flipping through a proof of yet another book from a somewhat well known liberal voice diagnosing “where the left went wrong” and i’m struck, again, by the fact that a large part (if not most) of the liberal commentariat simply does not believe that the political right has agency.
tbf this is the kind of mistake i’d be kicking myself over way way out of proportion to the actual financial loss. just a psychology thing.
this negatively polarized me against every technology since the telegram
congrats to sen. talarico
It’s in keeping with the basic idea of the original Colorado River Compact, which was to manage the basin’s water through some negotiation and compromise, rather than strictly following the letter of the law. But the legal foundation of prior appropriation hamstrings negotiations at every turn. Farmers account for the overwhelming majority of Colorado water use—almost a third goes to cattle feed alone—and thanks to how the system was initially designed, their prices are absurdly subsidized. One recent study found that while municipal districts pay an average of $512.01 per acre-foot, agricultural irrigation districts paid an average of $30.32 per acre-foot. Fully a quarter of all Colorado water diversions, all to farmers, cost nothing at all. Such a subsidy is difficult to unwind.
TIL that while Colorado basin municipal water districts pay an average of $512 per acre-foot, irrigation districts pay an average of $30--and fully a quarter of all water diversions, all going to farms, pay nothing at all prospect.org/2026/04/17/w...
the Friday 'stack, where I ask what makes it feel so wrong to LLM generate a misery memoir?
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the tech fascists think they are so clever and smart but their entire worldview is just a bunch of stale apologetics for race hatred and fascism
Woke 2
that’s that me gazpacho
i think this speaks to the poisonous interaction between the shadow docket and the Fox News Alternate Universe. if SCOTUS is making equity rulings without briefing or arguments by the parties, they are deciding cases based on *what they have already heard from the media about the balance of harms*
Woke 2
i click on one video essay and now youtube is filled with thumbnails that have exactly one word in impact font and an arrow pointing to a thing
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time travel as a concept is anti-Semitic, Sinophobic, and identitarian.
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AGATHA CHRISTIE'S POIROT: DEATH ON THE FILES (Drama)
When a New York financier is found dead in his jail cell, the famous Belgian detective faces a baffling array of billionaire suspects. (9pm)
if it keeps expanding exponentially, sure. but solar has an exponential curve too - if it continues, within 20-30 years the entire surface of the earth will be covered in solar panels.
personally I do not think this is going to happen
yeah if you claim AI is what’s going to kill the climate, I will assume you are insane
AI is still a rounding error compared to, like, gasoline. it’s nothing. it’s like maybe an eighth of the carbon emissions of cement
At some point I want to put together a comprehensive taxonomy of AI-use failure modes, but for now i think the biggest ones are:
1. No seriously it's not an oracle
2. Lying/bullshitting about what it did.
3. User checking fatigue
4. Just Weird Shit (usually because you ran out of context)
If you see this, post something you saved because it's funny.
lmao he’s so so close!
bsky.app/profile/bill...
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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.
thanks again joe manchin!
In ten years, this image will recirculate on the internet as evidence of spontaneous human combustion.
aurora, “running with the wolves”
Fascinating paragraph from Scott Alexander, where he admits he’s the dog that caught the car
