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@jamesonhaslam Sound Construction

my brother is an acoustician/physicist/sound engineer in NYC (eg did the sound work on the 270 Park Ave build) I’m trying to talk him into starting a substack What are some good names for a newsletter focused on acoustics (sound and vibration control)? Good Vibrations?

@kylascan Any chance you will publish your podcast on YT?

Audio version: share.transistor.fm/s/a3d95f51

There is a thin line between entertainment and destruction. I had the chance to talk to Jon Cohen, the author of Losing Big, about sports betting in the United States. We talked about the history (the moral stigma, the legal penalties), the ads, the hen house and the foxes, the dopamine business model, the language of individual responsibility, and what comes next (unfortunately something much worse). Gambling is weird because it's one of the oldest industries (because it's fun) but now it's integrated into state budgets, and we are depending citizen irrationality for some parts of revenue. Everyone is responding to incentives, all of the time. But the incentives are increasingly misaligned. Link in next post - and there is an audio version available. Enjoy!

@iseeaswell @LiangBowen

Cantonese has been a top request for so long, but its diglossia with Mandarin has been a persistent problem for the machines. Thank you to the 100+ Cantonese volunteers in Google, and especially to the powerhouse Mingfei Lau, Bowen Liang, and of course 葉鍶雅 for moral support.

What’s next? Personally, I’m going to spend a while obsessively monitoring twitter for complaints, and figuring out how to fix them. Last launch we found some v interesting errors this way, including a font that was “an affront to the language itself”

San Francisco, trade unions at odds over modular construction sfchronicle.com/bayarea/articl… Complicated situation. I understand SF trade unions being concerned about the undercutting of wages but OTHO I think geographic job growth equity in places like Solano County is good @SFjkdineen

@jstrackattack hey, I think I got the right person. there is a package for you in the building. Want me to do something with it?

@echen Ah, where did you find it? I need to buy one.

@jestelle what is 'Snow White and Seven Dwarfs'?

“I want to watch that movie with the princess with a headband who goes into guy’s houses” -Mabel Can you name the movie Mabel wants to watch?

Starting today, US hospitals are banned from reporting COVID data to the Centers for Disease Control. Instead, they must report it to a no-bid, privately-contracted server under control of the Trump political apparatus. nytimes.com/2020/07/14/us/…

@sfmta_muni @SFBART Is it blocked in both directions?

UPDATE: There is no #subwaysvc between West Portal & Van Ness Stations. The #MOceanView & #LTaraval Lines are being interlined. #TThird switching back at Embarcadero. Bus Shuttles en route from West Portal to Embarcadero. @SFBART mutual aid from Balboa to Embarcadero Stations.

One of those moments when I feel like I am living in the "Future". Discussion in the article is not about the technology nor the implications. That's too mundane. Instead, covers their annoying sound, the most important issue at hand. wsj.com/articles/deliv…

@alexrudnick @lindsey Good luck!

My reasons for optimism about Japan’s future: I think Tokyo can figure out how to do a San Francisco tech company substantially easier than San Francisco can figure out how to do a Tokyo literally anything else. twitter.com/pinboard/statu…

If the evidence continues to pile up, will we recognize the magnitude of this major environmental policy mistake and resulting generations of poverty and suffering?

Late to the game, but it seems like the fringe theory that 'Lead poisoning causes higher crime rates' is now getting more support. brookings.edu/blog/up-front/…

He 👏🏽 called 👏🏽 everybody 👏🏽 out. "I'm even disappointed in one of my best friends, Ray Lewis" twitter.com/undisputed/sta…

In 1995 Walmart pulled "Someday a woman will be president" T-shirt from shelves, saying it offended "family values."

This is how carrot harvesting is done

.@HansRosling's life expectancy vs fertility rate data animation made with ggplot2 & gganimate @drob @hadleywickham

0% unemployment twitter.com/mlnow/status/6…

Was a little worried Colbert would not be good this time around, but this segment was great. youtu.be/Brg5ChOTaZM