Excellent synopsis. jam-packed with info!

This is obscene.

“Centralized systems create chokepoints. Chokepoints, once they exist, attract everyone with an interest in squeezing them: companies looking to extract more value from users, governments looking to extract compliance from companies, and political movements looking to extract influence from both.”

There's just a certain fin de siecle absurdity of someone whose only achievement in life is having opinions on the internet ending the career of someone who managed to get into Kyiv in 2022 in the middle of the initial Russian invasion to interview Zelensky.

A very insightful article which connects the dots between the US's tactical incompetence and the more-important strategic economic consequences.

President of MIT not mincing words today in @statnews.com www.statnews.com/2026/05/27/s...

this is incredible

Never in American history have we seen such blatant corruption in our politics. A president lining his own pockets, trading stocks that benefit from his own policies, and building a billion-dollar slush fund on the taxpayer's dime. That ends now.

man, talk about "one stupid trick"...

Wall Street is betting big on clean energy tech

"The Spirit Of The Woods - Hedgehog" Hand embroidery thread painting artwork #HedgehogAwarenessWeek #embroidery #art #WildlifeArt

As you can see, Arab Israelis enjoy full equalities, they even serve as public prosecutors

This 1952 memo from the Pentagon UFO files is superb There is no point preparing for aliens ‘because no one of consequence is going to take this rubbish seriously unless it happens. At that point, our policy will be determined in the traditional manner of grand panic.’ 🤣 www.war.gov/medialink/uf...

personally I think it's a very big deal that the Canada bureau chief for the @nytimes.com — certainly one of the highest-paid journalists in the country — asked an unspecified "AI tool" what Poilievre said & published its AI-hallucinated quotes in her reporting.

Someone asked a bunch of kids what the first thing was that cane to mind when they thought about Trump. Their answers are priceless. Check out the video.

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I award this interview my highest praise: it is "meaty", with iIlluminating insights throughout. It is longish, but that is the price of a substantive thought-piece.

Many thanks to @davidfrenchjag.bsky.social for writing this piece, for having thought the issue through. It is one of the most important issues of our time. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/26/o...

“Hush now, be still. Soon you shall be one of us.”

it is important to emphasize that this was *the point*. this was *intentional*. elon musk is a vicious white supremacist who thinks poor african children ought to die, so that the world can be whiter

Born in fire, battered by the wreckage of colliding worlds, covered for eons in magma, wracked by volcanoes, frozen and thawed again and again, and after everything went just wrong and right enough, here it is: our home. The rarest gift in the known universe. Happy Earth Day.

AOC is all sensible Americans right now, Americans who have completely lost patience with the wildly incompetent, lying loons currently running things who undermine our sanity, wealth, and wellbeing.

I absolutely concur. A perfect Earth Day read...

This Is Just To Say I have turned off the AI features that were in the update and which you were probably hoping to monetize Fuck you they were stupid so unnecessary and so annoying

Ossoff: "How does American politics really work? It's coin operated. Money goes in, favors come out. It's been running on secret money, corporate money, billionaire money ... all of this gave rise to a depraved president who exploits this rot to empower and enrich himself"

Wait until Kash Patel sobers up and found out he filed a $250M lawsuit against The Atlantic

It’s pretty interesting to compare Easter messages from political leaders and then consider which ones the media treats as being out of the mainstream or dangerous

I mean, you don't really need a translator

The Moron-In-Chief has effectively sacrificed a dozen American lives in order to setup a $100 billion/year protection racket for Iran.

Iran has elections, but to its great shame, it has an unaccountable council of ayatollahs that overrules the elected representatives. Here’s why we’re nullifying the Voting Rights Act. by John Roberts

🇫🇷 Sen. Claude Malhuret: "I compared the Trump presidency to Nero's court. I was wrong. It's a court of miracles. An anti-vax ex heroin addict as Health Sec; a climate skeptic as Econ Sec; an alcoholic TV host as Def Sec; an ex Qatari agent as Attorney Gen; a Putin groupie as Homeland Security Sec."

We need to know how much energy data centers use – and if YOU are subsidizing the costs of Big Tech companies. Making this data public is the bare minimum.

These people have a funny way of saying "Environmentalists have been proved right yet again."

Cuts through all the (mostly dick-measuring) tactical clutter and zeroes in on the essential strategic considerations. One of the best summaries I've run across.

March 10th 2026 Ice Plant flower

Had to doublecheck the date on this

there's so much bad in the world but there's also people who lift up and carry an elderly bat around every day so he can pretend he's flying again, and that's the part of the world I think is worth fighting for

Telling Jesus he'll never make it if he keeps being so hostile to wealth. Advising him to moderate his message to appeal to the Galilee suburbs

Oh man we are HAVING A NEWS DAY I see *BLACKROCK’S $26 BILLION PRIVATE CREDIT FUND LIMITS WITHDRAWALS

I don't think it's a coincidence Talarico and Mamdani cobbled together basically the same demographic coalition in two very disparate areas of the country, and both present coherent worldviews not defined solely by Orange Man Bad

noem's dog looking down from heaven

So the previous strikes didn’t “totally obliterate” their nuclear capability then? The same lies and propaganda over and over

Reading people. Body language. Knowing how to connect with people totally unlike you and with different backgrounds and beliefs. Defusing tense situations. Gaining trust. High endurance, pain tolerance, and work ethic. Reaction time. Prioritizing order of execution. Anticipating people’s needs. Tons

Oh, Mary. Speaking to us always and forever. From Mary Oliver's book, Devotions: bit.ly/devotionsLB #poem #books #writing

unfortunately evergreen

Silicon Valley, 2026:

My theory of the moment: The extraordinary courage of ordinary people in places like Minneapolis is reawakening us to our social and economic ties to immigrants. It's making "love thy neighbor" cool again. That's the ultimate antidote to MAGA hate. Thoughts on this: newrepublic.com/article/2059...

This, my friends, is how it is done: Lean in. Expose. Defy. The phrase “Speaking truth to power,” has become something of a cliche. Maybe that’s because we see it so seldom in practice. But we saw it last night, and it was spectacular. open.substack.com/pub/charlies...

given education polarization and MAGA's reliance on low propensity voters, something like the SAVE Act would almost certainly backfire on republicans (i'm reasonably sure senate republicans understand this too)