I think some people may be overstating Rogan’s influence. He’s been at this a long time. I think he’s transitioning into what Howard Stern became a long time ago: a somewhat predictable voice, playing the hits, whose audience loves to complain about him losing his edge even as they still listen.

I will never stop fighting people who say typology when they mean type. I am the Hiroo Onda of typology.

I’m not going to explain this further but this is profoundly protestant behavior in a way that should be embarassing to any self respecting jew.

I think people accurately perceive that American politics have been corrupted but they tend to think of “corruption” in ways that don’t really describe the worst of the problem.

Somehow, over years of very slowly working on a research project, I still have failed to internalize that every time I think I can’t crack the structure it’s actually because I just don’t know enough yet.

It’s wild how people, when confronted with the fact that the market does not produce the kinds of buildings that the public professes to like, cannot summon up a better explanation than “100 years ago an austro-hungarian pedophile used his mind-control beam.”

It’s an imperfect theory but it’s a lot better than this shit

Proposing sand-set pavers is pretty much an automatic no in any American municipality. That’s sometimes just conservatism but its also a rational reaction to the unfortunate reduction in maintenance budgets in favor of capital projects.

There’s no one answer obviously but I’m curious to what extent the answer to “why arent buildings beautiful anymore?” is just: more data, development markets got more efficient.

I was just looking at r/tomatoes and there are some real psychos over there.

The actual research here is interesting but the article presents no-till farming as an ancient, forgotten ecological practice. Worth noting that the majority of American farmland is currently low- or no-till, a massive expansion since 2000 or so. For many crops no-till is bog standard practice.

If big tech has one core competency it is capturing human attention. If you interact with ChatGPT it quickly becomes apparent that it has been designed to to drive continued engagement. There is no reason to think they will fail here. "Once the bubble bursts no one will use this" is a bad take.

I think we can reject the shameless boosterism and solemn pontificating, while also recognizing that AI is a big deal and is going to change society and our brains. Dumb stuff changes society and our brains all the time. Instagram Reels changed society and our brains.

round two less successful. experimented with a cold ferment and didn’t get the same rise or crumb. flavor is good, but it isn’t a pizza strip.

I think this is good, and asks a question I’ve wondered about often. That said, I don’t know if I’m totally convinced by the argument—I think there is something else at play beyond the limits of avant-garde exploration having been exhausted.

Ezra Klein: I'm Ezra Klein, and today I'm joined by one of the foremost intellectual theorists of Trumpism. He is an associate editor at the Rancho Cucamonga Review of Ideas and a fellow at the Schlafly Institute of Punitive Economics. [a baked potato in a top hat]: Thanks for having me, Ezra.

Benny Agbayani

you: so i saw this annoying guy on the internet me: aww shit i know how that is, brother, hate those annoying guys you: i actually think he’s kind of representative of a major problem in our society me, thinking to myself: hmm, so now this guy is starting to seem like the annoying guy

This is a hobbyhorse of mine but I just gotta say I don’t think people realize how fucking talented Paul Lynde was

I think schools should teach the regular kind of literacy

There’s 100 things to hate about this but I keep getting stuck on: no one knows what “AI literacy” is! Most of the people working on this program probably used an LLM for the first time in the last 24 months!

ngl he was cooking with this one fr

setting the over/under on total seasons for the harry potter show at 2.5

The reason I hate “design research” is that it inculcates in students both learned helplessness and a form of megalomania. Do stats analysis, archival research, ethnography? You don’t know how to do that you silly architect! Make a nurbs surface that somehow revolutionizes ecology? Sounds great!

The tech industry’s capture of advertising revenue has both made the right wing takeover of legacy media much more affordable and provided an insincere pretext for that takeover. That’s the story of media in the 21st century.

powerful stuff happening on linkedin

Perhaps specific to my own education, but I’ve found academia in architecture is really interested in the ways in which ”design” is an epistemological framework for investigating the world, and not in the ways in which “design” is a cultural/historical/political artifact subject to investigation.

Just rewatched The Cactus Flower, and was thinking about how many films, esp. comedies, used to be adapted from stage plays, or could have been plays. This is basically gone now, but made me wonder what was the most recent Hollywood movie that was *theatrical* in that classic sense.

I’d love to read a retrospective look at the discourse around ”digital fabrication” in design, like 2005-2015. Obviously the “3D-printed houses” is still around, but otherwise it really feels like a totally different era.

trying to get a pizza strip recipe locked in. a promising first attempt, plenty of room for improvement.

Sadly, I think this may be happening to Michelle Wu

landfills are so embarrassing. you just put all the trash in a big pile and put dirt on top of it? thats like something a dog would come up with.

i saw a guy wearing this shirt once maybe 20 years ago and i’ve been hunting it ever since. my white whale.

the problem with bluesky is there really isn’t that much discussion of the classic shareware 2D space exploration game escape velocity:override when compared with the ambrosia software forums circa 1999

smdh chop suey sandwiches are a north shore thing—in rhode island we eat *chow mein* sandwiches

There’s an interesting paper by Albert Way on the USDAs efforts to promote grass-based agriculture in the South after the Civil War that kind of makes this point implicitly

The thing about “human genetic diversity” is that there are plenty of actual geneticists studying, say, variation in the distribution of different cytochrome enzymes between Esan and Yoruba populations.

there should be an urbanist jon taffer. some big guy with slicked back hair and a plaid suit who rolls into midsize american cities and yells at the highway dept about slip lanes

you: so i saw this annoying guy on the internet me: aww shit i know how that is, brother, hate those annoying guys you: i actually think he’s kind of representative of a major problem in our society me, thinking to myself: hmm, so now this guy is starting to seem like the annoying guy

I am trying to be generous here but my counter-question would be: what positive policy interventions do you think would result from everyone suddenly becoming *less empathetic* towards homeless people with mental health disorders?

breathtaking ratio on this one

I’m aware that this is a long walk, but one of the reasons this shit makes me crazy is that “the reason there’s trash on the train because the woke anarchist left likes crime” is somewhat reminiscent of certain aspects of contemporary immigration and foreign policy.

Still a very funny story. A pair of mooks clearly thought they hit the grifting big time, then get fired for trying to extort bewildered real estate developers for samples of vegan cheese.

My most heartfelt congratulations to Mrs Bam Adebayo

Counterpoint: America should have 800 states.

It’s apple guys. Bought scions today and half the descriptions were like: “German variety from 1584. Prone to scab, fire blight, and rust. Low-yielding, fruit require 3 months storage to develop their classic flavor, with notes of liquorice and wet cigarettes. Perennial best-seller, supply limited.”

This makes some sense on a macroeconomic level but I kind of doubt it would play out in practice. Streetscape projects that remove parking are typically so piecemeal— I doubt the lost revenue will drive decision making when removing 2-4 spaces at a time.

sometimes you just have stop and wonder at the fact that planters peanuts not only built a giant scrotum-shaped car but also named it the nutmobile