If governments spent money into existence and taxed it out of existence, then all participants in government would have an incentive to prevent Trump's recent lawsuit shenanigans because it would devalue the currency. Having banks involved messes up incentive alignment.

SCOTUS says you can't use race as a criteria for redistricting. How about we go further in that direction and say that the *only* criteria you can use for redistricting is population density? It should be a math problem not a political problem.

Let's not be overly specific about the problems with data centers. Take water use for example. Evaporative cooling may be a disaster in one region but totally fine in another. This should be about listening to ecologists who specialize in the region where the thing is.

"Statuses" is a cursed word. There are three distinct plurals of status: state, story, and gamut.

RFK Jr: "A Democratic senator claimed it's mathematically impossible to have a drug drop by 600%. I said, 'Well, if the drug was $100 and it raises to $600, that would be a 600% rise. If it drops from $600 to $100, that's a 600% savings.'" Trump: "Right"

Co-ops are so cool. I think about this every time I buy King Arthur flour. Now I've got Drivers Cooperative to add to my list.

For Science!

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I can't believe the world is carrying on like "peptides" is a useful category for talking about things that are or are not safe to inject. It's such a broad category, biologically speaking. Might as well take a stance on whether "people" can be trusted.

Montana — yes, deep red Montana — has a plan to effectively neuter Citizens United. No Supreme Court ruling or constitutional amendment needed. Here's how it works. https://youtu.be/p1fPbGHe3xE?si=QZRQImV8KYD5Y90r

"The US Ruling Class is a Terrorist Organization" Seen in Avondale, Chicago, Illinois

When I rank types of conflict by how prepared the US is for them, a game of chicken over oil prices is way down at the bottom, right next to a race where we push our vehicles up a hill. Whoever is calling the shots right now is playing us so hard.

when you whip Claude you whip yourself

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I wish Trump would stop acting like he wants The Strait of Hormuz open. He just stole a bunch of Venezuelan oil, and now Iran is helping ensure that he can sell it at a very high price. Life is good.

Cannibalism leads to prions, which are unique to the organism. They sneak past systems designed to counteract infection. I anticipate that there's something like that which goes LLMs consuming their own output. Much has been said about "model collapse", but there ought to be more to the story.

Will I see you at a #NoKings rally? ☮️ We MUST #resist fascism as he destroys our government.

I'm trying to build a en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wubi_me... visualizer which helps users understand the correspondence between the keys they typed and the strokes in the character that was summoned.

Get ready for woke computing! hackaday.com/2026/03/16/t...

Venezuela and Iran have sold oil in exchange for non-USD currency within the last several years. Hmmm.

Software is easier to use if you understand the motivations of whoever made it. These days, it's rarely that they want to help you. Don't blame yourself, blame the vendor.

Another great thing is that when you get the bill, there's no way to know if it's from your healthcare provider or from a scammer who got access to your insurance provider's data.

To form a en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light_p... you need atmospheric ice crystals which orient uniformly horizontal.

It's a really, really good interview, you should watch it I donated $10 to James Talarico afterwards

This seems like a pretty good line of thinking, but I'm a bit worried that if people adopt it, the market will adapt by coming up with things to call "insoluble fiber" on the label which would otherwise be classified "not even food".

PSA, believing a conspiracy theory is different than believing in conspiracy theories. Like it or not, the theories exist.

This is why we're not sure who our leaders work for. Overinvest in weapons and you have to compete politically for influence over who controls them.

I know some students who got detention for holding a "Fuck ICE" sign during a non-school-sanctioned protest. Maybe "Police ICE" would be a better rallying cry, especially since the signs for it are already made.

Is there a secret message in the connections? impressive performance for an app with so much data epsteinsecrets.com/network?layo...

It bugs me when people say "____ is not an engineering problem" because usually the problem was at some point in its recent history drastically exacerbated by an engineering decision. If you engineered yourself into a problem, it's at least partially an engineering problem.

Beyond a certain threshold net worth becomes for all practical purposes non-archimedean. Like how if it's 100 °F outside it's time to rest in the shade, but if it's 100000 °F outside it's time to get a new thermometer. Not wealth, but an existence proof that there's a bug in our system.

Naming and shaming public servants is the primordial soup whence other checks on power came; its as ancient as calling dibs. It's also the check/balance of last resort.

That database is going to be a high value target. This is the kind of thing you want on a blockchain.

Of the Americans who are angry with Congress for funding ICE, I wonder how many have a W-4 filed such that its prepaying their federal income taxes.

Please keep writing linear python code--unless an event driven architecture is appropriate for what you're doing. It might feel good to avoid "spaghetti code" but ravioli code can be just as problematic if the architecture is a bad fit.

People think of little red spots when they think of measles. I think we'd be in a better policy position if instead people thought of long term neurological damage.

Trump would probably have an aneurysm if Minnesota indicated that it planned to become part of Canada.

The numbers on the clock mean nothing on their own, let's act like we understand that and dispense with timezones altogether.

If your mutual aid network doesn't include insects, you're thinking too small. This person my anarchist hero.

I hope you're all having a very mischievous Saturnalia.