Got On the calculation of volume 4,5,6 in Swedish! I’m going to try to reread 4 (in Swedish now), then move on to 5&6 (not yet translated to English!)

The emigration museum in Växjö was great! They have a Seattle specific exhibition set up now focusing on the 1910s-1940s

the american mind will see a symptom of structural problems and immediately reach for legislated prohibition

Berlin was beautiful! (Once we got through the Deutsche Bahn issues) We had a great bahn mi at Mom’s Vegan Cooking & saw Twelfth Night in German!

The trip to Amsterdam has been beautiful! Off to Berlin tomorrow’!

It's genuinely insane that centrist democrats expect anyone to care about a couple bad tweets when this is their media ecosystem

I especially love this diagram.

I get that the AC hating French are crazy, but all the Americans laying into them rubs me the wrong way… do u understand that it is supposed to be like mid 70s in Paris this time of year. The emotional weight of it is crushing and it makes sense to feel like it’s just not supposed to be like this

In 1926 you voted for who the head of the Brooklyn machine told you to vote for because he had gotten some heavies to threaten your landlord into giving you your deposit back. In 2026 you voted for who the head of the Brooklyn machine told you to because idk they got the local paper to endorse

It's been incredibly obvious for a while that Labour's strategy of "loudly agree that dangerous foreigners coming to our shores is the number one issue, hope the right wing press give you credit for what bastards you are to aforementioned Johnny Foreigner" would not, in fact, reap dividends. But...

Just ordered four books for the NYRB yearly sale!

Early projections on Sunday showed Swiss voters had rejected a proposal to cap the country’s population at 10mn people, delivering a surprise defeat to a rightwing initiative that had appeared neck and neck in opinion polls until just days before the vote ft.trib.al/X3a0hqp

Happy SpaceX IPO day! As a fun game, I randomly selected 10 of Elon's 50 most recent tweets, as well as 10/50 of his tweets 10 years ago and shuffled them together. Can YOU tell the difference between Elon today and Elon from way back then?

I know this is petty, but this clearly IS a jersey

Bitcoin right now lol

Two movies at the beacon last week, will be seeing at least two more this coming week for Bleak Week Seattle

Feels like a general problem we have is that liberal leadership doesn't feel the need to even really explain themselves when they do stuff the liberal base doesn't like. A bunch of the constraints are just shame and our leadership no longer has any

Van Hollen also says the likes of Anthony Blinken, Jake Sullivan, Brett McGurk, Amos Hochstein, and Jack Lew should be disallowed from serving in high administrative office in the future.

I like the part of the Odyssey at the Phaeacian court where Homer has Odysseus turn to the camera and say: "Now, we've all been having a lot of fun here today, but let's remember who the REAL heroes are---the hardworking bards and harpers in your own neighborhood. Remember to leave a tip, kids."

The Furious at SIFF, a Flannery O’Conner adaptation rented from Scarecrow, Barry Lyndon at Grand Illusion & Let The Bullets Fly presented by STart 电影 at Tasveer

you guys i'm gonna cry paul mccartney as the very last guest on the late show in the ed sullivan theatre 😭

Bezos says that the US has one of the most progressive tax codes. This is true by some measures. But our tax and transfer system reduces inequality far less than countries with broader tax systems. Tax cuts can't help people who don't have an income, but a generous tax financed welfare state can.

LLMs are bad at detecting generated text but it should be quite easy to detect generic generated text using very vanilla NLP and some logistic regressions, which is why it’s baffling that “AI detectors” are as bad as they are.

We are thrilled that TAIWAN TRAVELOGUE has been announced as the winner of the 2026 International Booker Prize! Congratulations to author Yáng Shuāng-zǐ, translator Lin King, and our publishing partners in the UK, And Other Stories 🎉 thebookerprizes.com/internationa...

sure, i have 20M lib of congress amazon.titan-embed-text-v2:0 embeddings, 5.5M have DDC, so I did: 1. Extracted centroids for each ddc ### class (labels from wikipedia) 2. Plotted PCA / UMAP Web viewer: thisismattmiller.github.io/dcc-embedding/ Code: github.com/thisismattmi...

I feel bad criticizing them because they are in fact the basis for like half the stats in urban stats but like please take ACS estimates with a grain of salt

We’re now in an interesting zone where the execs want to keep pumping IP ore but they’ve tapped all the primary veins so they have to go a bit more obscure or old, but also these same people have reoriented streaming around deleting older stuff to prioritize new drops

Land on the suburban fringe for greenfield logistics sprawl is "cheap" because huge costs are displaced onto the public (and the public pocketbook). It's terrible to see the road-related damage in an area w/the massive legacy rail infrastructure that Chicagoland has. We can make different choices.

The Nakba never ended. Palestinians have lived for more than half a century under Israeli military dictatorship and land theft in the occupied West Bank, and the United States has been complicit through all of it. Ending the Nakba requires ending America’s support for Israeli apartheid.

tired: rewrite ghostty in rust wired: rewrite ripgrep in zig

The first Airo train arrives in Seattle on Saturday, Amtrak just announced.

The City of Ottawa posted the raw speed data from before and after Doug Ford banned speed cameras and the effect is so obvious it's not even necessary put a line marking when that happened. This chart shows the percentage of drivers going 15km/h or more over the posted limit.

Many people clearly do not think scarcity is real

The city’s wealthy property owners say they are sick of being vilified. Read the full story here: ft.trib.al/9LbpUVQ

Had a fun Mother’s Day weekend with parents, we saw the Wood Brothers, Mark Morris Dance & Carmen, now ready to go to SIFF!

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every day I am forced to watch markets think we've solved world peace by 9am only to think World War Three is about to start at 12:30

Got tickets for the newly added screening of Again Again at SIFF! Excited to see how it compares to On The Calculation of Volume

They're really stopping an election that's already under way to erase my people from the map.

Guy Reading a Book about the Early Dutch Republic: [looking around] not getting a lot of Early Dutch Republic vibes around here. Honestly the situation is very different.

Why are we having this conversation again. No, the yimby movement or "abundance" or whatever shouldn't tie itself to datacenters, a thing that does not matter for general affordability (and in fact often makes it worse), because it is extremely unpopular

Ich mache das ehrenamtlich.

Completed the Seattle independent bookstore passport only using transit this afternoon!

I’ve visited 18/33 of the Seattle independent bookstore day/week stores now & saw David Szalay’s interview at Elliot Bay Books, Flesh sounds super interesting

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Bluesky ate my earlier posts but having a great Seattle independent bookstore day so far!

The Bad Plus was great in Seattle! I saw them with sax & guitar in 2023 and thought it didn't sound good, but whatever their issues they're fixed now! Maybe the acoustics at the location in 2023 were just bad. All the tunes they played were from their last two albums with the current instrumentation

I do think this is notable if only because the EU should absolutely think about a common stack instead of paying companies a multibillion dollar contract for sharepoint