When people post about recipes they usually post about special fancy ones. I want to know about your workaday recipes. What recipe gives your family most of their calories?

Years ago I taught my kids prime factorization and the fundamental theorem of arithmetic using the snowflakes we were making for Christmas decorations. I wrote up my explanation to them as a lesson for others to use with their kids or their class. moultano.wordpress.com/2026/05/01/c...

Someday, fastfood chains are going to start making boba tea themselves in house and it is going to send shockwaves through the country.

but y stock grn

raw milk

Westerners, clearly unaware of Pasteloza, or controversial trend of painting grey brutalist prefab buildings in the former Eastern Bloc, with pastel colours and designs.

Generational tweet that might even spawn a school of architecture.

my wife just had a dream that there was something called the Oops App where everything you upload to the app is definitionally a mistake and I'm fuckin dyinnnng

Much has been said about the connection between religion and fertility, but I wonder if even enthusiasm for I-fucking-love-science/Saganism/Humanism is associated with it to some extent. Continuing the chain of parenthood back to the dawn of life is a pretty compelling story.

Supply and demand. The difference between a million, a billion, and a trillion. The median isn't affected by outliers. What other critical gaps in knowledge has the internet revealed?

When we filled schools with chromebooks why didn't we get Bartosz Ciechanowski quality interactive textbooks? Did we just forget step 2? ciechanow.ski/airfoil/

It's so depressing that the POSIWID purpose of the youth climate movement is to elect republicans and deface paintings.

If I judge my crossviews by their success on reddit, some of my most successful ones have the least interesting subjects.

We should have legislation to encourage condo development over apartments. People understandably have a level of attachment to their home that the legal status of "renting" does not recognize, and they'll vote to destroy the rental market if it seems like it will align the two.

i'm not handy and know nothing but after seeing this once i would die for MultiPail

Good call @tedunderwood.com!  https://openai.com/index/where-the-goblins-came-from/

Just noticed that this and the followup tweet are the same dance.

How many parents with a youtube addicted kid didn't care enough to prevent that, and how many didn't know how? It is pretty easy to lock down the device to what you think is a worthwhile use of their time, but nobody else is going to decide to, or do it for you.

Frustrating that this is operating at the level of the devices, rather than what we do with them. The unfortunate reality is that the entire educational software industry can't compete with the quality available for free on Bartosz Ciechanowski's blog ciechanow.ski www.nytimes.com/2026/04/29/t...

It's like the inverse of leaving your babytooth in Coca-Cola. If you leave the model running on your phone overnight in a bucket of water all the water disappears.

How did TESCREAL manage to get a Wikipedia article that hasn't yet been deleted? I thought it was more knowyourmeme material. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TESCREAL

I wonder if you could mount a legal challenge to HIPAA by contending that you have a 1st amendment right to exchange email with your doctor.

It's really nice being able to go to a concert without dying a little bit.

Normalize asking people if they want to go for a walk, and then going for a 10 minute walk.

Chain of thought is rubber ducky debugging.

Introducing Cursor Camp, a website to hang out with other cursors. Out now :) > neal.fun/cursor-camp/

This sort of thing makes me wonder whether this is Chinese astroturfing.

Ideally a gerrymandering law should dictate that the count of partisan lean of districts should match the partisan lean of the state, but such a districting may not be possible. If for instance, the voters are uniformly distributed then all districts must favor the majority. That raises the question

Apartments work like the hermit crab conga line. Build one and a whole chain of people with apartments worse than that one get to upgrade. youtu.be/f1dnocPQXDQ?...

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The numbers on pleometric's tiktok videos now have Ms next to them. www.tiktok.com/@pleometric

Music visualizers too. Milkdrop! For a time when our screens weren't capturing our attention all the time, it was nice to have them still ambiently showing off what they could do in the background.

It's weird living in a place with more earthquakes than thunderstorms.

I still do not understand why, in the American healthcare system, when a doctor orders a prescription, he cannot give you the medicine directly. You must instead stand in line for 45 minutes at a pharmacy several days later to get it.

huh

James Cameron Gang

Starting to feel like the core of Trump's appeal is that he's both the incipient fascist and the cabaret.

A clipboard history would be a security nightmare but such a huge usability win.

Agents will eventually reveal to us that QWOP but for computers is how we were actually using them.

The universal instinctive fear of glowing eyes in the woods has to be an adaptation to the tapetum lucidum in wolf and cat eyes reflecting firelight.

nature documentaries as non-rivalrous Elgin Marbles

AI progress is too fast to ever become accustomed to, but too slow to mentally just "jump to the end" and live as if that state of the world will shortly be true.

I'm sure it was evolutionarily beneficial to be sensitive to the smell of campfire smoke in tiny quantities, but it sure does make cleaning up from a camping trip inconvenient.

I wonder if there's some connection between the UK making the best nature documentaries and the UK no longer having any wilderness. To satisfy that desire they have to shoot video all over the world and send it home.

Just had a nightmare vision: invasive poison oak/ivy introduced to Eurasia.

Junji Ito superfan couple wedding vows: "This is my hole! It was made for me!"

Cats can be immobilized by picking them up by the scruff of their neck because this is how their mothers carried them as kittens, and they retain the instinct their whole life. Humans are the same with being rocked in a hammock.

Protip: if you're running a field game for a big group of mixed aged kids, a very fast and fun way to make good teams is to line them up by height and alternate teams down the line.