Favorites October 20th 2021

Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal

I’m…not sure that’s going to work.

nilay patel @reckless

BIG @alexeheath scoop: Facebook is considering a full company rebrand as soon as next week https://t.co/noBYDJc8G7

There were some jokes today with possible names, Central Intelligence Corporation, (a reference to Snow Crash), and Weyland-Yutani (Alien)

Noah Smith 🐇 @Noahpinion

Yes. This. Biden needed to take the lead, giving repeated bold forceful speeches about his agenda, touring the country to make the case for it, and calling out Dems who opposed it. Instead, he just tossed it to his divided, bickering party and let them hash it out.

ryan cooper @ryanlcooper

biggest strategic error from Biden was letting congressional Dems dick around with this thing for 7 months. incomprehensible squabbling sapped his approval and made the party look like incompetent imbeciles https://t.co/iS2i0wy2EV

Further: "He came out of the gate looking like FDR and is now in danger of turning into Carter"

Chris Hayes @chrislhayes

Would love to read a rebuttal to this from someone involved in crafting this legislation. I find it pretty darn persuasive, particularly given the experience I did with people caught in the same vice of the ACA

peoplespolicyproject.orgDemocratic Child Care Plan Will Spike Prices for the Middle Class by $13,000Bad design generates bad results once again.

Our obsession with trying to make sure we don't accidentally give free childcare to the wrong people is resulting in absolutely ridiculous program design.

Ramez Naam @ramez

Green steel is an area of climate tech where progress is happening much faster than I expected just a couple years ago. And a lot of it is driven by businesses and perceived consumer demand, rather than policy alone. I love to see it.

Shayle Kann @shaylekann

Buyers' consortia are becoming a major driver of industrial decarbonization. Steel - https://t.co/kh7YLiqb8P Maritime - https://t.co/2SOXnr9SwU

I hadn't heard that there are buyers for Green Steel (although I linked to the project previously), the program for shipping is pretty cool, many companies that buy a lot of shipping are on board, including Amazon.

SDL @SocDoneLeft

Usually you hear "regulations never work" nonsense from libertarians. It's worse to hear it from lefties! A few successful environmental regulations: - '76 Leaded gas control (causes blood lead) - '87 CFC control (caused ozone hole) - '95 SO2 cap-and-trade (causes acid rain)

If renewable options had been cheaper back in the 60s, or if we had developed nuclear further, CO2 emisssions could have been just another item on this list of successes. It's harder now, but it's still possible.

Jennifer Ouellette @JenLucPiquant

Using recycled cathodes makes better lithium batteries, study finds

arstechnica.comUsing recycled cathodes makes better lithium batteries, study findsThe materials create a more porous structure for the ions to negotiate.

Very interesting, I was surprised how much reproccessing the cathodes go through but still have different performance from new ones.

Josh Barro @jbarro

The best thing on Parks & Recreation was anything that involved public comment

I spoke at public comment this evening, and I promise I was *slightly* more coherent than this.

May 2020