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There are like, what, several hundred thousand tenured college professors in the United States? Why quote an Epstein files guy?!

Computer, enhance:

To Cut Housing Costs, Some States Are Easing Fire Safety Rules

Too bad this good article is marred by such a bad headline.

Fixed it:

To Cut Housing Costs, Some States Are Reforming Fire Safety Rules That Don't Make Buildings Safer

For the record, WA was the first state to pass single-stair legislation, but is now lagging other states in implementation.

Dem Candidate for Rep. Eric Swalwell’s Seat Donated to Far-Right Republicans — Including Laura Loomer Democratic primary hopeful Rakhi Israni, who is running for Rep. Eric Swalwell’s seat, gave to MAGA figures — including Laura Loomer.

NEW: A Democratic candidate in the primary in Eric Swalwell’s district raised $2M in the first two weeks of her campaign from unknown donors.

Rakhi Israni’s personal political donations have gone to over 10 MAGA and far right candidates including Laura Loomer.

theintercept.com/2026/03/04/c...

🚨 Virginia Democrats may succeed in implementing their new 10-1 congressional map targeting 4 Republicans this year after the VA’s top court let the April 21 referendum proceed.

Litigation remains ongoing, but this removes a major hurdle.

Interactive map+data davesredistricting.org/maps#viewmap...

Mark Teixeira played on the same high school baseball team as my sister's boyfriend Ben in high school.

I remember one time Ben told me "see that guy over there?" (pointing to Mark Teixeira) "He's gonna be in the major leagues one day" and I was like "no he's not, you're full of shit"

Somewhere, there is a crime happening.

ya its really a more-than-the-sum-of-its-parts act - the goofiness, the technical virtuosity and the artiness should clash but instead all work together

it makes you feel like an insane conspiracy theorist when you hear about how his blog was a successful trojan horse for smuggling neoreactionary and race science views into mainstream tech guy discourse until you see the leaked email where he admits to doing precisely that

i take no pleasure in reporting that scott alexander is lowkey one of the most important intellectuals of the last 20 years and you do sort of have to know who he is (important because he's one of the key figures in radicalizing tech people and oligarchs, not because his ideas are good)

it crossed my mind how much the guitarist's mask is an intentional vs coincidental buckethead reference

I've watched like 10 of these and they're all kinda interesting for their own sake but also a reminder of the incredible diversity and distinctiveness within each different genre of stoner guitar instructor guy.

YouTube video by RockdaRiff METALHEAD ENVIES| ANGINE DE POITRINE| "SHERPA"

My promise to you is that if you are a stoner guitar instructor type of guy and you do an Angine de Poitrine reaction video I *will* watch it www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vHi...

Ken Burns never a guy to let an annoying fact get in the way of a good story

The level of motivated reasoning required for some pundits to convince themselves that Netanyahu, Adelson, et al. did not actually understand their own interests when they strongly favored Trump to win is beyond my comprehension

ya he was more a typical for his time piece of shit than an exceptional or noteworthy piece of shit

The Knife in Ty Cobb’s Back Did the baseball great really confess to murder on his deathbed?

www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-...

not the point but every time someone brings up ty cobb like this i need to point out basically all* of the stories about what an awful piece of shit he was were made up by a drunken sportswriter decades after he played

*notable exception: the story about him fighting the disabled guy in the stands

schilling wasn't invited because of some personal transgressions against his teammates not for being a right wing chud tho

i never met teixeira but have heard a bunch of stories about what he's like irl and my impression is that he's more a dumbass rich kid country club asshole type than a huff style lunatic so that's probably an above average outcome for a red seat texas representative tbh

we were just trying to figure out the other day if huff still lives in san diego. incredible there was an orioles team with luke scott where scott was only the second most insane right wing guy

there was a dude like that from my childhood that we were all convinced was gonna be a pro athlete - huge for his age, fast and athletic - and then it turned out he capped out at 5'9" and that was that

and my childhood hero cal ripken jr is a native marylander! two of the best players of all time! but overall its still pretty rare for major leaguers to come out of MD despite those three (along with teixeira) outliers

its just way more obvious for football and basketball i think. there were two twin brothers at a neighboring HS to mine who both went on to play line in D1 and they were like godlike titans compared to the tiny weakling normal varsity players.

so, the other eventual superstar guy i got to see play in high school in suburban maryland was rudy gay and he was an absolute no-doubter "ya this guy is better at basketball than ive seen anyone be better than everyone else at anything" guy

He was pretty obviously the best guy on the field, I think I was just incredulous any guy from suburban Maryland would be that good at baseball bsky.app/profile/iamg...

Going back in a time machine to give my pre-teen self some scouting lessons so I could better identify Tex's elite power and thus avoid the apocalypse bsky.app/profile/norm...

Well, Ben was right!

Anyway Ben dropped out of college after a semester and joined the Navy and idk what happened to him after that and now Mark is gonna be in Congress as an insane right wing Republican, so that's funny too.

Mark Teixeira played on the same high school baseball team as my sister's boyfriend Ben in high school.

I remember one time Ben told me "see that guy over there?" (pointing to Mark Teixeira) "He's gonna be in the major leagues one day" and I was like "no he's not, you're full of shit"