It's a Pokémon battle in this mf to some people

Birds in Donetsk are using fiber-optic drone wire to build their nests...

Possibly the best way to phish academics would be to just send them email that looks like a request to review an article and embed your malware in the "decline to review" link

what they didn't know was the extent to which haworth extends below the ground; a labyrinth of limestone passages which literary critics are only now getting round to mapping. it was here that the previously-unknown brontë seems to have had her lair

Any attempt to fight this storm must start from the "recognition that the task facing a mature society is to adapt its methods of financing universities to sustaining the purposes for which such institutions exist – rather than, as at present, the other way round." Stefan Collini in @lrb.co.uk. 3/

En France, le système actuel des titres de séjour fabrique de l’irrégularité et brise des vies. Nous avons donné la parole à des médecins qui racontent les effets psychologiques de cette précarité administrative sur leurs patients.👇

My favorite film so far this year!

C++ programmers really will say 'you use borrow checkers? that pales in effectiveness to my strategy, properly de/allocating memory' and then not properly de/allocate memory

2/2 Como opinión impopular de un lunes, diría que a la capacidad imaginativa habría que añadirle más conocimiento de procedimiento administrativo.

i am in the market for a narrative about chinese "overproduction". good thing there are so many on offer

Good piece by Palma Polyak. In a sense she is illustrating the global version of the Kalecki Paradox, or what Fed chairman Marriner Eccles explained in the 1930s: without rising consumption you cannot justify rising production, and without rising wages you cannot sustain rising consumption.

A plane wreck hunter (1987). Gear: Cessna 150, silver bomber jacket, and three bags of flour to drop to mark the site of the wreck. www.lostflights.com/Commercial-A...

Why are so many dooming on US? "The present kaleidoscope of declinist discourse reflects the cumulative wreckage of US domestic class war, imperial destruction, and competition with China into a staggering array of diagnosis & prescription" Tim Barker in our first PW issue bsky.app/profile/phen...

i really like bubbles.town !!

Matt call this an investigation of a $10 question. That undersells the importance of this encryption to frontier labs. It’s one of their primary defences against model distillation attacks, which represent major threats to their competitiveness.

this is so exciting. i am going to turn into one of those annoying "we are going to win" guys

What I can say is the first producer to jump will be the one who can least afford to keep their prices down. Once they do, the rest will follow and then oil will enjoy one last hurrah before renewables+batteries race to fill the gap and break their business model. 7/x

España, el país del Sol. 9h20, más del 65% de la generación eléctrica es generada por la fotovoltaica.

i love the spiteful energy of this labeler bsky.app/profile/did:...

I was concerned when what appears to be an AI-generated short story was named a regional winner of the Commonwealth Short Story Prize. As an advocate of literature, I decided to protest by writing my own prize-winning short story without AI johnpaulbrammer.substack.com/p/regionally...

There are many tools for unprivileged sandboxing on Linux. You should probably go use one of them. But I wrote shandbox to scratch my itch muxup.com/shandbox /home/$user/sandbox shows up as /home/sandbox within the shared sandbox, which otherwise can only access explicitly mapped files/dirs.

Join @mattbors.bsky.social May 27 at 10 am PT/1pm ET on Reddit to Ask Matt Anything about cartooning, running the Nib, writing Toxic Avenger, the decline of alt-weeklies, what's it like to have a meme take over your cartoon, etc. www.reddit.com/r/comics/comme...

@joefrancis.bsky.social's Damascene conversion on the merits and limits of AI for peer reviewing is worth a read: thepoorrichworld.substack.com/p/reflection...

Je découvre que l’Ifop utilise des échantillons créés par IA pour "booster" des échantillons de sondage trop petits. L’Ifop a donc créé des profs synthétiques pour répondre à ses enquêtes...

have an opinion about data centers without citing the guy paid by effective altruism to defend data centers challenge: impossible, apparently

Very interesting observations into what post-AI distributed collaboration looks like. TLDR: so far, pretty grim. This rhymes with my much smaller experience.

Around 40% of ocean shipping is fossil fuels. So many things will get better when the fossil-fuel era ends. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Draghi says a more assertive trade posture and militant industrial policy are great, but they won't work for Europe unless they are implemented at the continental level. He sees the euro as a framework: a coalition of the willing joining forces in an irreversible way. federalists.eu/federalist-l...

hoo boy this is a debate to follow. “draghi misinterpreted the data” is an attractive argument, i would like to know if it is true

Functional finance Suppressing finance Taxing the rich Transforming firms The foreign exchange constraint @abenanav.bsky.social’s transition plan has it all. The most intellectually serious and exciting thing you’ll read this month I promise.

if you're cis and you are asked by your management to police bathrooms, "can you confirm in writing that you are ordering me to approach customers to discuss their sex?" is an email no manager wants to reply to

I chatted with @duswnchl.bsky.social , based in South Korea, who works at the open-source consultancy, and worker-owned cooperative, @igalia.com. We covered her experience over the last 15 years working on WebKit and Chromium. There is no paywall; give it a read! theconsensus.dev/p/2026/05/20...

from my colleague @p.ocmatos.com, a new agent-first language that embeds formal verification: p.ocmatos.com/blog/whats-i... it's very interesting. i don't like it! but interesting nonetheless

I am a footloose international traveler; you are an expat escapee; they are immigrant scum.

i will likely never visit winnipeg but in my mind this is its soundtrack https://vivatvirtute.bandcamp.com/album/hold-music

Energy and sin. This is indeed disorienting for the post-communist left, but we need to get our shit together fast (via @wingolog.org). wingolog.org/archives/202...

One nice thing about district heating is you can decarbonize huge chunks of energy use in a single proejct.

I still think these two paragraphs from Ganz are the most important contemporary political writing

the era of electrification upon us, which means being annoyed at people measuring energy in watts, every day until i die

"It is incoherent to subsidize both domestic champions and their direct competitors. This tension cannot be managed indefinitely; collective subsidy governance at the EU level is the only durable resolution." on build-vs-buy in EU, from @palmapolyak.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

new bloggery ~~ wingolog.org/archives/202...

Reiterating my common sense proposal that if you are a member of a top tier ruling class institution (Congress, NYT, Wall Street, Hollywood, etc) then your descendants are banned from that institution for two generations.

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. 🧵

guy who is mad at Nolan’s Odyssey because it depicts the sea as blue instead of wine-dark

Heartbreaking. And a wake-up call. It is no longer about being difficult to find a way to sustain yourself through your work online. It is no longer sustainable to keep a website up now. Axel has done so much for the web and all of us. Buy one of his books if you can. We've learned so much from him.

new bloggery ~~ wingolog.org/archives/202...

heard a guy say "you have to access it through the portal" and i was momentarily struck by how sad it is that what he said is so boring :( "accessing it via the portal" should be wonderful. we deserve that at least. it should be cool to access it via the portal and instead it sucks shit

Spent better part of my time last few months on this most satisfying piece of work. So many low-level things to obsess about. It was the first time in my life I looked at results, auditing why performance improved on 20+ benchmarks, but not on THIS ONE. github.com/openjdk/jdk/...

Read our article: “Putting solar panels on land used for biofuels would produce enough electricity for all cars and trucks to go electric”: ourworldindata.org/biofuel-land...

fucking CHRIST ze3tar.github.io/post-zcrx.html