Favorites November 6th 2021

Dustin Moskovitz @moskov

Helion has raised a massive round to build their 7th generation Polaris reactor that will create net energy by 2024. For a long time, fusion energy has been 10-20 years away. Now it is 3 years away. cnbc.com/2021/11/05/sam… ft.com/content/dcb75a… (better article, but paywalled)

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Don't pull a 'Lucy with the football' on me! They're using 'plused magnetic fusion', and aiming for 1¢ per kwh, really really awesome.

Ben Casselman @bencasselman

Notable drop in work-from-home among professional workers. Which is a good place to note that I'm tweeting this from the office.

I had no idea so many people, even in non-service industries, have been working from the office the whole time. Maybe WFH isn't going to change society that much...

9DASHLINE @9DashLine

The battle for Taiwan reut.rs/301h7uo China’s quest to rule Taiwan has already begun with a campaign of “gray-zone” warfare. Here is how military strategists believe the struggle might play out.

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I did not realize Taiwan had so many outlying islands right off the coast of China. No idea how realistic any of this guesswork is, but I feel like I learned some geography if nothing else.

Kaivan Shroff @KaivanShroff

"I think Nancy Pelosi, when the history is written, will go down as one of the most effective legislative leaders that this country's ever seen.” — @BarackObama November 2018

Good news, the Infrastructure bill passed, here's a summary of the spending if you want.

David Broockman @dbroockman

NEW PROJECT! Me & other constituents of @DeanPreston spent >100 hours digging into obscure city records to quantify his housing record. What we found was staggering: he's blocked homes for 8,587 people, and opposed them for 28,708. Our report: nimby.report/preston THREAD:

nimby.reportDean Preston’s Housing GraveyardDean Preston says he supports housing, but all he does is kill it. We add up the homes he’s killed so far.

SF Chronicle came out with an article about this as well. SF has a lot of disfunction, especially around housing, and Preston is the absolute worst, an example of a real politician running on a platform of degrowth.

Ian Thomas @wildwinter

I don't know what they're talking about, printers always work for me 😉

The Pearl, SF, November 2021