These six characters do a remarkably effective job of summarizing the massive self-inflicted wound our nation is engaging in.

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Need yet more reasons to reduce the number of cars stuffed into our cities? Turns out the dark ones parked everywhere can easily increase the temperature in their vicinity by 3.8ºC! Cities must increasingly take heat into account in their design and rules, as they've always done historically.

"I had nostrils on all six planes of my skull"

Let's assume this interviewer doesn't have the disproof of this bald faced lie immediately at hand. Then where's the follow-up where they do the legwork to validate or disprove her assertions, and air it in a prominent timeslot? Otherwise it's not journalism, just a mouthpiece for the regime.

Can anyone give me the not-horrifically-alarming take on this? Please?!

100% this. Isolation, division, fear, and anger have played no small role in getting us to this point. They won't be the tools that get us back on track. Except maybe a little anger, pointed in the right direction!

Funny what a difference a little financial support makes, especially without onerous means testing. @scottsantens.com in case you're not already aware of this study.

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Very glad Google's releasing this data: a median Gemini query burns 0.24 Wh and 0.26 ml of water. That's about 1s of microwave use, and 5 drops of water. Yes, they should release more data, and queries can vary. But it's good to have some transparency. www.technologyreview.com/2025/08/21/1...

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I hate that I have to keep saying this in so many different contexts, but... This will go down in history as one of the dumbest self-inflicted wounds any state has managed to pull off.

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If they can bring these pieces together, it will be terrifyingly similar to the (well-documented) use of incarceration for trivial infractions, to create cheap labor in the reconstruction-era South. We already have corrupt school -> private-prison pipelines. So the pieces _are_ coming together...

Does Wendy's know something we don't? MISFORTUNE AWAITS LUCKY YOU

“all data [...] will be kept securely and treated consistently with the Privacy Act.” Until they begin filing specious complaints to strike voters from the rolls. Anyone doubt that this would be used to nationalize and scale up voter suppression efforts, like we've seen here in GA and elsewhere?

Thanks to @davekarpf.bsky.social for slogging through this garbage so the rest of us don't have to! This is what you get when SV "thinkers" learn to enjoy the smell of their own farts. I'm not a tech pessimist, but this is the kind of thinking that creates far more problems than it solves.

TIL @billamend.bsky.social is on here, with some great dunks on the regime. It would be hysterical if the fine people of DC were to rain sandwiches down from the rooftops. If anyone in DC wants to organize a sandwich throwing party, I'll personally pay for about 10k sandwiches. Not joking. DM me.

Not the most important part of the story, but why the actual fuck is Antoni dressed like an 1890s robber baron? Oh, and apparently showing up for the insurrection is the main qualification to run the BLS. God help us... www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus... (h/t @donmoyn.bsky.social)

This is terrifying: "150 weaponized Firefox extensions. nearly 500 malicious executables. Dozens of phishing websites." Do I have a little schadenfreude about crypto scams? Maybe. But the ability to scale scams this rapidly with AI is concerning. blog.koi.security/greedy-bear-...

This hits a little close to home, but they're not wrong.

I don't understand the point this interviewer is making. He says "deliver services by raising revenue, but don't raise taxes". Where the hell does he think revenue comes from? I'm seriously interested if someone can steelman his argument. Because at a glance it makes no sense to me.

This is epistemic nihilism -- facts and opinions are interchangeable, and serve only to support a desired outcome. We know the admin behaves this way, but when they ignore science, we must make them say, publicly, "we ignore science in our decisions." See how that resonates with the people.

Something tells me the markets aren't going to respond to this with deference to Trump. People tend to behave a bit more rationally when money's on the line.

Are. You. Fucking. Kidding. Of course not. Of course it came about as part of a "content review" under pressure from the White House. electionlawblog.org?p=151278

I'm really of two minds about this. On one hand, I largely agree with the author (and the hyperloop was an obvious boondoggle). But I do see that Waymo and others have made huge strides in autonomy. I just want to see that progress applied to transit solutions like automated, flexible bus services.

The regime is pursuing policies that push the US towards an explicit ethno-state. I can't imagine this would survive constitutional muster (though who knows under the Roberts Court). But the intention is clear, and shares much in common with Putin's resurrection of the Russian Orthodox church.

THIS. Now if more parents would realize that the world is actually a lot safer for them than when we were young. When we started spending more time in NYC (vs Atlanta), our teens gained autonomy and confidence very rapidly. I feel far better about them walking and taking the train in NYC.

Are we a: (a) Liberal, multicultural democracy? (b) Theocratic ethnostate? Pick one; they're mutually exclusive. IMHO (a) is the only viable option, but make no mistake, (b) is the path many implicitly want, whether they admit to it or not. Accept no argument for a middle path. It doesn't exist.

So DHS chases a guy onto private property, refuses to show id or a warrant while forcing themselves in, and arrests employees for "assault" for refusing entry. No probable cause, no warrant, just profiling. Staff calls 911, and the Ontario CA PD does... nothing. And their "statement" is horseshit.

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Stephen Miller's goons (yes, that fucking guy) are arguing that any attempt to recruit diverse students is illegal. As well as income-based scholarships, because they benefit minorities disproportionately. This is a bald-faced attempt to reinforce racial hierarchies, not establish "meritocracy".

Any functional difference between "inauguration committee" and "Nigerian scammer"? At least the latter contributes to the Nigerian economy. "Sent over $250,000 to a [...] Nigerian scammer, thinking they were donating to President Trump’s inaugural committee." www.theblock.co/post/362339/...

The first time I saw this outside our apartment on West 79th, I had no idea it was a thing. Then this amazing glow started creeping up the street from Riverside. Everyone just stopped what they were doing, and walked into the street to watch. Really a magical moment.

Cuts to federal research will harm my majority-immigrant Environmental Justice community, Chelsea MA. Dr. Madeleine Scammel of @busph.bsky.social and I wrote op-eds in our local paper about the crisis. #standupforscience @standupforscience.bsky.social chelsearecord.com/wp-content/u...

Sometimes (well, oftentimes) @walthickey.bsky.social just nails it www.numlock.com/p/numlock-ne...

Terrifying piece from @404media.co on ICE's use of an existing national insurance claim database to hunt people down. ISO exists to help with insurance claims and fraud. Its use for this purpose is a glaring abuse, and a perfect example of why we need strict limits. www.404media.co/ice-is-searc...

@hcrichardson.bsky.social is always worth listening to, especially when you're feeling like things are at their darkest. The problem of saving our democracy is *made* of details and complexity. And because none of us can do it alone, we must work together so each can focus on a part of the puzzle.

“[T]he use of military courts to hear civilian cases is the essential component of martial law.” If this survives Supreme Court scrutiny, then they've given up entirely on reining in the executive.

I have serious envy of these public spaces. I understand that many opposed them, but I'd bet you anything that, as Parisians get used to these spaces, there will be near zero interest in ever going back.

You get more of what you incentivize, and less of what you don't. So this means more cars, more parking, more roads. And fewer bikes and pedestrians. Is this _really_ the world we want to build?

How did I miss this way back in 2017? The UK Sunday Herald's TV listing for the Trump inauguration casts it as a Twilight Zone episode featuring an implausible alternate history.

Nailed it.

As someone who's been very fortunate in my career, I wholeheartedly agree. Bryant's analogy to VC is interesting: gov't invests in everyone, and the few who achieve outsize success pay back a bit more, keeping the system working for everyone. And helping ensure it's a system we all want to live in.

So, they finish ramming this monstrosity of a bill through Congress, and immediately order 200 Marines into FL to "provide support" to ICE. Having gotten the only thing they wanted from Congress, I worry that they're going to escalate significantly -- who cares if Congress complains now?

As if we needed more reasons to rage against this budget bill, it would also shut down CO2 measurements at the Mauna Loa observatory. If they truly believed it was a hoax, then they could just ignore this rounding error of a budget item. This shows they know better. www.cnn.com/2025/07/01/c...

I have been trying to dig up this image for a while, as it seems more apropos than ever. It perfectly captures what we're living now; the sheer incompetence and idiocy. Trump would certainly hate it, so please share broadly! (artist: Christian Bloom, Verdens Gang)

There's so much insanity going on that it's easy to fall for conspiracies that validate your fears and assumptions. The only reliable defense against bullshit, especially the kind you *want* to believe, is healthy skepticism. Otherwise we descend into a cesspit of disinformation and crackpottery.

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