Feels really unfortunate that the extremely mediocre "JSON Schema" is so popular. An overengineered, too-flexible system that's impossible to consistently map to a real type system. Something more close to a subset of typescript could have been a lot simpler and better

Every murder is a tragedy, but I was happy to see that Portland is at 5 homicides this year versus 11 at the same point in 2025

It’s pretty clear that even though the makers of Star Trek didn’t think through computing most people in the Federation are just interfacing with LLMs all the time, from the Holodeck to the science station

I mean I just can't even find words. The US defense secretary helping plan a massive, destabilizing surprise war - a war the US has immediately LOST - and then using his insider knowledge to make stock bets so he can personally get rich? Hard to think of worse corruption, anywhere, ever.

really striking how race science freaks seem to spend their every moment crowing about how superior they are versus actually doing anything socially useful that would demonstrate it.

If they don't get a pardon on the way out, I suspect that these are real big boy felonies

Research actually shows the institutional ownership of single-family homes reduces rents somewhat

A major housing bill that would discourage building rental homes “reflects a peculiar type of American populism that combines a right-wing fetish for suburbia’s homeowner society with a left-wing distrust of investment capital,” Henry Grabar argues.

EVs should have all standardized on having charger ports in the middle of the front grill like the Nissan Leaf

That's right

A new study found that sycophancy is a pervasive function of leading chatbots, which are likely to give users bad/antisocial advice when asked about real-world interpersonal conflicts -- warping users' judgement and promoting dependence. futurism.com/artificial-i...

The song really does present quite a structured argument: 1. This war is ordained by God 2. The Union Army is consecrated to His purpose 3. He will lead the Union to victory against Satan 4. Many of us will die for this victory 5. By dying as liberators we recapitulate Christ’s sacrifice

BREAKING: After ProPublica published letters written by children at the Dilley concentration camp, ICE officers raided the dormitories and confiscated the children's letters. I'm suing ICE to get them back. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/breaking-i...

I largely agree with this summation of the experience of writing production Haskell at scale for the last several years. It's been an extremely powerful tool

This shock will be disruptive to China but I wager it will only accelerate the decoupling from fossil fuels that will benefit it in the long term

basically none of the solar existed before 2020 and none of the batteries existed before 2024. biggest technological revolution of our lifetime:

the information environment in Israel is unbelievably fucked. it wasn't great before Oct 7 and it's been catastrophic since.

What is the purpose of publishing this? What do any NYT readers get out of it? Is this some sort of intra-elite signaling? Access journalism pablum? It just seems pointless

King County very narrowly rejected funding a rapid transit system in 1968. This chart could plausibly have been pushed back decades

It's a good thing people aren't getting sent to prison for growing cannabis anymore, but legalization sure isn't living up to any of its other lofty promises

For someone making federal minimum wage of $7.25 hour, making their transit commute 10 minutes faster each way is more valuable than not having to pay a $2.50 fare

This is going to be extremely disruptive but I'd wager that China is going to come out the other side of this crisis using far less oil than it's using now

Glad you went. The point is that the biggest possible numbers on the streets is visual confirmation that the regime isn’t in control and people do not fear it. That matters for opposing an authoritarian consolidation; the perception of weakness is weakness. Maxing crowd numbers is a valid goal

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It's sure something how quickly some of the Trump folks pivoted from crypto-racism (no "DEI", etc) to mask-off full racism

Tried out Steam Remote Play from my new ghettofabulous DIY Steam box to my random TCL Android TV over wifi and it worked perfectly. All the fretting about needing wired ethernet, etc seem pretty bogus.

A single large American insurance company could likely unilaterally fund stratospheric sulfur aerosol geoengineering (estimated cost < $10B/year) and come out ahead

I worry that if someone gets hit in a crosswalk, despite having the right of way, their failure to grab an available flag could be used against them in deciding liability. Akin to requiring cyclists to wear high viz clothes.

What films peak in their first scene? I'll name two: Drive and Casino Royale

As a browser of zillow for homes on the Oregon coast I will likely never buy, I have noticed a pervasive use of drone photography to offer the illusion of a far more expansive ocean view than is actually visible from a human on the property

Hot take: 84, not Burnside, is the boundary between inner NE and SE

you ever think about how insane it is that we have these weird inbred wolves that live in our houses as, essentially, social parasites

The time has come to raise the housing investment level in this country, just as we did in the 1960s and 1980s. We have a new report out this morning laying out just how high housing production numbers need to go—and for how many years—to dig us out of the shortage.

Who is the person you are most surprised survived MeToo? For me, it's Quentin Tarantino. God bless him for not being that big of a creep

im being told Iran just launched over 100 pronouns at the USS Abraham Lincoln. Total loss. It's the USS Gaybraman Linc-hon now.

Found this completely unhinged children's book in a used bookstore on the Oregon Coast

Does anyone else remember a lot of lawyer jokes in the 90s? The punchline being that lawyers suck and we all hate them? I feel lawyers certainly aren't universally beloved now but I feel anti-lawyer sentiment as a cultural glue no longer exists. No one is making anti-lawyer tiktoks

The fluid definition of "libs," "the left," or whatever on Bsky is social poison because it simultaneously puts everyone at risk of excommunication and lets nobody be accountable for their claims about this or that group. "Liberals" can mean anyone from Paul von Hindenburg to Bernie Sanders here.

a lotta yall still dont get it junkers can use multiple slurp juices on a single member of the Reichstag so if you have 1 DVP voter and 3 slurp juices you can create 3 new fascists Tonight's slurp juice mint event is essentially a minting event for both NSDAP and freikorps

Did I hallucinate the large contingent on here eager to shit all over the No Kings protests every chance they can get? The dumb opsec theater about email signups?

This is damning evidence of criminal behavior that I hope can and will be ruthlessly prosecuted one day

I feel deeply helpless and depressed by the complete lack of democratic accountability. The president literally campaigned on no more middle eastern wars, this one is a war of choice that started extremely unpopular and is getting more unpopular, and yet we're getting increasingly embroiled

Star Wars would be better if its copyright had expired after a 20 year term in 1997. 20 years is plenty of time to extract sufficient value from anything to justify its creation. After that we should let it be transformed it into some vague mass mythology and render questions of "canon" moot

Masterful gambit, sir. Who else could think of paying France to do nothing in order to increase our dependence on middle eastern autocrats besides president deals?

RIP Robert Mueller, he was preceded in death by the Rule of Law.

Remember the fierce moral urgency of "Medicare For All" and how every other progressive policy goal should be subsumed to fighting for it?

What if the Omnicause was never climate change or MFA or $15 min wage or Gaza or Iran but rather splintering the left-of-center coalition by making a series of constantly changing demands from democrats with interests in but limited power to achieve them?