I don’t think Democrats should retaliate against red states, but I do think they should dole out generous earmarks to blue states to compensate them for Trump budget nonsense, and also distribute a couple billion dollars in recovery money to Minnesota

Over on threads someone just use ai;dr and we all need to adopt that right quick

Reviews are a bit mixed (though it seems like they can fix a lot with some balance adjustments), but I have to say that as a concept for a game this is amazing - "rob museums to return looted artifacts"

Like a Wirecutter review except that it's actually possible to believe that a normal person ate 50 sticky toffee puddings whereas "I tried out 50 different garden hoses" makes you sound like a psychopath

I think a more likely outcome is it replaces a significant but not society-disrupting number of mostly low-level white-collar jobs, mostly makes up for that by increasing productivity + creating new jobs elsewhere, and anyone can run a state-of-the-art model for a small % over inference cost at AWS

I'm glad this is coming out when my youngest hasn't *quite* outgrown his fondness for Pokemon or Viva Pinata yet. (also, there is one current Viva-Pinata-like on Steam - horticulargame.com - though it's 2D)

I was a math prodigy as a kid - went to MATHCOUNTS nationals in 7th grade - and I barely squeaked by with B-‘s in college post-calculus classes because it turns out that the particular sorts of math skills that we exalt in kids have only a tenuous correlation with serious high-level grown-up math

FPTP sucks, but if you're going to do it anyway, the American system of open or open-ish primaries and feckless national parties is probably the least bad way to do it because it mostly avoids results like this

Age verification? People paid for my first app by check and I mailed them back letters with their activation codes

If every form of AI counts then I’ve been making a profit off of my AI business since 2001

There seem to be two basic objections to the class size law (which I'm very much a fan of) here: 1) Fewer spots at top high schools; fine, exempt them permanently, if your don't want big classes you can simply not rank Bronx Science 2) Vague concerns about equity / luring away teachers

As the owner of a 5-letter pronounceable dot com who acquired it through a mix of good luck and careful planning a quarter century ago, I’m somewhat shocked that somebody was able to just nab this one when it expired

Kid is finally trying Echoes of Wisdom - which he got for Christmas - and this is actually a wayyyy deeper game than I thought; it’s not at all a sequel to Link’s Awakening, it’s really more of a light/casual version of BotW/TotK

The thing I can’t get over about this is not just that it’s unbelievably cruel and petty - though it is - but how they’re touting it as a big achievement; it would be like Trump running ads about how they used to give people in immigration detention two crackers a day but now they only give them one

I like how both extreme D and extreme R gerrymanders involve “awkwardly combining little slices of urban areas with larger suburban/rural hinterlands” and the only real difference is the ratios

We basically have three legislatures now, and they get less democratic as they get smaller but even the biggest one isn’t very good at reflecting popular will; 90% of what’s wrong with American politics can be attributed to this problem

Pizzamanders are going to be a huge part of the next wave of Democratic gerrymandering

“Actual malice” isn’t a high enough bar; the rule for public officials filing defamation suits should be that public officials aren’t allowed to file defamation suits, not while in office nor about speech made while they were in office

We're past midnight UTC and Bitcoin is still falling

Honestly, if other countries want to stretch the bounds of good sportsmanship against us at the Olympics this year I think they’re probably entitled to

It’s your city, from the sidewalk to the skyline. The David Dinkins Municipal Building’s rooftop is open & free to everyone, starting this June.

I'm going to have to buy one of these for dogfooding reasons but I continue not to understand the appeal (maybe I'm just blessed with unusually good vision for a 40something)

Jack Horner Alan Grant 🤝 Getting your dino dig funded by a morally bankrupt asshole with his own island

Well that's a relief

Elon having a terrible day on two different fronts, you love to see it

Melania currently the 8th worst movie of all time on Metacritic (17043 out of 17050), with a Metascore of 4.

Just 2 days ago I went to a biography presentation thing at my son's school and one of his classmates' subject was Bill Gates, we seriously need to do a purge of biography bookshelves

Qianlong Emperor: <punches wall>

This is an excellent free JavaScript tutorial if your kid-with-some-patience-for-reading already knows Scratch and wants to learn basic JavaScript from that

Wild that there was an open lane called "what if we just explain things clearly to people?" and he's the first one to ever fill it

I think we should do both; buses are a medium-term solution and subways are a long (and I do mean long!) term one. Also it's "fast and free" and the free part helps with the fast part because it makes it easier to build more bus lanes and generally optimize the street network around buses.

I don't agree with everything in this piece, but I think this is an important observation - young people are using AI because they're anxious about navigating the expectations of the adult world; AI gives reassurance, makes them feel confident and polished.

This seems like it’s just the “separate DHS from the other bills” thing that everybody thought was a good idea earlier in the week? (A shutdown would be great but we already know Democrats don’t have the spine for one, with just DHS however they can probably hold out for longer)

Guy who owns a building supply company and a pretzel company: "if you believe renewable materials are the future; and that baking them is the major problem to solve; and that pretzel-based floor tiles are feasible - then the combined company would be a vertically integrated flooring colossus"

And this somehow happened despite the fact that developers are able to sell stuff in the US through outside links

Orson Welles would have absolutely made an AI slop movie if they paid him enough money

When the future history of Microsoft is written, I think the conclusion will be that the only way they could have avoided the eventual web-induced irrelevance they correctly anticipated in the ‘90s would have been to not screw up mobile in the ‘00s

Cosmere is - essentially - a "cinematic universe in a box," so if it's done well it could be Apple's answer to Star Wars

This is an excellent sign that they're righting the ship

In all seriousness, “make the federal government stop interfering in people’s lives” would be a great campaign message for Democrats in 2026

He’s already planning to retire soon, he needs to move up the timeline for that

I still remember high-fiving my grandma - who I was staying with to canvass for (ack) Ned Lamont - the morning after the 2006 midterms, when they announced that Rumsfeld was resigning; this would be an even bigger win than that

Even if your goal is to turn CBS into a conservative rag, the only reason anybody reads, say, the NYT opinion section is because their stupid opinions show up alongside actual news; if you cut the latter then you demolish the reach of the former

So basically it turns out that what doomed Rapa Nui was not the sort of resource drain / ecological devastation that took down the Maya (and which Diamond & co are only too eager to apply everywhere even without evidence), but simple colonialism

This is too charitable; the nature of the mistake hints very strongly that the columnist either wrote the entire piece with AI or at a minimum that they used quotes from an AI researcher and that neither they nor the editor nor the fact-checker bothered to double-check them.

Bovino won’t change anything by itself, but they failed in Minnesota and it won’t get easier the next time they try it

A key thing to note here is that a *failed* PRC invasion of Taiwan would spark a political crisis that would make Tiananmen look like a tea party

Not just applicable to Iran

So we just got the snow day phone call and Mamdani recorded it personally, which is fun