The Dutch are not afraid of water. In my neighborhood in Den Haag, there's underwater car parking with car elevators. People happily park 100K BMWs and Mercedes under the canal.

California has winds in the evening as the heated land causes air to rise drawing in cooler heavier air from the ocean. It nicely complements the cessation of solar. Still, batteries and hydro are doing most of the sunset surge here.

Blue morphos' wings have a big range of unrepresentable cyans. It's structural color, so pure frequencies, and all squarely in the blue green region screens can't show you. They look nothing like this.

First-past-the-post (FPP) systems usually sustain the two party system, but at the risk of chaos monkeys occasionally winning a plurality and burning it all down. Labor and conservatives should embrace proportional representation or instant run-off. Policy and values over party.

Going postal:

This may be the ultimate legacy of the recent Hungarian election. If you really believe that democracy is on the line, then any and all coalitions should be forged and ideology and ambition sublimated.

Denmark's coal-to-wind transition is one of the most dramatic energy transformations of the past three decades. In 1990, coal provided 90% of Danish electricity. Today it is under 3%. Wind now covers roughly 60% of electricity generation. The last coal plant is scheduled to close by 2028.

Britain should rejoin EU, says man who led Brexit department Philip Rycroft, who oversaw the Department for Exiting the European Union from 2017 to 2019, said none of Leave’s ‘heady promises’ had materialised www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

Interesting how no-one around him either in office or assisting him feels able to intervene privately and explain to save him from himself. In fact the incentives are so extreme that the way to respond is to draw attention to the error and invent an entirely new arithmetic to justify it.

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I think this is a great idea on the merits. We can quickly reallocate ROW as an emergency measure. A network of "fietsraats"-- bike streets could be created to provide citywide mobility. Protected bike lane construction could follow.

The number of NIH competitive awards is down 50% from 2025, and down ~70% from prior years. Even if they catch up by the end of the year, only wealthy institutions can bridge these huge funding gaps.They're killing science-and violating the constitution-by weaponizing the bureaucracy

Consenting Manufacture.

Like Trump’s other spurious political proescutions, this is borrowing a page from his private sector penchant for litigation as a weapon to make the target’s life hell. He doesn’t have to win. He gets to publicly smear them & cost them a lot of money & stress even when they ultimately win.

Thought that maybe, just maybe, @seattletimes.com would do the right thing and slip a bare-minimum credit into their piece on the story I broke, including my screenshot of the IG story, shortly before it vanished. Nah. They don't care. Still pretending they got the story on their own.

They think you're stupid.

In Trump 1, I feared that he would die in office before facing his day in court, in Trump 2, I fear he will survive long enough to pardon all his criminal children and associates.

Liquor Cabinet!!!! Why did I not come up with that!!!

I came of age when the consensus view (that I shared) was make the markets as efficient as possible and then do redistribution on the back end to make everyone better off. Good economics; terrible political economy. The pre-tax "winners" just used their new wealth to thwart redistribution.

Lee Harvey Oswald arrested after the gun he was carrying fired a bullet that killed president Kennedy.

If any firm should be capable of conducting their own debt auction...

I assume at the next Judiciary Committee oversight hearing he will take a fifth.

It's funny that he attributes some god-like prescient ability to AI. AI is impressive for doing grad student level work quickly, it's not (yet) a super intelligence.

I have always been perplexed by the lack of automated transit in the US. I thought it might be some federal regulation, similar to passenger rail car robustness, but we do it for airport people movers. Maybe because transit unions in coalitions to build transit? www.theurbanist.org/op-ed-reconn...

Props on the title.

Iran War Live Updates: Oil Prices Rise as Iran Vows Retaliation for Cargo Ship Attack www.nytimes.com/live/2026/04...

This woman is a goddamn hero! Life is dull and I will not abide this free moment of glee being lumped in with "Flordia Man" posts.

Optimus Prime sounds like an as-yet-unproven math conjecture.

I fear the culture war cases are a bit of theater to distract us while the Federalist society judges quietly protect the incumbent wealthy industrialists that installed them. A Breakdown of Five Days of Secret Supreme Court Memos www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...

This is of course incredibly regressive, and inexcusable for funding a stupid war of choice, but at some point we will have to tackle the deficit. The left should probably be prepared to jettison in-kind energy transfers that are economically inefficient and environmentally harmful.

I hope she was listening to Katy Perry while nursing a margarita at the same time. Kim Jong-un’s Daughter Drives a Tank, and Succession Talk Accelerates www.nytimes.com/2026/04/07/w...

I would think Iran would happily pay to defend Hegseth his gross incompetence in prosecuting the war. Pentagon Weighs Using Anti-Drone Lasers in Washington Airspace www.nytimes.com/2026/03/31/u...

The good news is that the Trump administration has completely shredded US credibility, no one would trust them to honor the security guarantee (while ignoring the security guarantee we already gave Ukraine to abandon its nukes).

Let me take this opportunity to point out that 40+ percent of closed murder cases are like this. An argument escalates and then some idiot pulls out a gun. Everyone thinks they're the good guy with the gun and then things get heated...

I struggle to come up with a plausible explanation for relative costs. Why is underground DC so cheap? Maybe the height reduces load and thus narrower columns? But then above ground is cheap too? How are NYC and BOS bottom third? Seismic issues could explain SF, Sea, Portland, but then LA is cheap?

punishment for enemies of the regime

Where the 5 branch where the Bayesian takes 5 hours out of their day to yell at "frequentists" for not explicitly stating their priors?

A beneficiary of Trump's First administration tariffs, now suffering from a tax on inputs?

It's difficult to monitor the dark mohel network; somehow they're always tipped off. Trump’s Ambassador to Belgium Is Summoned After Accusing Officials of Antisemitism www.nytimes.com/2026/02/17/w...

I thought Scotch-Irish culture (my name is Cunningham!!) was responsible for Appalachia's struggles. You know, as opposed to the dark shadow of coal mining....

Like the author, I agree with the logic of building mixed-income, mixed-use cities from scratch dominates piecemeal sprawl. At the same time, I struggle to find any successful example. Irvine mixed uses and density but everyone still drives. Maybe America Needs Some New Cities www.nytimes.com/2026/0

AG Bondi: "we continue our war on inflation!!!"

Clown show: Border Officials Are Said to Have Caused El Paso Closure by Firing Anti-Drone Laser www.nytimes.com/2026/02/11/u...

The price of rising is rising. Developers getting shafted.

Thanks for all the machine tools and technical training; we got this now.

These stories are everywhere in Europe. I fear the US ability to recruit top talent from around the world has been lost.

What distinguishes NL from these other countries? Perhaps not having much of an auto industry, and a relative dearth of cars perhaps?

Pretty hard to square this with freezing the Gang of Eight out for "security".

4/ Andreessen’s VC firm also backs Pronomos Capital, which backs Praxis. bsky.app/profile/jenn...