Don’t know if it even made the news outside Ukraine. Three combined heat and power plants fully stopped working after last night’s enormous attack. Unclear if anything can be fixed, millions of people are completely without electricity, heating or running water. Before winter.

Looking at the GOP acting electorally suicidally and saying “they’re not acting like they’re planning on having elections” is like watching someone driving 90mph at a brick wall and being like “wow they must have figured out a way for this not to kill them.”

this would be saying the quiet part out loud

ok one

this is cartel shit

I cannot tell you how much I appreciate and approve of this level of aggression; in your face, fuck you, drop dead aggression. But with a smile. I still won’t vote for that guy, but I’ll probably vote for someone who takes their cues from what he’s done.

The endless disrespect

No on 9 (not for lack of either) and no on 20, though I grew up with them and thought they were great. Anyway, I'm off to my new home in a natural history museum.

The busses are about more than positive transportation economics for struggling households. They're also a trojan horse for reshaping the entire streetscape, starting with everything that touches a bus line - street furniture, for instance - and moving outwards from there.

Hello, yes, this is dementia. Anyone who has watched afflicted parents or grandparents horribly botching their makeup has seen it before.

James Watson died yesterday. He was a bad man with many bad ideas. We owe a debt of gratitude to the unknown hero who uploaded this picture of him to Wikipedia.

A majority of the days the government has ever been shut down, Donald Trump was president. www.howtoreadthisch.art/red-versus-b...

Trump trying to meet climate targets before COP30. 🙃

I know the Times is a moral train wreck, a political shit show, and a long running-scourge of American democracy, but I don't think I've seen a takedown as sharp and keenly observed as this. Even their best writers should think twice about what they're enabling. lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...

the thing is China is doing *both*

He is not wrong about any of this, which is a rare occurrence indeed. One way or another, the filibuster's days are numbered, meaning there's an unstoppable clock ticking on the GOP itself.

[looking back on a long and fruitful career in tech] holy shit that sucked

They made Jimmy Carter sell his peanut farm.

Fellow seismologists, we're going to get a lot of mileage out of the latest @xkcd.com

Something I've learned the fun way is that the deepest, most malicious fury is that of someone who *knows* they're doing wrong but are committed to doing it anyway. If you decide to challenge them you better be prepared to fight them to a standstill b/c they won't stop until they are stopped.

"Listen here you little weasel..." "No."

in honor of the reopening of the met breuer, sotheby's, its new tenant, let me write the introductory text on brutalism and its many afterlives www.sothebys.com/en/articles/...

What would you think if a company - pivots to pornography production - asks for government loan guarantees - asks for massive tax breaks and does all this in a period of one month? If you know that company loses two dollars for every dollar of revenue… how would that impact your analysis?

Andrew Cuomo is the face of bipartisan compromise.

Performance collapses because the candidates they nominate in midterm & off-year races are increasingly stupid and insane, thanks substantially to Trump, and can't support themselves absent the turnout a presidential race pulls in. If he weren't leading the party, candidate quality would be better.

Opinion | Actually, don’t let them eat cake

Imagine asking whether women ruined the workplace while our nation is being run into the ground by some of the most unqualified, toxic, mediocre men in politics.

things that arent the future of civilization - chatbots - crypto - robot butlers - cars that sorta drive autonomously as long as youre paying attention for when they fail and almost kill a bunch of people things that actually are the future of civilization - free clean energy

The Pacification of Ghent gave the Habsburgs what they always wanted, a united Low Countries. Trouble was, they were now united *against* the Habsburgs.

✨perfection ✨

I made a “how do you do, fellow kids?” joke to someone in their mid 20s who, it turns out, was too young to have heard of that meme. So “how do you do, fellow kids?” is now an example of “how do you do, fellow kids?”

Long time listener, first time caller, just out of curiosity, what happens when Senators continue to confirm a lawless President’s appointments? I’ll hang up and listen.

Bro we're gonna win fucking Arkansas.

I saw the Washington Post editorial on redistricting today and this is my official response.

I’d like to think yes on.ft.com/3WKJJln

Ages ago, I heard that no country with a democratic government had ever suffered a famine and boy, I’m having thoughts about that.

its been a disorienting week, but the thing i still cant truly comprehend is that they are willing to shut down air travel in the united states to avoid releasing the epstein files. like, we are talking chernobyl level toxicity in those files. some of the most radioactive stuff youve never seen

Yes. And we all know which people.

Anyway, I think it's safe to say that post-referendum, Trump has gone fully, literally, mouth-frothing insane. If Vance isn't ~thinking~ 25th Amendment (more than usual, I mean) I don't know how any of them expect they'll survive until Christmas, especially if AI crashes out before then.

The White House keeps unilaterally taking entirely voluntary actions which it openly says are intended to inflict more pain and then they're I guess surprised - along with most of the DC media - about why they seem to be taking the blame for the shutdown.

A relief for the National Guard, no question.

there has gotta be some non public information behind the tune switch on AI from “infinite productivity is right around the corner” to “you fuckers are in this boat too whether you like it or not, better psychologically prepare to open your taxpayer wallets”

He would, but point taken.

Here's the video of Sam Altman being subpoenaed on stage:

I cannot believe they're still trying to pin this on recalcitrant Dems. Between this and the filibuster, his caucus must be going insane.

fresh video, fun ride www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbbT...

NJ's gone too, chump.

I read Davis' book "Yes I Can" as a kid. It was inspiring. I recall him joking once that he was Jewish, Puerto Rican and black. "When they see me they yell 'Get him! He's all of 'em!" www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

Do it. Pick the Nazis. We dare you.