Favorite Rejects 2022-10-31

Phillips P. OBrien @PhillipsPOBrien

Potentially a very important moment. With Turkey involved will the convoy be allow to sail undisturbed. If so, hard to see how any blockade can last

Stefan Wolff @stefwolff

U.N., Turkey, Ukraine press ahead with Black Sea grain deal despite Russian pullout https://t.co/Plqb7zplY5

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

I've never looked into the illusory truth effect literature in any detail but I've heard it summarized enough times that I believe it's true.

Ethan Mollick @emollick

Paper showing it works after just five repetitions for obviously false statements (“George Washington was born in China”); https://t.co/4rIfLv5eVp Knowing better does not help: https://t.co/L8gzKYtz2E A lot of statements at the same time strengthens it. https://t.co/ZDFM2USFor https://t.co/m97cFdVclB

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

New York City is an unusually well-policed place, but in the aggregate Italy spends more on police as a share of GDP than the United States. slowboring.com/p/america-spen…

Marco Chitti @ChittiMarco

I just discovered that the NYPD budget is $10.9 bn for a 8.5 million city. So I went to see how it compares and the entire budget of the Italian State Police is €8.6 bn +€4.5 bn for the Carabinieri for a 60 million country. "NYC, setting money on fire since 1625"

Josh Barro @jbarro

The NYT has invented a new thing for you to feel bad about: “fast furniture,” which is mass produced and therefore bad. (Even pretty expensive stuff like Crate & Barrel.) Want to be a good citizen? Build your own furniture. nytimes.com/2022/10/31/rea…

Todd Vaziri @tvaziri

"America's emerging dictatorship has liberals on edge. But for some, the stability and absence of hard choices is a welcome change.” boingboing.net/2022/10/30/ny-…

maia @maiamindel

you will never believe which restrictions are causing the netherlands' housing crisis

Mike Bird @Birdyword

Must admit I'm sceptical of this piece on the Netherlands reaching the limits of growth. The limits identified (high pop. density, labour shortages) are not new, and yet it has been faster growing than most comparable nations over 10 and 30yr timeframes https://t.co/XEVW2s8nkw

Garry Tan 陈嘉兴 @garrytan

When Atlanta banned e-scooters, travel time and street congestion went up 9% to 11%, and 37% during large sporting events. Also: Commuters revert to car-based travel when e-scooters aren't available. Anti-tech urbanists 🤝 Pro-Car Road NIMBYs nature.com/articles/s4156…

nature.comImpacts of micromobility on car displacement with evidence from a natural experiment and geofencing policy - Nature EnergyMicromobility solutions such as e-bikes or e-scooters are rapidly changing urban travel patterns and behaviours. Asensio et al. use travel data from the city of Atlanta, which introduced a No Ride Zone, and uncover trade-offs between public safety policy and traffic congestion.

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

Global warming rides to Ukraine's rescue.

Capital Weather Gang @capitalweather

November is about to begin in Europe and many areas are in the 70s and 80s. Not normal. Some of the warmth is the most extreme ever observed this late in the year. France and Austria have clinched their warmest Octobers on record. https://t.co/caEK3kBSqC

Benjy Sarlin @BenjySarlin

I make no presumptions about the lab leak question itself, but this @maxwelltani piece on the latest ProPublica investigation is pretty rough

semafor.comProPublica scrambles to check translation in COVID origin story | SemaforVanity Fair and Pro Publica said they had a breakthrough in the COVID-19 origin story. But was it based on a mistranslation?

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

You’re owning Elon Musk by quitting Twitter. I’m owning Elon Musk by using his platform to advocate for land use reform, nuclear & geothermal power, and permitting reform to facilitate utility-scale wind and solar projects. We are not the same.

Armand Domalewski @ArmandDoma

If you read the NYFed report, this is not because of newly disabled Americans, but because the labor market is so hot that previously unemployed disabled people are now getting jobs https://t.co/scDDphOlwq

Eric Feigl-Ding @DrEricDing

Disabled workers. Not a coincidence. #LongCovid is going to screw us over if we allow #COVID to continue to keep spreading. Downplaying COVID is tantamount to sentencing a generation to a multi-organ debilitating disease. #CovidIsNotOver https://t.co/jwOjxT8MSG

Mayor John J. Bauters @JohnBauters

We submit our first draft Housing Element to @California_HCD for feedback and it's deemed in total compliance. And we're seeking a pro-housing designation with a plan to produce 150% of our RHNA obligation. The state is not the problem. Your city is the problem.