Tarring and feathering is not just a hilarious cartoon prank it’s also very painful

My latest for The New York Times: a look at the life & legacy of the late great D. Boon. Visited San Pedro to talk to the surviving Minutemen, Mike Watt and George Hurley, as they continue to carry forward the spirit of Boon and the band. Gift link here: www.nytimes.com/2026/03/26/a...

Dog pee moments forge unbreakable diagrams. Real infrastructure demands grit. Stand in the mess. Build what lasts.

why are we all pretending the tsa is good or useful just because fascists stole their money acab includes the gropey shampoo cops

I have debugged javascript in disassembly

ham el-waylly has a new cookbook coming out and he and sohla have been doing a pretend press tour about it that deserves more attention youtube.com/shorts/KTW5j...

no one on earth doing it like connor o'malley right now, absolutely unmissable www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJER...

I bozo bitted this guy a full 20 years ago, when he wrote (in "The Omnivore's Dilemma") that he thought that maybe mushrooms contained something called "lunar energy."

OK so this young trans gentleman was cut off by his parents, has been unable to get MIT to up his financial aid, has been working multiple jobs while maintaining an A- average AT MIT (no one does this), but he is gonna need to actually pay his tuition to graduate: www.gofundme.com/f/help-matth...

It’s really funny that all of these guys would tell you with a straight face that they have read Meditations 1000 times

If he's going to get a national profile on the strength of a younger woman's campaign, I'm going to come out and say it: during his short-lived tenure as a math professor, Biss had an inappropriate romantic relationship with one of his undergraduate students. I was that student.

The hardest thing about being a baseball fan is tacitly supporting macho bullshit like this.

Gemini 429 errors have terroir

A conversation I've had a couple of times goes like this: me: "code review is dead" whoever: "that's ridiculous, code review isn't dead" There's a fundamental "is vs. ought" misunderstanding going on here.

Hate to break this, but both things can be true: this guy is a dipshit and LLM code generation has reached an inflection point.

Someone should do Iron Chef on Tiktok

We can’t clean up Washington without restoring integrity to the Supreme Court. That’s why I believe we should expand the Supreme Court to 13 justices. And then, institute term limits. Because an appointment to the Supreme Court shouldn’t mean a lifetime lack of accountability.

The resemblance is still uncanny.

As a historian, I'd just like to remind the politicians who follow me that it is not, in fact, 2003 anymore and the current GOP war in the Middle East is not, in fact, even remotely popular. So if you're a weathervane who just tries to do what's already popular, full-throated opposition is it!

Going to make a thread here to keep track of engineering leadership metaphors I would like to make happen

I will be organizing the East LA bluesky posters meetup for this. Let’s meet on Fig and Ave 54, Sunday at 9am. 10 mile loop followed by 24 tacos at villas and then we close Gold Line

I'll do it. I will fire tens of thousands of ICE agents. I will fly around the country like George Clooney and Anna Kendrick in that movie, just firing people all day. Except instead of it crushing my soul each ICE agent firing will bring me joy.

I wrote a snail mail letter to someone about defeating Wart in SMB2

A paper in Scientific Reports describes fossilised regurgitated stomach content that represents the geologically oldest terrestrial regurgitalite and shows new insights into the feeding behaviours and the trophic network in a late Palaeozoic continental ecosystem. go.nature.com/46xl3Su #Paleosky 🧪

Blogged: laughingmeme.org/2026/02/15/s...

At least one Meta employee thinks it's a good time to add facial recognition technology to glasses because we're too distracted by fascism to effectively protest www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...

Go read about the theory of the firm. When you feel like you understand why you aren’t living in a libertarian paradise where we sell our labor to different bidders in tiny increments, meet me on the mountaintop and then your training shall begin

The surprise at the end of Cabel's talk was a personal highlight of 12 years of running XOXO, a secret quietly hiding on stage for the entire festival. Nobody knew what was coming but @cabel.panic.com, @andymcmillan.com, me, and venue/event staff. It was a surprise even to all the other speakers.

Blogged: The Code has _always_ been the easy part - laughingmeme.org/2026/02/09/c...

Hey, my name is in the Epstein files! I've told the story before, but should probably re-up. TLDR: never met the guy, never took (or asked for) any money from him, never visited the island. I was invited to the island, and said no. It's not that hard to just say no.

This is all very interesting but I was hoping for more content about its appearance in 1988’s The Naked Gun

I think "woke" was at least partly identified with "irritating" and the way we're rectifying that in Woke 2 is by being scary instead

one thing the trump era has made clear, i think, is that the american people themselves are far more committed to the values of our founding documents than our elites

Also more or less the content of a hunters’ safety course delivered to twelve year olds

You can just not make a byzantine means tested mess of everything if you aren’t negotiating yourself down trying to win a single bipartisan vote you won’t get, it turns out

if anything this is not thinking big enough, and a *real* visionary should file a plan to bore a datacenter a mile under the ice on Enceladus

Okay! This has already inspired a bunch of DMs, so I made a page on the website. If you have 50,000+ Skymiles and would be willing to book flights to get someone home, please fill this out.

Thinking about whoever said that by accepting a meal from people and then arresting them ICE agents broke a cultural taboo that was invented by, like, the first humans to set up a tent

Jarrell Miller getting his fucking toupee punched off is boxing legacy holy fuck lmao

Reading research about the legitimacy of policing is fascinating. “The argument that the threat or use of force leads to compliance is central to most policing models…Research [shows] attempts at promoting resident ‘self-control’ via coercion results in active defiance & resistance.”

You know the anxiety you feel when you are committing a small crime, like you think you parked 13 feet away from a hydrant instead of the required 15 feet? Man, these guys in the Epstein files have none that.

Finally getting some scholarly attention

square up on the dude, call him a fuckin' asshole on a live mic, back to work. absolute maximum respect

Teddy Roosevelt in Milwaukee but cooler

This woman has more courage than every member of the Democratic leadership caucuses in Washington combined. And there are tens of thousands of everyday people just like her who are finding courage to confront evil face to face while our "leaders" dither and argue over semantics.

Not now, Alex Honnold