Favorites October 5th 2021

Sheel Mohnot @pitdesi

Drones raining from the sky in Zhengzhou 😬 Word on the street is that a rival drone company that lost the bid interfered to overwhelm the drones nav system!

More examples of the cyberpunk future we live in

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

The regional bank presidents don’t report to the chair!

Jeanna Smialek @jeannasmialek

Sen. Warren says that she initially opposed Jerome Powell's renomination as Fed chair because of bank regulation, but recent ethics issues show that "Chair Powell has also failed as a leader." "We need changes at the Fed," she says in a floor speech.

I'm more in favor than ever of Powell staying on, in no small part because his detractors are making less and less sense.

Todd Vaziri: Aspect Ratio Influencer @tvaziri

I wrote and narrated a short piece about digital compositing on "Rogue One: A Star Wars Story" for Industrial Light & Magic's Instagram. link: instagram.com/p/CUiDHqJhxH0/ @ILMVFX

As there's ever more VFX in films, sometimes I forget how much work goes into every single shot

EMP at Berkeley Lab @BerkeleyLabEMP

One-fourth of current US utility-scale solar was installed in 2020 alone -- 9.6 GW of the 38.7 GW total. Tracking systems dominate the market over fixed-tilt systems. More data at utilityscalesolar.lbl.gov. 3/x

Wow, I wouldn't think that all of the extra equipment to make the panels tilt would be worth it. Btw, I’ve talked about how dumb it is to shut down Nuclear power plants right now, building new ones takes many years, while solar installations take months. On in that time the price of solar falls by 75%.

Noah Smith 🐇 @Noahpinion

This is why Romney is still bad

Erik Wasson @elwasson

ROMNEY makes clear he will filibuster the debt ceiling increase on vote tomorrow. “We’re not voting in any way to help raise the debt ceiling. As a group we are all together “

Failing to raise the debt limit isn't fiscal responsibility, it's just dumb, this is money that congress already voted to spend. Not raising the debt limit just causes checks they've already written to bounce. On the other hand, by opposing The Coin, Romney is sort of legitimizing it.

Edinburgh, 2017