there’s actually never been a better time to be a professional software engineer. we are in the midst of a Cambrian explosion of weird and stupid bugs you get to go and fix!

Euros complain of Arabs, who complain of Indians, who complain of Bengalis, who complain of Rohingyas Cycle of great replacement

feel this way about a lot of social movements, frankly--cargo cult communists and cargo cult fascists, LARPing the early twentieth century just because they don't know what else to do

Unironically move the Final to Philly at this point

Will Waymos ever make it nationwide, or will it be the Cannibis of Cars?

"The rot in state capacity requires root-and-three-branches reform." Caravanserai's latest issue is all about bureaucracy—and what it's going to take to fix it once Trump is gone. Streamline executive agencies, redo the APA, and, please, fix Congress. caravanseraiforum.substack.com/p/bureaucrac...

New York City Council’s main policy goal with regards to supermarkets is to keep Walmart out of the city so that Gristedes can stay in business and John Catsimatidis can keep stealing New Yorkers’ money to donate to Donald Trump. These people will help anybody but their constituents.

I'm reading "The Transit of Venus" while I wait for jury selection to begin, and I must say when the in-depth description turns to the food that these Brits eat, it's really upsetting. I'm dehydrated, and every time I read about some nasty cookie I get more thirsty.

Oh no, please don't tell me they will do an "actually we like this constitution"

Need to create the Instagram Price Index. Annual 2 week Eurotrip, tasting menus weekly, bottle service once a month, DoorDash weekdays, useless kitchen gadgets, mid century modern furniture, millennial gray paint, weight loss peptides, Korean skincare products, the whole nine yards

The trees were so small then, when the park was new

But he can get our tunnel boring costs back down again 🫡

From new Hungarian Prime Minister Péter Magyar's acceptance speech tonight. This is the absolute BARE MINIMUM platform for any Democrat running for President in 2028.

Looking like... ORBINNED EVIKTED HUNGARY FOR CHANGE -- www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

Someone needs to compute public sector gender pay gaps. The fact is, the more macho and more right-wing the position is (cops, fireman, LIRR), the more ludicrous the pay is. Teaching and nursing being on the other end. I don't think the private sector is under this level of "masculine capture"

Thrilled to see these Ravens have returned to raise another brood in the facade of NYC’s gothic cathedral, St John the Divine! Caught one parent as it was returning to the nest. 🖤♥️🖤 #Ravens #stjohnthedivine #birding

Law is different than software, but Version Control should be far more widely used than it is, for just about any collaborative knowledge work, and "collaborative knowledge work" includes writing the law. I will be a software man expressing this one opinion with utter confidence!

Little-known fact that this is the goat

A moment to thank Supervisor Aaron Peskin and Marina Nimbys for their tireless work preserving this development site until state law permitted high-rise towers by-right. Without their efforts it would have been rebuilt decades ago under the existing four-story zoning.

Kathy Hochul gave up on trying to convince NYS lawmakers to allow autonomous vehicles upstate, and now Waymo’s testing permit in NYC has expired. Mamdani says AV regulation must “center workers.” New York is where innovation goes to die. www.thecity.nyc/2026/04/06/w...

EDITORIAL | Backseat drivers: Legislature should stay out of subway train staffing

#Stunday #SmArtist #ArtYear @fravery.bsky.social 🎨 Artist not crecited

Is the (civilian) dearth of state capacity best thought of in strategic or tactical terms?

When a 1-unit house is replaced with ONE larger house, the new house is ~3X pricier. When replaced by 5+ houses, each new house will be (on avg) cheaper than the original house. www.aei.org/research-pro... Change is part of the deal. Will we choose greater physical change, or greater price change?

Still find it wild that in the Rust Belt, 19 transit agencies across 4 states have managed to collaborate on a single fare payment system (EZFare) that: —Supports cross-operator passes/transfers —Allows riders to use one stored balance across all operators —Supports fare capping www.ezfare.us

For people talk carelessly about wars and bombings, just remember that their consequences outlast several generations. An unexploded WW2 shell was found a couple of days ago during Bologna's tram works. www.bolognatoday.it/cronaca/bomb...

If Google put all their bay area employees in 5 skyscrapers in downtown SF, it would really fix things

This is a perennial problem with these guys

The Democratic Party could just buy Bluesky, just saying

the Democrats need to announce that anyone who drops a bomb on Iranian civilian infrastructure will die in prison

Tell zoomers "what if political party like discord server not Instagram vs Facebook?" instant Assad numbers, right there.

The petit deep state, folks

I legitimately think this is the greatest visual example of the Materialist–Idealist dialectic that I have ever seen

Totally forgot we were checking out the moon today

For folks not familiar with the Hill of Hysteria

I think it’s incumbent on every progressive to kill the part of their brain that experiences nostalgia. It’s as important as unlearning racist and misogynistic biases imo.

actually existing abundance liberalism is thriving in Salt Lake City, Utah

People are sublimating their fear of cars into fear of some criminal predator because the predator is a lot more legible than traffic violence imo. How may viral videos are there of some suburban woman claiming they or their children were “targeted by sex traffickers” in a parking lot? It’s cars!

Highly memeable found object

No more Charitybahn

If the MTA is too conservative to buy all open gangway, they should simply not buy anything at all until the pointless conservativism is rooted out and liquidated. Locking us into *decades* on the wrong type of vehicle because someone is squeamish over nothing is inexcusable.

While it's exciting that the MTA is ordering new trains, there is no excuse not to buy all of them as walk-through (open-gangway) cars. Walk-through cars are the standard worldwide: they're not only higher capacity, but safer. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/19/n...

Half of the people in politics cannot deal with trade-offs. Lots of left-punching on this which is sometimes accurate. The other half cannot deal with pareto improvements. Not enough center/right-punching on this. Many such cases.

Trump 🤝 Malm

Barrymandering

www.theaustralian.com.au/business/tec... hey. hold on. what the fuck??? (/pos)