this image is maybe the single greatest joke in TRADING PLACES. and also a pretty apt description of the trump/vance/national conservative vision of america

I just published Potato, a new pansharpening package. It aims to render certain kinds of satellite imagery more clearly and accurately than what’s for sale and on satellite maps today: github.com/celoyd/potato/

cyrano de bergerchat

Ok I filed three columns in two days and that’s a lot. When my opinion vent opens that much it’s like a firehose, and I gotta release some extras here and now I think enough of my opinions are out, and I can finally breathe. Thank you for listening

Pollution dropping by that much likely means a whole bunch of people are alive who otherwise wouldn’t be. Incredible stuff.

€25600 43 kWh LFP 🔋 It’s happening ⚡️⚡️ #amsterdamelektrisch

More later, but some super quick thoughts...

If you saw the cut feature on Rama Duwaji and are tempted to go cut your hair immediately, consider this your reminder to call your oldest friend and talk it out first

I got a lot of problems with you people! And now you're gonna hear about it! (1) Stop misstating the f*ck**g common law. (2) People who saunter in airports. Enough. (3) Men. Why? Now, time for the Feats of Strength!

My dream for Kansas is millions of acres of vertical bifacial solar shielding the increasingly parched wheat fields, but as the article points out, they are just barely getting started on solar at all. www.canarymedia.com/articles/sol...

this is so depressing for a book that has widely been debunked by the actual experts

AI ran into a brick wall trying to control smart home devices this year, which feels like the canary in the coal mine for a lot of things. Excellent @jp2e.bsky.social dive into why and what comes next www.theverge.com/tech/845958/...

The thing about that Graeme Wood article defending Weiss is that he *also* has never worked as a news editor, let alone a TV news editor. It’s bizarre contrarian dilettantism of a type the Atlantic is sadly prone to.

The next time there's a fight over reclaiming space from cars, one thing that gives me hope is that we will have a new mayor who will point to what happened with congestion pricing — and Citi Bike, 14th Street, etc. — and tell the naysayers that they are almost always wrong.

Global solar deployment in 2024 shattered records, with nearly 600 gigawatts (GW) installed worldwide, a massive increase driven primarily by China, followed by the U.S. and India. 2025 will shatter that record, hitting over 800 GWs, despite the glass-half empty reporting out of the USA.

Jigar and I don't agree on everything but it's good to see him calling out the US media's energy "reporting." "...despite the glass-half empty reporting out of the USA."

Yes, there are a few areas where public spending is too generous and a bit more neoliberalism would be a good thing. Roads and parking are a big one. Cops are another.

More positively - I liked this conversation about critical theory today. “From normative foundations to emancipatory futures: a conversation about Critical Theory today” (Allen, McNay, Bufkin, Dyson 2025) www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

I wrote about Tyrese Haliburton's choke-sign tribute to Reggie Miller at MSG, which is one of the most indelible sports-related moments I've ever seen: www.theringer.com/2025/12/23/s...

The GOP will lose the Latino vote for a generation over how ICE and CBP have acted. Below 30 percent approval is catastrophic. And we may not have seen the bottom.

The Sound of Music is on TV tonight, so we must point you, yet again, to this all-timer by Melinda Taub from our archives.

A Blade Runner-style megacity has somehow stayed a hidden gem, but not for much longer. on.wsj.com/4pTo6MD

Time to clear the gutters and drains. ☔️

Many adored reading the adventures of Harry Potter as a child. Most also thought it was about wizardry. It is not. Instead, it serves as a direct parable of syncretic Manichaeism/Pure Land Buddhism, as its apocalyptic iteration of the White Lotus Sect & the renewal of the Dharma. In this essay I sh-

A whole mini generation cracks their (aching) knuckles and double clicks on the-pirate-bay

I've been pretty quiet on here lately, and that's for two reasons. First: My wife and I had a baby this summer! And we've been spending as much time with him as possible, including, for me, 13 wonderful weeks of parental leave. (Thanks @wgaeast.bsky.social!) No working parent should have less.

Bootlegging samizdat VPN’s Pravda state media Secret prison camps Welcome America to life under authoritarianism

All U.S. Offshore Wind Construction Halted as Administration Cites National Security Risks. The order is the harshest move yet against offshore wind, and potentially very disruptive. 🔌💡 @yes-energy.bsky.social www.rtoinsider.com/122263-all-u...

American presidents who've had things named after them en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hooverv...

did a video a few days ago making the case for supreme court expansion www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjB_...

It's not hard to find examples of the cost for closing old oil wells is much higher than the estimates we are given. Here is another example in California. My favorite example is the $40 million it cost to close the 19 oil wells on the Beverly Hills high school campus.

Excuse me, 19 oil wells on the *where now*

Holy shit practically the entire Heritage legal center resigned www.nationalreview.com/news/exclusi...

it’s probably really important for anyone reading about the offshore wind stuff today to know the military already spent many years addressing these issues and those reviews are well documented, can be filed in court

Not trying to “I told you so” anyone in the media but I stood by my reporting on Trump targeting Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind despite countless Beltway pundits telling me privately I was wrong because “Republicans like that one” MAGA culture is not about “all of the above”

Free stories box on theverge.com is sharp today

Breaking news: Trump is citing “national security” to halt all active work on offshore wind projects Five giant energy projects, countless jobs at risk My story explains how the argument has legal weaknesses and comes from an anti-wind policy doc I reported in January

While the EU has a big economic beef with China, it is to a large degree in a particular sector (autos) and there are bi- and multilateral tools to deal with this. However, it does not have territorial (direct or once removed) beefs with China, which is not the current EU case with either US or RU.

When it comes to the national security implications of windmills, the military has of course a long history of rational suspicion and justified aggression.

This is a hit job. The "conflict of interest" is that Jesse's day job aligns with the values that got him elected.

backlash potential of structural change. See below for our first attempt to get at this. osf.io/9usd2/files/...

“I am a journalist affiliated with Substack” is a remarkable sequence of words.

I make more money than either of my parents ever did and it all goes to rent, healthcare, and debt

Our first direct hit. Oddly our oyster work is the most popular thing we do. Great return on investment for taxpayers funding bay restoration. cambridgespy.substack.com/p/horn-point...

What I said. bsky.app/profile/jgil...

I refuse to shut up about this: NYC started charging $9 to bring a car into our most transit-rich zone, the haters & trolls predicted doom, but traffic evaporated instantly and here’s Times Square tonite (even after the holiday tourists have left). For a better future, build transit & price driving!

The thing about RFK jr. being a terrible head of health and human services is like…yeah. Yeah, he is literally the worst possible person for the job.