Yesterday I heard Justice Sam Alito talk over another justice, a woman. I got curious to see if anyone has tracked this and yep — not only do men on the Supreme Court talk over women more, but interruptions are rising as more women join the court: news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/fe…

The “litigation doom loop” is a huge problem for clean energy deployment.

Solar projects that receive the strictest level of NEPA environmental review have the highest litigation rate:

64%

By contrast, fossil fuel projects only have a 32% litigation rate.

Hundreds came to celebrate 1 Year of 🚲 Hill Family Biking 🚲 April 27!!

Of all the things I was lucky enough to work on, this might be my favorite. You shouldn’t have to pay money to pay your taxes. As this program continues to grow, most people will get pre-populated forms and be able to file their taxes with a few clicks in a few minutes.

At this point GMO hysteria seems… quaint? We are not just eating genetically modified stuff, we are genetically modifying our own blood and reinjecting it to cure cancer. It works!

At what point do you as a scientist start asking “is this stuff ontologically evil”

something beautifully pure about noting that young Americans are celebrating Chinese glycine production immediately before arguing it's crazy to force Tiktok divestment todayintabs.com/p/veblen-bads

there are many layers of irony in between, possibly enough to make it make sense

The White House consumerfinance.gov We're making big progress. The consumerfinance.gov’s final rule will lower most credit card late fees to $8 and will save families more than $10 billion annually. We've also proposed a rule to rein in excessive overdraft fees, which could save households billions more. consumerfinance.gov/about-us/newsr…

The way me and my awful Millennial friends talk to each other

TikTok’s 3 strategic comms mistakes with this video:

1) LITERALLY DOING THIS 👀

The TikTok team was so concerned with getting the words exactly right that they had the CEO read from a script. But trust is won or lost through body language — not words — and the script messed up…

nonint.com/2023/06/10/the…

via simonwillison.net/2024/Apr/25/ja…

'the shooting followed a dispute and that the victims and the possible gunman are known to each other.'

Another example of how guns turn merely unpleasant everyday arguments into terrifying life and death situations.

‘How good can his gull impression really be?’ I thought to myself. Then he changed my world entirely

theguardian.com/world/2024/apr…

As I've been saying, you don't need to swallow the whole phones are evil narrative to see there is clearly a specific problems with phones in school.

slowboring.com/p/smartphones-…

Today's newsletter is the story of how Prabhakar Raghavan, Google's former head of ads - led a coup so that he could run Google Search, and how an email chain from 2019 began a cascade of events that would lead to him running it into the ground.

wheresyoured.at/the-men-who-ki…

FTC Non-compete rule has a bunch of excerpts from commenters who described how non-competes have affected them and their part of the market. The sort of thing that you are not likely to get from anything but a comment period on a rulemaking process.

Another day, another car driving erratically with fake tags and illegal tint. But not dark enough to conceal that the reason the driver was taking so long at each stop sign was to spark up a glass pipe.

DC’s gotta take its roads back

the only things I knew about Foxtrot were that they were expanding in DC incredibly aggressively and probably sold drinks? I think I saw bottles of drinks through the window

anyway always a bit weird when a hyper-aggressive chain rollout abruptly explodes