Favorites October 13th 2022

Nuro Autonomous Vehicle being towed in circles real fast this morning. Maybe they wanted to test it in dusty situations?

Tristan Snell @TristanSnell

BREAKING: Trump PERSONALLY told staff to move the documents — from a storage room at Mar-a-Lago, to his residence at the compound, after the feds asked for the docs. Per one of the staffers and corroborated by security footage. Hard evidence Trump intentionally hid the docs.

There was actually a bunch of Trump/January 6th stuff today. The Supreme Court denied his appeal regarding the search of Mar-a-Lago. Internal FBI memo says that low level agents were sympathetic to J6 rioters. January 6th Committee showed video of congresspeople during the evacuation, one notable thing was that Pelosi definitely comes out looking pretty good. Finally, Popehat notes that the stated goal of the Republican party is to try all of this again.

Paul Byrne @ThePlanetaryGuy

See those rings? They're not artefacts of image processing. They're real. And #JWST just snapped them. 🤏🧵

It's two stars whose orbit takes them close together every 8 years, causing the expanding shells.

Shmaybe Reads aka Spicebaliset 🎧 @UltimateEgoist

r/dune banning AI-generated art is one of the most appropriate moderation decisions I’ve seen. Butlerian Jihad indeed

There are people talking about this unfairly putting artists out of work, really brings Dune to mind.

M.G. Siegler @mgsiegler

My god they launched this fast. Meaning one of two things: 1) work was already well underway on a project behind the scenes as they deflected —“no interest right now” 2) the current swoon was that existential that this became a “drop everything and do this” sprint https://t.co/owAQDyzP1G

Techmeme @Techmeme

Netflix says its Basic with Ads tier will cost $6.99 per month and launch on November 3, 2022 in 12 countries, including the US, Australia, Germany, and the UK (@charlespulliam / The Verge) https://t.co/gezOHFDFmX https://t.co/MLDLdC2mW0

Plus this involved cross company collaboration, they're partnering with Microsoft to provide the ads, very impressive to get something so big out the door so fast.

Holger Zschaepitz @Schuldensuehner

US #inflation hotter than expected. September CPI rose 8.2% YoY vs 8.1% expected. Core CPI accelerated to 6.6% YoY, highest since 1982.

The federal reserve is definitely going to continue to raise rates, anyone who didn't take out long term loans in the last decade is going to get the short end of the stick (whether a country buying infrastructure or a person buying a house).

Threads

• A thread discussing a recent NYT article about Long COVID, it argues that the underlying study the article is based on has some serious problems. TL;DR, it's certainly possible that half of covid patients are still suffering months later, but with a response rate to the survey of 16%, it seems like you're going to have some serious bias issues.