lay down ur arms sirs and stancil will let u return to ur farms and keep ur bww points balance. there is no valor to save. There will be no monuments to your lost cause. this was an affair between generals whose end was written.

Melania theater was filled with spies making handoffs who thought the theater would be empty. halfway through they started shooting at the screen. to quell them the projectionist put on a video called “baby driver/children of men medley.”

Last night I saw, “MELANIA,” for the second time. The audience loved it, and so do I. Check it out — A MUST SEE! www.amazon.com/salp/melania...

flying w/ a blazer out of Peoria bc sec Duffy did the TSA Fit Check pilot here. a guy wore sweat pants, and they put him in a screened off seat called “the dunce zone“ so we wouldn’t have to see. (in the DZ, you can’t smoke or network.) now the scotch is flowing. its “first class.”

Oversuply www.wsj.com/tech/persona...

constantly impressed by the seeming credulity of Wall Street. it would be nice if it worked but theres no reason to believe. electrek.co/2026/01/28/t...

the argument they’ve landed on for ice is basically the case for national homicide police. that could get support, but someone naturally wonders why you’d have one specifically for foreign killers.

reading about Chinese EVs, I’ve tried to think what the US could do similarly for industrial policy. I landed on steel roofs. 15 years of a strong roof policy could push us to a better equilibrium forever. it’s unexciting, but you need something with very high demand (roofs).

what do yall think of this? Prism, formerly Crixet. openai.com/index/introd...

the fall in the dollar is good news for china, especially young ppl and indebted firms like ev makers. the PBoC has needed to cut rates, as they have deflation/bad job market. But they worry about “undervaluation” haters. now they can cut rates and provide relief.

hear me out

I shoveled the block all the way to the bus stop. I’m not saying I’m a hero but it goes to show that even ordinary people are capable of incredible strength and virtue.

trump still figuring out the angle to take on all this. I expect he will wind up complaining about the Sig p320 misfiring. something you can say without inflaming gun rights people, among whom there’s some debate about the safety of that particular gun.

a genuine state ruled by an elite military body with no particular leader/dynasty. reminds me of the mamluks, praetorian guard. uncommon in history I think. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/24/w...

anyone have experience with those electric snow shovels?

Forgot to drop my faucets last night and today the cold water stopped coming out. my house is so old it’s hard to figure out where the pipes go so I just ran space heater in my basement for hours until the water came back. Dreading my utility bill

I’m gonna say this at a conference

"virtually no roads between towns, no railways, and no inland waterways." they move b/w cities helicopter, plane, ATV and dog sled. there are bus systems in some towns. www.urban-transport-magazine.com/en/public-tr... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transpo...

Gillig would be a beautiful name for a baby boy

8 wars PLUS. I can’t remember how many wars I stopped

new Honda prelude will test whether Americans want a car that handles very well and looks cool but isn’t super fast. I hope so. Engine from Civic hybrid (200 hp/232 lb ft). Brakes/suspension/steering from the Type R and pseudo gear system. www.caranddriver.com/reviews/a692...

rivian is tacking between waymo and Tesla. LiDAR/radar like Waymo, but training its model more like Tesla. Could be a safe alternative to FSD for daily use. If it works on proposed timeline, I expect this will draw boomers with declining night vision/reflexes. www.edmunds.com/car-news/riv...

the EV quotas in canada don’t seem very stable. since not many are allowed, the imported cars will have high profit margins and be very good luxury cars. a future politician can say “elect me and I’ll make this elite status symbol widely available without raising taxes.”

I wanna read interviews with people who already wanted to take over Greenland, pre-2025. do they feel heard? Or pandered to? Do they resent the bandwagon? do they introduce themselves with “I’ve been writing letters to the editor about taking over Greenland since 1998.”

Transit planner Jarrett Walker has been involved with bus stop consolidation in other cities. Some SBC readers opposed the op-ed we ran calling for speeding CTA buses by reducing stop spacing from 1/8 to 1/4 mile. Here are his thoughts on the subject. chi.streetsblog.org/2026/01/02/a...

Join us at the International Transportation Economics Association Annual Conference & School at the University of Bergamo, Italy, June 15-19, 2026! Submit your transportation economics research by Feb 28. Two paper prizes available! t.co/RytjQvt3Ec #itea #bergamo

she basically stole hundreds of millions of hours of energy. one of the worst crimes.

this is my favorite conference. Join us at the International Transportation Economics Association Annual Conference & School at the University of Bergamo, Italy, June 15-19, 2026! Submit your extended abstracts by Feb 28. Two paper prizes available! www.itea2026.com

seems like a symptom of Twitter brain. if you wanted a no cancel culture school, easy move is something like rose-hulman. instead they have one math prof but a lot of political science and adjacent profs. wouldn’t have done that if I were a center right billionaire. uatx.webflow.io/undergraduat...

people’s instincts for dealing with inflation include things that cause inflation. reminds me when states did inflation rebate checks. you start to appreciate why stable inflation is an intellectual achievement.

the prize will be won by people who optimize for the prize. US universities have a scattered objective function, and norms against things like paying for publications. So we’ll fall behind. It’s okay. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/15/u...

china has a weak currency and, in the next paragraph, also suffers from deflation. if they have deflation, then the yuan is way too strong. conventional wisdom is weak currency causes the trade surplus. awful. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/13/b...

europe should do tariffs or nothing. A quota with a minimum price just transfers money from their customers to manufacturers, instead of to the states. good case of a compromise worse than either alternative. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/b...

my crank 1920s-era intellectual theory @alonlevy.bsky.social Dawkins has us think of genes (not just organisms) competing to copy. current politics can be seen as a coup of certain supplements: whey, creatine, ivermectin, TRT. magaism is full of supplement salesmen and users.

plugin hybrids so far have the same issue as gym memberships

The government has acquired a device believed to be behind “San Juan syndrome” @estupi.do

gpt 5.2 was a fool to doubt me. he told me it couldn't be done, that the numbers just couldnt work. i destroyed him. he was owned. they're doubling water at his data center bc he's sobbing. now run along and type this up in latex baby boy. today I am the LLM (lewis lehe, the master).

i will be presenting about parking on Tuesday February with Michael Manville online, hosted by the UCLA Center for Parking Policy. i'll talk about measuring parking: my results, why it's hard and judgement calls www.its.ucla.edu/tribe-event/...

Honda x Stancil super bowl spot

the Labor Market is “stalling,” and yet DHL recruiters text me and 23 other people amazing jobs multiple times per day 🤔 🤔

this is interesting for academic research. I guess you could say there are pre prints of articles in the LLMs www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

maybe the best way ole miss could go out. exciting game. 🫡 trinidad

🫡 🫡 🫡 illinois patriots not losing heart

The five Fundamental Interactions: gravity, electromagnetism, strong force, weak force, and the one b/w jair and the hospital. www.france24.com/en/live-news...

somebody is gonna be getting a phone call

Will the Jones Act apply to Greenland?

zohran should do to a campaign against license plate crimes. make a video where he goes around with that guy who fixes the covered license plates. Make opponents declare themselves unrepentant criminals.

at least it’s not wikipedia

looked over at Twitter to see reactions. among conservatives there’s an idea that “we” now own Venezuela’s oil reserves, as though the US had a state oil company.

good background here. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/u...