These data centers are delayed because of supply chain problems w/ chips that AI has caused & I wager most of them will never get built because political opposition will kill then before they break ground. Closest thing to poetic justice since Janet Jackson was rocking those box braids.
Screenshotted excerpt from linked article reading as follows: "In public, Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. has cultivated a reputation for care and caution. The papers reveal a different side of him. At a critical moment for the country and the court, the papers show, he acted as a bulldozer in pushing to stop Mr. Obama’s plan to address the global climate crisis. When colleagues warned the chief justice that he was proposing an unprecedented move, he was dismissive. “I recognize that the posture of this stay request is not typical,” he wrote. But he argued that the Obama plan, which aimed to regulate coal-fired plants, was “the most expensive regulation ever imposed on the power sector,” and too big, costly and consequential for the court not to act immediately."
OOP
New York Times got receipts on John Roberts being like, 'I know this isn't how anything works, but a Democratic president is about to implement a policy!!'
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...
Current hostility (on the part of politicians and institutional leaders alike) to even looking at the past is strikingly blunt. It touches many disciplines, but denying history is the key issue.
The backlash against Bouie’s piece on Enlightenment and then the 1619 Project were public turning points
My latest.
I’ve been watching the media coverage of the murders of Dr. Cerina Fairfax and Vice Mayor Nancy Metayer.
One way media can fight back against male violence:
If you kill your wife, you don’t get to be called a “husband” any more.
You’re her killer.
open.substack.com/pub/karenatt...
Bargain Jesus.
Relevant to the “vibecession” debate. Turns out people don’t take it well when the govt summarily cancels direct benefits that made their lives better.
A HUGE, narrative-breaking moment for the UK car market
New EVs are now cheaper than petrol cars on average, says Autotrader
Last yr CCC said price parity was due by 2028 – and it's already here
And EVs are already MUCH cheaper to run than petrol
Right, it *almost* worked. But no, just a typo 😆
It would be an enormous lecture course.
*effort not fort
Mamdani is a guy who grew up upper middle class & his parents don’t give him any money as an adult AND IT IS A SCANDAL.
It’s a big problem for those of us who care about having historical records of this crazy & critical moment. This is an important fort by the Internet archive to counteract the danger of all private archives and more people should be aware of it. ourfuturememory.org
This means they are trying to prevent the possibility of any non subscription archive. This is a huge problem across the board these days, even libraries usually don’t *hold* the archives of our times, they access them through paid subscriptions that can be changed/go away at any time.
The New York Times is now blocking The Wayback Machine from accessing its articles.
That means you'll no longer be able to view archived versions of NYT stories published in 2026 and beyond on archive.org.
(All those posts you see tracking changes to NYT headlines and ledes? They relied on WBM).
The fact that Mamdani just seems like a cheerful normal guy who's policies are things like "we're going to tax second homes to fund pothole repairs" or whatever and yet this generates panicked responses like "This is basically Stalin's great purge turned up to eleven" is... telling. It tells things.
The pull quote sounds like the opening line of a killer poem.
Omg yes! Land Before Time! Peak dinosaur storytelling era.
"We've ended DEI - but we need you to give $10 million to pay for conservative professors."
The Utahraptor is a genuinely amazing beast. Cannot blame anyone naming that one.
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Close enough! We are being nostalgic right now!
You like the guys who have weird little heads.
Many commentators under the OP share your view!
Shocked velociraptor does not do better. Terrible showing.
Yeah if you were a pre teen when the first Jurassic Park movie came out this just doesn’t make any sense. But then you take a breath and realize only a very specific age range of people have Jeff Goldblum murmuring “life finds a way” locked in as a core memory.
Uh … ??????
Great news. Now, break it up! And somebody figure out how to outlaw online scalping, please.
Whoa!!
Reasonable argument. Could be. Worth a try either way.
Yeah, there are adjustments either way. But I think adjustments in the direction of more safety/ less precarity is the way to go. Also less scaminess. Just ⬇️ the stress of those two things would go a mighty long way toward improving consumer sentiment, I wager.