Favorites October 22nd 2022

Oct 23, 2022

This is a crazy one. Vail Resorts wants to spend $17 mil of its own money building housing for its employees on its own property. The town of Vail is using eminent domain to seize their land and stop the project, saying it threatens bighorn sheep habitat

reason.comColorado town seizing ski resort’s land to stop it building employee housingThe Vail Town Council says that while affordable housing is desperately needed in the community, Vail Resorts’ Booth Heights project would threaten local bighorn sheep.

Just, absolutely crazy stuff here, NIMBY cities everywhere continue to fuck around, but the good news is that at least in California, January brings Find Out season.

Gavin Wildе @gavinbwilde

"Almost 23 per cent of developers in Russia who used the popular coding platform GitHub changed their location information or deleted their profiles between February 2021 and June 2022." This can't bode well for Russia's Belfer "cyber power" ranking...

newscientist.comHundreds of Russia’s top software developers may have left the countryAlmost 23 per cent of developers in Russia who used the popular coding platform GitHub changed their location information or deleted their profiles between February 2021 and June 2022

As Darrell Owens points out, we really need to be accepting Russian refugees right now. Gaining new greatful citizens is doubly better than having them go die fighting Ukraine. Noah Smith points out: Russian losses are "6 times Soviet losses in Afghanistan, in about 1/15 the time period". They cannot sustain that.

Zaid Jilani @ZaidJilani

For people who are skeptical that this could happen, recall that China threatened several countries with reducing their vaccine supplies in the past couple years over geopolitical differences.

Matt Stoller @matthewstoller

China is going to move on Taiwan. China will stop exports to the US on which we depend. Many Americans will start dying almost instantly when medical supplies stop flowing. This is terrifying and it's going to happen.

The level of economic disruption they've already been able to endure from their zero-covid policy is pretty good evidence that they might be willing (and foolish enough) to do this.