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The Fatal Allure of Yesterday's Tomorrows On the dangers of seeing science fiction as a template for the future.

New, on Heat Death! Thrilled to run this absolute banger from @goldwagnathan.bsky.social, on the bizarre way that concepts from 20th century Golden Age sci-fi have lingered in the scientific imagination, despite never coming within spitting distance of becoming — what's the word? — real

>ask if new browser is real or chromeslop
>”it’s a good browser sir”
>it’s chromeslop

POV: you are a young woman celebrating a recent academic success

A four cell image of a dude holding a dog like a baby with a sad looking cat in the background. The shot zooms in on the cat as the cells progress. The first labels the person as developers and the dog as developer experience. In the third cell, the cat is labelled as users trying to load the website you built.

posted this 6 years ago and it’s still relevant

the flashlight I use to pick up my dog's poop at night finally ran out of battery after about five years. I will probably have to charge it one more time before he dies

Meta earns $3.5 billion every six months from showing Faceboon and Instagram users 15 billion “higher legal risk” scam ad impressions a day, internal documents state.

That haul vastly exceeds how much the company expects regulators
To fine it for running scam ads.

www.reuters.com/investigatio...

"Thank you for your call. Please press 1 to be connected to the party you are calling." 🤔

Bleeding to death in the trenches because my air support is vaporware made by a guy who spent his entire VC budget on "growth hacking" the beltway instead of building drones

"It was only a matter of time before the All-Star level players in Japan would want to come to the United States, and I was able to parlay that self-study to a job with the Dodgers in the Dodgers' Asian operations department." . Scott Akasaki, center, with Kaz Ishii (left) and Hideo Nomo (right) in 2002. Photo by Jon SooHoo. While some may point to Hideo Nomo's landmark move to the Dodgers as the beginning of the current connection between the Dodgers and Japanese baseball, that relationship actually began many decades earlier thanks to the vision of Akihiro "Ike" Ikuhara

My vision -- supported by [Dodgers executives] Bob Daly and Bob Graziano -- was, 'Why should we be dependent only on the free-agent market and the draft? Let's get into every area in the world that's producing baseball, and let's be aggressive about it again. This is the team of Jackie Robinson. It's the team of Hideo Nomo.'" Thanks to a staff led by Acey Kohrogi, now the director of Pacific Rim Operations for the Padres, the Dodgers put together a team that featured Akasaki covering Japan along with Curtis Jung, who handled Korea, and Vincent Lau, who was responsible for Taiwan and China.

When Korean or Japanese scouts came to Los Angeles, the Dodgers hosted them just as they would any representative from a big league organization. "We treated them as one of our brethren. We thought there were 50 pro teams, not just 30," Evans said. "And subsequently, we treated them well. We had documents that were bilingual. I knew their customs. I was always introduced in their native language." When the Dodgers signed Ishii before the 2002 season, the team didn't make the announcement in Los Angeles. Instead, the brain trust flew over to host it in Japan. "Our reasoning was he was one of the best pitchers over there," Evans said. "He was an elite guy. Let's honor him, and let's continue to grow and, very honestly, re-establish our brand. So, we went over there for the announcement. We did a lot of the press conferences with the idea of catering toward the Japanese media. I'm thrilled we did because it was about respect."

While the Dodgers may have an edge thanks to their location and financial might, Evans argues that there is a much more human role that goes into it. "This game is all about relationships," Evans said. "You spend 10 to 14 hours a day at the ballpark for eight and a half, nine months together. The game is a worldwide game. It is certainly not a North American game anymore. It's played in more than 25 nations. The World Baseball Classic is evident. It's not money. It's cultivating and maintaining and nurturing relationships. You can't buy relationships." "You hear [Yoshinobu] Yamamoto and Shohei [Ohtani] and Roki [Sasaki] talk about one of the reasons they chose the Dodgers is because of its history," Akasaki said. "Obviously the proximity to Japan and the community that we have here helps, but we have a really unique infrastructure. We have Japanese-speaking trainers. We have Japanese-speaking staff in the front office. I'm bilingual. Will Ireton was Kenta Maeda's interpreter -- Kenta Maeda was [with the Dodgers] a long time ago, but he's still on the support staff. You drop a Japanese player in our Dodgers clubhouse and that will be seamless."

How Dodgers became a hotbed for Japanese talent: respect
www.mlb.com/news/dodgers...

yeah, had a DM who would constantly have the party face one big monster, it had to be so powerful to not be overwhelmed that it could often be close to invulnerable

screengrab of massing model with point access blocks

you know how i keep saying single stair buildings are workhorse of walkable urbanism the world over?

here are 174 homes on a 2.2 acre block in seattle.

(16) 4-5 story single stair buildings.

what do you think FAR is?
what about lot coverage?
unit distribution?

it's such a joy to build software exclusively for yourself

definitely a form of self-care

One app, 60 men, 26 dates: my adventures in alt-right dating There’s no question that we’re living — and looking for love — in contentious times, where extreme political ideologies have all but divided parts of the dating pool. Or have they?

This is a good piece but god almighty is it sad, sad, sad

I found a pair of special sunglasses which have enlightened me to the secret truth about our society, which is that everything is slightly too bright all the time

CSS :heading Interactive article about the :heading pseudo-class and function

This really is going to be a game-changer for global CSS styles. Heading styles are notorious for repetition and/or big selector blocks.

alvaromontoro.com/tutorial/hea...

getting chilly, I need some hygge over here. remember hygge? would love to have some of that right about now

I'm hiring for front end at Headway

Barkley the labradoodle sleeping in the pillows on the couch

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

every young Republican staffer is a Nazi, it's that simple www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

it's been fun working on my slap shot and getting more power and accuracy just by slowing down and focusing on my form

shooting has always been my weak suit, especially since my best shot (wrist), is not great for a defenseman who's often shooting from the blue line

The “Free Market”: The Fatal Error of the Foundational Myth of Center-Left Politics Corporate boards and weak labor institutions—not shareholder value—explain CEO pay, inequality, and why executives cave to Trump’s agenda.

Great unpacking of the claim that the corporate restructuring of the past few decades has made the economy "more efficient." Only more efficient at shoveling money to the rich. cepr.net/publications...

Personal data storage is an idea whose time has come Data Ownership as a conversation changes when data resides primarily with people-governed institutions rather than corporations.

The web can be made personal again.

blog.muni.town/personal-dat...

1/ For this edition of the Polycrisis, we asked Shreyas Shende, who runs the fantastic Indialog newsletter, to analyse the momentous breakdown in India-US relations.
indialog.substack.com
Check it out --India in the new global order
@phenomenalworld.bsky.social
phenomenalworld.org/analysis/ind...

torn between liking the idea of being more clean-shaven and how practical it is with the fact that I clearly look better with a beard

Staff Software Engineer, Frontend New York, New York, United States; San Francisco, California, United States; Seattle, Washington, United States

my company has a staff-level front-end engineer role open (NYC, SF, Seattle location)

A wizard ponders five blue crystal orbs labeled WIP

Them: So what have y'all been up to?
Me: Haha, you know. The usual.

The Usual:

Oklahoma Republicans propose all state colleges must have Charlie Kirk statue Schools would be required to build memorial plaza and describe slain activist as civil rights leader or face fines

LMAO WUT

The pointlessness of censoring Jimmy Kimmel A power struggle over the final days of the public square.

"The reality is that, in the age of informational superabundance, the public square as we once knew it under mass media can only be reassembled through epic acts of censorship that the average American, whoever that is, would find intolerable."

mattdpearce.substack.com/p/the-pointl...

4 yr old: Momma is Mr Bean real? 🥺