Maybe the media can decide to make this a scandal one of these days

faux liberalism (ezra klein) vs actual liberalism (mill)

Interesting take on the affordability discourse.

And even ignoring affordability opening our auto market would help in many ways

- more options for buyers that aren’t huge SUVs and trucks
- better EV tech
- potentially reducing the power of the dealership

no one wants to hear it but r/nba has some of the greatest minds of our time

This is the crossover event I’ve been waiting for

I sold a bunch of stock this year and made decent gains (thanks ai hype).

For the first time in my adult life I owed taxes instead of getting a small refund.

While I logically knew this was because of my capital gains and I was coming out well ahead, it still made me irrationally annoyed.

Note that the ONLY action item on the Tree Action website is to help gather signatures for a petition to create a new layer of bureaucracy. Here are the skills they are looking for. Notice anything missing? Like maybe um hmmmmm PLANTING TREES?

Politico No deal: Vance and Iranians fail to reach agreement after marathon session Vance said the Iranians refused to give assurances that they would not seek to obtain or develop a nuclear weapon.

AP: MIAMI (AP) — The main attraction early at UFC 327 on Saturday night wasn’t any of the fighters, but President Donald Trump. Trump entered the Kaseya Center shortly after 9 p.m. to watch the light heavyweight fight between Jiri Prochazka and Carlos Ulberg. He was accompanied by Dana White, the president of Ultimate Fighting Championship, and several members of the Trump family. As a Kid Rock song blasted from the speakers, Trump walked to his seat where Secretary of State Marco Rubio was waiting. Also nearby was Sergio Gor, the U.S. ambassador to India. Trump shook hands with attendees on the floor and made a point of greeting Joe Rogan, the podcaster who also works as a UFC color commentator.

This side-by-side is simultaneously unbelievable and extremely believable

The Secretary of State attending a UFC fight while wartime diplomatic negotiations fail would generate an explosive, front-page, above-the-fold headline for any previous administration

Again there's simply no comparison between the scope, scale, & tone of the JOE BIDEN EPICALLY AND INCOMPETENTLY FAILED IN AFGHANISTAN coverage of August/September 2021 & the "just the facts, very measured" reporting of what's going on with Iran & Trump now.

Man that’s grizzly

I’m guessing internet forensics would show they are sourced from accounts that only post AI slop, and then get laundered into the mainstream by a bigger account that doesn’t do their homework and just reposts a photo they find cool 😎

Map of watershed basins in the Western United States. Basins are color-coded to show SNOTEL estimates of snow-water equivalency compared to the median from 1991-2020 as of April 8 2026. Nearly all the colors are red (<50%; Covering AZ, NM, CO, NZ, Northern CA, WA, and most of WY)), with some orange (50-69%) and yellow (70-89%). in the Northern regions (Montana, Idaho, and parts of Washington)

It's going to be a wild summer.

Literally the GOAT

Busted being an idiot

They were as dumb as they looked

I think the big obstacle in this approach is that the supreme court helped Trump do all that stuff and will prevent Biden from doing that. The same way courts ordered mask mandates ended early but used the pandemic as justification to force Biden to keep Trump era policies for CBP and ICE in place

But most Southern volunteers believed they were fighting for liberty as well as slavery. “Our cause,” wrote one in words repeated almost verbatim by many “is the sacred one of Liberty, and God is on our side.” A farmer who enlisted in the 26th Tennessee insisted that “life liberty and property [i.e., slaves] are at stake” and therefore “any man in the South would rather die battling for civil and political liberty, than submit to the base usurpations of a northern tyrant.”17 One of three brothers who enlisted in a South Carolina artillery battery believed that “a stand must be made for African slavery or it is forever lost.” The Confederate states were united by the institution of “slavery[,] a bond of union stronger than any which holds the north together,” wrote the second brother. Therefore, added the third, the Souths “glorious cause of Liberty” was sure to triumph. A wealthy planter who married one of Mary Todd Lincoln’s sisters became an officer in the 4th Alabama to fight for “Liberty and Independence.” “What would we be,” he asked his wife, “without our liberty? . . . [We] would prefer Death a thousand times to recognizing once a Black Republican ruler . . . altho’ he is my brother in law.”18 Southern recruits waxed more eloquent about their intention to fight against slavery than for it—that is, against their own enslavement by the North. “Sooner than submit to Northern slavery I prefer death,” wrote a slaveowning officer in the 20th South Carolina. The son of a Mississippi planter dashed off a letter to his father as he rushed to enlist: “No alternative is left but war or slavery.” Subjugation was the favorite word of Confederate recruits to describe their fate if the South remained in the Union or was forced back into it. “If we should suffer ourselves to be subjugated by the tyrannical government of the North,” wrote a private in the 56th Virginia to his wife, “our property would all be confuscated ... & our people reduced to the most abject bondage & ut…

Some Confederate volunteers did indeed avow the defense of slavery as a motive for enlisting. A young Virginia schoolteacher who joined the cavalry could not understand why his father, a substantial farmer and slaveowner, held out so long for preservation of the Union when reports in Southern newspapers made it clear that the Lincoln administration would “use its utmost endeavors for the abolishment of slavery.” After all, Lincoln himself “has declared that one of the peculiar institutions of the South, which involves the value of four billions . . . is ‘a moral evil.’ “ No true Southerner could hesitate. “Better, far better! endure all the horrors of civil war than to see the dusky sons of Ham leading the fair daughters of the South to the altar.” A slave-owning farmer enlisted in the 13th Georgia because “our homes our firesides our land and negroes and even the virtue of our fair ones is at stake,” while a young Kentucky physician told his slaveholding relatives that he would join the Confederate forces “who are battling for their rights and for an institution in which Kentucky, Virginia, and Tennessee are [as] interested” as the lower South. “The vandals of the North . . . are determined to destroy slavery . . . We must all fight, and I choose to fight for southern rights and southern liberty.”

Why'd the Confederates fight? They told us

We are simply not going to get free of this until our political class accepts the fact that the entire GOP led us here and must be destroyed.

Trump Revels in Threats to Commit War Crimes in Iran The president said he would bomb Iran "back to the Stone Ages." Until this administration, American leaders had insisted they were trying to follow international law in war.

It’s back to the previous, clearer, one now? 1:50 pacific

If Iran's government did not, he said, U.S. forces would target the country's energy infrastructure, which supplies power for millions of civilians. Mr. Trump made the point in a crudely worded social media post. "Tuesday will be Power Plant Day, and Bridge Day, all wrapped up in one, in Iran. There will be nothing like it!!!" Mr. Trump said. "Open the Fuckin' Strait, you crazy bastards, or you'll be living in Hell - JUST WATCH."" "Praise be to Allah," he added, using the Muslim name for God. The president has previously postponed his deadline to attack twice and the Omani foreign ministry said officials had discussed how to reopen the Strait of Hormuz with Iranian counterparts without reaching a definitive agreement.

Fwiw they do have the full quote in their article now

If you live in Seattle you know she doesn’t like actually governing she just likes attention sadly, and I even voted against her recall

reminder that the number one issue that the press covered in 2016, the one they told voters was THE MOST IMPORTANT thing in the election, was Hillary Clinton's compliance with Presidential Records Act record-keeping

Im of course not speaking to broader societal negatives as your CFC analogy implies.

The current AI arms race means that as new models are deployed the cost of current models drop. Even more critically as model performance, AI HW, and the open source models improve you will be able to get great utility out of AI even if you don’t want to pay for the latest and greatest cloud models

Please don't run really smart guys like Mark off the platform because you can't read or are addicted to getting mad online

Maybe don’t immediately dump on subject matter experts (or anyone else) trying to explain complicated topics in 300 words. You could instead ask questions if the meaning is unclear or ambiguous rather than immediately assuming the worst

Sure! "Cyclists have a right to the road, too, you noisy, polluting, inconsiderate maniacs! I hope gas goes up to eight bucks a gallon!"

$8 a gallon for gas???

That's right

it’s kind of insane that vehicles just do that on their own. they’re just roving the countryside, no one behind the wheel, killing a pedestrian every 72 minutes

operator: 911, please state the nature of your emergency
me: there’s a site i go to a lot that isn’t the best way to follow breaking news
operator: is it a news site
me: not really
operator: why don’t you go to a news site
me: i don’t know
operator: jesus. ok. how many ambulances do you want
me: 75