Favorites March 8th 2023

February 2023

juan @juanbuis

for some *ridiculous* reason the french love to translate movie titles from english to... english here's a thread with my all-time favorites, starting with "the hangover" ...i mean VERY BAD TRIP

Is it because "H" is not pronounced in French?

Ramez Naam @ramez

The amount of battery innovation going on right now - sodium-ion for low cost, iron based for cheap grid storage, underground pumped hydro, zinc-based, silicon anodes, and yes, lithium-sulfur and lithium-air for ultra high energy densities - is just mind boggling. Exciting times!

John Smillie @JohnSmillie42

Solid state lithium air battery with 4x the energy density. No nickel, no cobalt, tested up to 1000x cycles. This seems like it could be huge? https://t.co/hZcGLMMvfn

This new lithium air battery isn't necessarily going to be the thing that catches on, but there really seem to be a lot more battery technologies in serious development recently.

Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy

Here's Tucker Carlson, his executive producer, and a Fox News executive mocking all the election lies.

He's not a true believer fascist, he's just in it for the money. (And of course he's also responding to the desires of his fascist-leaning viewers). What does he say in private about his own show?

Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦 @Noahpinion

I continue to feel 100% justified in using the term "wokeness" as a non-pejorative. The American people are on my side!!!

Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer_

This is the funniest possible outcome to this entire “wokeness” circus show https://t.co/B7moSzZsKw

Someone saying this or that is 'woke' is still more likely to be meant as an insult, but only because people who see it as a positive are less likely to go around labeling things as woke or not.

Matthew Zeitlin @MattZeitlin

"A video posted on TikTok has led to a massive increase in car thefts across many — though not all — US cities with available data...The video was up for less than two weeks but the impact on auto thefts throughout the nation has been immense." jasher.substack.com/p/how-tiktok-c…

Joel Wertheimer @Wertwhile

@conorsen @MattZeitlin I think it’s technological namely most cars on the road couldn’t be stolen and then it was discovered that wasn’t true. https://t.co/3Cib5bIjr8

It's Kia and Hyundai cars, which is somewhat concerning since I have been considering a Hyundai as my next car.

Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦 @Noahpinion

Threads

• I had somehow never heard of the Cologne cathedral, but now I have, and this short thread with the story behind it's construction was great.

• Details of Washington's reform to their CEQA equivalent. TL;DR: no review required for new homes within cities.

• I know LLMs are hot right now, but here's a short example of how image Diffusion models work. It's a summary of this longer explanation