This story is crazy! The Jim Dolan had a Knicks fan obsessively monitored at games just because she was trans.

more seriously congrats to the hungarian people for kicking that asshole out

But your box doesn’t seem to even have that excuse

Our house seemed perfectly reasonably wired, and then we added a couple circuits to the basement when the box was pretty crammed already, and now some circuits are combined under the same breaker in ways that I’m pretty sure don’t pass code

The AI Great Leap Forward In 1958, Mao ordered every village to produce steel. The steel was useless. The crops rotted. Today's top-down AI mandates are producing the same pattern: ba...

This is a fun read leehanchung.github.io/blogs/2026/0...

the idea that vance is anti-war and was a skeptic seems really to come exclusively from vance and is not borne out by anything else in his record as vice president so far

I used to think this was just NIMBY-ism until I realized how irresponsibly so many of these were being built, especially about noise pollution

They don’t even use robotaxis in the Vegas hyperloop, which is almost entirely exclusive, fixed right-of-ways that could just be preset into the controller

I too have written about white conservatives in southern state legislatures rushing through bullshit changes to the law just to thwart the advancement of literally one black man, but I'm a historian who writes about the Jim Crow era South and not a reporter discussing current fucking events there.

You’re right that the island is not an incredible place for building. It’s only about 200 years old, just a big ol’ pile of silt with other silt dumped on top. Probably not a serious obstacle for making a decorative arch, though

Remember all this nonsense about the supposed inferiority of “third world” immigration? They really believed that and applied their theory to international relations and it failed. Racism makes you stupid.

Read @clairewillett.bsky.social right now

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I Work Very Hard, And I Would Like To Try Cake By A Horse Hello. I am a horse. I work very hard at my job of being a horse. When humans say move the heavy thing, I move the heavy thing. When humans sit on top of me and pull on my head, I carry them where they want to go. The main food the humans give me is hay and oats. But I am thinking it would be nice to have a different food. I am thinking I would like to try cake. Yes, yes. Cake. I know all about it. When humans eat cake, it is in glad times. It is the food for a celebration, such as when a woman becomes 47. I have seen cake on the Fourth of July. When humans have a cake, they stand around it and clap hands and smile and say happy birthday at each other. Sometimes there are beautiful markings on a cake, such as balloons or a pink shape. Sometimes the top of a cake is on fire and a boy must blow on the fire with mouth wind. This is the scariest cake. I do not want this kind. But I will eat any other cake. Any cake that is not the fire cake that tries to kill the boy. Please understand: I do not get money for doing work. I do not get to go inside the house. All I am either doing my horse job or standing in my pen or eating food off the floor. I always do these things. But I have never once gotten cake and I would like it very much. I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children. I am more helpful to the farm. Children do not move the heavy things like me or let anyone ride on them. And yet they get cake. Maybe the humans will realize this. Maybe they will say, "You know who deserves cake? That horse. That horse whose back we are always on." Every day I dream about what it will be like if I get to eat cake. Here is what will happen. First, I will walk to the cake and putt my nose at it like hrrfff to make and stomping my hooves to make sure it is not a snake. Then I will trot in a circle to show that I am a horse and I am large. After that, I will nuzzle the cake to …

The horse op-ed is an instant classic. I can't tell you how much joy this piece gives me.

It should be taught in every introductory writing class in no small part because the horse arguments are so compelling. "I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children."

It’s just hard to read because the clouds are perfectly covering South America and southern Africa

All but three (!) of the 1,651 refugees admitted into the United States in the three most recent months we have data are white South Africans.

For comparison, in 2024, the U.S. admitted 100,060 refugees. It's an explicit white supremacist project.

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I always thought Transmet had a pretty solid take on this

“Kings had always been involving and impoverishing their people in wars, pretending generally, if not always, that the good of the people was the object,” a young representative named Abraham Lincoln wrote in 1848. This was “understood to be the most oppressive of all Kingly oppressions and they resolved to so frame the Constitution that no one man should hold the power of bringing this oppression upon us.” This quote, incidentally, is immortalized on the House’s website, if any members of Congress are looking for it.

In fairness it’s not like the consequences of having a mad king unilaterally take the country to war on a whim were so incredibly obvious that you could see it coming from the 18th and 19th centuries www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Yeah, the NFL and NBA salary caps have been very effective at stopping the big-market teams from just buying all the talent, and you can clearly see this effect. Especially in the NFL, where team size swamps a lot of the random factors that can give poorly-run teams some temporary success.

I think Kennerly is talking about cultural media

The Feminist Visionary Who Lost the Plot Elizabeth Cady Stanton believed that she was a person of “superior intelligence and courage.” This fuelled her radical politics—and her eventual descent into bigotry.

I write about Elizabeth Cady Stanton for The New Yorker. www.newyorker.com/books/under-...

It’s even worse than that, because there are MAGA factions who don’t support the war, but of course they all still “support the President”

THREAD: Cherise Doyley was in her 12th hour of contractions at the hospital when a tablet was brought to her bedside.

On the screen was a Zoom call with a judge and several lawyers and doctors.

She was in court, a nurse told her. The reason? For failing to agree to a C-section.

Positive spin: We’ve found a new way besides horses, gambling, and mistresses for wealthy failsons to throw away their fortunes

Negative spin: It is going to kill us all

That’s just my point except more insulting. Programming is thinking the same way that writing is thinking. The time that programmers are saving by using LLMs is time they would otherwise have used to understand what they’re doing. This does not lead to good results or good programmers.

I work on compilers, so maybe it’s just a more concepts-heavy area, but if we’d accepted any of those patches we would have simultaneously (1) sort-of fixed some bugs, (2) accumulated tech debt, and (3) not learned a concept properly, likely leading to more bugs (on top of the badly-fixed one)

Anecdotally, every PR I’ve seen with obvious LLM authorship was barking up the wrong tree and needed to be redone.

Everyone but Trump Understands What He’s Done Allied leaders know that any positive gesture they make will count for nothing.

Trump does not think strategically, historically, geographically, or even rationally. He does not connect actions he takes on one day to events that occur weeks later. Allied leaders know that if they help him in the Gulf, he won't be grateful, or even remember
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Billionaire Marc Andreessen says he has "zero" introspection, and that the idea itself is a modern invention.

CNN: Peter Thiel, the billionaire venture capitalist and MAGA donor, is in Rome this week for a series of private lectures on the Antichrist. It’s an event that the Vatican, and the pope, are treating with caution.

The ability to buy anything on account of having too much money wrecks a person's brain just like a zero-gravity environment destroys muscle mass and bone density.

Human bodies are designed for resistance and they liquefy rapidly without it.

NYT on Feb. 13, 2026: The visit also demonstrated the relative foreign policy inexperience of Ms. Ocasio-Cortez, who has made a few overseas trips since taking office but does not sit on any House committees devoted primarily to world affairs. She struggled at times to formulate succinct answers at a nighttime panel session, during which she was asked probing and specific questions about how to respond to international crises. Questioned about whether the United States should send troops to defend Taiwan if China invaded the island, she stalled for roughly 20 seconds before offering a substantive response. “I think that, uh, this is such a, a — you know, I think that — this is a, um — this is of course, a, uh, a very longstanding, um, policy of the United States,” Ms. Ocasio-Cortez said, before saying that the country should try to avoid reaching that point with China in the first place.

NYT on March 16, 2026: On Monday, Mr. Trump claimed that “numerous countries have told me they’re on the way,” noting that President Emmanuel Macron of France would most likely help in the Strait of Hormuz and was an eight out of 10. “Not perfect, but it’s France,” he said. Others are not demonstrating sufficient enthusiasm for his demands, he said.

Last month the NYT said AOC "struggled" to give an answer on Taiwan and quoted her with "uhs" and "ums" to make her look stupid

Yesterday talking about Hormuz Trump claimed he's heard from "numerous countries" and said "uh" four times. The NYT deleted the "uhs" and paraphrased him to look smarter:

Or are the components replaceable enough that shortage is not really likely, even if the war stretches out indefinitely, and price volatility is the only (large) concern?