The talk of datacenters in space is even dumber than I had thought. Imagine replacing one datacenter with a swarm of 18,000 satellites the size of the International Space Station (ISS) and flying in formation with high speed data links! 1/3

Check out this rock tuya youtu.be/_6TRkIWP9UI

I don't understand why the robots stopped and that's bad, but surely the more concerning failure is a large dense section of an American city losing power

"Good" ????? nyeditorialboard.substack.com/p/john-catsi...

(talking with the fellow nerds about low home energy efficiency) @wtyppod.bsky.social should do an episode about how America needs to activate windows

NYT headline after the AI bubble implodes: "the real chatbots were the diner patrons telling us gibberish about politics all along"

are schools teaching kids how to bet in PE class, yet?

I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered. He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here : www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...

these crypto bros should pay taxes to pay for regulators to protect them arstechnica.com/information-...

a 50+ year old electric ~vehicle that has no tablet, no plastic, almost no electronics, some wood, hopefully no asbestos, a manual transmission (speed control is even weirder than that), the original tires, and is still running. Wild youtu.be/bdtxmd8ze7E

Part of this week’s newsletter was inspired by the post below. Was there a way to show the distance between normal Americans and the super wealthy? 1/8 www.howtoreadthisch.art/putting-the-...

Thomas Chatbot Williams

pestilence www.thecut.com/article/draf...

imagine going to work today and telling your esteemed colleagues that you want chuck schumer to be in charge

I received this email about Democrats caving to end the shutdown from one of the SNAP recipients I spoke to:

Latest philosophy tube says carbon footprint is irrelevant because climate is a systemic problem, and also that each additional baby in a rich country means increased carbon emissions, and ignores both to get to [main topics]. These are commonly paired positions, but they are contradictory! 1/3

congratulations to everyone who gets to fly to a Thanksgiving dinner thanks to Schumer caving, you'll get to talk to Republican relatives about how evil Democratic politicians are

dudes rock youtu.be/cjZvFY6__qw

if you genuinely think Schumer and Democratic leadership opposed this & Republicans coincidentally got exactly the number of votes they needed to avoid a filibuster and none of those votes are from Democratic Senators who are up for reelection in the midterms next year, I have a bridge to sell you.

Pathetic. Shut down air travel until they fund HSR.

Geologist dismantles dating methods? The earth is the new manosphere.

Border Patrol agent Lairmore testifies that he was not injured by the sandwich, but he felt the impact through his ballistic vest. The sandwich came apart and "kind of exploded" on his chest upon impact, he says. "I could smell the onions and mustard."

some people have tighter standards for who can be called aunt than they do for who can be killed by a missile strike

Good video and, anybody know if millionaire corn farm owners are still getting unpaid labor from children ordered to do community service by a court? youtu.be/v4XM-mQgRO0

good vid. The real farm bankruptcy crisis is that not nearly enough wealthy people are losing control of their farm land. youtu.be/xon9A5_4tQw

"“Bats that managed to catch a bird did not land—their altitude did not change. They were consuming those birds mid-air.” Tena thinks the bats bite off the wings to reduce drag and the weight of the bird." arstechnica.com/science/2025...

Achilles went on strike when his boss took his wages, until he felt it was time to go back, and the important thing is he'll stand up for all the hard working voters after he's elected.

Free idea for a campaign platform: Seize ownership of every company, and the net worth of every individual or foundation, on this list.

Graham Platner could do the country a great service by emphasizing to today's young men that today's choices can have personal consequences decades later

Costco is the most powerful institution left in America to oversee a safe food supply

as a long-time visceral and passionate Rancher Hater, may I say: lmfao, lol,

betteridge's law strikes again arstechnica.com/features/202...

well they said to post this, "the official opinion of well there's your problem podcast is entirely closed borders and ethnostates, no one should be allowed to move anywhere" youtu.be/1mwRyYK_4As&...

"The girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa"

universal free broadband access for all arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

I am pleased to report that the foamers are airborne youtu.be/-FLAxRUxs_s

have any Stoller adjacent #Antitrust guys rebranded as #Abundance guys? It's clearly a better grift for vaguely selling left policy goals (lower costs) and yet also making firm promises of profits for almost all current economic elites

I don't have any musical analysis but I was listening to the new album today, got happy that a Pixies song was starting somehow, and then so disappointed

It was more than him getting away. He was fully taunting them. 😂

Chotiner: Hello Ezra Klein: Hello, happy to be here Chotiner: you're making this big deal about not hating opponents and, uh wait no I can't Klein: What? Chotiner: I have a brand here, you've helped everyone else mock you so much. You've self-Chotinered! I'm cancelling the interview. *click*

In an interview with the great Ta-Nehisi Coates, @ezraklein.bsky.social said "I don’t know what my role is anymore." The late great Tom Lehrer said “I wish people who have trouble communicating would just shut up.”

the Simpsons teaches kids, always look for the help bears

hey everyone, stop using gas lawn equipment or making low paid lawncare workers do it, electric motors are quieter for everyone and less harmful to you

"politically illiterate" is a clearer and more actionable description than that or eg "low information". These people have all the information in the world and choose to share human generated slop. The Democratic party should treat them as such, and stop compromising policy to win them over. 1/2

the male loneliness epidemic youtu.be/zeH90IJVAI0

CDC advisors recommend that children get infected with measles, mumps, rubella and chickenpox

latest Complex Systems podcast by a pair of LLM enthusiasts is perfectly crafted to convince fellow enthusiasts and extreme skeptics that they're definitely correct

what's the infectious disease risk of maintaining relationships with antivax republican family members?

Democratic party operatives are terrified that candidates like this will appeal directly to voters and win elections, without the need for huge donors funding a lot of operative salaries putting out anodyne ads. Bloomberg wasting a billion on a campaign that appealed to nobody is their dream.