Favorites June 25th 2023

Foreverr adding parking at Yosemite, Midjourney V5

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Cuba has allowed way more private businesses, and it appears to be working, there are now more private-sector workers than government ones.

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This pricing might almost make sense if you had to pay both $35 for the car and $20 for each person in the car. But in any case, it reads like someone just randomly came up with these price points without any serious consideration. Check out the linked video to see the predictable outcome of this policy choice.

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We're doing much better than expected on electrification and renewables!

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Threads

• Thread by Michael Kofman analyzing the outcome of Prigozhin's short-lived insurrection. And another thread by a Russian political expert. TL;DR: "Prigozhin ultimately lost. Wagner will also lose out. But Putin lost as well, and the regime was wounded"

• Cohousing experiments seem to show that it really does cost a ton to build homes in California.