I thought I knew what spring was, but Chicago residents have informed me that it is an unknowable, abstract concept. It reveals itself only to the pure of heart and when they least expect it

Child at the podium: “A woo woo woo.”

Mamdani: That’s how I felt when we came up with this plan. Together, we will expand the idea of what is possible in our city—and what sounds and noises we can make at a press conference.

Congrats, I think ..?!

Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio) YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.

Stay free

brass solidarity band performing “stand by me” in the streets of whittier next to alex pretti’s memorial. the crowd started chanting “the people united will never be defeated” so they incorporated it into the song. i love minneapolis

This is the best speech, just from a pure rhetoric perspective - its sophistication and persuasiveness - that I've seen a politician deliver in a good long while. Really recommend watching or reading the whole thing.

What can history teach us about what happens when a populist strongman with an idiosyncratic taste for low interest rates undermines central bank independence?

Nicolas Maduro has been extradited to New York to face the full force of a presidential pardon.

by Karoline Leavitt

US Trade Dominance Will Soon Begin to Crack Savvy countries will discover there’s a way to mitigate the harm incurred by Trump’s tariffs—and it’ll boost their own economies while making goods cheaper too.

Savvy countries will discover there’s a way to mitigate the harm incurred by Trump’s tariffs—and it’ll boost their own economies while making goods cheaper too. www.wired.com/story/us-tra...

Physicists prove the Universe isn’t a simulation after all New research from UBC Okanagan mathematically demonstrates that the universe cannot be simulated. Using Gödel’s incompleteness theorem, scientists found that reality requires “non-algorithmic understa...

If you're taking some comfort, thinking "maybe all this is just a simulation," sorry, scientists appear to have disproven that with math.

Everyone imitates Tolkien all the time except when it comes to the one way it would really matter: making the protagonist of your novel for children a short, fat, 50-year-old man who doesn't want to do anything.

The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow

The NSS That Could Destroy the NATO Alliance The latest U.S. National Security Strategy doesn’t just sideline Europe—it seeks to reshape its politics, backing nationalist parties and challenging the European Union in ways that could push the tra...

If they implement the NSS, and to be clear, there is every reason to believe they are already, it could destroy the alliance.

"The strategy signals that the Trump administration plans to orchestrate the downfall of almost all of Europe’s political leaders." www.csis.org/analysis/nss...

This is the twelfth and final portrait of a slow-art work called Season Clock.
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#Trees #photography #art #eastcoastkin #shotonfairphone #ClassicMono

The Oak — Tim LeRoy A mile up the lane from my house is an Oak tree standing sentinel, alone in her field, like a season clock. I've been walking up to make her portrait for five years.

A mile up the lane from my house is an Oak tree standing sentinel, alone in her field, like a season clock. I've been making her portrait as a slow, on-going artwork, for five years.

Here's August's portrait.

#Photography #art #shotonfairphone #EastCoastKin

www.dirtmeetsthewater.co.uk/the-oak-1

China Just Turned Off U.S. Supplies Of Minerals Critical For Defense & Cleantech - CleanTechnica In response to new Trump tariffs, China cut dysprosium, terbium, and tungsten exports—hitting U.S. EVs, wind, and military systems hard.

cleantechnica.com/2025/04/05/c... Without dysprosium and terbium, your EV motor gets downgraded to a clunky, less efficient design that eats more power and delivers less range. Without tellurium, First Solar’s cadmium-telluride panels—the pride of U.S. solar manf.

Corporate “DEI” is an imperfect vehicle for deeply meaningful ideals I have not thought or said much about DEI (Diversity, Equity and Inclusion) over the years. Not because I don’t care about the espoused ideals — I suppose I do, rather a lot — but because corporate…

I have a new blog post up: "Corporate 'DEI' Is An Imperfect Vehicle for Deeply Meaningful Ideals" charity.wtf/2025/02/10/c...

I know a lot of people are feeling incredibly scared and demoralized right now. I get it; I am too. (Who knows if my marriage will still be valid in two years?)

So it doesn’t matter if you're a company in the US, China, or elsewhere. DeepSeek should be a cue to pivot HARD toward investing in far more efficient methods of AI development. Even if you care nothing about community & climate impacts, it’s just better business. 19/

Beef Wellington is just a corn dog from a different socioeconomic background.

Screenshot of original branching tweet with context: "when people draw a branching diagram as parallel lines I like to redraw it with diverging lines to show increasing merge pain over time"

Adding a screenshot with context

Thanks Pete! I left a small handful of tweets at the other place for historic value and this was one of them. Much better to have it here :)