Favorites September 4th 2022

Mountain View, August 2022

John Overholt @john_overholt

The Library of Congress has long held a collection of an early color photograph process, but rendering the images was costly and time-consuming. Thanks to digital technology, the library has now digitized more than 1300 photos of pre-Revolution Russia. blogs.loc.gov/picturethis/20…

I think I saw the most famous ones, like the one above, a long time ago, but if you go into the full archive, there's lots of interesting old photos.

Warren J. Wells 🚴🏙️🦀 @WarrenJWells

90% of America thinks the fact that they see more homelessness must mean crime is up (it's not). Meanwhile traffic deaths are increasing at a rate not seen in a century and no one outside of the bike/ped safety world has any idea.

Bman @BarmanNYC

If the media covered car crashes the way they cover crime, people would be terrified to drive. It’s called availability bias.

In 2021 we had a 16 year high, and in 2022 we're on track for it to be even higher! We've erased decades of progress!

Darrell Owens @IDoTheThinking

Harlo is correct. The Rust Belt and South are more rent burdened than the coasts. But absolute rents matter far more than rent burden in causing homelessness. Even when controlling for low incomes (R) theres little correlation between having high homelessness and rent burden-ness

Harlo 'Dean' Pippenger 📉 @PippengerHarlo

According to the US Census, median monthly rent burden based on household income in Kansas City MO is 22.79%. In San Francisco, it is 20.25% https://t.co/0ZlUuRr0c0

It was not intuitive to me that rent burden less predictive of homelessness than absolute prices, but the explanation is actually pretty straightforward.

Chris “Subscribe to Law Dork!” Geidner @chrisgeidner

Trump continues acknowledging that he knew what documents he had taken, where he had put them, and that they remained there until the FBI seized them. Notably, this time it’s directly from him in a speech — not even on “Truth,” where he could try to claim someone else posted it. https://t.co/em7rQT3HOR

Acyn @Acyn

Trump: They talk about documents not being properly stored yet they go in and take documents and dump them on the floor.. stage a photo shoot and pretend that I had done it https://t.co/gzbZqWzdZ0

The whole "publicly admitting you did the crime" shtick is gonna be a lot riskier if he finally gets charged with a crime. The newest excuse is that he was going to put the documents in his presidential library, which... is not a thing you can do with classified documents.

lmaojank @lmaojank

Holy shit the GOP played with fire.

They made a majority of Catholics support abortion! Wild!

Threads

• Thread explaining the details of the California's Net-Zero carbon emissions legislation, which Newsom pushed hard for and got passed this year.

• Detailed thread regarding weather prediction for the extreme heat wave this week in California.

• If you want more takedowns of degrowth, here's a thread of them.

• Short history thread about the beginning of construction of SF MUNI in 1911.

• Thread explaining the European energy crisis.