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Been waiting for someone to issue an Elon-free ETF, but that is apparently a bridge too far slate.com/technology/2...

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Let me show you a wardrobe you can build with $1,700 🧵

Every day I am filled with hate because my heart overflows with my love of the computer. aftermath.site/ram-prices-h...

The Clean Energy Transition in Three Charts - Land Art Generator Since the advent of solar, wind, and other renewable energy technologies there have been concerns about how they might impact the overall electricity grid. As the tired saying goes, "the sun doesn't a...

the solar+battery revolution is here, Trump can only slow it down landartgenerator.org/blagi/archiv...

let's hear some more of these Olympic Moments, what's your greatest personal sports-related tantrum

n the mundane course of modern life, you might occasionally find yourself glimpsing the dark abyss - that is, catching a few seconds of a stranger's phone screen. A peek over a shoulder, through a car window at a dash-mounted phone, or perhaps, pointedly, at the hands of a distracted person whose eyes you're trying to raise, will likely reveal a version of the same thing: not, in 2026, a wall of text, a feed, or even a slideshow of stories, but an endless scroll of tall videos.

Taken together, the videos sometimes tell a simple story in algorithmic silhouette, with one bikini video after another, a cascade of talking sports heads, an unbroken flow of clothes to buy, or influencers talking over the News with a particular political orientation. Just as often, though, a stolen screen glance reveals a dismal anti-story, in which an AI model has guessed, in a whole bunch of different directions, what the user is "most likely to be interested in or engage with." It has done so by following, to borrow Meta's language, a series of steps: "Gather inventory," "leverage signals," "make predictions," and "rank reels by score." To the intended viewer, the resulting mix of videos is incoherent but probably also intuitive, at least on an individual basis. To you, the screen peeper, the spectacle is profoundly uncomfortable, not just because you're eavesdropping the output of an intimate machine-learning profile gleaned from private and often passive "signals" provided by someone you don't know, but because you know, deep down, that your chained-together clips — and the chains of people you know, love, and respect — would be exactly as alien, and alienating, to anyone outside of your narrow algorithmic cone. You're seeing yourself. You're really just sitting there, recreationally A/B testing content for hours in order to help Meta and TikTok find videos — any videos, about anything — that are a little bit harder for us not to watch.

once you start looking for it, you see evidence and consequences of online desocialization everywhere nymag.com/intelligence...

I don’t know who needs to hear Jesse Jackson leading the kids on Sesame Street in this beautiful call-and-response reminding them that every child is somebody, but here it is

This Is What It Looks Like When Nothing Matters Welcome to the internet’s nihilism crisis.

I wrote about something I've been thinking about for a long time. A kind of post-ironic collapse in our politics and culture where nihilism has become the lingua franca of the internet and beyond. It links Kirk, Clavicular, Epstein, memestock/coin stuff, mass shooters. I hope you'll read it.

Yesterday morning kids were sent running from their bus stop in panic because ICE showed up. This guy at today’s ICE Out of Lindenwold protest is a must watch 😭. @maddow.bsky.social

"you're gonna get in trouble for that"

*stone-faced*

"okay"

goddamn son

Tell 'Em, Michael J. Fox I'm going to make this about me, eventually, but not before we talk about how cool this was.

wrote about Michael J. Fox's appearance on Shrinking, which was cool for a lot of reasons, some of them pretty important to me

type-click-type.ghost.io/tell-em-mich...

Others say that this action is destructive. This is an error. What is destructive is the insidious belief that the world outside your front door is to be treated with suspicion; that every passerby is a potential threat; that every neighbor is a potential enemy; that every human interaction must be stored and cataloged as evidence of possible crime. This attitude is destructive of good will, of brotherhood, of peace, of love. This is the attitude of the Gestapo. This is the attitude of the paranoid lunatic. This is totalitarianism creeping into your home disguised as safety.

"Remove Your Ring Camera with a Claw Hammer," by @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social: www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/remove-you...

YouTube video by Demi Adejuyigbe Cause & Effect: Short Film

cause & effect

Crackpot idea I've had for a while (maybe now that I'm a blogger I should blog it) is that Democrats should have states pay for youth sports equipment. Signed, father of a kid who likes hockey.

The harmonica lollllll

Yesterday, five-year-old Liam and his dad Adrian were released from Dilley detention center. I picked them up last night and escorted them back to Minnesota this morning.

Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.

Catherine O’Hara Could Do Anything And she pretty much did everything. The only tragedy is that it feels like she was just beginning to get the recognition her decades-long career always deserved.

For The Ringer, I wrote about how amazing it was that the brilliant Catherine O'Hara finally became a superstar in her 60s, and how sad it is that she was taken from us just when we had all finally begun to appreciate her:

I Was Stoked To Collaborate With Dan McQuade A couple days ago, I heard the terrible news that the writer Dan McQuade passed away. I’ve read some great tributes to him from people…

In memory of the great writer Dan McQuade, I wrote about how we spent about fifteen years sending each other really stupid press release quotes. I'll miss him.

Best gas masks “How did these people go out and get gas masks?” AG Bondi asked.

when they tell you to go back to writing about gadgets www.theverge.com/policy/86857...

Dan McQuade Got Philly Like No One Else The writer, who died Wednesday, was one of the most gifted chroniclers of the Philadelphia experience.

One great writer's obituary for another.

Brian Howard on Dan McQuade.

"Nobody understood Philadelphia, and Philadelphians, like Dan."

www.phillymag.com/news/2026/01...

RIP to Dan. His "A decade of Philly sports fans on the TV news" video from the other site is pure gold.

and now we’ve got our own Billy Bragg song. we are going to win.

Intolerable Things We'll all be Minneapolis soon.

"It is important to understand that all of the people in the streets building barricades and shouting for ICE to get out of their city are not members of some preexisting underground guerilla army sect. They are just regular people." www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/intolerabl...

The Battle for One of the Richest and Smallest Counties in Texas A few families have been duelling for control of Loving County for decades. Then the followers of a hustle-culture influencer moved in.

Because we could all use a little distraction: I wrote about all the drama that's been brewing in Loving County, a land of oilfields and family feuds and, most recently, a takeover attempt by an outside group www.newyorker.com/news/letter-...

seems like some important context for the massive chinese solar buildout in 2025 i haven't seen in a lot of other places

If you're also feeling angry and sad and distant and unsure how to help, and you have some means, maybe consider this, or other things like it.

It's gonna be a rough week, so here's one of the funniest videos I've seen in a long time.

The Smart Money Is Turning Out to Be Green Money Climate and money are too often divorced in our imaginations, the assumption being that you can’t make money or properly run an economy and keep the climate from imploding at the same time. People who...

Nobody wants to admit to caring about the climate anymore, and yet clean tech financing is booming, making a mint for investors. Trump is betting the future on a shrinking pot. The smart money is going green.

Gift link to my column for @opinion.bloomberg.com

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