Favorites June 25th 2022

Balboa Park, June 2022

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

Warren has already had remarkable success pushing the idea that nobody with a private sector background should work in the government and now she’s moving toward you shouldn’t even meet with business leaders?

It's sorta annoying to be in the position of hoping that a politician is lying, but that's probably the best case.

Zaid Jilani @ZaidJilani

NEW: What if one way to tackle crime is to focus on fixing places rather than arresting people? That's the theory behind risk-based policing, an experiment that has been carried out in multiple cities.

newsnationnow.comPolice are fighting crime by checking buildings, not suspectsKANSAS CITY, Mo. (NewsNation) — Is one way to reduce crime to focus on places rather than people? That’s a bet the Kansas City Police Department placed in 2019 when it ramped up an appro…

Interesting thread about risk-based policing, which appears to involve reducing police work by fixing city components that lead to crime. I wonder how well this replicates though.

JesseJenkins @JesseJenkins

New battery from market leader CATL (35% global market share) reaches energy density of 255 Watt-hours/kg, said to enable 1,000 km (621 mile) range & fast charge to 80% (~500 miles range) in 10 mins. Range anxiety? What range anxiety. Mass production 2023.

cnevpost.comCATL unveils Qilin Battery, says it can easily achieve 1,000 km vehicle rangeThe Qilin Battery will have an energy density of 255 Wh/kg and will be in mass production in 2023, CATL said.

Mass production next year! Wow!

Shannon Watts @shannonrwatts

“As soon as possible, force Republicans to vote on a federal right to abortion in the first trimester and in cases of rape and incest, and federal prohibitions on criminal penalties for women [and those who assist them] who seek or obtain abortions … Now. Not in November.”

Dan Diamond @ddiamond

“Republicans are willing to pay a political price to ban abortion,” @jbarro writes. “It's up to Democrats to make them pay it.” https://t.co/zDmkR179ya https://t.co/iwtzk7QxCC

Republicans have decided they're willing to take a political hit here, but Democrats need to actually do that.

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

Protesting is good! Racial justice protests moved opinion on racial issues in a progressive direction! You want to protest for a reasonable policy goal (i.e. not “defund the police) but it’s good for folks to march for abortion rights.

Lakshya Jain @lxeagle17

The crux of the argument is “Democrats have blown things in the past so they will blow this too, and moderates will dislike the protests more than they dislike the ruling’s effects, so it might help the GOP”. I’m not sure. Public is a fair bit more liberal on abortion than crime https://t.co/ZrIFHeOlkA

Yglesias can be a wet blanket, but not on this! Protesting works!

wohnBAUMoffensive @holz_bau

modulation and facade undulations lead to more expensive buildings, more thermal bridging, more durability issues, more operating costs, more heat loss, more embodied carbon, more operational carbon simplicity is climate action

VFAR: vertical surface area to floor area ratio. It measures how much energy you lose to heating and cooling.