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I mean this is straight up white supremacy:
December 5, 2025 at 3:51 AM
I mean this is straight up white supremacy:
Just another nail in the coffin for the transatlantic partnership, but boy does this make for chilling reading. How long until the CIA starts trying to give Vance’s friends in the far right a leg up?
NATIONAL SECURITY STRATEGY DROPPED
There is a LOT here, but omg NATO allies are going to seethe at this paragraph
www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u...
There is a LOT here, but omg NATO allies are going to seethe at this paragraph
www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u...
December 5, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Just another nail in the coffin for the transatlantic partnership, but boy does this make for chilling reading. How long until the CIA starts trying to give Vance’s friends in the far right a leg up?
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I have been periodically saying this for a while, but the movie is far more compatible with the worldview of the knuckle-draggers than most people think
Rewatching Sicario for the first time in 6 or 7 years.
I’m reminded of how easy it might be for some 22 y/o to watch this movie and join CBP thinking that if they play their cards right they’re going to be an operator fighting cartels rather than kidnapping construction workers off of the street.
I’m reminded of how easy it might be for some 22 y/o to watch this movie and join CBP thinking that if they play their cards right they’re going to be an operator fighting cartels rather than kidnapping construction workers off of the street.
November 28, 2025 at 4:49 AM
I have been periodically saying this for a while, but the movie is far more compatible with the worldview of the knuckle-draggers than most people think
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This kind of free-floating cynicism & lack of trust is deeply, deeply corrosive.
December 1, 2025 at 5:38 PM
This kind of free-floating cynicism & lack of trust is deeply, deeply corrosive.
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Alright! Let's actually talk about this waterfall thing. It is an amazing showcase of many things that I adore from late 90s/early 2000s graphics.
I am replicating this in Blender through mere observation, so some things might not be fully accurate to the mind-boggling effects of the PS1.
I am replicating this in Blender through mere observation, so some things might not be fully accurate to the mind-boggling effects of the PS1.
November 22, 2025 at 3:12 AM
Alright! Let's actually talk about this waterfall thing. It is an amazing showcase of many things that I adore from late 90s/early 2000s graphics.
I am replicating this in Blender through mere observation, so some things might not be fully accurate to the mind-boggling effects of the PS1.
I am replicating this in Blender through mere observation, so some things might not be fully accurate to the mind-boggling effects of the PS1.
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Is it a threat to free speech when the President of the United States threatens to yank the broadcast license of a channel whose reporters are asking him challenging questions?
I ask because I feel like there used to be tons of pundits worried about free speech. Where'd they go?
I ask because I feel like there used to be tons of pundits worried about free speech. Where'd they go?
Trump in response to an Epstein question: "ABC, your company, your crappy company is one of the perpetrators. I think the license should be taken away from ABC because your news is so fake and so wrong. And we have a great commissioner, a chairman, who should take a look at that."
November 18, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Is it a threat to free speech when the President of the United States threatens to yank the broadcast license of a channel whose reporters are asking him challenging questions?
I ask because I feel like there used to be tons of pundits worried about free speech. Where'd they go?
I ask because I feel like there used to be tons of pundits worried about free speech. Where'd they go?
Some nice background from Hannah Ritchie on what kind of assumptions go into the IEA fixed policy scenario www.sustainabilitybynumbers.com/p/iea-curren...
Will oil and gas consumption keep rising through 2050?
Unpacking some of the assumptions behind the IEA's policy scenarios.
www.sustainabilitybynumbers.com
November 17, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Some nice background from Hannah Ritchie on what kind of assumptions go into the IEA fixed policy scenario www.sustainabilitybynumbers.com/p/iea-curren...
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i’m proud to have studied and worked with many chinese public health scientists over the years. this red scare bullshit is unjust, bigoted, and utterly self-destructive
The only way we will win a better world is not only leftism for America, but internationalism. “Researchers who have anything to do with China should have their careers ended” is a bipartisan position, and it can’t be anymore. If we live in a fragmented world, it will burn in our lifetime
November 14, 2025 at 6:36 AM
i’m proud to have studied and worked with many chinese public health scientists over the years. this red scare bullshit is unjust, bigoted, and utterly self-destructive
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My old pal Pete Coviello — one of the best writers and thinkers I've ever known — wrote the piece of the moment
lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
lithub.com
November 9, 2025 at 3:17 AM
My old pal Pete Coviello — one of the best writers and thinkers I've ever known — wrote the piece of the moment
lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
A somewhat convincing case, I think, that Amazon layoffs are probably down to retail market weakness. newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/the-pulse-...
The Pulse: Amazon layoffs – AI or economy to blame?
Amazon is doing more mass layoffs, claiming it wants to be more nimble. But are job losses really about US economic fears, and how Amazon’s retail business will be affected?
newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com
November 7, 2025 at 8:30 AM
A somewhat convincing case, I think, that Amazon layoffs are probably down to retail market weakness. newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/the-pulse-...
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Gates' subtle anti-renewables messaging, possibly related to his investments in small modular nuclear reactors, was well known, but this is next level: financially supporting a guy whose core business it is to argue for less climate action.
“Bill Gates Gave $3.5M to Think Tank Run by Climate Crisis Denier Bjorn Lomborg" by Rei Takver for @desmog.com:
www.desmog.com/2025/11/05/b...
www.desmog.com/2025/11/05/b...
Bill Gates Gave $3.5M to Think Tank Run by Climate Crisis Denier Bjorn Lomborg
Tax records reveal that the billionaire’s foundation has donated for years to Lomborg’s Copenhagen Consensus Center.
www.desmog.com
November 6, 2025 at 6:35 AM
Gates' subtle anti-renewables messaging, possibly related to his investments in small modular nuclear reactors, was well known, but this is next level: financially supporting a guy whose core business it is to argue for less climate action.
Just the chilling effect of proposing to do this to people who believed they had permanent residency, who have built lives. Absolutely bonkers.
Lam believes her policy would deport all of the proportion in pink - keeping the thin group in black - of the post-2021 legal migrant arrivals. (The draft legislation proposes similar thresholds/rules for all past grants too). She says jar is 3.5m people: an astonishing scale of mass deportations
October 22, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Just the chilling effect of proposing to do this to people who believed they had permanent residency, who have built lives. Absolutely bonkers.
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Okatsuka posted the censorship rules for the controversial comedy festival, noting how many "You can’t say anything anymore!" comedians have signed on.
www.avclub.com/riyadh-comed...
www.avclub.com/riyadh-comed...
Comedian Atsuko Okatsuka posts contract after turning down Riyadh Comedy Festival
Comedian Atsuko Okatsuka posts contract after turning down Riyadh Comedy Festival
www.avclub.com
September 27, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Okatsuka posted the censorship rules for the controversial comedy festival, noting how many "You can’t say anything anymore!" comedians have signed on.
www.avclub.com/riyadh-comed...
www.avclub.com/riyadh-comed...
To think we used to study US presidential speeches in class.
September 23, 2025 at 3:08 PM
To think we used to study US presidential speeches in class.
So in the raid of that US Hyundai plant: workers had permits and thought they were there legally, nobody was charged, no wrongdoing was admitted, everybody was deported anyway. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/12/b...
Georgia ICE Raid Netted Workers With Short-Term Business Visas
www.nytimes.com
September 20, 2025 at 10:17 AM
So in the raid of that US Hyundai plant: workers had permits and thought they were there legally, nobody was charged, no wrongdoing was admitted, everybody was deported anyway. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/12/b...
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The refusal to pay attention to the internet as it existed before 2016 is what’s really astonishing about this gambit. www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/09/on-c...
September 19, 2025 at 8:41 PM
The refusal to pay attention to the internet as it existed before 2016 is what’s really astonishing about this gambit. www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/09/on-c...
Better Off Ted
If you could get just one more season of any cancelled show, which would you pick?
September 8, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Better Off Ted
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I have a piece coming up on this but this very much reads to me as Xi making avuncular small talk and Putin being serious - something borne out by the countries' very different research priorities and levels of politicalization in science
Caught on a hot mic at the Beijing military parade. No one tell Trump:
Xi: “People rarely lived past 70 before. Now at 70 you’re still a child.”
Putin: “With biotech, organs can be replaced endlessly. People could even reach immortality.”
Xi: “Some predict people might live to 150 this century.”
Xi: “People rarely lived past 70 before. Now at 70 you’re still a child.”
Putin: “With biotech, organs can be replaced endlessly. People could even reach immortality.”
Xi: “Some predict people might live to 150 this century.”
September 4, 2025 at 6:31 PM
I have a piece coming up on this but this very much reads to me as Xi making avuncular small talk and Putin being serious - something borne out by the countries' very different research priorities and levels of politicalization in science
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"Israel’s policies and actions in Gaza meet the legal definition of genocide in Article II of the United Nations Convention for the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (1948)".
Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, genocide scholars' association says - www.reuters.com/world/middle...
Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, genocide scholars' association says - www.reuters.com/world/middle...
Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, scholars' association says
The world's leading genocide scholars' association has passed a resolution saying that the legal criteria have been met to establish Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, its president said on Monday.
www.reuters.com
September 1, 2025 at 9:50 AM
"Israel’s policies and actions in Gaza meet the legal definition of genocide in Article II of the United Nations Convention for the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (1948)".
Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, genocide scholars' association says - www.reuters.com/world/middle...
Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, genocide scholars' association says - www.reuters.com/world/middle...
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Cyclists, don't forget to wear hi viz!
August 30, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Cyclists, don't forget to wear hi viz!
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This story was a subject line in my mailbox. I thought "this is either very good, or I'm unsubscribing from this newsletter."
It's very good, it's from Kill Screen and it looks at democracy as a game, and goes from there and keeps going.
It's very good, it's from Kill Screen and it looks at democracy as a game, and goes from there and keeps going.
Is Gerrymandering Cheating or Just A Good Strat?
American democracy operates like a complex board game where the rules keep changing, cheating is normalized, and spoilsports threaten the entire system.
www.killscreen.com
August 21, 2025 at 6:28 AM
This story was a subject line in my mailbox. I thought "this is either very good, or I'm unsubscribing from this newsletter."
It's very good, it's from Kill Screen and it looks at democracy as a game, and goes from there and keeps going.
It's very good, it's from Kill Screen and it looks at democracy as a game, and goes from there and keeps going.
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Pretty sure she said she could see it from *her house*.
August 14, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Pretty sure she said she could see it from *her house*.