Chris Loer

Does this mean you were recently in Ladd’s Addition? I’m in that hood right now at the tool lending library

I didn't work on this project, but I've been getting to test it, and I can say it clears the "magical" bar. This isn't one of those awkward "stick a chatbot in the corner" features -- it's using an LLM to give you super powers. And it's only going to get better!

The Fourth Of July, Rethought Can Any Nation So Conceived Long Endure?

www.popehat.com/p/the-fourth...

Friends, let me share one more music video with you. ❤️ This one is very personal — I wrote this song, called “After the War”, in March 2022, capturing a dream familiar to every Ukrainian: the longing for peaceful life filled with everyday routines and small joys, and a deep yearning for home. 🇺🇦⬇️

This is what I've been sweating over recently and I'm super happy with the way it turned out. My coworkers and I have started living in the future -- finding and visualizing multi-gigabyte rasters in seconds -- and now we just can't wait for others to join us!

Liberal Oregon and Washington Vowed to Pioneer Green Energy. Almost Every Other State Is Beating Them. The Northwest states passed aggressive goals to decarbonize the power supply but left it to the Bonneville Power Administration to build the transmission lines needed for wind and solar. The agency ha...

I'm not sure ProPublica has the whole story here, but it's true Oregon and Washington underwhelm on their renewables rollout and it's very disappointing.
www.propublica.org/article/oreg...

Children and young men, reaching for food, extend arms holding pots and pans. A headline reads: "As Israel's Blockade Grinds On, Gazan Children Go Hungry And Patients Die" Photo by Saher Alghorra for The New York Times

The effect of Israel’s total siege on Gaza has become catastrophic, doctors say. Shortages of food, water and medicine are prompting a surge of preventable illnesses, and deaths. nyti.ms/3GzOJV1

I spent two days playing with all of these new Felt capabilities last week and it was AMAZING.

Felt Scientists have distilled the essence of Felt and put it in a bottle.

Absolutely terrifying. Maybe some or many are guilty but to do that to even one innocent person makes me shudder.

Brown University Surgeon and Professor Are Deported to Lebanon Despite a Judge’s Order Dr. Rasha Alawieh, a kidney transplant specialist and Brown University professor who had a valid visa, was expelled in apparent defiance of a court order.

www.nytimes.com/2025/03/16/u...

This map blew my mind the first time I saw it -- what a rush to have had a hand in creating it!

Create advanced visualizations that delight your team and clients - immediately make your category, size by or color range maps 10x more intuitive to your end user by adding icons (and emojis!). Pretty neat.

The idea of making the site of a recent US-funded genocide into a US-owned seaside resort for the wealthy is, in fact, audacious, but that is probably not the first descriptor I'd choose, or among the top 100.

How to Defend Presidential Authority “We now have an imperial Congress”

I don't have any particular insight into how Trump's flurry of experimental (?) activity will play out, but I think reading this article six months ago has left me feeling somewhat less disoriented now www.statecraft.pub/p/how-to-def...

Today we are excited to announce a major release that delivers our users even more ways to work with data securely on the platform: SSO, self-hosted VPC and authenticated embeds. Here are all the ways you can now work quickly and securely collaborate in Felt 👇

I felt a little guilty getting so much great content from @volts.wtf for years because he barely paywalls - I’m happy to have finally subscribed this year.

It’s crazy to think how much history can shift on decisions like this one made under enormous pressure and uncertainty…

Underwater photograph of a large whale with a diver in the background, next to an article title that reads "WHAT'S THE FIRST THING WE SHOULD SAY TO THE WHALES?" by Ross Andersen.

“Sorry”

Wow, that’s a kind of mind blowing statistic. Although maybe only the carbon part of the co2 weight should count as “weight of shit we chucked into the atmosphere”

Now I’m jealous I don’t have these low-but-not-no value stats for my dishwasher. You even got me to update Home Connect, an objectively wasteful use of Thanksgiving weekend.

That’s a super interesting view - especially that Tesla is spending so much more than BYD

The old scold in me thinks maybe just the whole trope “you should laugh when these evil people die” needs to go. But short of that let’s stop practicing laughing at the deaths of groups of people we’re actually killing.

We watched “True Lies” last night in a fit of Thanksgiving nostalgia, and the comic chemistry in that movie is still amazing. Hard to swallow the anti-Arab (and implied Palestinian) propaganda though.

I don’t know how Bluesky figured out I was into mushrooms, but I’ll play this game. Here’s some muki-take (I think) I found poking around my dad’s house yesterday

Yes. Peace and freedom and dignity and security for all.

Seems like we’re talking past each other. It’s obvious that bikes+PT are more efficient, and definitely they work. But it’s also obvious (to me, I guess) that electric cars will have far higher adoption (especially outside of areas with dense supportive infrastructure)

@felt.com those are some fine lookin’ maps you’ve got there

More fun and more efficient, sure, but really more important? Electric cars will clearly replace a lot more fossil fuel car miles than bikes in the next five years - in part because cultural change is slow and they require less of it.

Just read Against the Grain and Seeing Like a State back to back, and while James C Scott was a very interesting thinker, he repeated himself way too much.