We can do big things to unite humanity, if only our leaders would choose this over war, food over war, peace over war.

Yeah; I was at the Media Lab before Joi Ito so I’m probably two hops away from Epstein. At least I was gone before he walked thru the building and trolled for fresh ideas.

Nice visualization! If there’s an API available, I could see this data being useful for heatpump companies to estimate bills. Working at one recently, it was hard to get utility level rate data. Statewide average is available from EIA, but not cost per kWh down to zipcode.

wish SCOTUS would examine "a well regulated militia" with the granularity they are debating "domicile"

Be careful folks, today is April Fool's Day, which means that the internet will be rife with misinformation and posts designed to deceive. Don't worry though, tomorrow we will be back to normal, and the internet will be rife with misinformation and posts designed to deceive.

April first is my birthday, and I agree. Can we skip the “funny pranks” this year? We can circle back in 2027.

Why has the U.S. rejected cheap, plentiful electricity in favor of coal, oil, and gas? Because a dozen billionaires who own oil companies have made it so, contrary to the will of a majority of Americans.

If that doesn’t make us a petrostate, I don’t know what does.

GOP weighs health care cuts to pay for Iran war New efforts to rein in health programs open the GOP up to attacks that they're cutting health care to pay for an unpopular war.

they're calling it the most republican thing of all time www.axios.com/2026/03/30/g...

I got a Bondi Blue iMac with my bar mitzvah money. It was so cool, first computer on my block with USB!

In retrospect I kinda wish I’d had the beige PowerMac All-in-One, with the same processor in a less cool case. That SCSI port would have been much faster for removable media. Zip disks were slow…

I read it before watching the movie but after the trailer. I wish I had read it earlier, because I just visualized Ryan Gosling the whole time. Not complaining, but I’d rather have a blank slate.

At this point, might as well watch the movie and then read the book to add more science detail. Enjoy!

Uranium hexafluoride - Wikipedia

Even worse, it’s uranium hexafluoride that the centrifuges were concentrating. So it’s a gas and incredibly reactive. Even more fun than heavy metal!

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranium...

I LOLed when the 1st edition book was burned. It really was Chekov’s Tolstoy.

Jokes on us, the parliamentarian only matters when it’s a democratic congress…

Look, when all’s quiet on the Western front, we had to do something to shake up the East. The general says we will be in Istanbul in 14 days. What could go wrong?

Ah, maybe I’ve been making the mistake of trying to work for good to neutral companies. Turns out, capitalism ruins everything anyways.

I feel the same about working in engineering for non-profits and mission-driven startups. There just aren't that many things that pay well, actually do good work, and set humane expectations for their employees.

Let me know if you find one...

It feels like our commander in chief is going to make some tactical errors that most of learned after a couple of online games of Command and Conquer in 1999.

screenshot of the mcmaster.com which has an incredible array of parts available for purchase

I wonder if the AI thought she worked at McMaster-Carr...

They have an incredible array of sorts of mechanical parts for purchase. We used them all the time when I worked at a robotics company.

Thank you for your service

The Little Known Rule That Makes It Harder to Register to Vote Read the latest by Democracy Docket.

I worked at vote dot org; the rules are so strict it's like they were designed to disenfranchise. You can file your taxes 100% online, but you need a "wet pen" in Texas.

We made a tool to take a photo of your signature and fax it, but that was ruled illegal. www.democracydocket.com/analysis/the...

So, it wasn’t AI that targeted the girls school, it was just an old entry in a database and kanban. Thanks Palantir!

The Heat and the War These things are related, of course, because of the Strait. The Strait, and the island, and the various other geographic landforms and massive pieces of human construction that help prop up a global e...

"The Southwest is baking precisely because the world collectively decided, over decades, to not address the fundamental problems with a fossil fuel-based energy system. The war is about to cause the worst economic shock in close to two decades because that system, somehow, still reigns."

The best time to have invested in renewables, walkable cities and transit to avoid the oil crisis shock was twenty years ago.

The second best time is today.

We should reconsider the term „energy crisis“ when speaking about the effects of the Iran war.
This is very specifically a crisis of fossil fuels and their single point of failure. Fossil fuels are no longer synonymous with „energy“. We have other, better options.

a man in a blue and white jacket is surrounded by women ALT: a man in a blue and white jacket is surrounded by women

Farewell metaverse, we hardly knew ye

Same. Feels like we caught the last chopper out of ‘Nam.

@portersqbooks.bsky.social ?

mind-boggling to me that i still have yet to see a single democrat utter the phrase “every republican president of your lifetime has destroyed the economy and started a war”

Even if the war stopped today, supplies will be disrupted for months. If it continues on a few more weeks, supplies will be disrupted for years. If it lasts for months, we can mark this as the end of fossil fuel hegemony in energy markets. In the meantime, millions will starve.