Wondering about an alternate scenario where a young developer in Queens, NY has zero inheritance from their family - and goes on to a small career in low commercial real estate.

NEW US electricity data ⚡️🇺🇸 In March, renewables produced more than a third of US electricity for the first time ever, even overtaking gas generation! Wind and solar combined reached over a quarter (26%) for the first time.

Wittenham Clumps sunrise with a "steam train" of blossom.

"Gig jobs and crime: Evidence from food delivery platforms in France" cepr.org/voxeu/column... via @voxeu "expanding access to legal income for such groups can reduce crime even when the jobs are temporary, flexible, and low-paid"

The wholesome backstory on the tool-using cow: she loves her owner. "It was interesting to see Veronika watching every passing car with interest and trying to guess if the driver was Witgar. If she thought it was him, she would moo with all her might." www.scientificamerican.com/article/firs...

Incredible footage from a United Airlines flight of the Artemis II launch.

I went cross country skiing yesterday for the first time in decades. Today my triceps cannot stop laughing at me.

I saw a screenshot of the terms and conditions of a major AI company. I have not been able to verify. It essentially said “we take zero responsibility for what this product does”, and also “you assume full responsibility for what you do with the output of this product“. Huge if true, as they say.

This is not a painting, it's the view from beneath an ancient oak. www.facebook.com/groups/86337...

Bad immigration economics assumes every extra person is one less seat. Good economics notices they also bring a seat, a side dish, and demand for the bloke selling drinks. The first story is fear; the second is how economies work.

"Government data reveals 2.5 GW of new solar added in 12-months period, the fastest pace for a decade." This is huge. And it's only going to grow. www.pv-magazine.com/2026/03/26/u....

Best news of the season for me.

I describe the Ceaucescu Moment in my most recent book as: "The moment when the cheers turn to jeers and the formerly pliant 'peasants' decide that they have had enough." And it's beautifully demonstrated here.

Orbán’s Ceaușescu moment. Booed at his own rally, ranting and pointing fingers. His final message: Ukraine hatred.

He meant Pier Reviewed.

"Wodnesbeorh" in the Anglo-Saxon Charters (or "Adam's Grave) is a barrow from approximately 5,500 years ago, located on Walker's Hill in #Wiltshire

Brightwell Barrow: a Bronze Age bowl barrow in South Oxfordshire, which was mentioned in the Domesday Book.

This is out of control

"Scientists uncovered the nutrients bees were missing — Colonies surged 15-fold" www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...

From the Financial Times "The $30tn US Treasury market is showing growing signs of strain, as turmoil in the Middle East drives swings in bonds that underpin the financial system. The ease of trading in the world’s biggest and most important financial market has deteriorated in recent weeks" 1 of 2

In spite of all the talk of Claude Code and Codex meaning the end of humans writing code, software job adverts are actually going up, according to @jburnmurdoch.ft.com's crunching of millions of job ads for this week's The AI Shift www.ft.com/content/7325...

German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier delivered a brilliant and important speech today to mark the 75th anniversary of the German Federal Foreign Office. Here are the best excerpts. 🧵

The US is now net losing tech workers to Europe, especially more senior workers. www.reveliolabs.com/news/tech/fr...

This is bad. Note that this is a loss every year for a whole working life of 40 years. The loss is felt by the individual, by their pension provider, and by everyone via lower GDP and lost taxes.

So, about those Eid prayers in London... "What's the highest thing in Trafalgar Square?" "Nelson's column, innit?" "And the highest thing on the column?" "Nelson." "And on Nelson?" "His hat." "And the highest thing on his hat?" "That bit that sticks up." 1/8

look at this baby beaver and feel better briefly (@ wildheartrescue on TT)

Meanwhile bike fuel prices have not changed at Costco.

The FT is tracking the last 7 gulf LNG deliveries. Traders reporting tremors that remind them of oddities in early 2020. Sighs.

Burbank CA today 🤦‍♀️🤬

Deftly delivered. Brava!

The coming weeks may illustrate some dismal basic truths in economics, a bit like 2020 demonstrated basics of public health.

"A Danish Fix for U.S. Mortgage Lock-in" marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevo...

This is absolutely brilliant. Instigated by Gordon Brown, delivered today. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Back on February 23, Daniel Ruetenik, Pat Milton, and Cara Tabachnick of CBS News reported on a newly uncovered document in the Epstein files showing that beginning in December 2010 under the Obama administration, the U.S.

Good Kitty 🐱🐾🫶🏼

The cost of fresh vegetables is up a stunning FORTY EIGHT PERCENT from February 2025: www.bls.gov/news.release...

Don’t buy a cow, or a car, and expect your city to give you someplace to park it. #UrbanTruth

When I started working on UK energy in 2007, fossil fuels provided ~78% of electricity. Coal alone: 34%. Wind & solar: less than 2%. Today: wind & solar 33%, fossil fuels 28%, coal 0%. The chart below tells the story better than words can.

I’ve had it with all the gatekeeping. No one‘s gonna tell me what I can call a bicycle.

Very useful and interesting, based on the U.K.

This could ve big: DfT have a new tool showing how well-connected every 100x100m cell in England and Wales is to work, shops, leisure, health etc, broken down by mode connectivity-tool-lite.dft.gov.uk/app

The UK decline (shown below) is particularly marked. It's surprising to see a decline to below levels of the 1970s, when there was (for example) internment without trial in parts of the UK (1/2)

Solar PV is so much of an economic no-brainer these days, it's transcending even today's politics.

Genuinely just bonkers to watch the USA do this to one of the most successful and innovative hubs of scientific research the world has ever seen. All those years of Free Speech On Campus debates and it turns out they actually wanted less cancer research. Absurd.

11:20 a.m. Monday-- This warning has been discontinued as storm rotation has weakened.

New @nberpubs: "Mutual Party Extremism" www.nber.org/papers/w34967 "A small moderation of one side’s voting electorate can trigger a discontinuous collapse of candidate extremism on both sides"

It had never occurred to me that when the news becomes the sport that people bet on it’s the journalists who take the abuse that players have been getting for years, but it looks like that’s the case

My friend and comedian @janehill.bsky.social has been writing brilliantly about what the eff it's like having cancer treatment and she is cool as hell. open.substack.com/pub/janehill...

This morning I am grateful to @emily.gorcen.ski introducing me to Conway's Law. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway'...

Excellent There are more than a few assumptions that AI kinda-sorta "hopes" are still correct. Humans do that too, we have flawed judgment too. But sometimes we are more humble, maybe we are more aware of context, and consequences. In most cases we don't have to justify $Trillions in our future.