Schatzstraße?

‘ālaka, apparently

Ala’akaka?

If it weren’t for the pesky S in Alaska they could have the whole joint brand in Hawaiian orthography

Chief Justice’s Wife Made $10M+ as Legal Recruiter: Report At least one of the firms reportedly had a case before Chief Justice Roberts.

The corruption is just stunning.

www.thedailybeast.com/chief-justic...

“If there’s public interest in evidence proving a corporation has been systematically stealing its employees’ wages—correspondence between executives, falsified pay stubs—the choice of whether to release it is for the corporation, not an individual leaker.”

like to add ® and ’ any time I submit online forms because I know that some developer is going to see it and wonder if they have a bug

This now has LaTeX / BibTeX support, for the sickos like me who also write outside MS Word

Title page of our paper, “The Politics of Black Classification: Sociopolitical Cues and Racial Perception,” with Lauren Davenport (Stanford) and Hunter Rendleman (UC Berkeley), dated April 14, 2026. Abstract: What makes someone Black in American society today? From Donald Trump questioning Kamala Harris’s racial identity to Joe Biden’s claim that hesitant Black voters “ain’t Black,” American politics frequently brings questions of racial authenticity and belonging to the surface. Yet political science often approaches race as a fixed attribute rather than a social construction. Here, we seek to understand how Americans define blackness in social and political life. Using a conjoint experiment with a racially diverse sample that includes Black, white, and mixed race Black-white respondents, we evaluate how ascribed and acquired traits influence perceptions of blackness. The results show that inherited characteristics—particularly parentage and skin tone, which are the strongest determinants of racial classification—play a central role, while sociopolitical cues such as partisanship, neighborhood context, and spousal race also influence racial classification. Using a continuous measure, we also show that respondents make graded assessments of blackness rather than purely binary classifications, with some individuals perceived as more Black than others. Black respondents are more likely than white respondents to classify a broader set of profiles as Black, consistent with a more inclusive understanding of racial membership, yet they also place greater emphasis on shared political identity. These findings clarify how racial categories are socially constructed and why that construction carries real political and social consequences.

Our paper, “The Politics of Black Classification: Sociopolitical Cues and Racial Perception” (w/ Lauren Davenport & @hrendleman.bsky.social), has been conditionally accepted at Perspectives on Politics!

Sharing abstract below. Long time coming, but we are really proud of this paper.

More soon!

Very telling that Palantir is against another Nuremberg!

In the same manifesto, Palantir's owners argued that we need a national military draft, that soft power is over, and that we were too hard on Germany and Japan after World War II. I don't think that company should be allowed to exist anymore.

i can only assume @quantian.bsky.social is too much of a coward to post this here on bsky so i will do it for him

bsky.app/profile/ayou...

Kash Patel might file a lawsuit just for show, but he’ll never stick with it. Discovery would be devastating.

[Joe Strummer voice] Shibe don't like it...

Kinda tired of coked-up Silicon Valley losers who haven't read a book in seven years telling me my job is stupid

As an agnostic half-protestant it is quite a thing for Pope Leo to be my favorite head of state

My elementary school aged son: "why doesn't this text editor make a Roblox game for itself"

a man in a tuxedo says they whooped yer hide reaaall gooooood Alt: John Cleese at the end of A Fish Called Wanda yelling at Otto, about the Vietnam war, in a Texas accent, "they whipped yer hide real good!"

Still relevant re: the Strait of Hormuz

One of my favorites. He really earned that best supporting actor win with this one.

Really is interesting how many of the self-styled prominent law professors opposed to Eastman’s disbarment also think Trump’s EO on citizenship is totally constitutional. I’m sure it’s just a curious coincidence that that this very small group overlaps in such a significant manner.

This now has LaTeX / BibTeX support, for the sickos like me who also write outside MS Word

Jamal is too nice to say "utter hypocrisy," but that's what this is.

Today's #SCOTUS treats *all* coercive relief against the executive branch as imposing irreparable harm on the government. For that proposition, they cite a 2014 opinion by ... Chief Justice Roberts.

Its absence here is deafening.

More than anything else this reveals just how impulsive the major questions doctrine revamp is. It all ultimately stemmed from Roberts's personal antipathy to a regulation, and everything since has been a dishonest attempt to dress it up so that he doesn't look like he's just shooting from the hip.

I unironically believe this. If you're in charge of deciding what is THE LAW, and you hold that position for life, you should have to give up all of other pursuits and dedicate yourself fully to doing nothing but that, without anything else to distract you or influence you.

Dave Mathews in a keffiyeh holding up signs that say STOP THE GENOCIDE and STOP KILLING CHILDREN at a concert

This is not a knock on DMB but if you had told me twenty years ago that Dave Mathews would be this outspoken on an issue that Radiohead completely shat the bed on, well... I would've been surprised!

Ah yes, well!

Do I know anybody here that has experience scaling the sales/partnership side of a SAAS org? We've gotten nearly 1,000 new API users in Q1 and we're losing our minds. I'm sure there's a playbook here. Anybody been down this path or know somebody that has?

Isn’t “too many users wanting to pay for your service” a good thing, Mike!?!

Most striking to me about these memos is the radically different assessment of the harm imposed by the president not being able to pursue his initiatives. Over the last 15 mos., that harm has in numerous cases been treated as almost per se serious and irreparable. Here, it gets no analysis at all.