My very first participation in democracy was, at age 4, sending a letter to Barney Frank to ask about the status of the Isabella Stewart Gardner heist investigation. He—or his LA and an autopen—wrote me back. I still have it. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/20/u...

Leaned against an NYC subway station wall after a rainstorm and I’m now covered in an unknown combination of liquids. Expecting superpowers any moment now.

The tree pollen levels have reached "personal violence against me" territory.

Aw gee, who could have predicted that Polymarket was awash in insider trading by members of the government? www.nytimes.com/2026/04/23/n...

As someone who only knows how to work really very hard on things, let me tell you, no joke, I worked harder on this than anything I've ever worked on before, including any previous year of the festival. Letting myself feel relieved and proud today 💛

Yeah people seem to have decided that making anti social comments to anyone even remotely into AI is good ingroup signaling.

A bunch of high school kids are walking to school wearing ski goggles and safety glasses. Took me a minute to realize they’re playing Assassin - incredible it’s still around.

if Sean Duffy hates public transit so much, why does he always take the L? www.politico.com/news/2026/04...

@reckless.bsky.social @davidpierce.xyz think you guys would be interested in this one (from a former colleague, absolutely no idea if it's vaporware) www.crowdsupply.com/t76-org/dr-pd

Missed that Waymo's permits expired in NYC. Hope they restart it. There are lots of people with driving jobs, and we need to help them, but we should have fewer people driving. (See also: More public transit, etc.) www.thecity.nyc/2026/04/06/w...

3yo daughter combing my hair. "Now, we have to get the nuts out so we can plant an acorn tree." I couldn't figure it out until I realized that all this time we were combing the knots out of her hair... she thought we were combing the nuts.

Forcing my young children to join the one bag travel life like a Bean Dad over here.

Lavishly eating the entire bag of Marcona almonds like a member of the Medici family.

but doctor! i am satoshi

@aedwardslevy.bsky.social :eyes:

not to dunk on the NYT, but leading with "Trump Calls to Wipe Out a ‘Whole Civilization’" and "Melania Trump's Unexpected Look" has some cognitive dissonance involved.

Being an ex-DJ rules. Yes, I would love DJ Jazzy Jeff and Mark McGrath to come play our family BBQ, thanks for asking.

are we not doing the HFS module for this?

Getting Claude to start working on an MLLM scheme.

supa hot fire lapel pin dot gif

…any teen?

Ok, actually this headline is hilarious.

In This House, We Believe In Magic

Marco Rubio’s business cards are gonna look like Dr. Bronner’s bottles

okay now you can say "Bubble." www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Stunning reporting and the most important thing you'll read all day. www.wired.com/story/border...

This drives me, the parent of public school kids, absolutely bonkers

Moon’s haunted.

We don't love being put on lists! www.nytimes.com/2026/03/31/u...

My platform is: Public servants can have a lifecycle fund, the S&P, and American treasuries. You want international exposure buy the lifecycle. No individual stocks. No complex instruments. No shorts, puts, etc. Bogleheads or nothin', man.

Claude Code project of the week: A CLI for pulling data from NYC's ACRIS. Questions like: "Who owns this building? How much did they pay? What's the BBL for this address? If it's an LLC, who are the names on the state of NY's LLC registry?"

Once upon I time I designed my parents' farm website, and it's time to re-do it. I used to write PHP and CSS and HTML by hand, and I am delighting in being able to use Claude Code x Figma's MCP for this. I've also made Claude's spinner verbs farm related.

Working on my bike today and have been looking forward to putting this on while I do it.

I read this post this morning, made my first swift menu bar app. Gives you a real time list of NIH and NSF grant opportunities, notifies you when something new lands. Updating soon to pull in other sources, allow customization, and some AI-based filtering/prioritization. github.com/stephenturne...

Some local Carroll Gardens news:

One of my real thrills is finding things on forums or FB Marketplace for a really good price and sending strangers money to see if it shows up. I am like 23/23 at this point.

It is 1990 and a Republican president is sending thousands of troops to the Middle East. It is 2003 and a Republican president is sending thousands of troops to the Middle East. It is 2026 and a Republican president is sending thousands of troops to the Middle East.

It's because they look cool. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/18/s...

The Apple illustration is by Pol-Edouard Flores 🤩

We don't talk enough about the incredible run Bloomberg's illustrators are on.

This is also a great description of what it's like to work in non-profits. bsky.app/profile/nick...

Sorry...what? We're just unilaterally TACO-ing?

Someone's got drivetime radio on in their car outside and man those Kalshi ads are bleak.

Our mayor is great but his taste in coffee is bad.

"A machine that constantly fails keeps you sharp. A machine that works perfectly needs no oversight. But a machine that works almost perfectly? That’s where the danger lies." www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

Woke jabs.

Australian accent too complicated to get to the bleep on time.

Shailene Woodley was absolutely exceptional in her appearance in Paradise.

Each frontier AI model seems to use a little under a year's worth of a square mile of farmland's water to train. I think about this as the country having 4 square miles of farmland sectioned off to grow some of the most popular consumer products in history.

As a guy who spent over a year negotiating / cajoling / fighting with MA utilities to create standard interconnection rules for non-utility power - this is a really big deal. www.canarymedia.com/articles/sol...