I think it might be a shock to reactionary tech bros that the city of Austin predates them and they won’t be missed when they leave

But what if the Premier League is TOO good

(posted in a spirit of optimism) 2026 vaguely plausible lifting goals if I don't do myself a mischief: 455 squat, 285 bench, 645 deadlift

TIRED: Top 4 seeds are 0-6 WIRED: Enemies of the University of Texas are 0-4

She even said her iconic line “it’s Táring time” and Táred all over those guys

Shakira Law, one of the lesser-known Airbus flight control modes,

Happy new year! Exciting news: There's new transit coming in 2026—including metro, light rail, commuter rail, aerial tram, & BRT lines across North America. Overall, the US, Canada, & Mexico will add 150 miles of fixed-guideway transit. It's all on The Transport Politic in my annual roundup ⏬

Accidentally found the perfect New Year's Eve movie (the 2025 Naked Gun)

Seized with a need to invent TV shows of the form The [European City] [multisyllable noun]. The Bratislava Conundrum. The Malmö Objective. The Valladolid Connection.

People think they can just say "latent space" and say something profound about AI

A true breakout season from our No. 3️⃣3️⃣ Owen Wolff is the Austin FC Offensive Player of the Year!

Chris Rufo will post something like “my plan is to lie to the media about what trees do” and the NYT will print “trees are traditionally seen as helpful, even worth preserving, but some are asking if the time of trees has come to it’s end, and their ideas about autism are intriguing”

Never ceases to amaze me that there are people who like to pull sumo

I'm losing my mind, NYC paid for its construction and said where it would be

I don’t have the USL podcast/supporters network I once had, but some influential people in that circle should be building up a fund to help these players during the likely work stoppage

Our fundamental political crisis is that having cool stuff everywhere was only made possible by tamping down discrimination. Conservatives like artisan food and booze too, but hate that it comes with gay people living open lives and minority-owned businesses. -OS

Still chuckling at the Post yesterday night that casually suggested adding a 5-10% national VAT

periodic reminder, amdahl's law implies having meetings creates a hard limit on your organization's overall productivity (can a lot of work be done independently at the same time, or does everything funnel through a bottleneck of coordination) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amdahl%...

Yes, well

It's Blockin' Time

Hearing the PBS NewsHour for the first time in a long time and ... they're pretty gone, huh

Not saying we don't do this kind of thing ourselves of course, but it always astonishes me how UK politicians never seem to look beyond the current PR cycle. Zero long term systems thinking

Finally inventing the corrupted Maiar from Tolkien's beloved epic "Struggling Through The Ages To Destroy The Corrupted Maiar"

my demands are simple, mr. bond

"I negate your political alternate universe fanfic by substituting my own" is one of the most tedious things ever

That said, why are you funding your transit operations from fares anyway

When you learn what steps were taken at the federal level in order to maintain slavery's existence *anywhere* in the United States, the parallels with today become unavoidable

The right, along the Roberts Court, is trying to nullify the Reconstruction amendments guaranteeing equality under the law, in order to restore the Antebellum Constitution, which envisions “liberty” as an eternal aristocracy of race and class (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

The bigger point here is that it's too often the case that Americans remember the civil rights movement as a battle between an active force (Civil rights activists) and a passive force (racism) which is presumed to be melting away as the moral arc of the universe bends. But that's inaccurate.

People be like, "how is it possible for a film to be seen by lots of people and not really have a lasting cultural impact" Meanwhile 1963 in Film:

"We used AI to generate a list of names to search for the Black Dahlia killer" or you could have fed the phone book through your machine?

I'm confused, WW2-era cross-dressing is woke now in the UK?

A lot of discourse around “why doesn’t the academy engage with conservative intellectuals” is that a lot of modern conservative thought boils down to rationalising an instinctive racism and therefore isn’t interesting To study.

Moonquaker: the History of the Apollo Seismometers

Y’all might not appreciate it, but it took him 87 moves and 14 hours to get here

Stop Making Sense word projection-ass label

The thing that makes me uneasy is not whether taking GLP-1s is "moral" or not for an individual, which isn't the right question. My concern is how much it feels like, e.g., TRT: medical and aesthetic issues merging into each other, normalizing physiques that are inaccessible without intervention

This ain't no party, this ain't no disco

Well, yes, paying out the lawsuits won't get the administrators fired by politicians, while not breaking the law will

Ayyy remember blockchain?

Texas has basically decided that the Permian Basin can be sacrificed

I'm pretty sure Nigeria "asked" for a US strike more or less via "you know, if you let us bomb something, maybe Trump will go easy on the visa stuff"

The fact that places like Syracuse or Bristol, VA or Grand Junction just don't figure into this discussion is IMO a problem

When a Christian Nationalist hears someone say “You believe what you want, but I don’t agree with you” what they generally hear is “I think you’re evil and should be silenced.” This is what they call “projection.”

I'm going to tell my favorite story again about reflecting the certainty of beliefs back at people who don't expect it. A friend was one of the few Jews on faculty at a North Dakota University. Every year, his colleague in religious studies would invite him to come to his religious studies class...

We talked about running these numbers at UM soc when it became so obvious that women TAs got more complaints for the same classes. Glad someone tested it formally.

"Come Together" is a Christmas song

Was going to say, significantly warmer than any time I've gone in August

Trains excite boys of all ages. Where's our high speed rail