This got a cheer that might end up being the loudest of the season at Target Field.

law prof here. I’m afraid this amount of floof is unconstitutional.

Ok I’m sorry but this headline rocks. It is clearly making fun of him

12. A current list of seven members includes Philip Jefferson, Michelle Bowman, Christopher Waller, Lisa Cook, Michael Barr, and Stephen Miran, with what name missing? NICE TRY, RUMPELSTILTSKIN #LL108 #bestwronganswers

The latest from YouGov: "Democrats are starting to like Congressional Democrats again" open.substack.com/pub/yougovam...

Shields holding, captain!

No earthly pleasure more transcendent.

Come listen to me descend into research madness:

A whole lot of rookie transit-riders walked south two blocks to get on the southbound E Line instead of walking upstream two blocks to get on the bus when it was mostly empty.

I enjoyed his St. Paul concert a few years ago a lot, but tonight blew that away. The energy, the crowd involvement, the set list, the band’s performance — everything firing on all cylinders, whether the politics fires you up or not.

Imo the ideal workflows for using AI for programming and writing are flipped from each other. For programming, you review text that the LLM writes; for writing, you write text and the LLM reviews it

There is a healthy mix of ages in the crowd here at the Springsteen concert, but Boomers are definitely present in numbers exceeding their share of the general population.

For those days when I’m not in one of my exhaustive exhausting village explainer moods: Normalize googling words/terms followed by “definition” or “etymology.” Doors of knowledge will hurl themselves open for you, I swear. I even swan.

Philosophy was mostly "armchair" in the mid-20th century—but it's not anymore! Philosophers have increasingly cited empirical sources and discussed empirical data and evidence. In fact, as of the 2020s, non-empirical philosophy has become the minority.

All the people going, "It's not just this site" … well, it's *also* this site. That this problem may not be unique to Bluesky is nonetheless a problem *for* Bluesky. Don't you *want* it to be better than other sites? If so, then you must be willing to accept criticism of it, even if it's not unique.

When does thinking about your own family become “pronatalism”? Most Americans are concerned about *over*population, per a new YouGov poll. And a plurality simultaneously want more kids. My lunch with a toddler this weekend sent me down a rabbit hole.

The woman sitting next to me at a coffeeshop is sitting at her table using voice-to-text to dictate a long and somewhat sensitive conversation with a friend. I just can't comprehend.

Once again, this site has a significant problem with people who cannot distinguish between "here is what the law is"/"here is what happened" and "I endorse that law/what happened."

I recently remembered how in Season 1 of "Veronica Mars," everyone was fans of the San Diego Padres. But in Season 2, when the plot called for people in professional baseball to do bad things, the "Neptune Sharks" suddenly popped into existence.

operator: 911, please state the nature of your emergency me: there’s a site i go to a lot that isn’t the best way to follow breaking news operator: is it a news site me: not really operator: why don’t you go to a news site me: i don’t know operator: jesus. ok. how many ambulances do you want me: 75

After Claudia Goldin became the first woman to win a solo Nobel in economics, she got hundreds of invitations. She accepted three. One was advising WNBA players on a labor deal. She helped players land the biggest % raise in US sports history. www.wsj.com/economy/wnba...

Home networking Q! So I've got an old (1893) house, three stories + basement. I've been using an inherited Google Mesh wifi system that frankly isn't cutting it, and looking to upgrade. Fiber comes in the basement; there's ethernet wired direct to the 3rd floor, and I've dropped a cable to the 2nd.

That’s St. Paul

WAR DON'T SEX CRIMES HIDE CRIMES

New Likert scale @aedwardslevy.bsky.social

I wonder if part of the reason old #ttrpg rulesets seem to have such charm is precisely that they're NOT being widely played anymore. You can admire them in theory, or with a small group of experienced players, but the masses of noobs are off playing 5E.

Oh my god, the alt text is a gift. 😹

I'm pitching my wife to watch either The Wire or Deadwood as our next show. Both are complex adult dramas, which despite their genres are actually sociological studies of communities. Both have lots of sex & violence, Deadwood more explicitly. But DW is, ironically, the more *optimistic* show by far

I still don’t understand why the uptown association doesn’t try to buy the 7 points parking garage and make it free like 50th and France’s main garage. There’s no way the current owner is making money off how few people are parking there

There IS no such thing as a free lunch damnit

Proud to join the 3% minority on counting chickens. If you don’t count the chickens before they hatch, you’re planning for 0 chickens, and you will not buy enough chicken supplies.

“It’s a historical drama set in the 90s” “The 1890s?” “Ummm…” “Oh the 1790s?” “Wellllll…”

to hell with the customer amirite

This is actually very fun and somewhat revealing. My favorite may be the continued Jeffersonian (?) attachment to “neither a borrower nor a lender be.” I guess it’s Shakespeare via “Poor Richard, “ isn’t it?

Went through and saw which of these I agree with. About half

I have been a journalist for 26 years. And for 26 years, PACER has sucked.

Fully 50% of respondents reacting to Polonius as Shakespeare intended

Do you believe that you should never judge a book by its cover, that two wrongs don’t make a right, or that a picture is worth a thousand words? YouGov asked Americans what they thought about these and 27 other common proverbs: yougovamerica.substack.com/p/which-prov...

Cleaning data may not be sexy... or exciting... or enjoyable... or lucrative... or respected... or rewarded... or recognized... but at least it's... sorry, what were we talking about?

Currently wrapping up a very @aedwardslevy.bsky.social -coded poll release for YouGov's newsletter, so if the rest of you aren't already subscribed, now's the time to:

sorry i never responded to your email, i didn't want to and then i forgot

it is a legal requirement that if you make a map using a globe projection you must allow the user to grab the globe and do the spinny thing with the mouse

Genuine lol

i want to share one of the coolest data collection methods i employed for a story, from over a decade ago. it was used for this story in what i still think might be the best series i have ever worked on:

There are very obviously non-readers who are able to understand context, subtext, deception and so on. I realize reading is essential for *our* lives but that doesn't mean it has always been so and yet humans in low literacy societies could, you know, tell stories. Homer was not literate.

BREAKING: Center fielder Pete Crow-Armstrong and the Chicago Cubs are finalizing a long-term contract extension, sources tell ESPN. Crow-Armstrong, coming off a 30-30 season and a Gold Glove, will get a big payday as the Cubs lock up a franchise-caliber talent.

This great video essay reminds me of my longtime contention that lurking inside of the ponderous, overstuffed Star Trek V, the worst Star Trek movie, is a *really good* TOS episode.

A curated feed of French parties, so people can boum-scroll.

If anyone can help, I am trying to get a digital copy of "Jean Lhoste (1987). Les Entomologistes français. 1750-1950" AND/OR "Jean Gouillard (2004). Histoire des entomologistes français, 1750-1950." They do exist in DRMed digital versions but I'm region-locked from buying them.