They fucking did it. They did the Spinal Tap thing.

Germany: I need some way to boost gdp please help me I'm dying Singapore: install air conditioning Germany: maybe there's another way

Right on schedule. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Eu...

This dude for chancellor, holy shit.

This is one of the most arresting charts I've seen in quite a while.

I worked in Roger's lab as an intern and lab assistant many moons ago. Indiana's decline into hillbilly north korea is as depressing as it is predictable.

You absolutely cannot stop the EV transition. It is inevitable.

I know I have been a consistent harrumpher about AI so feel free to ignore this, but I find it kind of remarkable that after four years of massive growth, intense development by millions of our finest minds, and literally trillions of dollars of investment, Claude Opus 4.7 still can't count.

ESG is back with a vengence in *checks notes* Dubai.

How is there not a stock with the ticker TUNA?

As I push Scott Bessent out the airlock, I tell him don't worry, the earth has been floating through space this whole time.

Putinism is the enemy. One down, two left to go.

Yep.

This is a spectacularly bad "takedown" of the Biden-era EV subsidies, and one of the worst I've seen outside RW media to date. (1/x) 🧵 🔌💡🚗 www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

EVs make combustion vehicles feel like riding lawnmowers.

Reposting this again for no reason.

Good speech. Most US press got bamboozled by Bill Barr's scheme. Trump's collusion with Russia was always real, continues to be. www.youtube.com/live/ylvTFvJ...

I can't tell you how many times I've heard over the past year, you're a white man, what are YOU worried about, and boy if we learn nothing else from today, I hope we all learn that if the rule of law isn't there for EVERYBODY, it isn't there for ANYBODY. YOU ARE NOT SAFE.

So glad the onion is back on form

How could he have known about the pottery?

No matter how stupid you expect this answer to be, there is no way you are prepared for how stupid it actually is.

Sloptopolis

Google should let you make a subscription-only notebooklm, turn it into a new type of blogging/newsletter platform. Could mix text written by authors with sources they recommend on a particular topic. That would be 1000x better than me trying to roll my own.

Thomas Jefferson compared the institution of slavery to having caught a wolf by the ears, and say what you will about the analogy but it's clearly not a desirable state of affairs.

If Waymo is doing 250k rides per week with only 2k vehicles on the road, call it 125 per vehicle week, if a ride is ten bucks (conservative) and a car costs 120k to build (probably conservative), the payback period for that car is ~2 years. If cost comes down to 60k, you're talking one year. 💰 🤑 💸

JB is my kind of guy

Turned on The Sum of All Fears from 2002 last night, fully expecting it to fall flat, and actually the degree to which it still holds up is frightening.

The flipside of this is also true: if we stay on a fossil-based energy system, we need to continually mine, refine, and burn fossil fuels FOREVER. Either the cost of that is infinite or we run out and have to transition anyway. In the very long run it's transparent nonsense.

tHe UsD iS lOsInG iTs ReSeRvE sTaTuS

They finally made the milk from that hotel

My flaming hot take is that making geothermal projects eligible for Master Limited Partnerships is 10-100x more consequential for clean energy than early sunsets on solar and wind subsidies.

Humans have practiced many different kinds of magic throughout history. The ones the work get relabled "science".

Spanish government report on the causes of the unprecedented blackout of the Iberian peninsula points to failure of thermal power plants to respond as required, and a possible planning failure by the grid operator, as the causes. elpais.com/economia/202...

Sounds familiar.

@hankgreen.bsky.social did a 10 minute video about next gen battery technology and actually managed to mention almost about every single relevant detail and only made one mistake I could identify. It's...it's beautiful. youtu.be/BL-1FjBkvKY?...

I know we're not supposed to go "twas ever thus" these days but I can't think of a more consistent throughline of American history. Like, did you think Ronald Reagan worked for a think tank?

The Yahoo finance story on Biden's cancer shows the ticker symbol for the New York Times.

The last couple years were a little nondescript so I'm pleased to report that Eurovision 2025 is bugfuck insane.

True crime is military history for women.

The political value of ignorance is that it lets you tell lies while still appearing earnest.

It's Spargelzeit again, an event that combines Germany's two great passions: bland vegetables and unnecessarily complicated machinery.

Movies you've watched more than six times using gifs. (Hard mode, no Star Wars, Star Trek, LOTR)

We stan www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

6.3%

Today I learned that a federal judge can appoint a prosecutor if the government doesn't. And apparently, so did the administration.

"Using AI in education is like using a forklift at the gym."

Dear carmakers:

The lettuce wins again.