Do you like charts? Oh yes you do. I've just published hundreds of them, as I do every year. www.nathanielbullard.com/presentations

I see a lot of well meaning people (not OP) who like to talk about countries (usually the ones they're from or have an affinity with) as being steadfast bastions in the new cold war and I cannot stress enough that you have failed the assignment if you think this

Scheme, the ur programming language, is 50 years old, as Jason Hemann just reminded me.

My weekend essay in @unherd.com on why central bank independence is a distraction. The real danger lies not with unelected technocrats but in the aggrandisement of power by authoritarians and the global financial sector—that’s true even for the Fed. unherd.com/2026/01/the-...

« why are we listening to any grant », partner asks. there is no good answer

a sympathetic reading of tooze the man and tooze the phenomenon www.theguardian.com/business/202...

They think they're crushing dissent in Minneapolis. I saw something far different. slate.trib.al/hF0FNK2

wikipedia turns 25 today! the last unenshittified major website! backbone of online info! triumph of humanity! powered by urge of unpaid randos to correct each other! somehow mostly reliable! "good thing wikipedia works in practice, because it sure doesn't work in theory" - old wiki adage

Se oye decir que al menos hay que agradecerle a Trump la transparencia. Nunca estoy de acuerdo. Yo muero en esta colina: la violencia hipócrita es mejor que la violencia honesta. Si el vicio tiene que rendirle homenajes a la virtud, es que hay virtud en alguna parte. La hipocresía es civilización.

the problem with an untrained secret police squad that shoots people in their cars isn’t that they’re untrained

Electric vehicles with off-grid solar are competitive with or cheaper than old style petrol/gaslone vehicles in many African countries before 2030; and cheaper in all countries by 2040 - often by a wide margin. That's even allowing for (high) financing costs. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

THREAD. This can be an important educational moment for progressive people who don't work in or study the punishment bureaucracy. Having spent 20 years in it--and just publishing a book on exactly this topic--I can say that reality works in the opposite way that Jamelle assumes.

If I had to predict what the future of the AI labs are, I would say XAI and OAI wind up roadkill, Anthropic becomes a premium-priced B2B SAAS company, Google wins consumers via the ad cross-subsidy, and Meta/Chinese open source models monopolize “specialized use cases” ie goonbots

"bluesky is boring" then youre a fake ass poster. youre not supposed to mindlessly scroll youre supposed to post your every thought for the five people who care about u

i would seriously like some kind of local machine learning ability to remove any picture of trump, hegseth, noem, or miller from my user agent. soil me not with their hateful visages

the world is so annoying. i don't like war and yet i find myself advocating that EU have a decent army. i don't like central bank independence and yet find myself stanning jerome powell. i didn't like USAID and yet things are much worse now that it is gone. very annoying

love people, speak up, challenge authority, hold grudges 🤌

Franzia Fanon Brigades, assemble

La reestructuración del presupuesto europeo se esfuma. Todo el dinero para los empresarios del campo.

New on my blog: "Why Study CS? Thoughts on LLM-assisted software engineering" kmicinski.com/claude-code-...

keep simon peyton-jones off your pc with this one weird trick

"the marketplace of ideas can remain irrational longer than you can remain intellectually solvent", keynes skeeted, sagely

While everyone is distracted by Circus Trump, European countries let his far-right sponsor and mentor of JD Vance in via the backdoor. No European government should work with Palantir. None.

Bloquer un site qui propose de la connaissance en libre accès avec des articles "volés" : OUI ! Bloquer un réseau social contrôlé par un néo-nazi, où se balade une IA entraînée sur toute la production humaine volée et meilleure amie des pédophiles : Oh bah non, faisons même notre comm dessus 🫠🫠

it is a shame that leftist goals are incompatible with the existence of billionaires, bc i know a lot of people that could use a benefactor

new year, new bloggies: on pre-tenuring in v8 wingolog.org/archives/202...

My favorite: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potoooo...

campaign to ship « what would mamdani do » bracelets to european leaders

it is saturday night, time to get lost in wikipedia reading about the corn laws en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corn_Laws

It's a big day for those fluent in the good grammar of civility looking to deploy decorum to mask agendas of cruelty

if you are talking today about how bad maduro was and were alive, at all, during the run-up to the iraq war you are potentially the dumbest person to ever live

please tell me cadre is not pronounced kay durr in english. i could not bear it

I think there's something extra grim about the former Prime Minister of Estonia being the one doing this equivocating. A tiny country next to a much larger, hostile regime has rather a lot to fear from the notion of "we can kidnap a leader we don't like" being even partway normalised. Pathetic!

I feel like I haven’t even been properly lied to about the purposes of this war

On rigole (non) mais on est à ça 🤏 de voir une unité de Marines débarquer à Nuuk.

if you teach your parrot to say "awrk! i deeply regret that incident! awkk! i commit to listening and learning from this experience! whee-hoo!" you can also teach it to say whatever slurs you want

Each of these 3000 people was someone's everything.

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RIP Claudia Cardinale. Much like Robert Redford, she was a rare case of a beautiful performer with a filmography full of bangers who did NOT become right-wing later in life. Here she is punching fascist Brigitte Bardot in the face in Les Pétroleuses (1971).

tfw you see two unrelated articles about isambard kingdom brunel in one day. too online

Best response to fusion gag. "I started working on fusion in 1966. I did my master’s thesis at MIT in plasma physics, and at that time people thought we’d have fusion by 1980. It was only 14 years away. By 1980 it was 20 years away. By 2000 it was 35 years away." firefusionpower.org/Fusion_Neede...

Hello Romm-heads, here is a thread of some things I wrote and said this year:

My new year's resolution this year, as every year, is to be a more available, supportive friend as well as an increasingly looming, formidable enemy.

my wife got me one of the coolest watches I’ve ever seen

It's like, how much more dark could this be? And the answer is none. None more dark.

Han hecho una “copia de seguridad” de (prácticamente) todo Spotify. 300TB. Wow. annas-archive.li/blog/backing...

happy chase-lev patent expiry day to all those who celebrate!!!!!!!!! please enjoy a straightforward implementation in C https://github.com/wingo/whippet/blob/main/src/shared-worklist.h

The collective delusion here is useful in that it has provoked conservatives to dispense with decades of bootstrap rhetoric and reveal what they would say if they thought black people were people, that is to say, if these things were happening to them

If we are banning cell phones for kids we need to be talking about banning chatbots for boomers www.persuasion.community/p/my-chatgpt...

had a dream we put my cat on salary (??) it included the line “pancakes won’t be the only thing this salaried boy is making” (???)