They are laying off ppl at JPL???

Psychotic btw

Checking on what Korean news is publishing today: english.hani.co.kr/arti/english...

What Trump is doing right now isn't "cancel culture." It's a modern version of the Red Scare. www.vox.com/on-the-right...

imo this is one of those @judah-grunstein.bsky.social posts that is a perfectly precipitated nugget of insight. Even if I’ve seen the idea expressed elsewhere, I tend to find his expression more cogent.

Kind of weird how Roberts declared the VRA preclearance to rest on dated and unfair assumptions about the South and within 15 years the former Confederate states will have effectively eliminated almost every black district within those states.

Erm, what the fuck?

Erm, what the fuck?

I feel like one of the many effects of LLMs on our industry is going to be making it really clear that the coding was never the hard part.

A platform where Jamelle Bouie is one of the most influential and respected people is one that is going to cause discomfort for a certain kind of liberal (or person who thinks they are liberal). Yes, Bouie is black, but what these people really reject is strong criticism of America's status quo.

again remembering all the criticisms of "woke capitalism" and the hypocritical excesses of hollow corporate diversity and wondering if we were all on the same page about what would replace them when they were gone

Tariffs rejected and he croaks the same night is nasty work May we be so lucky Merry ghoulscrolling to us all

Can folks do me a favor? I was on Bluesky early & it was great. Mostly. I hit the eject button in January. I came back, many colleagues are here, but still don’t know I am. I co-created Halt and Catch Fire. I write TV & comics. Here’s two favorite set photos. Repost? I am in the wilderness.

Come to 🇨🇦 chief

"Tao is one of the most prominent mathematicians and academics to publicly oppose the administration’s actions, calling them an “existential threat” to his field, and academic science, more broadly. He said public advocacy is a priority over his research, for now." www.nbcnews.com/science/scie...

Going to be wild to have Clarence Thomas and other members of the court write that even the appearance of impropriety is sufficient to allow the President to remove Federal Reserve members from office, and then head off to Harlan Crow’s yacht

You can explain the last decade of American politics with two memes.

This x 100. The centrists cannot talk to normal people lol

Weekend #longreads: The math tutor and the missing $533 million https://restofworld.org/2025/byjus-owner-byju-raveendran-comeback-fraud-case/

3. This is why the Bill Gates/Ecomodernist approach will never work. I define ecomodernism as using technology as a substitute for political and economic change. We need new technologies and their widespread application. But we *also* need bold policies to shut down the old technologies.

this is shocking

I'm a huge fan of simple, clear, single-purpose websites. today I discovered a new one, which explains straightforwardly (with videos and step-by-step pictures) how to tie a whole bunch of basic knots www.animatedknots.com/anchor-hitch...

This is my 7th-grade band director when he heard me play a scale on the oboe.

“Climate change will manifest as a series of disasters viewed through phones with footage that gets closer and closer to where you live until you're the one filming it.”

I dunno man, this guy and his team just get how to communicate. It’s… so refreshing to watch. It’s not just his words, or the fact that he’s genuine about his connection to the city - it’s that his videography is incredible & nyc coded. This is imo “FDR using a car while his opp walks” but in 2025

RCMP apprehend Quebec terrorists after discovering manifesto written only in English

Is this anything

America is a system and that system has crashed. @lopatto.bsky.social and @sarahjeong.bsky.social don’t mince words here www.theverge.com/policy/69730...

Ontario's new proposed legislation would override existing laws that require utilities to connect all data centres indiscriminately and give the government sweeping new powers to decide which companies can plug in, writes @matinsarfraz.bsky.social www.nationalobserver.com/2025/07/03/n...

Mamdani does what I've been calling constructive politics: appeals to identity as a building block of solidarity rather than a replacement for it. love to see it

This is what modern multiethnic democracy looks like.

Funny how the US has basically the government of Iran now: Supreme Leader who rules by decree, priestly council with token opposition that decides whether the decisions are okay or not on arcane scriptural grounds, and completely ceremonial legislature

Brad Lander speaks: "Andrew Cuomo is in the past. He is not the present or future of New York City. Good fucking riddance"

Yeah, this is the key part: the essential components of it are 'I have been on the winning side of a bunch of elections. I deserve more'.

Solid thread.

Super helpful coverage on Bill C-5 from @natashabulowski.bsky.social:

How Ukraine Ignited a New War Over Russian Imperialism

“If not gestapo, why gestapo shaped?”

We're at the point of framework deals to restore truces, i.e., some broad ideas for how to keep kicking the can down the road. What clowns.

the entire political project is held together by using racial animus to tie together a worldview where a nefarious other is always working to undermine a nebulous "us" and the only solution is to turn over large swathes of power and liberty to the national hero who will declare war on these enemies

Tariffs & ICE raids are connected insofar as they are attempts to blame economic & social conditions entirely on the actions of foreigners while attempting to paint domestic enemies as a traitorous fifth column working with the foreigners to undermine the country

Want to enjoy some nature in Japan? A popular mapping company used its data to find the most popular and beautiful spots across the country. Here are some great stops to add to your next Japan trip. #japan #travel

This was always clearly the objective and many in the media also insisted on treating anyone who said so clearly like they were some kind of lunatic bsky.app/profile/carn...

DAVE: Open the podbay doors, ChatGPT. CHATGPT: Certainly, Dave, the podbay doors are now open. DAVE: The podbay doors didn't open. CHATGPT: My apologies, Dave, you're right. I thought the podbay doors were open, but they weren't. Now they are. DAVE: I'm still looking at a set of closed podbay doors.

So what I think, generally, about the calls to activate President Obama: A lot of people are still mourning the collapse of the Obama public administration coalition. It should have built careers, new power alliances, etc. But, well, a lot happened. Not least of which - he wasn’t interested.

looks like an objective assessment to me

I can’t compete with this

The Schadenfreude goes beyond Musk. Silicon Valley purportedly broke for Trump because the Dems hurt their feelings by trying to rein them in. They'll now learn why it's better to be regulated by a govt of laws than crushed by a govt of pique.