Someone at the NYT asked me a couple years ago for an opinion piece on "how to solve the Colorado River water crisis."
So I made a nice little writeup on the most obvious answer: charging for water.
Once the editorial board saw it, they freaked out & cancelled the piece.
‘The roots of the problem are traced to the Revenue Act of 1964, which cut taxes even as the administration was increasing spending on both the Vietnam War and the Great Society social program. Like Nixon Trump may be at risk of ushering in a stagflation all his own.‘ www.barrons.com/articles/sta...
In more than half of US states, Republican and Democratic lawmakers have introduced legislation that would boost adoption of small plug-in solar panels that sit on apartment balconies and plug directly into household outlets. Canary Media buff.ly/5B79fOA #ShareGoodNewsToo
Which one? The Roman god Fascinus comes to mind.
The Defense Minister of Israel says it was "blood libel" to go after Israeli soldiers caught on camera raping a Palestinian.
I met with AI data labelers in Kenya who are organizing their colleagues to fight the brutal working conditions and horrible pay given to the workers at the "bottom of the AI supply chain." They believe the NDAs they've signed are unenforceable so are speaking out:
www.404media.co/ai-is-africa...
Leverage for WB (including billions up front to netflix to cancel the previous deal), tiktok was heavily subsidized by the chinese government now they pay, data center leases... Their 81 year old owner is spending like there's no tomorrow, because for him there probably isn't.
Plus the old "efficiency vs resilience" problem. You've eliminated redundancy. Your remaining staff is busy 24/7, can never have a sick day, no capacity to handle demand spikes, can't ever catch up on backlogs, has no bandwidth to train replacements...
Analysts always imply mass layoffs have no impact on business operations. Those 30k people weren't _doing_ anything, the company won't notice their absence.
Even if that's true for 95% of them, management is perpetually terrible at understanding who is actually load-bearing.
The US already makes 96% of the N fertilizer we use.
The fertilizer we import the most is POTASSIUM. Which we get from CANADA.
When we import phosphorus, we get 98% of it from PERU. Not Iran.
So the reason we've had trouble getting those is TARIFFS.
farmdocdaily.illinois.edu/2025/07/us-f...
At first glance this idea may SOUND good, but the truth is that no poor person will benefit from it, middle class people will benefit from it only marginally, but the well-to-do would benefit substantially. This is a perverse policy disguised as a middle class cut
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They're spending $1/3 of a billion annually, and ticket sales being down $10 million is the problem?
Yeah, he got eaten by a dinosaur.
really one of the strangest media cycles in history, where mainstream media actively hid the fact that the columbine killers were popular upper class preppy kids with full on neo-nazi ideologies and instead pretended they were victims of bullying
The pope cannot sanctify him. The papacy hasn't got the authority to even comment on that man. It would go the other way around.
When we talk about Baby Boomers not getting off the stage: In 1997, the US president was born in 1946.
In 2007, the US president was born in 1946.
In 2017, the US president was born in 1946.
And next year in 2027? The US president will have been born in 1946.
losing a primary by FIFTY points because you backed ICE should tell everyone where the zeitgeist is right now
Japanese artist Masayo Fukuda hand-cut this life-sized octopus from one sheet of paper. Known as Kirie in Japanese (translated as “cut picture”), the art form involves cutting intricate forms from a single sheet of white paper and then contrasting it against a black background to reveal the design.
Stephen Fry's DNA really helped the species.
I know you're not a fan of mastodon, but a brief thread you might enjoy.
mastodon.social/@nixCraft/11...
The scraped training data now includes enough expressions of anxiety to come out the other end of the model. What a surprise.
Gemini told him to commit an act of terrorism at the Miami airport to intercept a delivery of a large humanoid robot body for it, telling him to "to stage a “catastrophic accident”, with the goal of “ensuring complete destruction of the transport vehicle … all digital records and witnesses"
Probably worth calling my Senators about this even though Amy K is almost certainly one of the 20
It’s important to remember that billionaires are parasites with a vested interest in persuading you they are predators.
“Company towns, exploitative working contracts, things like that have always been what sparked the biggest progressions in labor rights,” Jetson told me. “And really, that is what’s happening here, in the realest tradition of the American labor movement.”
www.thenation.com/article/econ...
As the guy who wrote the book on zoning abolition, I'd like to go on record as saying: if you can use zoning to stop the concentration camps, fucking go for it.
This is amazing.
www.getyourfuckingmoneyback.com
With alt text. I’ve…never seen a court talk like this before?
