org@kottke
Inspired by flat-packed furniture, scientists at Carnegie Mellon developed a technique for making pasta shapes that start out flat when dry but "morph" into their final 3D shapes when cooked. (The secret is grooves.)
kottke.org
Flat-Packed Pastas That Pop Open When Cooked
4:36 PM · Jun 2, 2021
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Those helixes look tasty
Casey Newton@CaseyNewton
Trump’s near-instant abandonment of blogging illustrates that the real power of platforms isn’t “free speech” — it’s free reach.
It’s never been clearer what stunts like the Florida deplatforming law are really about.
platformer.news/p/trump-deplat…
12:11 AM · Jun 3, 2021
1.19K Reposts · 4.45K Likes
Trump abandoned his blog, which apparently no one was reading. It’s wild because it was basically the same content as his tweets. Whatddya know, Twitter must have *some* effect.
Blake Scholl 🛫@bscholl
Only 14 Concorde aircraft entered service. @united is adding 15—and up to 50—Overture supersonic airliners.
Boom Supersonic @boomaero
Introducing the United supersonic fleet.
@United will purchase up to 50 Overture airliners and fly the fleet on 100% sustainable aviation fuels.
https://t.co/zVG2aMCVKx #BoomSupersonic https://t.co/kg9eoFT2Ww
11:16 AM · Jun 3, 2021
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I really wonder how the economics are going to be different for these, are they going to be cheaper to operate somehow? Here’s a great video from Vox about it.
b-boy bouiebaisse@jbouie
the folk civics around the filibuster is very similar to the folk civics around the electoral college in that both are very clearly after the fact justifications for rules that make no sense and have no logical basis
nymag.com
The Fake History of the Filibuster Won’t Die
1:22 PM · Jun 3, 2021
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b-boy bouiebaisse@jbouie
i actually do blame (anti-new deal partisan) frank capra for 75 percent of filibuster mythology
Eldritch Millennial @BmoreBaker42
@jbouie People want to imagine Jimmy Stewart valiantly standing up to corruption - the reality is Strom Thurmond pissing in a bucket to prevent civil rights for black people.
1:39 PM · Jun 3, 2021
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I was definitely taught both these folk civics lessons.
Patrick Collison@patrickc
More businesses launched on Stripe since the start of 2020 than did in the rest of Stripe's history before then. Overall rate of migration to the internet economy is hard to overstate.
3:22 PM · Jun 3, 2021
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It's wild to think that this many companies weren't online already.
M.G. Siegler@mgsiegler
They should invest it all in Netflix stock.
zerohedge @zerohedge
*AMC CEO SAYS COMPANY NOW HAS $2 BILLION OF CASH ON HAND
3:31 AM · Jun 4, 2021
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Reddit users are currently pumping AMC's stock, so they quite rationally have capitalized on that by selling a bunch more while the price is high.
