So good.

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “Peering into a large index fund is like taking a tour of a hot-dog factory,” Jonathan Hillman writes. “Once you see everything that goes into the product — the good, the bad, the bizarre — it’s hard to unsee.”

A study on 1.7 million people in Hong Kong shows superior hybrid immunity to Covid in people who got vaccinated before infection vs. people who got infected first. "Our findings are a direct rebuttal to arguments for natural immunity," the authors write. doi.org/10.1016/j.va...

Simulations and the Gamification of our Reality open.substack.com/pub/unseenin...

RIP beautiful Klaus

When you stayed up too late shitposting.

Would it be too much to ask a journalist to calculate the difference in cost between last year’s and this year’s “Walmart Thanksgiving Meal” using the same menu as last year? Saying “there’s less food” is lazy beyond belief.

That Biden-era boom in factory construction has rolled over — crowded out, in part, by the data-center boom. @bloomberg.com @blsuth.bsky.social www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

Artistic acts of resistance… hyperallergic.com/1058354/16-a...

“.. Tariffs were pitched as the fix for America’s trade deficit.” 🤡 - Bilello

NPR: "Wholesale prices for a turkey have jumped 40% from a year ago, according to the Department of Agriculture."

"LLMs use fewer resources doing $task than humans so using them isn't an ecological problem." So what are you arguing for? What happens with the humans we no longer "need"? That argument leads only to monstrosity.

Excuse me, but can’t some “journalist” just do the math on what an identical Walmart Thanksgiving dinner would cost this year? Saying they’re not the same is helpful, but not the point. The laziness of the media is astounding.

Trump added, “It’s very popular now among all the people who work for me. They’re very loyal. Once they figured out I would let them run the country while I worked on the ballroom, they thought it was a great idea.”

‘I can’t breathe in this city’: inaction over Delhi’s suffocating pollution sparks rare protest

I got this useful bon mot from a middle school teacher recently. In response to, “I DONT UNDERSTAND,” he calmly said, “okay what steps have you taken to understand?” And that’s when I realized that a lot of folks have no steps.

I've written about Pericles, Lincoln, and the decay of civic life. You're welcome. I know this is the content everyone wanted. othermeans.io/p/the-conspi...

As a neuroscientist, I’d suggest there is a profound disconnect between what *some* computer scientists think is representative of “intelligence”, cognitive ability, or descriptions of consciousness from some in AI work. LLMs are not how neural systems process information, nor how brains function.

Pulitzer Prize photo right here.

Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...

Speaker Mike Johnson vs Sergeant Schultz from Hogan's Heroes -- who knows less about what's going on?

Johnson added, “the Republican ‘healthcare’ plan must be kept absolutely secret. No one must ever know about. I myself have no idea what it is. Our members are also in the dark. Even when we roll it out—no one will know what it is. It’s genius. Or, at least, that’s what I’m told.”

“They were careless people, … they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made" - F Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

Note: while not unprecedented, it’s actually pretty rare for a sitting Catholic bishop to participate in a demonstration. It’s just not generally what Catholic bishops do. Thus: Getting the hierarchy involved in this protest outside an ICE facility is no small thing.

Ahead of the 1st shutdown of US food aid to hungry Americans in 60 years, some of the 200,000 Little Free Library locations are converting into food pantries. Thanks @littlefreelibrary.bsky.social

Also, to connect back to my TPM article, one of the reasons there are so many bad takes is that freelance op-ed writers/newsletter-ers must write constantly to get paid even a little bit, and gets you TAKES rather than considered essays. talkingpointsmemo.com/tpm-25/patro...

This version of Total Recall sucks.

Via allenginsberg.org/2025/03/m-m-...

WEIL: “.. Circularity can be virtuous on the upside, and vicious on the downside. The deals can work fine, until they don’t.” @wsj.com $NVDA $ORCL @justinhendrix.bsky.social www.wsj.com/tech/ai/is-t...

Yes, that’s exactly what you voted for. It wasn’t a secret. Don’t pretend you didn’t know that he would do exactly what he told you he was going to do. This is what you wanted.

Perfect. Perfect.

It's very clear that unlimited wealth causes brain damage. That's not an exaggeration. It's similar to other unnatural human conditions like solitary confinement (which is widely understood to cause mental deterioration) and other types of sensory deprivation.

This story is extraordinary even by 2025 standards. Marco Rubio, the nation's top diplomat, made a deal with Bukele and agreed to renege on informant agreements in a years-long DOJ investigation into MS-13, totally undercutting credibility of such agreements. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

No kings.

Benioff’s newest critic: Laurene Powell Jobs slams CEO’s selfish brand of philanthropy sfstandard.com/2025/10/17/l...

David Byrne at #NoKings on his bike. (via @wutangforchildren.bsky.social)

One of the less understood beauties of a transition to a renewable economy is: you cannot invade a country and steal its sunshine and its wind, and you will not need to. The uneven distribution of fossil fuel, esp. oil, has corroded geopolitics for more than a century....

“San Francisco does not need a federal invasion because you don’t like paying for extra security for Dreamforce.” Good on you, Ron Conway www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/u...

== THE STANDUP PHILOSOPHER == Graham St. John, on Terence McKenna: “He would say that he’d imagined VR coming to be from the late 1960s, [a] projection of his own wish and fantasy —a position that would later form something of a bit in his standup philosopher routine.” Full Interview:

‘I’m Fat and I’m Going to Hell.’ open.substack.com/pub/jojofrom...

Blogging was a different medium - and there's still a need for it more than ever.

Our first essay comes from @espiers.bsky.social, who writes about growing up in an information bubble in a right-wing, Southern Baptist family in rural Alabama, and how blogs helped changed her worldview talkingpointsmemo.com/tpm-25/what-...

‘Fall of Freedom’ to Unite Artists For Nationwide Creative Resistance A number of theatre artists and institutions have signed on to this decentralized, open-sourced initiative, and are inviting others to join in resistance. www.americantheatre.org/2025/10/15/f...

Black Mold 2 (2025)

“the constitution forbids race conscious remedies” would be news to the people who wrote the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments

Time to start the AI burn rate countdown? pluralistic.net/2025/09/27/e...

Nice….