Joel

It's funny, growing up the Miami Herald was famous for Monkey Business Gary Hart and now they're famous for uncovering a global pedophile ring that included two Presidents and Bill Fucking Gates. I'd say that's an insane CV from a small but mighty paper

Bar graph showing responses to question "Would you support or oppose abolishing ICE?" from The Economist/You Gov from June 2025 and late Feb-early March 2026. Total support for abolishing rose 23 points, among Dems 30 points, among independents 23 points, among Republicans 14 points.

Public opinion is not fixed.

And it's the job of a campaign to move people.

Not much cobalt, but some battery recipes substitute nickel, which Canada does have

Voir dire has a numbers limit: you don’t have to be convincing, just more convincing than the n in the pool that the prosecutor can remove without cause

based

I was going to ask whether you meant a sleeping bag made of molybdenum or one made of MDMA, but Newsom’s political instincts make a similar amount of sense to either of those, so I guess it doesn’t matter

I miss Oakland sorely but remain mildly horrified by the traffic innovations

Sectarian fractures surfacing just as a totalitarian theocracy begins to consolidate power?

Who could have imagined

A real critique is not a pass/fail gate. It structures the conversation to answer questions about the artifact that the designer has. Is it fit for purpose? What is working about it? What isn't?

Scaffolding the conversation to lead towards those answers are the purpose of the artifact.

The mistake is confusing detail vs fidelity. Vibe prototypes let you add a lot of detail quickly, just like how component libraries do.

But all of that detail is essentially distraction and waste. Showing off your tasteful drop shadow on the card view is not stress-testing the merit of the solution

Costco repoing Noem’s flying fuck palace and garnishing Mullin’s salary

trolley problem diagram, with Sisyhpus pushing his boulder as the trolley car, and text that reads: Sisyphus is rolling a boluder towards the Grand Hilbert Hotel. The hotel has an infinite number of rooms, but they are all full, so they may not be able to accomodate him or his boulder. If you choose to divert him, his boulder will destroy the Ship of Theseus. But the ship has had all of its constituent parts replaced, so it may not actually be the same ship. Is Sisyphus happy?

a question for the ages, really.

I mean, it’s one gallon of gas, Dana. What could it cost, ten dollars?

Purely coincidentally, many US drillers have been sitting idle while prices have been low, but these prices would be enough to put them back online.

Probably purely a coincidence.

“They were just following orders”

Yeah, whatever, they were violating the law and everyone knew it

Time to garnish wages I guess

Just because we’re law enforcement doesn’t mean we have to be into the whole following the laws thing

Jesse even hangs a lampshade on this, in the scene with the series title

this is the most @unavaleable.bsky.social anecdote of all time

People talk a lot about what Silicon Valley does, but they are using the name of the region to refer to the businesses headquartered there

Land doesn’t pivot to computer-as-a-service or whatever

hegseth wants to fight a religious war in iran, rubio wants to reverse domino theory latin america, and trump will do whatever makes him feel strong

the word origin itself has the whole story, it's quite amazing how despite all this progress it all goes right back to Čapek getting the trope namer right straight off the bat

He’s poison, but maybe he’ll be chemotherapeutic as regards the cancers of conservatism and Christian nationalism

It’s not how SCOTUS currently interprets things, but they have at least two insurrectionists pretending to sit on their bench as well.

To be clear, I’m advocating that we act on this interpretation as we hold this administration accountable for its crimes, as soon as possible.

Look at the context.

Have Wayne serve as a legislator while Mark does the pogrom stuff, was probably the plan

Different tree leaf buds

A selection of lizard claws for you

discoverthewild.co.uk

Historian here history first time as tragedy the second time as farce.

A Reductress post features a photo of Kristi Noem with the headline, “Kristi Noem Put Down for Being Too Hard to Train”

Screaming

I continue to be gobsmacked at 1) how common this formulation is 2) how antisemitic and generally bigoted it is 3) and how for all the talk of anti-semitism this is never cited as an example even though it’s quite literally the original incarnation.

Way ahead of you