Increased usage doesn't equal increased user base necessarily, but it's funny. www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/wi...

we will retvrn to XP before the decade is out

Voters really loved the 2019 economy. It explains ~ 50% of American politics right now I think. wertwhile.substack.com/p/trump-45-w...

tbf both models share one key in common: have a terrible opponent

Man that CNBC guy is _really_ doomery.

Do you know how hard you have to work at being bad at prosecuting to do this.

If I were a normie who consumed the news very casually, I would guess that the guy who won't even set up meetings is the one responsible for the shutdown.

As always, @steventdennis.bsky.social’s rule of deals in DC is correct. Deals happen like: NO NO NO NO NO Maybe NO NO *Framework reached* NO HELL NO NO YES

The thing about the "information environment" is it's entirely consensual. Nobody's making anybody spend all day on Facebook. Nobody's making them scroll TikTok. Yeah it's addicting but it's not The One Ring. People have agency and I'll happily judge them for how they use it.

Taking a noncontroversial Let People Enjoy Things position on the Taylor Swift record. Good to see people hyper-analyzing a new album, ranking songs, comparing it to old work. Every minute they do this is a minute not spent watching slop.

could a robot post as bad as i do?

i looked at the methodology for this and it is a. sex addiction counseling group in texas did a surveymonkey and extrapolated the results to the entire us population which is the sort of research design that earns you an ff on an intro methods class (the extra f is for extra effort), and b. p-hacked

I'm glad we all agree it's okay for government to pick winners and losers now. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

The vertical video format means the late night cameraman has to _very tightly follow_ the host as he wanders a bit during his monologue, not sure if this is good or not, maybe some technology will come along here.

The US could afford to not import CRRC if it was willing to just importam Hyundai, Kawasaki, Alstom, Stadler, Siemens etc

was in a meeting about ridiculous US regulations driving up housing and infrastructure costs and someone mentioned the coast guard demanding absurd height clearances for bridges where tall ships have no need to go... and uhhh they're not wrong. www.theurbanist.org/2022/04/22/s...

A lot of people seem to be into Hatsune Miku despite the fact she doesn't exist, you do you, Tyler Cowen.

See @proptermalone.bsky.social *this* is the kind of interior monologue that we don't need to be put into lyrics.

I mean you could just say "the only people who need government-run grocery stores are THE TROOPS" and then we just need to declare the post office, school teachers, first responders, sewer workers, telecommunications workers, hollywood, CPAs, et.c, ... TROOPS.

Zohran videos are "Autotune the news" rotated 90 degrees.

With how much this has stirred people up today it’d be a good topic for him to do a 1-2 minute video on.

"Students are also admitted into gifted classes through a separate third-grade track. Mr. Mamdani’s campaign ... said on Thursday afternoon that third grade would continue to be an entry point next school year." so this is just phasing it out for K-2, which I think is really kind of obvious tbh?

Updated version of Bush era Leftism, we're so back.

i think this is the rough historical median if you compare to pamphlets and visual art since gutenberg

The Axe Body spray of fast food mascots.

Great stuff.

Proud of kid2, who graduated college in May, got her paralegal certificate, and just landed a paralegal job in a General Counsel’s office at a hospital, all navigated by herself. I didn’t make any calls or use any contacts. She’s very independent, which is good.

someone left a bunch of Warhammer 40k shit out by the trash around 3213 11th St NW if there are any nerds in DC on furlough looking for something to do

K-2 advanced learning is also subject to random testing variation that you don't see in older age groups. It's not terribly useful

I do not understand the CW that the anti-government Temper Tantrum party, led by the most temper tantrum-y person in public life, is going to "win" the shutdown, except that the CW is the Senate will just nuke the filibuster to pass appropriations. But people will hate the appropriations!

Obama/Biden weren’t hostile actors in government shutdowns but Trump is, so I do think that makes this (potentially) different.

Kaleb Horton’s mom has written some comments and asked to spread her thanks for everyone online who’s been sharing their appreciations: “you all made my suffering feel more bearable. Thank you so much and God Bless you all.” @lukeoneil47.bsky.social @nedraggett.bsky.social @alexnpress.bsky.social

I still can't believe Trump got rid of the buy low/sell high thing!

Gonna make a nostalgic AI slop video about the time before AI slop videos

I want to push back on this slightly ... I think applying the sorting hat too early isn't worth it. At the K-2 grades, family background dominates. Where to start designation between 3rd-8th is less clear. TBC gifted programs have value for students & the overall school system (by reducing flight)

I'm willing to believe something has changed with the last few weeks of nonsense, and Trump has moved from -5 to -8 or so in net approval

Chuseok aka Korean Thanksgiving is next week and I was reminded of the annual migratory freeway traffic heading out of Seoul into the countryside in the 90s. driving from Seoul to Daejeon a 100 miles away would take 10 hours in standstill traffic. KTX high speed rail helped erase such scenery

One of my only heroes.

There are people in Japan who are really into Hatsune Miku but there's a thriving domestic market for TV & Film with real people

So Argentina is getting dignity wraithed, amazing stuff.

so it turns out unsurprisingly that some 'whatever it takes' statements are more credible than others www.ft.com/content/6333...

I genuinely don't understand how Democrats can negotiate to fund the government under these conditions and it is why they should have made addressing recision and unconstitutional withholding of funds the key issue of the shutdown even if not as sexy or popular as subsidies.

So it depends ... for people *who can save* it's great, but most people do very little saving outside of their home + 401k (and they often raid their 401k/ira)

Landscape, by Joan Miró, 1968, 📸 by @EricEvansPhoto

The Land of Cockaigne, by Pieter Bruegel the Elder, 1567

AI slop propaganda is the new "Bush era leftism" (and rightism)

The hit TV mockumentary is stubbornly optimistic — and that’s not a bad thing, writes contributor Ekemini Ekpo: In defense of 'Abbott Elementary' alexanderrusso.substack.com/p/in-defense...

IDAHO's exchange has also launched 2026 window shopping. Here's a 50-yr old adult in Boise, ID earning $65,000/yr: 2025: $297/mo (after $144/mo tax credit) 2026: $545/mo (no tax credits) 83% net rate hike. And again, the deductible is $1,750 higher & out of pocket max is $3,100 higher.