Favorites September 11th 2021

Jerusalem @JerusalemDemsas

New >> When I came across this TikTok in my feed, I was vaguely annoyed at the disdain it held for new buildings. Then I looked into it and realized that the "gentrification building" the creator was complaining about was actually affordable housing.

vox.comWhy does TikTok hate this affordable housing development?The new multifamily buildings in your neighborhood actually slow displacement.

"If you don’t build enough of something, the only people who will get anything are rich people. Reflexively opposing new buildings doesn’t protect neighborhoods from gentrification but actually increases a neighborhood’s exclusivity." If you want more hard data in a case study of Oakland, check out Darrell Owens’ new article.

Max Cooper MD @0MaxCooper0

Something that's getting buried under the lede of the *Vaccine Mandate* is that @JoeBiden negotiated with @Walmart @amazon and @kroger Et al to sell at home #COVID19 testing kits at cost. This is huge Cheap testing will absolutely help us get out from under this Thanks @POTUS

This is great news, testing continues to be the area where the US most clearly lags behind other countries.

Alexei Koseff @akoseff

At an anti-recall rally for Newsom in Oakland today, @RepBarbaraLee gets a standing ovation from the union members in attendance for being the sole member of Congress to vote against the post-9/11 authorization for use of military force

I had forgotten about this, especially considering what that time was like, very impressive.

Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein

Fahad Nazer فهد ناظر @KSAEmbassySpox

On the 20th anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks against the United States, #Saudi Arabia stands in solidarity with the American people and its leadership. 1/2

If you haven't seen the source of this meme, it's great, only 3 minutes.

John Voorhees @johnvoorhees

I read Judge Gonzalez Rogers’ 185-page court decision in Epic v. Apple, so you don’t have to, and, of course, I have thoughts on the mixed bag the Judge handed Apple. The full story on @macstoriesnet: macstories.net/stories/what-d…

Really interesting, lots of good stuff, my main takeaway was that Apple's main loss was on an issue of California law, not federal.

Erik Brynjolfsson @erikbryn

It's remarkable how much progress often can be made on important problems when there is a big push that funds work on them and focused effort by smart people. The ROI for the public must be astronomical. What other big challenges await a push like we did for mRNA vaccines?

Derek Thompson @DKThomp

In the last 48 hours: - BioNTech announced human trials for cancer vaccines using mRNA technology - Moderna announced promising data on a 3-in-1 respiratory vaccine—a FluRona shot that also protects against RSV LFG 🚀 🚀 🚀 https://t.co/DZKXmTz1Xh

Fund science! There’s more great stuff to be discovered yet!

Arlen Parsa @arlenparsa

Americans have seen so many photos from September 2001. But most haven’t seen these pictures of a solidarity vigil in all the way over in Iran.

Stanford Campus, 2016