What a disaster

It is pretty nuts that this was achieved with 1941 technology

Making it my goal to keep my Brother Laser printer, purchased in 2011, running until 2031. Little victories

if you read between the lines of the on-record quotes here, republicans are just as freaked by how delusional trump is about the war as the rest of us are, they’re just cowards

Ayatollbooth — is this anything

fuck this shit

the US lib-left vision of Europe as politically aspirational is afaict based on the halo effect re: universal healthcare systems (not necessarily very well understood) and stronger unions (in some countries and periods) and very little else

New piece in Inside Philanthropy responding to some of my critics: "Funders should not merely provide a neutral space to hash out disagreements; they should instead be working to forge a winning political coalition that can actually end the housing crisis." www.insidephilanthropy.com/home/to-move...

Grim reminder that this is currently the most competent and experienced Cabinet that Trump will have for the remainder of his Presidency, and the above statement will also be true for the remainder of his Presidency.

Sorry but you are way too humanities brained if you think space colonization is problematic because earth colonization was often accompanied by bad stuff. There are no people on the moon. The bad things involving colonization were the things they did to people living there. There are no people there

The death of a nearly blind refugee from Myanmar who was found on a Buffalo street in February — five days after Border Patrol agents left him at a doughnut shop — has been ruled a homicide, authorities said Wednesday. https://to.pbs.org/3NZGHsz

This is appalling: “Case counts [of measles] in 2026 are more than double what they were the same period of 2025 and more than ten times what they were in 2024.” 4/1/26 … 1/ www.nbcnews.com/data-graphic...

There are now 10 toilets in Space International Space Station: 4 Crew Dragon Docked at ISS: 1 Soyuz Docked at ISS: 1 Tiangong Space Station: 2 Shenzhou Docked at TSS: 1 Artemis II on way around Moon: 1 This will be the first time a toilet has left low earth orbit!

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Good god. This so-called 'e-bike' is being sold with a top speed of 65 mph and a 18,000W motor.

I can't think of ANYTHING that might go wrong with this plan

It is actually Not Great™ how a bunch of pundits posted themselves into "climate change is nbd" because voters and people in general do not like to be told bad things impacting their deal exist

People jeep responding to this with “prices are up” or “people are poor”. Ok fine, whatever, that’s not the issue. The issue is that any simple model that takes in unemployment + inflation etc. -> approval or satisfaction has a discontinuity in 2020 besttrousers.substack.com/p/the-vibece...

Pakistan imported about 17GW of solar panels in 2024, driven mostly by distributed/rooftop demand. China apparently can produce more than 1000GW of panels per year. Given this I think 50GW per year is ambitious but quite possibly achievable

The way I'd put it: there are healthy and unhealthy ways to experience nostalgia, and it's important to avoid falling into the mode of low-effort reactionary lamentation rather than the mode of possibly bittersweet reflection

Renters are people too, and efforts to expand homeownership access shouldn't come at the cost of restricting rental options. publiccomment.blog/p/against-ho...

I mean, good, but it’s still a sign of profound dysfunction if this isn’t 9-0. A justice who will sign off on this is effectively announcing there’s nothing too flagrantly unconstitutional to get their blessing if a Republican president does it.

Kicking out bits of the foundation that keep civilization going and hoping none of them are load-bearing

There are a plethora of used SFF PCs on ebay for extremely cheap. You can get a little Linux box that's pretty superior to a Raspberry Pi for less now

Trump has the highest disapproval of all time on inflation, higher than Biden, higher than Carter. Inflation is currently 2.4%. Look, I don't feel bad for Trump. But we are experiencing a complete breakdown of the political information system.

"Mamdani and Raman are pushing for nothing less than a fundamental redrawing of urban housing politics." www.politico.com/news/2026/03...

"In the lead-up to the vote, Ben-Gvir sported a pin depicting a noose on his lapel. Just in case you’re wondering why Democrats, however belatedly, are shunning funding from AIPAC, you might keep that image in mind." prospect.org/2026/03/31/n...

Iran War not great for Detroit's retreat to trucks @opinion.bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

I think a desperate all-hands-on-deck moonshot effort to build EVs affordably is the only thing that could save any western automaker from being completely cooked

Experiment: cut a 2x6" using both a hand saw and a circular saw. Reflect on the relative effort required and that using the circular saw cost you a small fraction of a penny's worth of electricity

Please don't run really smart guys like Mark off the platform because you can't read or are addicted to getting mad online

I can accurately predict the quality of coffee from a coffee shop's general vibe, and I regret to say that Cafe Nervosa likely serves C-tier espresso at best. An obvious relic from the pre-third wave era

I actual feel somewhat sanguine about the prospect of the US just walking away from this disastrous war. Leaving Iranian hardliners emboldened isn't super awesome but are they really much worse than the gulf monarchs? So what if the Emir of Kuwait hates us? We need to be ditching oil anyways

It is so striking how all this resembles Covid so much. The primacy of the power of positive thinking, arbitrary deadlines where they announce something out of their control to be over, large portions of media/business believing them, because "wouldn't it be great?"

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