Favorites June 15 2021

Ars Technica @arstechnica

We have another highly effective COVID vaccine, based on different tech arstechnica.com/science/2021/0… by @j_timmer

arstechnica.comWe have another highly effective COVID vaccine, based on different techWhile not needed for the US, it should help with the global vaccine push.

I had not read about how Novavax works before. From reading this it seems like they just inject you with a big blob of the spike protein, none of this fancy mRNA stuff.

Oisín McGann @OisinMcGann

@cstross Every time people raise this issue, I think of this piece. Every time.

By a strange coincidence, "go fuck yourself" is also the US prison system's answer to hard questions.

Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum

They were trying to overturn the election. It was not a joke.

nytimes.comTrump Pressed Official to Wield Justice Dept. to Back Election ClaimsThe former president began pressuring his incoming acting attorney general even before announcing that his predecessor was stepping down, emails show.

Trump was trying really hard to overturn results, and the January 6th event was a huge mess. If Democrats want to win, it might be good to continue to raise the saliency of these issues. Maybe subpoena Rosen to testify before congress, it’d be good television, and keep the mess in the general public’s memory.

Patrick Collison @patrickc

This piece also includes some results from a survey of Fast Grants recipients. We found some of the findings very striking. 4/5 scientists would change their research "a lot" if they weren't bound by the limitations of restricted funding mechanisms!

Patrick Collison @patrickc

A little more than a year after Fast Grants launched, @pdhsu, @tylercowen, and I wrote a piece about how it worked and what we learned: https://t.co/kVQ5QPYOOi.

Wow! Fast Grants style funding seems like it would make a huge difference.

Richard K. Green @keynesianr

This is why I doubt there is a bubble. If you don't make much of something, the price goes up.

To get the cost of homes down, we need to build more of them.

NPR @NPR

JUST IN: The Senate unanimously approved a bill that would make Juneteenth, the date commemorating the end of chattel slavery in the United States, a legal public holiday.

trib.alSenate Unanimously Approves A Bill To Make Juneteenth A Public HolidayJuneteenth is an annual celebration held on June 19 to commemorate the end of chattel slavery in America.

Unanimous, wow.

Tom Warren @tomwarren

Windows 11 doesn't ask you for a floppy disk for drivers, and doesn't default to A:\ 🤯🤯🤯

Tom Warren @tomwarren

I really hope Windows will one day never ask me if I have a floppy disc full of drivers 🙃 https://t.co/vJS2CgB2xn https://t.co/X1gBrf91Su

#Finally

Los Angeles, June 2018