Favorites June 18th 2023
You've gotta pay an historian to find out whether the house is historic, and then pay the city to decide if the historian did a good job. Any home built before 1970 is historic unless proven otherwise. I-95 repair can be done in 2 weeks, but we spend years on environmental reviews of congestion pricing or bike lanes, the reviews take forever because the complaints are bad-faith. Three CEQA review cycles till the worst of global warming hits.
Quantian points out that anyone can buy a live satellite image for like $100 these days. It's not even that useful, perfect insider data doesn't increase your investment win rate by as much as you might think.
Threads
• I promise this thread of photos from an 1861 Japanese history book about the American revolution are more insane than you'd expect. They've got John Adams fighting a giant snake, among many other gems.
• Long post arguing that more neuroscientists should consider studying LLMs, they're not that well understood, but unlike a real brain, you have read-write access to every neuron, and you don't have to worry about harming the patient.
• Fun test, can you tell which ukraine war article is from the conservative wiki, and which is from the Marxist-Leninist wiki