I had trouble writing this reply to your tweet, so who am I to give you advice! But sadly you do just have to write the terrible draft, so I recommend using this simple pomodoro site and setting it for 15 minutes, then, when it's done, for another 15: text-pomodoro.vercel.app
This was good! Moving down the list. Thank you @doctorow.pluralistic.net for the writing and @clivethompson.bsky.social for the suggestion
It’s amazing, isn’t it? Love that book
This is an excellent question
The crucial thing to understand about Peter Thiel is that he adores "The Lord of the Rings" and no one in human history has ever so utterly completely missed all the salient points of what a book is about.
Schrodinger’s Strait
oof, correct
lol god yes, me too
totally
this is AI aesthetics, all the way through
for people who object to being called "fascist", their imagery is squarely -- risibly -- in that camp
alt="A pentagram shaped image that looks like a metal medallion. At the top is a skull wearing a military helmet with glowing red eyes and two machine guns pointing out of its ears, below that is the text “operation Metro Surge Minnesota” with the text below that saying “one nation under God”. Below that aer images of Donald Trump and another white men both looking stern and angry, and below that 5 figures clothed in military tactical equipment, with face masks, helmets, and Appear to be machine guns or sniper rifles with these logos on their chests: Bortac, Hsi SRT, FPS, Borstar, Border patrol. At the bottom is a German Shepherd looking at the viewer with its mouth open. The overall impression is grim, with the esthetics of a badly designed early 2000s video game"
alt="An image of pentagonal metal medallion. At the top is a skull in a military helmet with glowing red eyes and two machine guns crossed behind it, and beneath that is a scene of several soldiers wearing full tactical gear and carrying some sort of banner that looks vaguely like an American flag (a large blue field of stars with tiny red and white stripes at the fringe). Behind them a military helicopter in a dark cloudy sky descending on an explosion; the explosion has what appear to be six or seven rocket tracers coming out of it. The helicopter is shining a spotlight down on the ground. The whole thing looks like a terrible video game from the 1990s, and carries the unmistakable whiff of AI generated design"
Behold the "challenge coin" the federal government is giving to folks who worked on Minneapolis detentions and deportations
it's both predictable -- the sort of garish video-game conflict imagery in which Trump's administration revels -- and grotesque
talkingpointsmemo.com/news/staff-a...
I agree, this is news I actually need to know lol
Absolutely
The more I learn the more horrific and depressing and enraging it is
The incompetence and incuriosity of the people who dismantled USAID is astounding
you folks really should read this excerpt — an insider story of the trump appointees and their gormless behavior
it’s short but very very telling
Post from Dale Partridge claiming nobody wants to live in diverse neighborhoods
I quite happily live in a neighborhood where most people do not share my religion, where multiple languages are represented, and where people have come from a lot of different countries.
Bigoted assholes always assume everyone else actually shares their bigotries.
yessss
it's been so great
A screenshot of the live stream of the Artemis two space mission, showing the spacecraft poking in from the far left, bright in the sunlight, with six rocket cones sticking out, and a black solar panel jetting out at 2 o’clock. In the middle of the picture is a very large planet earth, 2/5 shrouded in blackness, 3/5 in bright sunlight, and the sunlit part is blue with a small amount of land visible through many swirling white clouds. The background is completely pitch black, making for an exceptionally dramatic image
Clooooooser
Lol
A screenshot of the live Nassau stream from the Artemis to Space Mission, showing spacecraft Poking in from far left, Bright in sunlight, with six or seven small cone shaped thrusters sticking out from and a solar array jutting out at 5:00. In the middle of the picture near the bottom is a very large planet Earth half inch shadow and half in light with the part that light showing the planet bright blue interspersed with lots of swirling clouds. The backdrop is pitch black, making for a very dramatic view
closer and closer
woooo
A screenshot of the Youtube live stream of the Artemis Two mission, it shows the Artemis 2 craft on the far left lit by the sun, and next to it, in the middle of a completely black background is Earth, looming fairly large half shadowed, with the brightly lit part showing blue ocean interlaced white clouds
Man, the view just keeps getting cooler as the earth gets bigger
sorry, yes, should have clarified that -- eastern!
A screenshot of the Youtube live stream of the Artemis Two mission, it shows the Artemis 2 craft on the far left lit by the sun, and in the middle of a completely black background is Earth, looming fairly large half shadowed, with the brightly lit part showing blue ocean interlaced white clouds
hey kids
you may want to tune into the NASA livestream for the Artemis 2 mission
it's rapidly approaching home and the earth is getting *big*
they're set to splashdown at 8:07 pm tonight
www.youtube.com/live/6RwfNBt...
A McDonald’s where the sign has been reduced to McDo.
There is no McTry.
Last June, the man credited with introducing President Trump to his wife asked the administration for a favor. Paolo Zampolli, a former modeling agent turned presidential special envoy, had learned that his Brazilian ex-girlfriend was in a Miami jail, arrested on charges of fraud at her workplace. They had been in a custody battle over their teenage son. Now he saw an opportunity. He reached out to a top official at Immigration and Customs Enforcement, explaining that his ex was in the country illegally, according to records obtained by The New York Times and a person familiar with the communications. Could she be put in ICE detention? That could help him get his son back. The official, David Venturella, promptly called the agency’s Miami office to ensure that ICE agents would pick up the woman from the jail before she was released on bail, according to the records and a person with knowledge of the conversation who requested anonymity to discuss it. During the call, Mr. Venturella noted that the case was important to someone close to the White House.
Oh.
Holy hell please let this be the reason Melania ran to the press: the guy who imported her, Einstein visa and all, used ICE to deport the mother of his child.
Zampolli was in Hungary w/JD.
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/20/u...
The Artemis II crew captures a portion of the Moon coming into view along the terminator – the boundary between lunar day and night – where low-angle sunlight casts long, dramatic shadows across the surface. This grazing light accentuates the Moon’s rugged topography, revealing craters, ridges, and basin structures in striking detail.
A closeup of the moon fills the bottom diagonal 2/3rds of the photo, and it shows hundreds of large and tiny craters, lit brightly by sun. The distance a small blue planet earth, dusted with white clouds, is rising over the moon's horizon. The rest of the sky is pitch black
On the left, poking into the frame, is the round edge of the Artemis 2 capsule, with a solar panel jutting off diagonally at 2 o'clock. In the middle left of the screen is the moon eclipsing the sun - so the moon is mostly dark and ringed by a bright grey-white corona
NASA's photo galley from yesterday's lunar fly-by are bonkers gorgeous
full gallery here: www.nasa.gov/gallery/luna...
>Canadian company builds solar panels in Malawi
>is paid in Malawi's (volatile) currency
>invests those payments in local farmers growing chili peppers
>sells chili peppers to Nando's, in USD
>builds sustainable business model on Cheeky Nando's
This is my favourite news story of the year so far.
they're making the astronauts listen to trump and it's about as normal as one could imagine
ah woooooooooo