Can we blame AI somehow?

“substituting mere prediction for explanation… understanding is overhead to capital” 🤯 re: ai/llm uptake

Lol, Zillow tried to rate the climate risks facing individual properties. The real estate industry *hated* it, precisely because it worked -- it made selling risky properties more difficult. So they rebelled & Zillow caved. Don't look up!

I banish from my company all those who who think they know something that is in fact not true. — Augustine, ~400 AD.

i know WHY this is but that just makes it even more of a kick in the pants lmao

Can confirm!

My friend Emily Walton wrote a book about racial exclusion, studying the place where we live, the Upper Valley of NH/VT. Pretty wild to read a study of the place you live! Anyway, out tomorrow, very well done with lots of data and interviews. www.amazon.com/Homesick-Rac...

Really great opinion piece (gift link). www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/o...

So what is to be done? I dunno. At scale, probably nothing. I’ve been a journalist 33 years, & in this regard same as it ever was. For individuals looking to get free? Read weird, be skeptical, don’t take cues from social media (so ignore this!), grow yr attention span, ask structural questions.

Almost a year now since I received this absolutely classic burn from the Canadian government.

I do not want to create an account for a one-time purchase. Yes, I want a bag. Yes, I want a receipt, printed out, not emailed or texted. No, I will not download your app for future weak discounts. Please just let me be a customer like it’s 1987

Very amusing— these guys cloned Gmail, then loaded it with the Epstein emails, as if you’re him. jmail.world

effortlessly achieving levels of family courtfulness as yet unseen in man or beast

Unbelievable his quote is “the individual was not Clinton” and NOT “I don’t remember Donald blowing anyone.” lol www.newsweek.com/donald-trump...

props to WSJ for once on a useful notion, ADMIN PARTY for everybody

American politics makes a lot more sense when you realize that the GOP is afraid of pissing off the GOP base, and the Dems are afraid of pissing off the GOP base, but neither party is afraid of pissing off the Dem base.

Louvre heist mystery man revealed to be a 15-year-old dandy who styles himself after French resistance hero Jean Moulin: Pedro Elias Garzon Delvaux. apnews.com/article/louv...

There’s a young southern woman on tt doing an experiment: calling churches & asking if they can help her get baby formula, saying she can’t afford it. Of the 30+ she’s called, nearly every church has said no. The ones who said yes were: Black Baptist Churches A Mosque A small Appalachian church

This is pleasant. www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2Te...

Karl Ove Knausgaard has a short book, 65 pages, called Inadvertent, which was an invited speech he gave. Really loving it.

Nice remaster of this. Rare to see Fagen teaching, especially this casually. www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5Ym...

Actual causes of death in the USA compared to populist media coverage ...

"...if he'd been able, through his active proficiency in crime, to seize control of the city, he would have attained high public offices, the command of armies, and wealth -- and fear of the law wouldn't have been a factor for him..." -- Augustine of Hippo, "Confessions," 400 AD.

FFmpeg announces patch to fix a decoding error only found in the first 20 frames of one video from the 1995 PC CD-ROM game Star Wars: Rebel Assault 2

This story is developing nicely.

Working on my art project and just wrote myself the following note: “Should maybe have a whole page of mangy dog photos – can I find the photo of that one dog pissing on the other dog who's dead?”

Was checking out the Supernote website but the heavy animations kept slogging out my 9th gen iPad, before finally running out of memory and reloading the page. Animations are over, bring back information design and architecture.

an incredible amount of jerry from '73 was uploaded to archive over the weekend ... with a lot of Jerry & Merl + Old and in the Way

Extremely niche content, but watching one of the best mix engineers in the world lament how much better the automation is on a 1994 console compared to anything made today really sun up the “progress” in computers. www.youtube.com/watch?v=r170...

The Chongqing Zhongshuge Bookstore by X+Living features mirrored ceilings, spiral staircases, and towering bookshelves, creating an illusion of infinite space that blends architecture, reflection, and imagination into a surreal reading experience.

Incredible article, which I found sad in the end. harpers.org/archive/2025...

Imagine a browser where you type in “Taylor Swift” and it doesn’t even admit that her website exists. I write about Atlas, ChatGPT’s new anti-web browser that should come with a warning label. www.anildash.com/2025/10/22/a...

Incredible intersection of ego and engineering. (Gift article) www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/n...

ICE "has been rapidly building out its surveillance capabilities in recent weeks, signing a string of contracts for technologies to identify individuals by their irises or facial features and to monitor their cellphone activity, social media posts and physical movements," per spending disclosures.

kids teacher just sent this home as part of an assignment he's doing and i want to smash every computer at the school

The “Oops, protein powder is full of lead” thing would explain so much.

Banned books staircase created by Gary M. Herd / Kraken Studios. Newport Public Library.

Did you know that if you buy my book on Amazon, Jeff Bezos makes 5 times as much as I do on each copy sold? Sharing some behind-the-scenes book math on why buying directly from presses is best for EVERYONE (except Bezos) in my newsletter today! aubreyhirsch.substack.com/p/book-math

my latest investigation for @consumerreports.org is based on months of reporting and 60+ lab tests of leading protein supplements we found that most protein powders and shakes have more lead in one serving than our experts say is safe to have in a day (🧵) www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...

New Strymon pedal is another delay voicing — so many delays, yet no chorus pedal!

🧵 I'm excited to share that my article "Democratic Backsliding and the Limits of Civilian Control of the Military" has been accepted @thejop.bsky.social. It answers the question "how ought militaries act when civilian leaders turn on democratic institutions?" 1/ #CivMilSky #PolTheory

Great take on Pynchon. newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...

Like a lot of things with RFK Jr if someone just said this to you and wasn’t in charge of medicine in America you’d go: ooooooookay and keep pressing the elevator button

@bobbby.online This seems like it might be up your alley: soulscircuit.com/pilet

Missed this last week: Audio-centric article on Mike Gordon's new studio in VT. www.mixonline.com/recording/fa...

Stewart Brand is selling his houseboat. www.cabinporn.com/p/the-man-wh...

This cannot be ignored and cannot be normalized. If you think you're safe because your skin isn't brown and your accent isn't Hispanic, please, please, study history.