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Whoa. CA DMV expanded Waymo's approved operating area to cover a lot of territory. Yesterday it was just the darker area.

Two Department of Homeland Security officers showed up to an East Bay elementary school Friday seeking more information about a former student, according to a district official.

like, any time Graeber's work touches on something I know about (Chinese or Cold War history), it's wrong about two-thirds of the time, either mildly wrong or grossly wrong, and this seems to be the case across a variety of fields.

i feel bad for our country. But this is tremendous content.

Gmail users!! They've turned on AI scraping by default now...Here's how to turn it off. Pass it on!! www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...

The Ten Year Affair is NPR’s Book of the Day. Thank you, NPR!!!

Not good, but...the number of Americans with four-year degrees has more than doubled in this time period, from 38 million in 1995 to 88 million in 2024, or from 23% of people over 25 to 39%.

Which reminds me of one of my favorite New Yorker corrections

not great news for America's lunar aspirations. I'm going to have to write about Starship again, huh?

its ability to consider a potential bit stresses me out

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Fascinating to think about the longterm consequences of this for social science. Might it lead to a reversal of the 'empirical turn' in economics and return to theory? A growth in popularity of in person qualitative research? Prioritisation of objective indicators in quant work?

Nobody is allowed to get mad at me for using RCP, it's what is convenient on the Terminal, go make your own chart if you care to pls!

Jared Bernstein: Manufacturing is in a real slump, with emp down 5 months in row, down 94K over past year. We haven’t seen such trends outside of recessions for years. I don’t think this is just tariffs, but given that half our imports are inputs into domestic production...

WHAT ARE THOOOOOOSEEE

this would be tight

Good Ray Ratto blog here: defector.com/coach-john-b...

LLM use case check in: Both ChatGPT and Claude are poor copyeditors; they do catch errors in drafts, but also hallucinate mistakes that aren't in the original text, and identify correct usage as erroneous. They are also also bad at outputting lists.

Alarming piece by Pierre Lionnet on the European space sector "space systems development and manufacturing is hardly a profitable business for the majority of companies in the sector, and for the rare instances where the bottom line is positive, the profits are clearly following a decreasing trend.

tfw you take your donor base national

“instead of presenting a new indictment to the grand jury after it declined to approve one of the counts, Halligan simply brought an altered version to the magistrate’s courtroom for the grand jury’s foreperson to sign” www.cnn.com/politics/liv...

We’re watching a shift where AI simulates the cohesion and reinforcement that used to require an entire online community. A single person can now build a complete parallel reality with nothing more than a prompt window. Which seems bad.

the Mamdani-Tisch discourse on all sides is people complaining that these two are not the pure expressions of identity politics they are apparently supposed to be

In answer to the question -- yes, Senate Commerce will hold another nomination hearing for Jared Isaacman to be NASA Admin. Dec 3. 10:00 am ET. Webcast.

brendan carr is fairly shameless but I am curious how he feels about being explicitly tasked by the president to go after ABC because a reporter asked MBS, someone the US government identified as a responsible for a murder, about that killing

ROFL. Eco is not wrong. He's not wrong at all.

Last Thanksgiving, two Dallas Police officers knocked on my door, citing a tip from the FBI national threat operations center that I was beating my girlfriend. The incident report confirms this. Today, I obtained a file from the FBI via FOIA that states the FBI has no record of receiving such a tip.

The fact that no one in the room stood up for her says a lot about how we got here bsky.app/profile/pale...

the season where every morning begins with a slug of airborne

POV: you are a young woman celebrating a recent academic success

This is an insanely cool (actual) photo taken by photographer Andrew McCarthy of a skydiver buddy seen in silhouette against the distant sun. Full story, videos, and more here: www.instagram.com/p/DRBAaqLkvy...

1/ I’d like to share what’s happened since Sept. 30, the night of the most dramatic raid of the Trump administration’s Operation Midway Blitz in Chicago. Under the cover of darkness, 37 immigrants were taken from an apartment complex …🧵

I wrote a skeptic's guide to how to use AI, out soon. Readers know I don't suffer fools -- or AI hype merchants -- gladly. I regularly write about the bubble that's formed as a result of their grift. But AI *does* have utility. You can pre-order here: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/782388...

More Musk. fortune.com/2025/11/12/e...

four year-olds don't want to hear about the international break

NEW: The US Department of Justice issued a warrant demanding SpaceX seize and disable Starlink devices and accounts being used at a scam compound in Myanmar. At least 9 Starlink devices were linked to a crypto scam that stole $6 million people, an FBI affidavit says Story with @lhn.bsky.social

I'm so curious if they honestly didn't know or thought no one else would care www.nytimes.com/2025/11/14/n...

Got a new story up, a profile of CA state senator and congressional candidate Scott Wiener, and a whole bunch of state housing politics and policy—to me, the totalizing political issue right now. Get people cheap housing near jobs and you fix *a lot*. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

ahhhh, Jets...

Blue Origin just landed booster on 2nd orbital launch. 99,000lb to LEO compared to 110,000lb for 3 booster Falcon Heavy with all 3 landing. This is a leap frog. Today's payloads are headed to Mars in the next few hours. Different dev approach than Starship. Slower but cheaper, and ultimately faster.

THEY DID IT ABSOLUTE BULLSEYE

Chinese gov hackers used Anthropic to fully automate recent cyberattacks against dozens of targets incl. tech firms, financial institutions, chemical facilities, and gov agencies. They tricked Claude into assisting them by breaking prompts into separate tasks and saying it was for defensive purposes

Amazon Kuiper, the company's broadband satellite service to compete with Starlink, has been rebranded as Amazon Leo, which is honestly a lot better.

Every office has an executive tier whose emails are like: saw on news , , can we replce complianc dept with web 3 and a worker tier whose emails are like: Dear Jim, First of all, I *love* this idea! Unfortunately, I spoke with Legal and identified a few issues with this approach. For starters…

there's a lot of conspiratorial thinking about the news on this website that doesn't really capture how the sausage gets made; this thread is worth reading for a more accurate perspective

not too hard to imagine a comprehensively gambling-obsessed political media, maybe soon nymag.com/intelligence...

New: Google has chosen a side in Trump's mass deportation campaign. Google is hosting a CBP facial recognition app to hunt immigrants; no indication Google will remove. At same time Google takes down apps for reporting ICE sightings “Big tech has made their choice” www.404media.co/google-has-c...