A US citizen has apparently been shot by ICE agents in Minneapolis. I’m gathering information, but the situation on the ground is volatile. ICE should leave now for everyone’s safety.

annual repost of Trashed Bathrooms

There we go. That there’s a headline.

It's hard to imagine a worse process than permitting by Supreme Court

TIL

unfortunately in the afternoon I'm too tired to think, and at midnight I'm too wired to sleep

we took the disembodied parasocial chat bot and gave it a body so you can spiral into psychosis with a virtual thing you can see and hear

the slip from "this thing causes problems for some people" to "everyone is better off avoiding this" is so prevalent in baby safety recommendations. I'm not sure it's always wrong! But it's definitely not always right.

The LEAP RCT on peanut allergies: A randomized trial in which equipoise arose from parental anxiety, not scientific uncertainty.

I might have just done the most unhinged noise at this. I could arguably be called laughing but that does it too much dignity

I'm writing a new tool at work and slowly dipping into vibe coding (Gemini CLI because that's what my employer pays for). Fave thing so far is TDD: if I think the code is wrong, I ask it to write a test that verified the thing I think it missed.

The White House is not supporting a single capitol police officer, only the rioters who attacked them.

I've seen an astonishing number of "google is making its search results worse to boost ad revenue" articles over the years that weren't on any firmer evidentiary footing, some of them written by people who are still popular on this website.

Fligor wins race for Santa Clara County assessor https://www.newsbeep.com/us-ca/121916/ Neysa Fligor won the Dec. 30 runoff to become the new Santa Clara County assessor. Courtesy Neysa Fligor…

so uh

thought: if you're still harping about Biden's missteps *today* and wishing he was impeached, I am hopeful that you are putting 100x the energy into the current guy. otherwise you're falling for the trap that trump has no agency.

Fuentes himself probably does, but I’m pretty sure most of MAGA hasn’t really advanced to that level of thinking it through. They’re just bouncing from one fist-pumping idea to the next, never linking them together.

Jan 6, 2021 was five years ago. Can we call it the chicken coup day?

remember when we found the WMDs? me neither

My feelings are so strange right now. This is simultaneously the funniest thing I've ever read, and I am also absolutely incandescent with rage.

ram, not flops, is the new bottleneck. samsung's stock price is just starting to reflect this

i needed prior authorization for my medication but a coup didn't require one?

If this happened to a conservative organizer, Republicans would make her a hero, a household name and a congressional candidate. Elected Democrats just pretend it isn't happening.

kind of darkly funny that "gender studies" is the stereotypical "useless degree" because gender studies will help you understand a large and important chunk of the current psychosis in american life

math problem: "Bob's mother is three times as old as Bob. In 6 years, Bob's mother will be twice as old as Bob. How old is Bob now?" student: "Wouldn't that be illegal?"

I am more and more convinced that right-wingers are like this because they surround themselves with sociopaths to the point they don't know when they're broken inside because they're the same as the people they are regularly around. Traumatized people traumatizing their kids.

"The case for 20-year GWPs to avoid tipping points is also fairly weak... It is quite unlikely that the world will reach peak warming before 2070 or 2080 even in ambitious mitigation scenarios, which means that little of the methane emitted today will be warming the planet by then." Let me add:

Check out the full article for more, including how we should think about our most ambitious climate targets and why we should prioritize reducing coal emissions (and retiring coal capacity) first rather than gas, and navigating the politics of the possible:

bsky is amazing: anthropology majors who speak like velma or egon. that said, this is a much more approachable definition than anything i have heard from a physicist. there is a reason why many famous physicists (hawking, sagan) are really wordcels who understand physics

Iinkedin.com is owned by a squatter (let's hope it formats right this time)

googIe.com has a bad ssl certificate. I don't know who it's registered to but probably not Google.

wow, onIyfanz.com is actually unregistered and up for grabs

onIyfans.org is for sale by godaddy

our kids had a sleepover last night which means all the joys of jetlag and no travel (they didn't sleep well last night, collapsed around 6pm, and now aren't tired anymore. now I am starting to remember baby year struggles)

he singlehandedly demonstrated basically everything that could go wrong with relying heavily on community-run moderation

the other tech companies working on AI will — not now, but eventually — regret having chosen not to draw a bright line between what musk is doing and what they're doing, and google, of all companies, really should know this firsthand, given how much tesla's self-driving informs opinions about waymo

Every major free speech org has said the IHRA definition suppresses constitutionally protected speech. Every major human rights group has said it suppresses legitimate advocacy. The scandal is that Adams adopted the definition, not that Mamdani rejected it. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/04/n...

my bro literally went on a 1 year Buddhist meditation program starting early 2020. no electronics. he occasionally went shopping for food etc. he had a pretty unique experience.

Wojcicki mother posts this basically identical article every few months, but it is especially shocking to see her brag about her daughters after one passed away from cancer and another's company (23andme) famously folded. It is all so tragic. Why are you still bragging?

21 gigawatts? That's huge! For comparison, the entire CAISO grid used 21GW this morning about 9am. And it's about half of a typical summer load.

Iraq was facially about freedom but actually about oil. This is facially about oil but actually about social media machismo.

Lime haul. Hall for scale. (Ripe limes are actually yellow!)

Gallego just jumped into my top tier of 2028 contenders with this post

THREAD: I'll fact-check all the viral misinformation about the US military operation in Venezuela in this thread This image, purporting to show the US military arresting Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, is AI-generated. According to Google's SynthID detector, it was created using Google AI.

Next 3 hours or so are going to contain a lot of this as folks wake up across the US

Polymarket must be destroyed.

Tip: if you visit a web page, and then the contents of it get irreversibly deleted from the web (e.g. your own blog post while messing around) but you still have the url in your browser history, you can ask Claude Code to peruse your browser cache, decompress, and reconstruct it