"i htink weak thoughts?"

power, data and birds on the loneliest road in america: www.ft.com/content/729d...

NEW: The End of the Line: the centrepiece of Saudi Arabia’s Neom gigaproject - a 500m tall, 170km long wall-like building intended ultimately to house 9 million people - can’t get out of the ground, say more than 20 former Neom architects, engineers and senior executives. ig.ft.com/saudi-neom-l...

the anti-Bushwick

definitely starting to feel like the special election results were a more reliable indicator than the polling...

making all of my friend's parents extremely jealous

Per court filing, a federal immigration agent pointed a gun at a U.S. citizen protesting and told him “bang, bang,” and “you’re dead liberal.” From a weekend Loevy civil rights firm filing

from 2020-2022, I put about a dozen open source projects on the web and every year since, I suffer for it with my time/money/energy long-term maintenance on this kind of thing is just impossible when it's not a full time job

NEW: How mega batteries are unlocking an energy revolution Our story today on how storage is changing grids and extending the use of clean power ig.ft.com/mega-batteri...

New: How mega batteries are unlocking an energy revolution. A boom in grid-scale storage is solving renewables’ reliability problem and extending the use of clean power. Latest visual story w/ @nassosstylianou.bsky.social @samlearner.bsky.social @inari-ta.bsky.social 🔋👉 ig.ft.com/mega-batteri...

NEW: How mega batteries are unlocking an energy revolution Massive shipping containers packed with powerful batteries are shoring up grids & extending the use of clean power ig.ft.com/mega-batteri... Latest visual story w/ @samlearner.bsky.social @inari-ta.bsky.social @samjoiner.bsky.social

I'm just a guy with £50 of cash that I took out at the airport, wandering around London trying to find places that will accept it in exchange for the stuff that they're selling. you wouldn't believe how hard it's been

first morning in London, thought I'd grab myself a traditional full english breakfast! 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧

LMAO the rule being used to block funding for the Hudson and Second Avenue projects appears to have only been drafted and posted as of last night. www.transportation.gov/sites/dot.go...

the red teamers who have been doing "adversarial testing" on this thing for 18 months seem to have overlooked "framing someone for a crime". alas!

1/ DEVELOPING: A journalist was rushed to New York-Presbyterian Hospital following another incident with an ICE agent at 26 Federal Plaza, an immigration court in NYC. The last I heard, he was getting X-rays for his lower back.

Today I spoke with Greg Bovino, a top U.S. Border Patrol chief, as he led dozens of feds in military gear through downtown Chicago. He said they were arresting folks based on “how they look.” “How do they look compared to, say, you?” he said, referring to me. chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

The Russian spy ship stalking Europe’s subsea cables on.ft.com/4nOeeCn

NEW: Elon Musk keeps hyping Tesla’s FSD software, and getting more people to buy it is key to his new pay package. But in a recent test, it ignored standard street signs and even a flashing school bus stop sign – squashing mannequin child “Timmy.” Why is it legal? www.forbes.com/sites/alanoh...

very complicated that interpreting the niche/dumb internet subculture references on the bullet engravings has real stakes "is this a reference to 20th century Italian anti-fascism or an ironic groyper reference?"/"which kind of pepe is this?" don't seem like questions most media can grasp well

NEW: How prediction markets are shaking up sports gambling in America @okr.bsky.social and I on prediction markets' entry into sports contracts under Trump's CFTC and the resulting legal fights with states, tribal groups, and the gaming industry on.ft.com/4nwVxDk

New data shows that illegally-parked cop cars are wrecking the Jay Street busway nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/09/05/z...

I keep giving LLMs a chance to impress me, whenever I encounter a boring task that they should be good at, and they keep shitting the bed. Not like 'this was too hard a problem for fancy autocomplete' shitting the bed, like 'randomly deleting swathes of code' shitting the bed

ICE plans to 6x its current budget for immigrant transportation and deportations. The money offers a potential windfall for a few contractors and charter airlines — some with close ties to the Trump campaign. Yet the system is already under strain, with significant concerns for detainees' safety: 🧵

Hello. I wrote a nice long essay about AI and this very strange moment where we're constantly told we're living in the dawn of a strange new future but the only thing that's actually clear is that everyone feels pretty unmoored and uncertain. I hope you'll read it

NEW: The quest for superintelligence is spurring a data centre boom — but critics question the cost, environmental impact and whether it is all needed Our visual story on the relentless race for AI capacity: ig.ft.com/ai-data-cent...

New visual story: Inside the relentless race for AI capacity The quest for superintelligence is spurring a data centre boom — but critics question the cost, environmental impact and whether it is all needed ig.ft.com/ai-data-cent...

New: The American guns turning Haiti’s gangs into an army. Caches of weapons — including sniper and military-style rifles — are being smuggled from Florida, enabling Haitian militias to challenge the country’s fragile government. The UN says gangs now outgun the police. ig.ft.com/haiti-gangs/

An investigation by THE CITY uncovered donors who insist they didn’t donate to Eric Adams’ campaign, a donor who paid with a credit card linked to their employer and donors who don’t live where they claimed to. www.thecity.nyc/2025/07/24/e...

these kinds of "skills"/tricks for interacting with an LLM are a bug, not a feature, based on unintended friction in the system. it's like having a Texting 101 class in 2006 that teaches you tricks for typing quickly on a T9 keypad

The subway risk chart you've been waiting for (Sawyer County, Wisconsin, is where Sean Duffy is from). Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

How many times do we have to remind people: the chatbot *cannot* admit to *anything*. It *doesn't know*. When you ask it about itself, it generates its answer the same way it generates your request that it write an email. It takes what you tell it and responds in way to sound plausible.

god the last two Alex G albums are so good

New visual investigation: Inside America's booming immigration detention industry where record levels of incarceration are leading to deteriorating conditions, legal representatives & detainees say. ⁦ ig.ft.com/us-immigrati...

NEW: inside America's immigration detention industry, where lawyers and detainees describe overcrowding and deteriorating conditions Our visual investigation: ig.ft.com/us-immigrati...

NEW: Even before Donald Trump began his mass deportation plans, the US had the world's largest immigration detention system - 85% run privately. Record numbers are now being held and detainees, lawyers and relatives have spoken of poor conditions. 🔗 ig.ft.com/us-immigrati...

the thing about these kinds of arguments ("sure, you might like the guy, but lots of other people won't, so you shouldn't vote for him") is that it asks voters to engage in a kind of meta-politics on behalf of the party that I just have trouble believing most people would care about at all

NEW: Inside Gaza’s ‘death traps’ via @FT GHF’s plan forces hungry Palestinians to trek miles to aid sites, often through the IDF’s active military areas. Hundreds have been killed and thousands injured. This is how… www.ft.com/content/6c74...

By the way scammers have taken notice. Your must-read today. prospect.org/economy/2025...

Periodic reminder that AIs hallucinate, we have no idea if this is actually true

"brainwashed into nazism? nah, bro!" -a computer

I've obtained a trove of leaked documents about today's federal crackdown on Los Angeles' MacArthur Park. One revelation is its codename: "Operation Excalibur"

The Tony Blair Institute participated in a project to develop a postwar Gaza plan that envisaged kick-starting the enclave’s economy with a “Trump Riviera” and an “Elon Musk Smart Manufacturing Zone”. www.ft.com/content/0b1b...

Astonishing story. Huge questions over the company culture that allowed this. www.ft.com/content/c0e6...

Since 2016 the mainstream media (self included) has spent God knows how many hours fretting and gaming out and strategizing the right and ethical way to cover hack and leaked information. I don't see any way to justify doing this story the way the NYT did here.

Hakeem Jeffries is still speaking but eventually Republicans are going to pass their megabill. And it hasn't been discussed much, but that is going to force $500 billion in cuts to Medicare. Not just Medicaid. Medicare. Here's why: prospect.org/politics/202...

I’ve removed the paywall on my piece about right-wing pollsters boosting Trump in polling averages (but not ones as smart as the model at Strength In Numbers): www.gelliottmorris.com/p/how-to-rig...

Is Europe prepared for war? https://on.ft.com/4nsBo1V

I could've sworn that our current mayor was indicted on corruption charges and that four deputy mayors resigned in protest just a few months ago? no mention of any of that in this piece about the dangers of New York being mismanaged though, I must be imagining it!