there are a lot of people who seem to believe "if you cared enough, you would have won the election" is a type of argument rather than the dumbest fucking thing anyone has ever said

Love how the Oregonian devotes several paragraphs to the opinion of a guy who lives in Sherwood and hasn't been downtown since 2022. (NB: this post does not endorse the proposition that downtown has no problems)

Honestly feeling pretty bummed at the apparent binary choice between Portland forking out hundreds of millions dollars to subsidize a loanshark billionaire and the NBA making an example of us and moving the team I've loved and followed away forever

There's a major civil rights protest taking place in Selma, Alabama, right now in response to the SCOTUS decision that weakened the Voting Rights Act and the ongoing attack on Black Americans’ political power (video: defiancedispatch/IG)

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I think John Travolta looks good

I have zero patience for any arguments about Portland politics that have anything to do with what happened at some particular protest encampment thing. No one cares! It's stupid nonsense! If you want to set up a permanent in a park because to demonstrate your views it's civil disobedience!

what

there’s a huge set of people who would like Pete Buttigieg much better if he’d done about 1% worse in Iowa in 2020

Unrelated, just liked this story.

this Elon Musk plot to steal your 401(k) money is really going underdiscussed

The depressing part is the number of people, who really should know better, totally eager to fall for this pretty transparent manipulation

Elon Musk (Richest Man In World With A Life Nonetheless Devoid Of Anything Resembling Joy) Still Upset About Lady Ghostbusters

Hate to say it, but it appears that it's really hard for sub-national governments to tax high earners. NYC might be able to do it; California probably can, but the smaller and less top-tier a place is, it'll drive more people who'd pay the tax away

Nicely-sliced data here on the types of households living in housing units with different bedroom counts in cities:

We should measure more things related to electricity production or consumption capacity in "hours of Chinese solar panel exports"

While chatting with some friends, it occurred to me that other people could benefit from a summary understanding of what's going on in the oil and gas markets. Here are some little pictures to give you the big picture. 🧵

Claude radicalized. Daily uses of "accountability" jumped from 21 to 6,383.

I'm doubtful she can get the nomination -- second chances are rare in presidential nominations these days, Trump excepted. But she's currently the front runner in polls and anything she can do to force the presidential field to follow her on this vital issue is real leadership.

Drunk driving is extremely bad and anything that marginally reduced drunk driving, even if it is bad in other respects, is likely to be good on net

This is the kind of story that local alt weeklies are made for.

They offer free tours, and they're super fun! You get to see the cool blue glow of the Cherenkov radiation, and they even shut it off and turn it back on for you

We need strict regulations on the manufacturing and purchasing of these (so do cars), because this will do nothing but get people injured, killed, and muddy the term "ebike" across all of society that doesn't know the difference between an emoto.

I think it's possible to go from the edge of the inhabited land near Bend to the Idaho border in SE Oregon and only cross like 3 paved roads.

I don't think people really understand how incredibly empty parts of the mountain west are. Draw a triangle between Bend, Boise, and Reno and you have an area of 40 thousand square miles where the 99% of the population lives at one of the corners

One could probably fit a nuclear reactor, solar farm, wind farm, enhanced geothermal plant, and salt dome hydrogen storage facility all on the same patch of land without too much conflict between them

this truly is the thing that makes the united states exceptional, and right wingers hate it so much they want to destroy it

If people were as enthusiastic about political violence as they pretend to be online there would be more of it. There used to be much more of it. What some people want is to fantasize about violence publicly and feel like that in itself does something, but also never have that fantasy questioned.

Using Haiku to craft prompts to feed to Sonnet to build a hacking harness for Opus so it can craft zero days to steal someone's Mythos API access. And then using Mythos to craft more complex zero days to break into Anthropic and steal my true prize: the weights for Golden Gate Claude.

I am not worried software is suddenly going to decide it wants power over humanity. I am worried about what people who already have power over humanity can do with that software.

The Stratos project is the Saudi Neom of data centers

I am very tired of the stupid-savvy 'oh you think politicians were honest before Donald Trump' take, like yes there has in fact been a qualitative change in the way modern american politics have been conducted that is largely attributable to him, and is bad.

For enterprising DOJ lawyers, the Post-Trump era might be a "target-rich environment"

Conor Lamb, I owe you an apology

@leonardo-paoli.bsky.social: "Today we published our latest report on the global car industry — and I’ll be sharing some of my favourite figures from it! In 2018, battery prices in the United States and China were not very different. China was already home to several battery manufacturers w/ deep"

It's funny how both Portland and Seattle have Laurelhurst neighborhoods that are among each city's richest and fanciest but that Seattle's is a whole lot richer and fancier

Everyone who harassed chinchazilla should be banned from all social media for life

Torta restaurant Güero posted on Instagram on May 10 about the detention of their cook, Jose “Poni” Gongora Poot, and linked to a GoFundMe raising money to support his family in the legal fight to bring him home.

Extremely impressed by how much of a hater JWZ is. Click through a link to jwz.org from Hacker News and not only will you be redirected to pretty gnarly and bizarre picture but you will have a cookie set that will block you from visiting anything on that site ever again

It’s extremely cursed to watch an HBO show from the brief period when the opening credits just say “MAX Presents.” The “Democratic Kampuchea” of streaming.

I'm not completely unsympathetic to this view but I don't think it holds up when you consider that any truly effective means of confronting the right on X would have been made either impossible or bannable by its owner

There are certainly reasons housing is expensive that seem "technological" but if you look more closely it's that we aren't using the correct technology to build them for political reasons

This obviously seems like an insane number, but if you look at it like you would an investment it doesn't seem unreasonable. Spend two years of income, and in 18 years you get 40 years of that same income back to tax at a (likely high) rate. Who wouldn't take that deal?

I really can’t state strongly enough how utterly stupid this is. Once you eliminate taxes for a class you will never be able to bring them back. And it WILL domino. Eliminating taxes and privatizing everything is the republicans’ end goal. Do not help them!!!

Hi @bookhive.buzz: I'm excited about this project but I do wonder why it needs to be able to follow/unfollow on bsky for me. I've seen this same functionality abused via the Twitter API in the past...