A newly sprouted white redwood. The bark is exceptionally red.

Early in the afternoon the angle of the sun matches the angle of the valley and turns the sorrel into a waterfall of light

A bottomless pit inspector is a coffee server at a diner.

Punjabi farmers saw the central valley and had the exact same reaction as German farmers to the Ohio valley, "This is just like home but better."

It's funny that there are whole varieties of bolt heads whose only function is to deter people who lack the executive function to shop at Home Depot.

The counterpart to the Great Man theory of history is the Great Heart Attack theory of history.

Once Tarantino retires for good, how are white boys going to learn about Motown?

If Kamala had picked Butigieg we would be blaming racial depolarization on him instead of inflation.

Sad. Gentrification evicted Spirit Halloween from our local strip mall.

It is ironic that standardized tests and tracking are appealing to exactly the same group of people, but are directly opposed to each other in actual policy. Testing inevitably focuses resources on the worst performing students.

I never feel more ethnically English than when I see a "French Garden." It should not be.

Trying to get onto the right blocklists: - Most of the time I like Ezra Klein - AI can be quite good sometimes - Very often, markets are effective solutions to problems - Building more housing, not necessarily affordable, is necessary for lowering housing prices

When I haven't been to the woods in too long and I see nature photos scroll by in my feed, I feel like a prisoner squinting through their cell window.

The sea plays with light like a cat plays with string. It swats it away, or tackles it and devours it as its mood changes from moment to moment, mirror, sparkle, abyss, and back around again. It is hungry, and bored. It plays while it waits for more tangible prey.

You can get a little silly about it. Sillies are free, you can take as many as you want.

The end state of this is that all the good artists leave the companies under pressure, reconvene somewhere else, and everyone offended at Jimmy Kimmel finds that the only TV worth watching is the wokest shit imaginable.

The free speech warriors largely do care though.

The rate at which Trump does illegal things is just too high for the courts to provide relief. We need John Roberts on Twitter QTing things with “Hey, that's illegal.”

say what you will about markets at least they expect you to labor and consume

Tsuro rebrand called Houston where the player meeples are pickups and the tiles have 5 overlapping paths.

All I can say is that most of the responses to this video are in denial about the actual state of politics in the country. The things we find disqualifying are heartbreakingly irrelevant to most people.

The critique that capitalism shifted to substituting desires rather than satisfying them was modestly true in the age of traditional advertising, but is much more true in the age of apps.

Can you imagine the tech industry without the mission burrito? Underrated factor.

✨ you can make the less populous states all blue forever by putting a big enough university in each one ✨

The whole thing is so careful and conciliatory. obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-of...

The app doesn't hate you, neither does it love you, but your life is made of moments that it can use for something else.

For some reason my wife does not count this as part of the household chores. Unfair if you ask me.

I wish BLS updated their inflation data in real time so that after I go to the grocery I could check whether that was real or I'm imagining things, just like I check USGS after I think I feel an earthquake.

We're the only ones into free speech so unfortunately Bluesky is the intellectual dark web now

It is obscene that none of the people behind this are in jail, and in fact are back in the whitehouse. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

Had a get together with a group of people who all had a role in putting some of the first transformers in prod. Nobody bought nvidia.

Y'all need to embrace Paul Graham. He's one of your people as much as any silicon valley billionaire could be.

I'm actually a total idiot, I just eat enough chocolate to compensate.

It has been 6 years since the Trump administration was ordered to stop seizing the children of anyone who applied for asylum at the border, and over 1000 of those children have never been reunited with their families. They probably never will be.

this is, hands down, the best video I've seen on men's influencer content and it's not close either

SB79 is going to make San Jose's VTA finally have some impact on the world by upzoning everything around the stations. (It will continue to have no riders.)

It is a weird motte and bailey built into society that every religion has laws which, if read literally, are incompatible with civilization, but that everyone ignores. Dangerous extremism always has the excuse of "just quoting scripture" akin to "just quoting rap lyrics."

Some hard boards just got bored.

SB 79 HAS PASSED!

With the tenacity and variety of life on Earth, it seems inevitable that if there was ever life in Mars's history, that some of it is still living there, somewhere. www.theintrinsicperspective.com/p/we-are-not...

What relatively harmless act can we be shocked about and give wall to wall coverage of so that people stop shooting their classmates or politicians?

I am very excited about SB79 in the short term. I worry that in the long term it is going to cause NIMBYs to redirect their attention to preventing transit stops.

Literally years of work by housing activists

This video of Tucker Carlson accusing Sam Altman of murder, live, is pretty intense. x.com/AutismCapita...

Three sequential frames of Trump's hands from his video statement. This is probably post processing gone wrong rather than AI generated from scratch, but still something they should stop doing, because it really does make it look fake.

Captchas turning into addictive mobile games is plausibly the best thing for them to converge to.

My first thought whenever I see pictures like this is how much the course of history now sometimes rests on arbitrary choices by the MPEG standards group.

I'm really confused by what transgender ideology could be small enough to fit on a bullet.

I am fine with obscenely loud car speakers during daylight hours in most situations, but if you have the bass bumping while you are in bumper to bumper traffic, you are an asshole.