Nice that one can use network-bypass techniques without crazy vendor frameworks or kernel mods. Even cooler that one can recreate iptables functionality like this for faster inter-host networking

Beginning to understand why Mamdani's first move is to reform property taxes lmao what is going on

I made an ascii art moon phase tracker that runs whenever I open a new terminal window, and it makes me aware of the passage of time more than any calendar. github.com/asweigart/as... and github.com/asweigart/as...

According to signaling theory, some signals must be costly just to be costly—that's how you get a separating equilibrium. Think peacocks and their oversized feathers. So even if AI removes one costly signal, it doesn't mean we should stop technological progress — we'll just find new ones.

happy steely eyed missile man Friday

Is AI making job recruitment less meritocratic? We're getting some v interesting research studies on this question now, and the news is... not good. @jburnmurdoch.ft.com & I dive in, in the latest edition of our newsletter The AI Shift www.ft.com/content/e5b7...

Common Ground between AI 2027 & AI as Normal Technology asteriskmag.substack.com/p/common-groun… (interesting) #AI #future

Blue Origin has sent two spacecraft toward Mars for NASA and successfully landed New Glenn's first-stage for the first time! For @proximareport.bsky.social -> proximareport.com/new-glenn-bo...

honestly expressing my opinions on the New York Times and every person who works for them would get me banned.

The piss tank on the ISS is now 69% full.

Blue Origin sticks the landing on New Glenn's second flight www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

They did it. Hell yeah.

HOLY SHIT THEY DID IT

All these NYT reporters have sacrificed everything they had to get to the NYT so all they have left is the prestige of the institution, of course they're gonna go down with the ship. If they sacrificed everything just to work at the Pedophile Protection Newsletter, what does that make them?

The answer to one of the key problems in ATC is that we don't have enough controllers. We have, frankly, never had enough controllers. Fund staffing at the FAA. Spend the $$ and fix this problem. Now. (A source on that 1967 figure is this article from the NYT.) www.nytimes.com/1967/09/18/a...

New Glenn launches NASA’s ESCAPADE Mars mission, lands booster Blue Origin successfully launched a NASA Mars mission on the second flight of its New Glenn booster Nov. 13, landing the vehicle’s first stage in the process.

so uhhhhh is anyone going to do anything about the epidemic of drivers just blasting through red lights these days? @timdonnelly.com investigates: nygroove.nyc/why-does-no-...

I'm seeing chatter about the rising tide and all boats. And, I really hate to have to say this, but I think in our current condition, it is wrong. Or, at least overstated. kevinerdmann.substack.com/p/im-afraid-...

New Marron survey of 400+ subway lines across the world from London to Paris to Shanghai finds just 6% still use two-person train operation, which would be required by a TWU-backed bill. “It doesn’t really matter to us what the data shows,” says TWU boss Samuelsen www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/n...

working at the nyt

We dropped a new report re: train operations, everyone’s favorite topic. There’s some backstory that we will get too. But, the basic takeaway is modern train systems have moved away from two-person train ops. New York should, too! transitcosts.com/Train_Operat...

🦀 I've improved the implementation behind all the string formatting macros in Rust: println, panic, format, write, log::info, etc. (Everything using format_args!().) They will compile a bit faster, use a bit less memory while compiling, result in smaller binaries, and produce more efficient code! 🎉

there's a priest who's job, twice a day, is to lift a floor stone in the nave and check the water level with a Holy Dipstick and communicate if the sluice needs adjusting again, i am not exaggerating

Median Age of All US Homebuyers: 59 Years. It was 39 in 2010. Torsten at Apollo

amusing chart. it turns out New York City built more housing units in the 1920s than in the 1970s, 80s, 90s, 2000s, and 2010s put together www.nyc.gov/content/plan...

Turns out you can communicate across containers via 63-bits of available space in a shared lock you acquire on /proc/self/ns/time that all processes have access to. No networking required. The post has a demo of a chat app communicating across unprivileged containers. h4x0r.org/funreliable/

I drank a metric ton of iced tea today and sifted through some old folders and pulled a bunch of Star Trek reacts

NEW: I wrote about Nasa's rather incredible system for detecting tsunamis, in near real-time, by *analysing GNSS signals*. Some tsunamis are so big, they cause ripples in the Earth's atmosphere big enough to affect GPS. www.bbc.co.uk/future/artic...

NEW from me: CO2 emissions in China have now been flat or falling for 18 months, the first time that energy demand growth at or above historical averages doesn't drive emissions up, thanks to the clean energy boom. 🧵👇

Good morning with good news: "China's CO2 emissions have been flat or falling for 18 months!" Transport CO2 fell 5% & electricity CO2 is flat, despite strong demand growth, in Q3 2025, compared to 2024. Solar surged 46% & wind 11% in Q3 2025! www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-chi... #energysky

i too am 99.999% goodwill

Releasing some Patreon comics over the next few days.

This is a phenomenal long read. The sort of article it's incredibly difficult to get permission and resources to write nowadays.

In 2018, then-Mayor Ada Colau called Barcelona’s new 30% inclusionary housing requirement for projects over 600m^2 a “paradigm shift,” making housing “a right and not a commodity.” It was supposed to produce 330 affordable units a year. The reality: just 31 affordable apartments in all these years.

What a title for a paper lol ☄️😳 Out of 10 billion simulated, ten thousand strike the Earth. arxiv.org/abs/2511.03374

Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...

Jamaica’s $150 million cat bond has been the subject of controversy since it failed to trigger last year after Hurricane Beryl destroyed large parts of the island.

People are supposed to get hurt when they misallocate capital, the one exception is depository institutions because they have demand deposits in them.

people hate hearing this but it's 100% true, creating a huge pay gap between political leaders, their staffs, and other elites is a recipe for corruption. of course the flip side of that is taxes on the rich should be jacked way the hell up

This year has been the best defence of the jury trial system ever

Ok, just wow. If the content of this article is right, this is depressing. We're slowly reaching the point where ~100% of what I was taught in Social Psych was either innocently wrong or plainly frauded onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Congrats to NYC on starting down the road to a unified streets map. Took only 125+ yrs after consolidation 😉 Scanning each borough’s paper maps will be (mostly) easy, actually digitizing all the metadata would be really really hard. Here’s a close-up of what one of these paper maps looks like.

Our message to Andrew Cuomo was loud & clear in June. It’s louder & clearer tonight.

Halt the Coney Island project immediately, we have bigger things to build

Brad Lander is at the victory party and, folks, he has the custom one-of-one “GOOD FUCKING RIDDANCE” shirt.

I'd vote against Cuomo a third time if I could

It's funny that the type of candidate centrists say they want - the non-ideological, competent, get-shit-done type - actually exists and would be running for reelection as NYC Mayor right now if most of the centrists hadn't backed insane corruption lord Eric Adams instead of her in 2021