Apropos of some debate on Piketty-Saez-Zucman versus Auten-Splinter brewing again on the other site, let me post my lecture notes that does a deep dive into this, looking at both pre- and post-tax income inequality. Link: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/4k5gj...

Louder for the “left” NIMBYs in the back “This shift is driven by a surge in supply. More inventory is still on the way, with peak units expected to deliver by the end of (the second quarter).”

This is A+ AI slop. I love it

You need to read this horrifying and astonishing account of the genocidal murders in El Fasher in October 2025. These killings could have been stopped: unfortunately, the world did nothing and actively looked away.

This video of @hankgreen.bsky.social's is very good and is basically what Dostoevsky meant by "beauty will save the world." It's not some shallow statement about aesthetics. It's about how we're uplifted and inspired to do good by seeing good. www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVu2...

Quacks love ivermectin and are now recommending it for hantavirus. Obviously, it doesn't work. But why ivermectin? Why this drug in particular? I wrote a bit about why. smol.news/p/why-the-iv...

The VM folks are getting vindicated these days I guess. I would not want to be running just container level isolation in prod right now. Ci/Cd pipeline with prod access are going to be radioactive for a while. Not nice when there's as many supply-chain attacks around

The grid is not going to be fixed by waiting for transmission. It’s not going to be fixed by another round of utility-scale solar with no storage. It’s going to be fixed by putting intelligent, resilient, dispatchable infrastructure at the facility level so that the grid has demand flexibility

"We have been made aware of a potential incident and are shutting down all issuance." 😬 letsencrypt.status.io

So Claude Mythos was, indeed, not marketing hype. Remember this is a general purpose model that just happens to be good at finding exploits because good models are good at lots of things. Expect similar from OpenAI & Google. And from open models in 8 months. hacks.mozilla.org/2026/05/behi...

Rhodium Group just dropped a detailed report on why your electricity bill keeps going up. It’s excellent. The diagnosis is right. The prognosis is too defeatist. A thread. 🧵

They correctly identify distribution costs as the core problem. Not generation. Not wind or solar. Old ways of solving growth, more poles, wires, and substations delivering power to your home. Distribution used to be 20% of your bill. Today it’s 45%. That’s the story.

Praise be

A note I found yesterday while walking in Portland.

WARHAMMER

bring back smoking but only out of the cigarette doohickey

I'm pleased that the zoomers are bringing back DnB in a kind of sincere, heartbroken way cynthoni.bandcamp.com/album/lament...

❗️A 77-year-old grandmother was evacuated on a ground robot by soldiers of the 🇺🇦Third Army Corps. She was moving along a road under fire. The entire operation took 4 hours.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

Writing a lot of code with Claude in a new and confusing setting is fast and easy, but it also leaves me feeling like I'm watching a friend take my exam for me. Not much is staying with me unless I do some work too

in india, you have to buy clarified butter from a street vendor, because the ghee is stored in the stalls

This remains the greatest piece of persuasive advertising ever made about electrification. It's insane to me that Nissan dropped it & it's insane that no one on the green left has picked it up to make it a national PSA.

Tomorrow on The Pragmatic Engineer Podcast: Designing Data Intensive Applications with @martin.kleppmann.com

Welp, back to VS code I guess lol

Gentrification is imo an overly broad umbrella term that includes real and concrete harms like people being unable to live near transit due to rents spiking, and vibe based bullshit like the neighborhood not being “authentic” anymore that you should just be expected to deal with as an adult

End of life goals. And maybe a DJ that does industrial dance music. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Funeral...

Open society. Stop it being closed.

For years I've been looking for the right guest to do a pod on this. The car-sales model that is dictated by law in the US -- you must go to a dealership & suffer for hours in order to buy one -- is one of the most nakedly anti-social special interest giveaways in history. Needs to be killed dead.

At a time when everything seems bad, here’s a bit of good news. In 1991, lithium-ion batteries cost around $9,200 per kilowatt-hour — 33 years later, they cost just $78. This helps us move towards electrification of transport and energy storage in homes ourworldindata.org/battery-pric...

Decent bump I'm the night, I hope the San Jose folks are ok

One could pair this study with @moiradonegan.bsky.social's insight about the #tradwife. Men who prefer tradwives view their wives with open contempt. The women who opt to be tradwives really want to be children again. www.bookforum.com/print/3004/l...

New Carpenter Brut album captures this year near-perfectly. Soundtrack to a nightmare.

The most interesting idea buzzing around my head right now is using structured languages to guide AI Agents’ reasoning, and it’s just one of the many exciting and nuanced ideas I got from talking with Henry Garner as we discuss his what’s-hot-what’s-not AI Radar. youtu.be/43lsrgkhJ8c

Cleanzillaliness is next to Godzillaliness

Book launch day! “Your Data Will Be Used Against You: Policing in the Age of Self Surveillance” is out. Bluesky friends, I would be so grateful if you would buy a copy. And if you can’t afford it, could you at least share this announcement. Thank you. #BookSky politics-prose.com/search?q=You...

Given the rapidly fast falling cost of software inputs ($ per line of code is falling quickly), I wonder if anyone's done any quantitative estimate analysis on the relative microeconomic effects upon other software inputs (platform costs, operational costs, SAAS dependencies etc).

the dining philosophers problem is weird because like, who is sharing forks? petition to rename that famous problem to the "nightmare blunt rotation problem"

new Evangelion series looks crazy

One of the best books in data just got its update. The writing style and insight of edition 1 is outstanding, incl. the wonderful illustrations. Grab it, if you want a technical book that is different from typical cook book references. I'm looking forward. Curious to see what has changed.

a neighbor set up this werewolf for halloween and instead of taking it down they just update it with seasonal outfit changes. now it’s dressed for valentine’s day and holding a sign with a picture of bad bunny and his super bowl slogan. i love him.

New #article from Alwadi et al: Residential proximity to nuclear power plants and cancer incidence in Massachusetts, USA (2000–2018) TL;DR: estimated 10,815 female and 9,803 male cancer cases attributable to proximity to #nuclear plants link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Welp. Back in the job market I suppose. Spicy visa times ahead. Gf lost her job (at a diff firm) yesterday, two friends are looking so I get the feeling that the seasonal employment is a bit tougher than usual

tsundere LLM mode might be popular

I think, in the amusement of discovering that xitter is just a bunch of dudes in Chennai posting white nationalist content to white nationalists in Lagos and the few who can read in the US, that we missed what was going on. Most centrist, center right discourse moved to substack's community thing

It seems pretty odd to me that the EU hasn't put anything out to compare to the big US Cloud providers

Applying Hayek to the folly of state-building. www.theargumentmag.com/p/the-anti-s...

I guess we all need to learn what this is

An underrated ability of Claude's in an operational context imho: Telling it to use DuckDB to go poke around in a bunch of semi-structured files (logfiles or whatever) and go find anything interesting. It's very capable of weilding it effectively to extract interesting results.