Favorites November 19th 2021

Miguel “mask and vax” de Icaza @migueldeicaza

On the Booster shots: the WSJ has a good set of charts to help you choose whether to stay with the same vaccine or do mix-and-match. I included the images for your convenience, but the article has good additional information. wsj.com/articles/covid…

This would have been so useful to me last week! If you haven't yet, the CDC says that you can now, I'm not afraid to upgrade that to you SHOULD do that now. There's no reason to drag our feet on this.

Anne Helen Petersen @annehelen

Flight attendants’ jobs have never been more dangerous — seeing it in graph form is really something 19thnews.org/2021/11/flight…

All service jobs have quietly added the role of 'bouncer' as well. Flight attendents have it the worst though, you're stuck with the bad apple till landing.

Dr. Sophia Moskalenko @sophiamoskalen1

Parenting practices have little influence over a child’s personality, study finds. My teacher, the late Prof. Jon Sabini used to say, ‘the greatest influence parents have over their children is at the moment of conception.’

online.ucpress.eduLongitudinal Associations Between Parenting and Child Big Five Personality TraitsThe goal of this research was to explore the relationships between four parenting dimensions (academic involvement, structure, cultural stimulation, and goals) and child personality development. Many theories, such as social learning, attachment theory, and the psychological resources principle assu…

I'm not sure I realized this, impact of parenting on child's personality traits was "comparable in magnitude to the association between factors such as SES and birth order, and child personality—that is, small"

Maggie Haberman @maggieNYT

Periodic reminder that 2023-2024 will be focused on certification of the upcoming presidential election

nytimes.comWisconsin Republicans Push to Take Over the State’s ElectionsLed by Senator Ron Johnson, G.O.P. officials want to eliminate a bipartisan elections agency — and maybe send its members to jail.

"If it comes down to Wisconson, the GOP will steal it."

Randall Munroe @xkcd

I asked GPT-3 to tell me about public opinion, and the results ranged from “delightful” to “unexpectedly cursed”

It's just pillows and blankets and.. ohh, that escelated. If you're unfamiliar, GPT-3 is a system that can generate plausable text based on any prompt, in this case I'm not sure I'd quite call it 'plausible' enough.

Akash Kumar @akashkumarfilm

Neo and Trinity leaving the city at Montgomery to hop on @SFBART in the new poster. Probably going to Zion (Oakland).

Bart replied that yes, this was filmed at an SF Bart station. Also, it's super interesting to see this Matrix film so clearly set San Francisco specifically, whereas the previous films were just a nondescript American metropolis.

Heidi Groover @heidigroover

"There simply isn’t enough housing for everyone who wants it, even with this infusion of cash." Seattle got more than 1,300 federal vouchers for people experiencing homelessness, but almost none of them have been used, @sydbrownstone reports seattletimes.com/seattle-news/h…

As Noah Smith notes: "you have to actually create the physical spaces in which people can live".

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

What is the mechanism by which teachers’ grades exhibit less “bias” than a standardized test? latimes.com/california/sto…

Testing is the worst way to judge people fairly, except for everything else we've come up with.

Rengstorff House, August 2020