www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJS2... This interview between @howard.fm and Chris Lattner reminded me of @vickiboykis.com‘s excellent recent essay: vickiboykis.com/2025/10/20/i...

AND HE WAS LIKE, BUT NOT MY FACE, RIGHT? AND I WAS LIKE WELL IT'S A FACE, SO

Gonna be a long day but, no matter what, on every Election Day, Theresa and I are gonna walk down together to our polling place and vote. So i ran home to vote (benefit of living where you work). Because we all matter or none of us do. And all means all. And we vote accordingly.

I am a former Republican, now independent, not a Democrat. And the only party I feel "dehumanized" by is this man's party.

I should make a version of ublock that replaces every ad with a playable copy of Doom

Best defensive performance by a Yamamoto since the Battle of Santa Cruz Islands.

In normal times, this would be a major scandal occupying huge amounts of newsprint and attention. Now, this will be buried by new outrages within a few days.

Lol, orbital DOOM: www.tomshardware.com/video-games/... Cc: @foone.bsky.social, @aelkus.bsky.social

Wish I could disagree with this.

Multi-panel view of the last few days of Hurricane Melissa: ↖️ GOES-19 infrared brightness temp ↗️ GOES-19 visible satellite ↙️ Hurricane hunter planes & flight paths ↘️ Recon-derived flight level wind swath ⬇️ Estimated minimum pressure from recon dropsondes

This is the in-this-house era I came of age in

Eastern ID (digital)

lol. Lmao, even.

…and, there it is. 18th, here we come!

tO tHe 17Thhhhhhhhhh

TO THE 16TH!?!

TO THE 15TH!!!

Trapping in SQL, take note @rickywlmsbong.bsky.social

Republicans continue to posture on "free markets" and "pro-business", yet it would be hard to find an Administration more actively interventionist or politically punitive towards markets or business than the Second Trump Administration. It is statist and personalist through and through.

Love me some Odd Lots. Great convo between @weisenthal.bsky.social, @tracyalloway.bsky.social, and Brian Potter of the Construction Physics newsletter. Psyched to read his new book, The Origins of Efficiency! youtu.be/Vzjva___kSI www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B0FH...

our purely arbitrary betrayal of Canada is one of the things which makes me angriest about Trump II

This from @vickiboykis.com and also for scholarship. newsletter.vickiboykis.com/archive/i-wa...

It turns out a system that allows extreme wealth inequality while dispensing with noblesse oblige is very Not Good.

The situation I was trying to help with this weekend was a father being removed from his family. Been here 30 years in a legal protected status that the admin revoked out of nowhere and issued a deportation order. It is horrifying and absolutely fucked.

New concept photo for the White House East Wing Ballroom just dropped

Wore my “don’t argue with anyone John Brown would’ve shot” T-shirt today Bartender at a casual prominent DC bar “Who’s John Brown?” Reader, I despair.

Random thoughts on Hegseth speech: - Having done both old-school Army PT and yoga, I would pay a thousand dollars to watch an infantry platoon get absolutely fucking smoked in a hot yoga class 1/

- This guy is 100% the shittiest company commander you ever had, promoted beyond his abilities, without having learned a single goddamned thing about operating at the strategic level 3/

The Ukrainian military—the toughest, most experienced, most adaptable, most successful on the modern battlefield—is beardy old men, women, artists, gamers who can’t deadlift sh*t but can fly a drone into a Russian helicopter rotor Focusing on capabilities, not “looks,” is how you achieve victory

Fukuyamaists…trust the plan.

Rudolf Kalman put it nicely (and provocatively): link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

It’s only eight months in but I can’t think of a single instance where the administration identified a preexisting problem (they didn’t create) and then implemented a successful policy change to fix it. Kind of remarkable to think about, even last time around they had a batting average above 0.000.

Mariners are actually good at baseball.

Whoever wrote this @washingtonpost.com editorial has no understanding of military affairs-- and has not been reading two decades of the Post's coverage of the war in #Afghanistan: ♦️There is no way to hold #Bagram without the cooperation of the Taliban, or a Berlin Airlift level of resupply. Brief 🧵

How to quantify the impact of AI on long-run cultural evolution? Published today, I give it a go! 400+ years of strategic dynamics in the game of Go (Baduk/Weiqi), from feudalism to AlphaGo!

This is pretty cool - a foundation model for 3D CAD files (h/t Brian Potter of the Construction Physics Substack): www.spectrallabs.ai/research/SGS-1

On both sides of the dominant culture of the time, is an amazing incapacity of institutions and the people leading them to weather external pressure or stay a course. Executives and the organizations they lead as simple weather vanes of no profound internal principle or resilience at all.

Do your part, cancel Disney+/Hulu.

It’s wild how good a heuristic “everyone associated with a name with 25% short interest should be in jail” is, we should try letting the market decide on this stuff

I cannot understand why Dem pols are not lining up to denounce this. Destroys the rationale for foreign direct investment in the US, pisses off a critical ally in Asia, harms our global reputation. This isn’t shooting ourselves in the foot, it’s cutting ourselves off at the knees with a chainsaw.

Fox host Kilmeade literally proposed a "final solution" to homelessness (systematic mass murder) and you know it will have zero consequences for his media career.

My thoughts on gun violence. Today I testified in a sentencing hearing for several young adults convicted of murder. With a gun, always a gun. Listening to the victim impact statement of a mother whose son was murdered, you learn to not wish violence on anyone. It’s not a joke. It’s not edgy.

I keep being wonderstruck by how often the people who whine constantly that everything they don't like is "Marxism" are the ones acting like fucking Maoists.

They call this one the ‘Odd Lots Amazon Order’ @weisenthal.bsky.social @tracyalloway.bsky.social the only thing missing is Moby Dick

this will help a lot en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperpe...

Just wondering how many folks in the Pentagon are cool with the fact that the enemy is no longer Russia or China but non-Trumpy Americans.

I think that it’s bad that the Secretary of Defense is openly trashing the concept of legality regarding military operations.