"Your posts are worse than Bieber" "Shirt look like a shop rite bag" "You have sold out the fans ." Every Accusation is a Confession. —DRIL

After big dams on the upper Klamath River in far northern CA were removed in 2024, Chinook (king) salmon migrated upstream for the first time in 100+ years--and now they have hatched.

the al horford late period legacy game

perhaps the greatest set of short story titles every assembled, in samuel delany’s DRIFTGLASS

Several important nuggets in here: • Swalwell was rebuilding Newsom's inner circle; he was the establishment hope • One lobbyist: "Were we willing to delude ourselves or not ask questions that should have been asked? 1000%" • His campaign started sending cease-and-desists last year

Objectively a victory for the pro-Palestinian bloc that J-Street has gone from being the center-left rearguard against any and all substantive criticism of Israel to relenting on one of the most perverse elements of the US-Israel relationship, which is unlimited, unconditional, free military aid.

JStreet moving like this greatly increases the chances the median Dem congressperson, who is wildly out of step with the base on Israel, actually moves towards a Block the Bombs-type position and beyond. This is a permission structure for change.

Brutal

Papers should stop having introductions and conclusions. An abstract and a "future work" section should be sufficient.

Rally at the White House tonight

In lieu of lecture blogging on simulation and prediction, check out this fortuitously timed op-ed in the NY Times by @leifw.bsky.social and me on the absurdity of Silicon Sampling. (Related lecture blog tomorrow!)

Great example of bad science policy communication 👇🏽 This post does not communicate that they don’t propose cuts to the Artemis program. In fact it proposes an increase to their budget. The cut is to the science programs: the curiosity and saving planet earth programs. 🔭🧪 #scicomm

RIP James Gadson, master drummer, who played on everything from Charles Wright's "Express Yourself," to Diana Ross' "Love Hangover" to D Fagen's "The Nightfly" to D'Angelo's "Black Messiah." here he is backing Bill Withers in 1973: www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Smt...

Iranian Americans now oppose this US war on Iran by a two to one margin.

reading old cybernetics books and i love how goofy their illustrations are

There are now 10 toilets in Space International Space Station: 4 Crew Dragon Docked at ISS: 1 Soyuz Docked at ISS: 1 Tiangong Space Station: 2 Shenzhou Docked at TSS: 1 Artemis II on way around Moon: 1 This will be the first time a toilet has left low earth orbit!

Found this a pretty interesting piece about the machinery behind music industry hype and the writer‘s personal response to finding out that her new faves’ popularity may not be as organic as she hoped www.wordsfromeliza.com/p/fake-fans

I think people forget that this man is a literal child prodigy. this run????

So what this describes is ethnic cleansing www.nytimes.com/2026/04/01/w...

a couple weeks ago my friend and I journeyed all the way around the bay on public transit only. i wrote about the things we saw, for @oaklandreviewofbooks.org:

The whole concept of a "cover," that any given song belongs to one specific act, and that someone else performing it amounts to a kind of suspension of the normal rules of music that we need a name for, is a cultural fail state. Music gets worse when it's a monologue instead of a conversation.

We got a DM the other day with a fun request from a local family: Could we find this nice BART train operator who always waved and beeped at this special little rider? And if we found him, could we deliver him a thank you card!?  So we got to work …

Ben Recht ( @beenwrekt.bsky.social )'s new book The Irrational Decision: very good! very insightful! the rare new book that is at once very helpful for understanding our current moment while never feeling overly timely or a prisoner of that moment! i reviewed it: joinreboot.org/p/how-we-bec...

Marvin Gaye singing "I Want You" at rehearsal

paul ehrlich is dead. all else aside he did write a number of genius papers about butterflies. so who is to say what his impact was, really

There’s nothing funny about what happened today. And also, “and before you call me antisemitic, I was raised Catholic” is objectively the most hilarious thing I’ve read in weeks.

freed ! from my self inflicted philosophy of biology hell

only 12% of the students in the class i'm TAing completely AI-generated their essay responses... small victory?

the horn arrangements on the new mitski album are so. jaunty !

my 5 #thetenx5 HMs: 1. Rae Sremmurd - Black Beatles (2016, USA) 2. Rich Gang (Young Thug & Rich Homie Quan) - Lifestyle (2014, USA) 3. Lana Del Rey - Mariners Apartment Complex (2018, USA) 4. Mondo Grosso - Labyrinth (2017, Japan) 5. Grimes - Flesh Without Blood (2015, Canada)

This statement is appallingly bad--like, the administration *illegally bombed a school.* It's mind-boggling to me for this to be the reaction from a human, much less a purported leader of the Democratic Party. I need a new senator stat

You sound like an unhinged person if you in plain words describe what’s happening, but the Trump admin demanded Anthropic’s AI be able to kill things for it w/out human approval and also do mass surveillance. Anthropic said no, and now the admin is trying to destroy the company in retaliation.

important canadian cultural production dawk26.bandcamp.com/album/folx

who up charming their worm

just heard someone call tiger woods wasian. saw a bunch of people saying the fully korean girl from bridgerton is wasian bc she's australian. why don't people know what that word means, why has everyone lost their mind, etc.

I think that if sunfish could, the would be sunbathing in the sky ☁️ #art

Congrats to BART rider and Oakland legend Alysa Liu on winning a gold medal at the Olympics and making the Bay Area proud!

For SFGATE, Alysa Liu www.sfgate.com/olympics/art...

I don't know why, but the judge is now citing the historical precedent of Charles I of England. This is an incredibly ominous sign for Yoon.

incredible paper title no notes

I like this, but I do kinda favor this one:

Economists and tech bros don't know what to do about information. It's not a commodity--and more of it doesn't make us more productive. On the blog, I'm revisiting "The Computer and the Dynamo," a paper I love, and the productivity paradox as applied to LLMs: advaitcore.substack.com/p/informatio...

my wife works in public schools in the Bay Area, so I was following the SF teachers strike very keenly. I think this postmortem from @esksf.bsky.social is the best overview anyone, from diehard labor supporters to those grousing about "greedy teachers", should read missionlocal.org/2026/02/sfus...

sold me on it with "composed almost entirely of side characters"

it’s very important to me that the warriors have the best brazilian player in the league

i just feel like if you rent NORTE online you should get more than 48 hours to finish it. it's a big time commitment!