If you're wondering, while data is not yet complete, he finds that the data we have so far indicates that suicides have continued to decline during the pandemic.
Polling is in a really bad state right now, this is related to a story where the NYT did an experiment to see if they could get better polling by paying for responses ($25 if you're wondering).
And yet flammable and inflammable mean the same thing!
Penwings! (The city is Melbourne, the photo was taken in 2020 and won awards)
Threads
• Thread summarizing Atherton's City Council discussing the State's rejection of their Housing Element. One highlight: like other city councils, they're having a little trouble understanding that when the state says "you don't have data here showing that you'll get these low income homes built in the next 8 years" that doesn't mean "you need to find more data" it means "you need to make policy changes".
• Really interesting thread about the dynamic that lead to the antagonistic relationship between major media corporations and tech companies, culminating in tech industry people thinking press people really like having their blue checkmarks on Twitter. TL;DR: it all started with an explicit decision by the NYT to cover Tech more negatively than other business sectors. (something I had not read about before, and other journalists back up the story, others point out that no one ever covers AG Sulzberger, who made this decision at NYT). Nate Silver adds that there's some confusion about why journalists use Twitter.
• Expert on Russian military gives an update on the overall state of the war in Ukraine going into the winter.