I'd like to hear more about the citizenship requirements that opponents of birthright citizenship have in mind. I'm a descendant of the second colonial governor of Rhode Island, but how EXACTLY am I a citizen if "born here" isn't a sufficient condition for me or my ancestors? What's the rule?

Thinking a lot about the meaning of “good behaviour”

Thesis: LLM-driven automation is overrated. More general ML-driven robotics automation is underrated. Implication: many non-computer jobs that now seem safe from AI disemployment are in fact at more at risk than many computer jobs. Dunno if that’s right but something I’ve been thinking about.

But what is the good? What is a friend? Our conclusion must await such an inquiry. So walk with me and let us reason together.

Every Single Attempt To See What UBI Does Proves UBI Works But instead of using this information to do something, we keep repeating the test hoping for a different outcome.

@leedrutman.bsky.social is right--seriously right--about the need for proportional representation for House elections. substack.com/home/post/p-...

OCEANIA HAS ALWAYS BEEN VERY CLOSE TO A DEAL WITH EURASIA

Look, I’m sorry but I just can’t believe the Knicks came all the way back. And I bet a lot of my fellow basketball fans feel similarly. This calls into question the legitimacy of their Game Four win.

I think first-generation immigrants can be New Yorkers or Southerners or Angelenos or Nutmeggers or whatever they want. And that goes for anyone else too

I dunno, man. I usually agree with the HR lady, politically.

Another casualty in the open web. I don't mind getting older but boy does it suck to have come of age watching the well of knowledge filling up and becoming so much more accessible to everybody, just so in my middle age I could watch it be contaminated and drained.

I guess I wasn’t paying attention but Zach Lahn married Chase Koch’s ex-wife and is stepdad to Charles Koch’s grandkids, which is why he actually lives in Kansas? Wild.

Vibes are rancid

Thread, partly for my own searching convenience: writings over the years on the separation of powers and the rule of law. "Law and Border," Niskanen, 2018 www.niskanencenter.org/law-and-bord...

The Enhanced Games are a timely parable about the promise of AI productivity gains.

This is my favorite bike advocacy video in a long time. I love how direct the kids are about saying they deserve to move about their neighborhood safely. Well done Piers Park Sailing! They have more videos on Instagram: www.instagram.com/piersparksai...

YEP! Wait until you find out how Google was started with a sub $1m NSF grant, GPS was developed with fed funding, we've reduced overdose deaths by 25% with fed funding, and of 354 new medications released between 2010-2019 99.4% of them were started by NIH grants/funded labs.

Thanks, Vonnegut. 💜

The critical question is not whether AI can “do” science but whether science—as a social, evolutionary system that generates trustworthy knowledge—survives the way AI does it. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed. slate.com/technology/2...

I wrote about why governments must stop relying upon Facebook and X/Twitter to communicate vital disaster information to the public a while back - unfortunately, this issue is only getting worse. You can do something about it: write to your local authorities and demand they change their approach.

My boy just dropped a banger. Enjoy. on.soundcloud.com/HgR3Vm3a2rjO...

If we're doing fertility decline discourse again, then I'm again going to repost my esteemed partner's work on the subject informed by her (and her coauthors') actual scholarly expertise. 1) DeJong Lecture, "How pro-natalist policies harm rural Americans" psu.mediaspace.kaltura.com/media/t/1_np...

AI is a renormalization scheme that coarse-grains the world in a particular way. It’s being deployed to help concentrate power in the hands of a few. Great piece by @himself.bsky.social and @cshalizi.bsky.social. knightcolumbia.org/content/ai-a...

"Does this mean that abandoning norms is the right strategy? No, that dodges the real difficulty. Liberal politics is, in large part, the politics of trying to instantiate liberal norms."

“Across four attack surfaces, we show that authority laundering can amplify misinformation, disparage individuals, evade content moderation, and manipulate product recommendations. Our attacks have high success rates” arxiv.org/html/2605.04...

Today, US Court of International Trade ruled against Trump's massive Section 122 tariffs, in cases brought by Liberty Justice Center and 24 state governments. See linked post for reasons why, including some covered in my amicus brief on behalf of @cato.org and myself: reason.com/volokh/2026/...

I’m truly vexed by the special pleading by the chief justice. Are we not supposed to notice that partisans avidly seek majorities SO THAT they can appoint co-partisans to the court? That co-partisan judges vote together, which is WHY our discourse is obsessed with the partisan composition of courts?

That constitutional interpretation can be generally apolitical is a floridly political opinion espoused primarily by partisan actors seeking to obfuscate and camouflage their activism.

Great stuff.

Our daily grind. via @nycjayjay.bsky.social

there really is like a society wide, party neutral affliction of people not caring whether something is true or not and I can't say I care for it!!!!!!!!!

Camp Mystic finally accepts reality, will not open this summer.

We need to re-legalize the very cheap, bare bones housing that keeps people off the street. More broadly, we need policymakers to be ok with letting people build types of housing that they would not particularly want to live in.

I stan our new #YIMBY Jeopardy hero. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/27/s...

No internet

someone cooked here

American Lada

What about their Second Amendment rights? www.latimes.com/california/s...

I’ve reached an age at which, with each unfortunate, unwanted encounter with Clavicular, my first thought is, “Who are this boy’s parents and what is wrong with them?”

The Pope: WEAK on crime. Careless about theology. Can’t wait for what’s next!

He’s right, dammit.

Love to see this. Published my first grown-up newspaper op-ed in the Post-Gazette.

Nope. Nope. Nope. This post is just two false statements.

This is a really important piece. Detroit has been coddled for decades through bipartisan protectionism. The US should let China sell affordable EVs, get them to invest by building EV manufacturing here, and let Detroit complete. And if Detroit can't complete, they don't deserve to be in business.

The pope is weak on crime is one of the funniest things anyone has ever said

Out of 23,000 undergrads, only 19 students signed up for the lavishly funded conservative academic center forced onto University of Iowa by Republican politicians. Turning Points has an $85 million budget and there is no equivalent on the center-left/left. And yet, students still aren't buying it.

Astronauts good!

I love how the comments in NYT Cooking recipes are all like “this is good but I did this instead” and describe an entirely different dish

Great article on railways and wider urban planning challenges worksinprogress.co/issue/why-ja...