Favorites May 18th 2022

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Nat Bullard @NatBullard

Yes the oil market is tight. Now imagine it if demand were structurally higher by 1.5 million barrels per day. about.bnef.com/blog/zero-emis…

This is what's going result in oil production finally beginning to fall.

Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦 @Noahpinion

This is the biggest threat to our country. Russia and China are a distant #2.

Omar Wasow @owasow

“Let’s state this plainly: Pennsylvania Republicans just nominated a full-blown insurrectionist who intends to use the power of the office to ensure that, as long as he is governor, no Democratic presidential candidate wins his state again.” https://t.co/LgJND53QrG

It's important to be able to conduct elections, everything else is kinda secondary.

zeynep tufekci @zeynep

Wheee, self-sabotaging 5D chess might hinder Fall vaccination plans for adults as well. You know what's creates an impresson of not a very effective vaccination plan? One that doesn't approve vaccines in a timely manner and does effective outreach. nytimes.com/2022/05/18/hea…

Updating vaccines might "create an impression that we don’t have a very effective vaccination program". This seems... ill-advised.

Joe Weisenthal @TheStalwart

It sure looks like the back half of the retail bullwhip is here... The big shift away from pandemic consumption is here, and it's happening fast, leading to surging inventories, falling trucking rates and of course a huge plunge for $TGT, $WMT $COST etc. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Does this mean that there won't be so many container ships queuing for ports soon?

Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦 @Noahpinion

Sigh...all the hours I wasted on hold for customer support, when I could have just done this

Taylor Lorenz @TaylorLorenz

OnlyFans creator says when her IG account got deleted she started stalking down FB employees on LinkedIn and having sex with them until one finally gave her her account back. She also reveals what she learned about the IG ban review process from some of the guys https://t.co/Vu8mgf0Wnx

Insider risk as a release valve, probably now how their system should work...

Timothy B. Lee @binarybits

Over the last five years, people kept being surprised by how slowly self-driving cars improved. I think expectations are now so low that it might switch soon. Like Waymo's expansion here is incremental but they are clearly making progress.

techcrunch.comWaymo expands driverless program in Phoenix – TechCrunchWaymo is pulling the human safety driver out of its recently expanded robotaxi operations in downtown Phoenix, Dmitri Dolgov announced at TC Sessions: Mobility

It feels like airport pickup and drop-off is a must for a functioning taxi, but that's probably the final boss of self driving tech.

Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur

Former President George W. Bush: “The decision of one man to launch a wholly unjustified and brutal invasion of Iraq. I mean of Ukraine.”

What an amazing flub. Sara Jeong: "this is the most perfect encapsulation of an entire character arc. this is art"

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