Favorites November 16th 2021

Noah Smith 🐇 @Noahpinion

Your periodic reminder that although America styles itself the "land of the free", Japanese people can drink outside and leave their shoes on when they go through airport security.

Freedom to experience airport security theater

Merlin Mann @hotdogsladies

Texas Switch!

youtube.comEdgar Wright Breaks Down Scenes from ‘Shaun of the Dead,’ ‘Last Night in Soho’ & More | Vanity FairIn this episode of “Notes on a Scene,” ‘Last Night in Soho’ director Edgar Wright breaks down scenes he’s directed from his film and television career, inclu...

That's a lot of Texas switches in the last clip, wow. Also, I’m kinda realizing Wright is unusually into using that trick.

Supreme Court of Canada @SCC_eng

We are pleased to present the official photo of the nine current judges of the Supreme Court of Canada. #SCC #cdnlaw scc-csc.ca/about-apropos/…

"When you know your class action lawsuit against Santa Claus is getting dismissed". I looked it up, and these appear to be the ceremonial robes, trimmed in Canadian white mink.

Jay Lawrence @jaylawrence91

And this, everyone, is the greatest video of all time:

"I'm asking you who's on first! No no, You is on Netflix"

Mike Masnick @mmasnick

Ah. This has never been about "big tech." It has always been about "old desperate legacy tech" against new tech.

They've gotta look out for the little guy... Oracle?

Nate Silver @NateSilver538

@mattyglesias There are lots of contenders for top progressive linguistic self-owns, but "Let's take an extremely popular (equality) and instead use a slightly different word that means a slightly different thing, even though both are directionally similar to what we want" is high on the list.

Message discipline is hard.

Numlock News @NumlockAM

A committee opposed approving Aduhelm due to lack of evidence it actually worked, but FDA approved and Biogen set a price of $56,000/year. It’s going to cost Medicare a fortune. Part B premiums will increase 14.5% in 2022, HALF of which is Aduhelm alone

numlock.substack.comNumlock News: November 16, 2021 • Scotland, Terrapins, JetsBy Walt Hickey This past Sunday I talked to the brilliant Alex Abad-Santos for the subscriber Sunday edition. I also published it as a podcast, and everyone can check that out on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. I’ve really enjoyed doing those around once a month and

Someone needs to be responsible for cost benefit analysis! It's ok if we decide that *isn't* the FDA, but then Medicare should be doing it.

The Telegraph @Telegraph

🧠A vaccine against Alzheimer’s disease could be on the horizon after scientists carried out successful trials in animals. Researchers were able to reverse memory loss in mice and are keen to move quickly to human trials Thread 🧵👇 telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/11/1…

It’s great that biotech continues to innovate in treatments for difficult illnesses, but I’d rather spend that money developing new treatments rather than spending it on things that might not actually work.

Owen Zidar @omzidar

economics.mit.edu/files/21191

That is just crushing: too little money to look around for a job that's a better fit.

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

California in some ways gets a bad rap — you hear a lot about housing politics there because YIMBYs have gained real power and passed real reforms. In New York there’s no fight to cover.

California is an amazing place to live, and if we keep fighting there's no reason we can't have cities that truly rival New York.

SF Zoo, July 2021