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www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... Guardian shows how to do reporting in 2025.

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Here's a map of the housing shortage by state, in absolute terms. Democrats just aren't building enough in their states. Especially CA.

6. This makes it impossible to engage in anything other than the shortest-term, most incremental research. Far-reaching, innovative, creative, world-changing research will no longer take place in the United States.

Consider this community college President, talking about initiatives that target women and people of color. Durham, where his college is located, needs more people. The community college is going after people who might not think of themselves as e.g. possible factory workers.

I wonder if Tom Brady also thinks the best way to quarterback is to never show up for practice or games and just be “a great example” off the field.

New tariff executive order just released, and the official start date for tariffs was pushed to next week from instead of tomorrow, but we're raising tariffs for roughly 68 countries plus the EU, with some tariffs now as high as 41%. Literally Liberation Day 2 Electric Boogaloo.

Some professional news: After more than a decade of columnizing at The Washington Post, I'm taking the buyout. This is my last column. It is my advice to any other lucky pundits who land a perch like this -- with 11 principles I've aspired to, even if I haven't always achieved them: wapo.st/3TU2fGw

Claude Code usage grew 300% as @anthropic.com launches enterprise analytics dashboard to track spend, code acceptance rates, and team activity. By @fredericl.bsky.social

Can't believe I had to issue a request like this, but apparently news outlets are printing completely fabricated quotes now

Alan Cumming on bathroom bills: "Why on earth would a rapist go through the bother of pretending to be trans in a country that treats rapists better than trans people."

We experiment with using English and Arabic as transfer languages and Amharic and Tigrinya as target languages. We find: 1. Pre-trained models have very limited learned knowledge in low-resourced languages. Zero-shot performance was less than 6% accurate for both target languages.

Once again: "Who was president in 2020?" Is a question so many politicians, pundits and even mainstream media have a hard time answering correctly.

There’s a nonzero chance you will die from a cancer that could have been curable because people who couldn’t pass 7th grade biology and are scared of things like “mRNA” and “riboflavin” and “walkable cities” decided to make their ignorance everybody else’s problem

We are learning the hard way that so much of what makes America exceptional is voluntary, moral, and easily erased.

Kinda weird to see so many “cis” dudes signing up for gender-affirming treatment. More like “sus” dudes, amirite? If you’re 30 and need T treatment, you’ve got some bigger medical issues that need treatment or adjustment. Or maybe there’s a self-diagnosed trans epidemic.

I'll throw this in especially because Superman out as well too.

"Reich citizenship will not be laid in the cradle of every one born in Germany, but will be ceremoniously conferred on him after he has shown himself worthy of it through special accomplishments, through loyal services to the State." NY Times, July 6, 1933.

I just left the Everglades Immigrant Interment Camp. No, I’m not using their ridiculous name. It was a very tough to witness humans in those cages. Every Floridian should be ashamed that our taxpayer money is being used for this.

Your average junior high student knows the president can’t just take citizenship away from someone. Do experts have to verify for that Times that 2+2=4? Or that sentences typically have nouns and verbs? Who are the cultural illiterates the Times is targeting?

The internet discovered Figma spends $300k/day on AWS and immediately lost its collective mind. Meanwhile, those of us who look at AWS bills for a living are like "...and?" 12% of revenue on cloud for a real-time collaborative platform? That's boringly normal.

Ah, claro. ¿Cambio climático? Nah... Control del clima y conspiranoia global.

It is legit wild to watch America’s poultry farms all agreeing to play Squid Game with a policy like this and trying to kill each other off here in the hopes that they will be the one remaining monopoly provider.

Yes, if New York elects the wrong guy, Wall Street, mass media, and advertising firms will all just leave forever and head off to a tax free state. This is definitely a realistic and fact-based world view. Then again, if this means Fox News might leave NYC, that could be a talking point.

Public Enemy is STILL Fighting the Power. Surprise drop MARCH MADNESS in honor of Juneteenth and to fight crooked politicians and gun violence. Stream Now: music.apple.com/us/album/mar... open.spotify.com/album/1ROYQK... music.amazon.com/albums/B0FDK... soundcloud.com/public-enemy...

Should we deport people who have lived here for many years without committing any crimes? 61% no, 24% yes. Should we should deport people as quickly as possible even if it means more mistakes, or do our best to make no mistakes even if it takes longer? Quickly: 19% Minimize mistakes: 74%

I’m not sure if the word “outdated” cuts it here. “Miasma” was a concept we used before we first invented the idea of germs. It’s like trying to describe how smartphones work with phlogiston and fire vapors.

For those who do not have access or care to go to Twitter for the video, here is the video of the U.S. Secretary of the Army stating that there is currently a soldier on the moon:

The problem is the framers did not imagine having people voting for people that campaign on underming the Constitution.

Here’s how we’re advertising LA as a World Cup and Olympics venue to the world.

Hell of a photo

DuckDB announced DuckLake and here is why I think I ended up writing such a long piece about it. God bless @theregister.com for giving me the legroom. Thanks to @andypavlo.bsky.social @jrdntgn.bsky.social @hannes.muehleisen.org @hyounpark.bsky.social www.theregister.com/2025/05/28/d...

King of the Hill actor Jonathan Joss was killed in a ‘homophobic hate crime’ after ‘years of threats’, husband says

There is no reason to give masked, un-ID’ed, and warrantless people capturing others against their will the assumption of being anything but kidnappers and violent criminals.

As an IT guy, what I see is that presidential conversations are trivially easy for foreign governments to monitor and there is no classified or secured channel with Trump. What’s the point of even having security clearances at this point?

An update from the team on the uncertain future of our program and the impact of NSF budget cuts. Please share and reach out 🦠

Remember when Zynga tried to leave AWS, failed spectacularly, and came crawling back? Somehow that story never makes it into the “cloud repatriation” sales decks. Funny how selective memory works when you're selling something… www.lastweekinaws.com/blog/cloud-r...

Trump’s cuts to culture have left libraries and museums struggling—including America’s archive of imagination, the Library of Congress. I asked @amytan.bsky.social, author of The Joy Luck Club, how protecting history and literature can help us hold onto who we are as a nation.

Much like trying to determine how cancer was invented before taking a single step to treat cancer. Frankly, if we’re all immune and vaccinated, I couldn’t care less where Covid came from, just like I have no idea where measles or polio initially came from.

BREAKING: In a serious blow to US pandemic flu preparedness, HHS has cancelled a contract with Moderna to test and license prototype vaccines for #H5N1 #birdflu and other potential pandemic viruses. In a pandemic, mRNA is the fastest way to vaccine doses. www.statnews.com/2025/05/28/m...

Texas is getting ready to ban social media for anyone under 18 www.engadget.com/social-media...

This is a hot mess of a First Amendment interpretation. Any free speech restrictions against anything you disagree with can just as easily be placed on what you do agree with.

Screw it. Today has been way way way too much 2025 for us to let World Goth Day go by without out a thread of recommendations. So I enlisted our resident goth Hannah to help me put this together. Put on your eyeliner now, folks. Here we go...

Your regular reminder that no tax cut in the history of tax cuts has ever paid for itself.

Many of the major changes Elon Musk’s U.S. DOGE Service pushed at Social Security have been abandoned or are being reversed after proving ineffective, while others are yielding unintended consequences and badly damaging customer service and satisfaction.

For "One First," I took a deeper dive into Friday afternoon's *very* significant #SCOTUS Alien Enemies Act ruling—including why it effectively freezes AEA removals for the foreseeable future and its (much) broader potential impact on *all* attempts to bring nationwide challenges to Trump policies:

Trump is tearing down the system that is responsible for this extraordinary health breakthrough. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/15/h...

The Financial Accounting Standards Board has published an Accounting Standards Update that is intended to improve the requirements for identifying the accounting acquirer in FASB ASC Topic 805, "Business Combinations."

There was an old tweet that stuck with me: "If you can easily walk to the coffee shop but your barista has a one hour commute, you don't live in a walkable 15 minute city; you live in a theme park"