"The Last Baby Will Be Born in 2012 and, Worse, He'll Look Like This." A 1913 news article suggested that a decline in birth rates and social changes, such as women entering the workforce and fewer people marrying, would lead to a "neuter type" of human and eventually, the end of the human race.

I think they should mandate all phones be low framerate, low contrast e-ink. Millions of people will get overstimulation withdrawal, but we'll be better for it.

“I don’t normally post in the evening, but…”

A bummer, because they are not the same problem, and making founders weaker can actually makes firms stronger

Remember folks, all firemen are cops

What's great about this map is that there is visibly a poverty effect and a density effect, but the latter is far stronger. Transit is not charity!

Never been so upset at NYC dog owners. 😤

Congress is ill-posed to address this, because they really want to believe that All House Districts, or at least All States, are created equal. Fixing the housing crisis will inevitably mean that there is more variation in density — bigger big cities, etc. — and FPTP political culture hates that.

@smtuffy.bsky.social has long been making the point that some of our most toxic broligarchs owe their fortune to the fact that America has been clinging to antiquated payments technology.

About time too.

A roughly equal number of people live in the red and blue areas.

dudes rock

As a teacher and as someone who’s created political education materials, I think we need to make more stuff like this. A lot of the easily available videos on social issues are riddled with misinformation or disinformation or bad politics or are panels, and often don’t explain how things work.

41 miles of new subway for the cost of free buses. Here’s an audacious, expansive plan to expand the subway’s reach & catalyze housing to attack the affordability crisis. An incredible effort from NYU Marron team. Excited for this to be out in the world: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/n...

Helsinki is reviving its automation program. No cost figure on that yet, but the CBTC signaling is budgeted at 60 million € for a 43 km long system. www.railwaygazette.com/metro/helsin...

Others have said it, but I really want the LLM companies to pay for the digitizing of all the archives, and especially the analysis of sheet music to machine readable formats. This is our best shot --- 🙏🙏 please, may it happen.

"What You Won't Do For Love" really is better at a slower tempo (try 85% playback speed), as I predicted

CapEx done right....feels a lot more like OpEx (continuous, predictable, in-house)

I love that Mamdani's videos while in office end with the seal of the city. It's the trad touches that count. Also interesting contrast in that Woke 1.0 would have been too vaguely uncomfortable with the Native Americans on the seal to do that, without being able to articulate what the problem was.

Bill Clinton's statement being simpler and better than Obama's is a real "check my priors" (excuse the term) moment for me

Fifth term LPC majority, new Silent Revolution, Crown Corporations doing industrial policy, provincial trade barriers gone, EV abundance, HSR corridor from Windsor to QC, Canada joins EU, and IESO-Quebec-Ix integration because BQ’s illiberal nationalists decide now is the time to be Pro-American.

My most conservative position is for like 20 years now politicians and society have been becoming big wusses about a wee bit o' snow. Especially as winters warm.

Semi indoor and indoor snow today

This and today's events have made be ponder the degree to which society has glamorized violence, something that far more than ICE and the chuds are guilty of. I don't want to hand it to ICE and the police, but one thing these sick videos are making clear is that violence is not, in fact, at all sexy

Why is Alex Honnold doing more free solos on TV? I thought he was giving that up now that he has kids. On top of everything else, I find this "decadent empire reinventing gladiator fighting" behavior in the rest of us deeply upsetting.

Bad argument, because we sure as hell are spending the money to undo DHS. Hell, I wouldn't mind another rename now just to remind people that the composition of the executive branch is malleable, and also help the idiots remember Trump's not isolationist

I very much think the bad station design is the thing to harp up. The cost of wasting money is more nebulous: bad precedent that will prevent other things from being built, but not this one. The cost of building too deep / too poorly is a worse subway, a mistake which is impossible to fix.

I'm sorry folks but if Regan didn't die in office, I don't think Trump will either. However, I think he will be sick enough to dissuade running for a third term, and so a bunch of people will say "see? he was abiding by norms after all". Sorry!

Big Chungus dropped a week after the US entered WWII. Imagine seeing Big Chungus and then immediately being sent to fight at Guadalcanal

Really bleak, it's like every technology that doesn't have a huge lobbying push or swing state workflow is dead on arrival.

woke 2.0 already started

A passage from the 1943 OSS psychological assessment of Hitler, for your holiday mo(u)rning www.cia.gov/readingroom/...

Putting the so-called (but not yet confirmed) "opposition" or "checks and balances" in your now-famous videos is IMO a brilliant move. No way that any Democrat that aspires to hire office wants to give up videos with Mamdani anytime soon.

I'm going to disagree with this framing. Invading Greenland is obviously fucked up, but doing unpopular things (according to polls) that you think are right is a *virtue*, and a virtue that Republicans claim near-exclusive domain over.

Should Park Place for the 2/3 be closed now that the Fulton megastation exists? Kinda tired of crawling and meandering through FiDi every time.

"subway" stans keep winning

We need a multi party system with strong parties. Reformers that don’t view this as their end goal are lost in the sauce imo.

This is one hell of an obit. > After 48 hours of torture, Dr. Christie wrote a forced confession... he had made sure the confession included “all my recommendations to the African National Congress” about the best way to sabotage Koeberg and other facilities.

Salsa is fruit salad.

Wow based France. And I thought they were more sexist too.

How much is the Brooklynization of New York a function of the lack of development/transit on the NJ side making Manhattan an off-center city center?

Nobody really wants to hear this but the only even remotely palatable solutions to the "birthrate crisis" involve penciling in substantial technological change: artificial wombs, at least somewhat automated childcare, etc

Politics is a team sport, but Americans keep wanting to play it as mere individuals. Bad for everyone involved (politicians and voters alike).

Suspected this was why this story wasn't blowing up lol

I would like to thank @shishiqiushi.bsky.social for being one of the first to preach that #RightWingMMT is nigh

Americans now love Korean soft power. My hope is that soon they will also love Korean hard* power ;)

Reading about Greenland, the US, and the Nazis last go around, and I feel bad for this guy's wife

Will Stancil getting put on a train down from Canada as the Trump regime collapses, arriving six weeks after the revolution since his Amtrak keeps getting preempted by freight rail

This is about a clear as it gets for why reigning in the local police is absolutely essential. There is no tolerating a hostile federal government *and* hostile state-/local- agents. This stems from a base notion of power that precede "good times" notions of modulating policy to win marginal votes

nathandiyer.github.io/clean-energy... Best illustration