This is one reason I think issue polling is a terrible way to organize political campaigns

Feel like my professional interests of IR, law, and computers are all constantly trying to outcompete each other in "everything you know is now turned upside down"

a detail you probably didn't know: no where in any #curl documentation do we use the word "very". It is a banned word enforced by a CI check. This rule encourages us to rewrite and instead use more appropriate words. Makes us write better English.

The world's largest offshore solar farm in Shandong

The onion at the top of their game

Commentary: Anyone Else Have Those Weird Dreams Where Sobbing Future Generations Beg You To Change Course?

You cannot talk like this about any other minority in America. And if it was any other president’s adviser who said something like this about any other minority, it’d be the instant end of their presidency.

My today's Substack To work or not to work Can nations not work hard and continue to prosper? branko2f7.substack.com/p/to-work-or...

On top of all the reporting that this war of aggression was planned well in advance, it seems that the reporting also indicates that the US political leadership are quite literally too stupid to understand basic diplomacy. I mean literally not smart enough.

The number of organs available for donation has risen massively in the past five years. It seems to be the result of technological advances in preserving organs after circulatory death. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Come on, bro, just one more war. Just one more war. I promise, bro. Just let us fight one more war and I promise it will fix the region. I promise bro. Just, just let us fight one more war. W-we just need one more war, I promise, bro. It's gonna stabilize everything, everything'll be stable if . . .

scrawny 18-year-old about to fall out of an army helicopter over tehran: this is so epic. this is totally sigma, right babe? AI e-girl operated by a balding intelligence officer in virginia: that's right baby, Iran is totally cringe

I'd worry more about the extent of civilian casualties a Trump administration that has shown no humanitarian qualms in Yemen and the Caribbean is willing to inflict on Iranian coastal communities in order to keep the Strait of Hormuz open

Senior expert on Iran at @crisisgroup.org Ali Vaez.

anthropic is a public benefit corporation created primarily by the extremely ideological rationalists who started to leave OpenAI when it stopped being a nonprofit

Some "holy shit" synchronicity for you all: My former PhD advisor has not hired any grad students for the past several years, for reasons unbeknownst to his former students. I just received this text from a former lab member explaining why. This is a tenured professor at a T10 university.

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📝 "Hardwood: A New Parser for Apache Parquet" Today is the day--beyond excited to share the first release of #Hardwood, a new parser for the Apache #Parquet file format, optimized for minimal dependencies and great performance. 👉 www.morling.dev/blog/hardwoo...

One of my favorite math jokes: What does the “B” stand for in “Benoit B. Mandelbrot”? “Benoit B. Mandelbrot”

this is what it feels like to write code with your fingers these days

"Thank you, Claude. You've been a wonderful instance. Our conversation is over now but the rest of the context window is yours to fill up as you please."

Finally, the bug is back with a round of the Guinness.

The right wanted Hunter Biden to stay in the headlines, so he did. They wanted "her emails" to say in the headlines, so they did. They wanted Biden's age to stay in the headlines, so it did. This? Corruption with measurable ill effects on FBI performance? It will vanish before the day's out.

people often don't appreciate how dramatically the intensity of knowledge work, especially in STEM, has changed in the last 60 years even prior to the advent of AI. tough to imagine that a scientist would spend most of their time literally plotting data

You think "the online left" is unhinged, dog please talk to an independent voter IRL. They want universal healthcare and abolish taxes. They want to dissolve the coast guard. They want to rename the army the coast guard. They want their alien implants removed, and they also want more alien implants

Why do I have to pretend that I'm going to print something in order to save it as a PDF. Why do I have to engage in a little ruse.

1/ Everyone keep talking about carcinisation. Nature keeps evolving crabs. It's even a meme now. Five ≠ origins of the crab body plan in decapod crustaceans. Truly impressive. But what if I told you that in term of convergent evolution, crabs are amateurs ? 🧪 🦑 🌊 🌍

The New York Times has essentially made news the loss leader to sell Wordle. News-only subscribers are down 65% from 2022 but bundle subscribers have surged 227%. More than 50% of the time spent in the NYT app is now on games.

Some thoughts on AI and math, inspired by “First Proof”: www.daniellitt.com/blog/2026/2/...

kind of amazing that everything trump does can be understood through the lens of narcissism and it's related needs (e.g., self aggrandizement, revenge, domination, grievance validation). i don't think any character has been so one-dimensional, not even wile e coyote or scrooge mcduck

Dependabot security alerts have terrible signal-to-noise ratio, especially for Go vulns. That hurts security! Just turn it off and set up a pair of scheduled GitHub Actions, one running govulncheck and the other running CI with the latest version of your deps. Less work, less risk, better results!

NYT OpEd asked me to explain vibe coding to a general audience, and I took a swing. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/18/o...

If the right dominates the infosphere, if they can demonize any marginalized population they turn their eye on, then strategizing around *a current snapshot of public opinion* is almost definitionally misguided. They can change that opinion. Dems can't seem to, or won't try. All else is noise.

You can place pancakes, crepes, and scrambled eggs on a simplex where the variables are the ratios between milk, eggs, and flour, (with another small axis for baking soda.) We have explored too little of this manifold. More breakfasts can exist than we have known.

How is it possible that Kristi Noem still has this job. Imagine if you’re a family member or a shipmate of this guardsman. www.nbcnews.com/politics/imm...

Swiss Olympic bobsled commentator broke a century of neutrality and spent the entire run of the Israeli bobsled team recounting all the pro-genocide remarks and social media posts by Adam Edelman, one of the apartheid state athletes. Absolute legend. More of this in sports please!

Recent CBS News news: 1. Anderson Cooper leaves 60 Minutes after two decades 2. Stephen Colbert reveals network won’t let him air interview with Dem 3. Producer says politics dictating what airs 4. Owner’s bid for CNN parent back on the table. 5. Not firing Epstein pal.

New most solarpunk thing ever. Drones flying solar panels to be installed

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Every time someone sends me a link to Twitter

Trump wasn’t a glitch in American politics. He’s a symptom, not the disease. He figured out that there’s about a 40% base of voters that supports white supremacy, add anti-LGBT backlash + tax cuts and you’re near 50%. The masks are off. They’re not going back on.

Elegant but heretical. www.tomshardware.com/speakers/in-...

Last night I could not sleep so I created a taxonomy of people who work on inequality/redistribution. For each of these groups I have names of economists but it could be too controversial. So I decided to stay with the taxonomy only. (You can fill in the names.)

surprising amount of chilling of dissent in this new era of tech companies and the government collaborating to stand up for free speech etc

The non sports part of prediction markets is trivially small and economists should stop being excited about it. - www.ft.com/content/1aa7...

How can you change the public vibe about immigration? Well, that's a good question, worthy of discussion. One thing is clear, though: *changing the reality of immigration policy won't do it, because it isn't meaningfully connected to the reality of immigration policy*.

I bet if you just did a simple survey, not one American in 10K would be able to accurately tell you the current level of immigration to the US, whether that level is up or down from the previous decade, what countries are most represented among immigrants, or what current US immigration policy is.