Josh Gee

Unfortunately, “Yo brother, legal team confirmed we can’t work with minors rn” is an instant classic

Exclusive: US investigation points to likely US responsibility in Iran school strike, sources say Military investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls' school that killed scores of children on Saturday, two U.S. officials told Reu...

Reuters Exclusive

"U.S. military investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls' school."

"The strike would rank among the worst cases of civilian casualties in decades of U.S. conflicts in the ​Middle East."

The Central Lie of Prediction Markets Polymarket and Kalshi promise the wisdom of the crowds. They deliver something very different.

Wrote about the central lie of prediction markets. How they are the perfect technology for a low-trust society, simultaneously exploiting and reifying an environment in which believing the motives behind any person or action becomes harder. www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

[after a solid minute of the funeral director staring at us, i repeat]

…bunk coffins

[my wife doing stacked hands motion]

like…double decker

Conference championship week means more institutional and university ads. The West Georgia ad has a guy preparing to house a mountain of fried chicken and I immediately regret all my college choices. @edsbs.bsky.social @hollyanderson.bsky.social @dreyesceron.bsky.social

I loved this show very very much a long time ago

it is long past time to let it (and certainly Whedon and Baldwin) fade away

Kristi Noem has done a stunning amount of damage and it’s good she’s gone.

But this doesn’t change the fact that we need a complete overhaul of DHS, impartial investigations into the killings of two American citizens, and information on children that were taken from Minnesota.

If you're at the airport and Kristi Noem is doing the ominous little message from the TSA screens, you no longer have to do anything she says. Leave your laptop in the case, whatever.

Cover for report "5¢ FARE or 10¢ FARE - Which is Fair?” with an illustration showing a hand inserting a coin into a turnstile.

Congress should authorize postal banking *and* allow USPS to ground lease its land to multifamily homebuilders (provided any project on a lot holding an operating post office includes a new, renovated post office on the ground floor).

Nothing changes until we talk about it

Vide should be you explaining the policy over martinis and cigarettes

Odysseus had his crew lash him to the mast to keep him from doing an interview with Chotiner.

I’m so fried I’m trying to figure out if I need to be moving bedtime up or back

Why government software is so expensive. In government, $100 million is not a shocking price tag for a large software project. The question I get all the time about this is, simply: Why?

Blog entry: Why government software is so expensive.

In my experience, there are four major reasons: outsourcing the whole thing, the pricing death spiral, funhouse-mirror price tags, and procurement processes that don't favor quality development.

Plus 1 to Matt Levine

Mr. Eliason, who advocates allowing single-stair construction for small multifamily buildings as a solution to the housing crisis, said he learned how common the design was outside the United States while working in Germany in 2019. After seeing an 11-story tower his firm at the time had designed, Mr. Eliason recalled, he turned to his boss and said: "Something is wrong here. Where's your other stair?" "He's looking at me, and said: 'What are you talking about? If there was another stair, there wouldn't be any room for the homes'"

Single-stair gets the New York Times treatment. @holz-bau.bsky.social reminds us why they call the last line the kicker: www.nytimes.com/2026/03/04/b... (gift link)

Historic character in that I think my parents parked there when we visited New York when I was 10 and I thought the car tower was cool

Take THAT, Bible

Strongest signal yet from Colorado Gov Jared Polis (D) that he'll give clemency to Tina Peters as President Trump has demanded. Polis notes a fmr Dem State Senator recently got probation on charges that drew prison time for Peters, who unrepentantly defied the judge at sentencing

What’s the name of this organization?

We call it the Department of War

And the head of that department is?

The Secretary of War

And the workers in this organization?

Warfighters

And these people are fighting a war.

Oh no. My goodness no.

Scouting America says transgender kids are still welcome after Pete Hegseth claimed they weren’t "We have transgender people in our program, and we’ll have transgender people in our program going forward,” the group's CEO, Roger Krone, said.

Some very rare good news: despite what Hegseth said, trans kids are still welcome in scouting. www.advocate.com/politics/nat...

What!

You Think New York is Bad? Try Living in Roku City I read the news. I hear the cries for help. “New York has a housing crisis.” “The cost of food is too high in New York.” “Crime is too high in New ...

"Rampant political spending continues to cripple Roku City's economy. Rather than fight any of these issues, the mayor’s office invested in a Ferris wheel to provide a view of the alien attacks."

This is very good

Development Is Hard Power Alexander De Croo explains why investments to alleviate poverty and shore up institutions are as important as tanks and drones.

“If we elevate fighter jets as “strategic” assets but dismiss a functioning education system as “mere aid,” and if we always find money for missiles but not for water or electricity, we are not protecting our societies. We are weakening them”

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Bluesky is bad because everyone thinks identically (tells me I stink) instead of featuring a diversity of thought (telling me I'm a smart handsome boy)

Costco Connection magazine just published a full article about why and how to stop your car