Short & interesting story about an Indian medical student making an AI Maga girl to put himself through college

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Who was that?

TBF "not human" is the most consistent complaint about Starmer

This interview is a really great discussion of the cutting edge of wealth taxes in CA and MA.

Hmm, I was thinking more ratline to Argentina

Solar manufacturing capacity is approx double demand. Same with wind nacelles and batteries.
The problem with Chinese manufacturing is not overcapacity!
It's UNDERDEMAND.
But how will it look as 2 x big fossil fuel supply shocks sink in?

Massive Attack & Tom Waits – Boots on the Ground [Verse 1] / Big legs dangle from a helicopter hole / Big chug rhythm, gotta be now ho! / Brown, mean and young, dumb and full of cum / What can you use a Marine for? / [Chorus

Here's the lyrics. Last line is the best:

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Boots on the Ground YouTube video by Massive Attack - Topic

Finally a Big Muddy for our time: Tom Waits & Massive Attack, "Boots on the Ground" (lyrics next bleat)

youtu.be/kVTVWRaAImM

Pithy summary by @doughenwood.bsky.social: "The reason is that occupations dominated by natives and immigrants are complementary, not rivalrous. For example, in the construction industry, immigrants dominate less-skilled roles and natives the more-skilled ones."

Trump’s deportation agenda will destroy millions of jobs: Both immigrants and U.S.-born workers would suffer job losses, particularly in construction and child care Deportations will eliminate millions of jobs held by immigrant and U.S.-born workers according to research on increased immigration enforcement.

"For every 1,000 immigrants who lose their jobs, almost 800 natives will as well.”

www.epi.org/publication/...

Mind-expanding book post from @jwmason.bsky.social. My favorite bit is this block quote from their upcoming book
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I loved this.

Yet again Against Money parallels something in Feyerabend's Against Method, namely that Galileo was right, but it was impossible to prove that until a century later after advances in optics & several other fields that were only pursued because people were trying to prove he was right

the Soros conspiracy coming from Elon in particular is just embarrassing. you’re worth like 80x what Soros is buddy, if you thought he was buying elections you could snap your fingers and fix it.

I'm totally for that. But to get there we need to do this first. Otherwise we'll never make full pay stick, we'll just be casualizing people with good jobs.

FT: ‘Meta Builds AI Version of Mark Zuckerberg to Interact With Staff’ Link to: https://www.ft.com/content/02107c23-6c7a-4c19-b8e2-b45f4bb9ce5f

Reminds me of Dorothy Parker’s remark upon being informed that Calvin Coolidge had died.

Here's the full report from Matt Bruenig's People's Policy Project

www.peoplespolicyproject.org/wp-content/u...

Opinion | Let Americans Work 40 Hours a Week

New Deal labor law was focussed on overwork. Today with "just-in-time" scheduling, the biggest enemy is underwork & insane schedules. It's a bigger cause of working poverty than low wages. It should be regulated like OT was.

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/18/o...

Fascinating! I had no idea. Now that I've googled, even more fun to me is this is a great example government vowing to accomplish something large, starting out with wrong ideas, but real will & resources led to huge advances through trial & error.

An end to cervical cancer is possible And some countries are already on track to do so.

I had no idea 13% of all cancers are caused by infections, or that we hugely reduced stomach cancer by reducing H pylori. Gives me a new perspective on classic Japanese movies where men died of stomach cancer

hannahritchie.substack.com/p/hpv-vaccin...

Mayor Mamdani, Commissioner Levine Announce First-In-The-Nation Municipal “Click to Cancel” Rule to End Subscription Traps

Mayor Mamdani, Commissioner Levine Announce First-In-The-Nation Municipal “Click to Cancel” Rule to End Subscription Traps

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are you in the US? because my experience is americans are far too pessimistic given Trumps policy rollback of clean energy. even in the US clean electricity has formed 9 out of 10 new gigawatts installed and is at record highs
www.canarymedia.com/articles/cle...
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FIRST ON STREETSBLOG: Mamdani To Fully Fund Trash Containerization - Streetsblog New York City He's finally trimming New York's 5-o'clock shadow.

Very good news. And a five-year timeline is pretty fast by municipal standards.

Also:

"The city has roughly three million parking spaces, and full trash containerization is expected to take about 150,000 spaces, or 5 percent."

Like tales of the dog poop days

"My accursed generation is working through the body politic like a vengeful peristalsis."

-- John Dolan, aka The War Nerd, born 1955

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"Complex carbohydrate" what's that a french fry with feelings