Favorites September 4th 2021

Alexei Koseff @akoseff

Assembly sends @AsmMarcBerman's AB37 to the governor's desk. If signed by @GavinNewsom, California would mail ballots to every active registered voter — a system the state adopted for the pandemic — in all future elections.

This is so cool, especially when combined with california's relatively new automatic voter registration.

Gabriela D'Souza @gabster0191

This paper and Clemens’ work changed the way I communicated about migration. I knew the stuff he wrote about was true because I had experienced it, as had many others I knew, but his work gave me the framework to think about it deeply. Thank you Michael 🙏🏽

Michael Clemens @m_clem

Ten years ago I published a paper called "Trillion Dollar Bills on the Sidewalk". I want younger scholars fighting for their ideas to know how that paper was received then, and now —> https://t.co/Ix7QOPKTfE

The 'trillion dollar bills on the sidewalk' framing is not an overstatement. There are further academic papers on the subject, but it's also covered in the much more approachable Utopia for Realists.

Colin McMillen @mcmillen

everybody raves about mexican coke, but i can barely even taste the cilantro

Jaana Dogan ヤナ ドガン @rakyll

Mexican Coke > Diet Coke >>> Coke > Coke Zero

You've gotta be careful in your comparisons, the glass bottle causes it to taste better for sure.

Marc Goldwein @MarcGoldwein

Joe Bishop-Henchman @jbhenchman

WSJ has a bit more: Moderna wants to do a smaller 50cc dose to reach more people and have fewer side effects. FDA wants 100cc to reduce confusion from changing dosages and avoid wastage from discarding unused doses in a vial. Policy Qs not efficacy Qs. https://t.co/UIv2innl6U

I just can't believe we're wasting time delaying on this stuff. An interesting note from @ScottGottliebMD is that it might be more accurate to think of the two first shots *together* as the vaccine primer.

Guy Berger @EconBerger

Lots of ink spilled about today's jobs report, but this is still the big picture: this current recovery, while nowhere near complete is moving much faster than the prior one. Fiscal and monetary stimulus work. Policymakers, please don't step on the brakes!!!!

Context is that the jobs report did not show as many jobs added as hoped.

Paul Scheer @paulscheer

I’m never as succinct or as eloquent as this. I’m glad someone else is…

What an interesting angle on the abstract structure of the anti-abortion viewpoint. Good news though, it's not the majority opinion, and the Texas Governor's approval rating is plumetting after recent events.

Miles Kimball @mileskimball

“The US Navy is ‘the po­lice force of nearly all blue wa­ter’..The Strait of Malacca..be­tween Ma­laysia and Suma­tra was for cen­turies among the most treach­er­ous pas­sages on the globe; it is now..the ship­ping equiv­a­lent of a Los An­ge­les free­way”

wsj.com‘The Blue Age’ Review: Dragging AnchorThe U.S. Navy’s dominance brought order to the oceans and fostered global trade. How much longer will that continue?

I did have to look up where it was, but apparently a quarter of the world traded goods pass through this sea lane.

JesseJenkins @JesseJenkins

"Last year, CAISO had around 550 MW of storage on its system; today, that number has grown to a little over 1,500 MW, and is expected to top 3,000 MW by the end of the year." "We're seeing the kind of performance we expected..."

utilitydive.comCalifornia’s growing storage fleet is beginning to impact energy markets as envisioned, says grid operatorStorage advocates, meanwhile, say California should move away from its “just-in-time” procurement cycle to account for processes like interconnection and permitting.

Now that’s some good news.

May 2020, Kyoto

A correction: the Rolling Stone article about ivermectin overdoses turned out to be BS, although the headline remains funny.