Reading the FT front page story about a Chinese company introducing a battery with a 1500 km range & six minute recharging time & about how two Chinese companies own more than half of the global EV battery market & I am struck by the different realities the US and China occupy. We’ve lost the plot.

this chart was life altering to me

Good thing nobody uses those commit shas for compliance or regulatory bookkeeping or anything important like that

518,428 children have died preventable deaths in the year since Musk dismantled USAID, saying, “Time for it to die.”

Still feel like "Musk and his crew of incels destroyed a bunch of stuff they didn't understand and thereby hastened the deaths of millions of children" did not get the public attention it warranted.

the way this makes sense for RFK is that "healthy people" and "sick people" are ontological categories.

There is a reason Watergate was broken by Woodward & Bernstein on the metro desk AND NOT by the White House press corps. Izzy Stone was mocking White House reporters as useless back in the 1950s

I always thought Sun Tzu's "Art of War" was a little simplistic and obvious but it turns out yes, you do literally need to tell the Secretary of War "you need to feed your troops and keep them from being wiped out by preventable diseases"

In its tech and in its eugenics, Silicon Valley has such a sad mechanical notion of what intelligence is, one bereft of moral beauty, emotional intelligence, intuition, etc. But in a more meaningful definition of intelligence the titans of industry would discover their own bereftness and dimness.

"Prisons are deathmaking institutions." — our cofounder @prisonculture.bsky.social.

I don’t think people around the world realize how bad the attack on Lebanon was today. It’s BAD. Like 9/11 BAD. Hospitals are overflowing and do not have enough blood. We still don’t know what the death toll is. This is TERRORISM. Pure and Simple. April 8. Never forget.

thinking about the old Iranian uncle in Bombay who told me like 15 years ago during a whole diff US-Iran conflict "let them come everyone who invades Iran either leaves or becomes Iranian" maybe uncle was onto something there

It's called firehosing and it's a deliberate tactic

Evergreen

i keep thinking about an iranian girl who was featured in the new york times a few months ago. she said she didn’t know how she would be able to evacuate because she couldn’t carry her cats.

Congress is so funny. The world could be blown to smithereens and half of them would be like not sure this is a kitchen table issue.

welcome to 2026, where we're logging into the social apps to figure out if we've started a nuclear war yet.

“How lucky is the United States that everytime they look for democracy in other countries they find oil instead”- Spain Deputy Gabriel Rufián

There is a path. It’s the path that Michael Vick walked. He has worked with the Humane Society for the last 17 years to educate folk about animal cruelty. He says he’ll do that work for the rest of his life. Call me when Louis or Kanye devotes even one weekend to making reparation.

@pauloffit.bsky.social is a total badass

if you invented public libraries today, every opinion page in the country would be arguing for means tested subsidized Amazon Prime memberships

Not that I'd ever defend Noem, Bondi, or Gabbard, but it is striking that only the women in the administration are under fire and it's not because Hegseth, RFK, Bessent, Burgum, Lutnick, etc are paragons of anything except stupid malice.

Someone sent me this.

reminder that the number one issue that the press covered in 2016, the one they told voters was THE MOST IMPORTANT thing in the election, was Hillary Clinton's compliance with Presidential Records Act record-keeping

I've said it before and will say it again, human beings' ability to compartmentalize is incredible. This pathetic racist very old man in cognitive decline has access to the nukes that can destroy us all.

Thread. Israel passed a law allowing the death penalty exclusively for Palestinians. It was written by the fascist Ben Gvir. Israel is institutionalising genocide.

People that provide capital shouldn't be allowed to say "I give money based on vibes only!" and then not give any money at all to Black women, and then say, "Black women have bad vibes! LOL!🤡" No other part of our financial system could get away with the racist allocation that VC does every day.

Currently, the all-time most blocked accounts on Bluesky are: 1. JD Vance 2. The White House 3. ICE 4. Bluesky's AI app that was announced 24 hours ago

Every time I hear men talk about destroying this planet so they can travel to a dead one, I think about how miraculous the existence of Earth is, and how capitalists should never be permitted to make decisions about space exploration.

Today’s delight: www.instagram.com/p/DU3Ss8ljmzs/

artist jj ellis calls this "cocomelon for adults" & i haven't been able to stop thinking about it

For anyone interested, May Day Strong (which includes union affiliates) has been mobilizing and organizing since last year. maydaystrong.org They are inviting folks to join together for a day of economic disruption on May 1 (a week day - this seems to matter greatly to some).

There are two WH advisers that I heard might "stick a pencil in your neck" (direct quote!) if they were crossed. Rahm was one. (Jim Messina the other.)

The surprise is not the incident/outage, it's that anything on the Internet ever works at all. The amount of hard work/smarts/skill/expertise involved in everything that keeps it running is astounding.

I think often of a New York Times photo of a little Iraqi girl tending to her parakeets in a bombed house, probably from 20 years ago now. I will think of this man and his sweet dog often now too. People just want to love what they love, care for their little beings, and instead we do this to them

Our politics are horribly nationalized. Maybe the most subversive thing we can do right now is become hyperlocal.

From ISSUE NO. 10: "There was an underground doula network delivering babies at home, another delivering underground child care. The words “mutual aid” don’t cover it — it reminded me of reading about the Polish Home Army resistance during World War II." - Doran Schrantz tinyurl.com/5n87cb9n

Nazi shit

Happy St Patrick’s Day. Irish people weren’t always considered white, and there’s a centuries-long history of anti-Irish racism both here and in Europe. However, we need to be honest with ourselves that our assimilation into whiteness came at the expense of other people, particularly Black people.

New @hammerandhope.bsky.social issue has a lot of Minnesota stuff. Such a gem of a publication; always a must read. Intro article for this issue: hammerandhope.org/article/minn...

If I said that some of your favorite VCs lacked the ability to introspect, and that they spent close to zero time thinking about how their actions had negative impacts on the world? You'd probably say that I was being unfair, by practically calling them psychopaths. They say this about themselves!

I think this story is a really good example for people to look at when it comes to understanding bias at NYT. It's not that the reporter, Dana Rubinstein, says anything outright false. But the framing, word choices, etc., add up to an unprofessional and biased account.

I was explaining to my therapist today that in most cases the financial incentives for many folks working in tech have been enough to keep them from unionizing, and I think that has trickled down to them using the language of inevitability for so many of these things that tech rolls out.

I have watched this approximately 47 times and laughed out loud 47 times

usually if you ask experts why an empire fell they’ll say it’s nuanced and multifaceted, so i think it’s kind of cool that with America future historians will get to just say like “oh they took the idiot train to moronsville”

One of the Israeli strikes in Tyre, Lebanon, nearly hit an ancient archeological site www.lorientlejour.com/article/1497... Tyre is one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world

To donate havenwatch.org. I’ve never met any of these folks but honestly this is the top tier of awesomeness in Minnesota

Havenwatch had a ton of their supplies stolen for greeting and taking care of those released by ice. www.instagram.com/reel/DVfGGCn...