James Fallows Tierney

Love this FT graphic on Strait of Hormuz flow.

(Note: likely understates flow because this will not capture tankers who are making the run with their transponders turned off—and, tbh, if I was making the run I wouldn't want my transponder on)

I dictate email responses while driving, walking to the train, walking the dog, etc.

Would you believe if I told you the dean’s email job was maybe even worse?

incredible, he did the joke

Every community has its horrors, unfortunately. I grew up in Boston, which among other things did not have a more enlightened history of harbor prison camps

tired: genetic data being sold or weaponized
wired: genetic data giving you new citizenship data

Relevant anchor baby ancestors are from Nova Scotia 👀

Thank god for expansive visions of birthright citizenship, eh?

No joke, this is how years of Ancestry.com memberships are going to pay off for my family.

As much as I was looking forward to seeing Elizabeth Prelogar, Don Verrilli, and Paul Clement take turns dunking on these orders in front of a D.C. Circuit panel, this is good news.

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What a day for FINRA to drop a new concept release on arbitration reform www.finra.org/rules-guidan...

A map showing the increase in units allowed by right for Chicago parcels if HB 5626 passes. The map shows Chicago with parcels colored blue (1 unit increase), green (2-3 units), orange (4-5 units), and red (6-7 units). Many parcels are also uncolored, indicating no increase in the units allowed. Chicago's community area boundaries are also shown.

In the gov's State of the State speech, he championed a "missing middle" zoning reform bill that would legalize at least two units on any 2500+ sqft parcel allowing single-family homes.

By my calculation, that'd increase the by-right zoning capacity in Chicago by at least 775,000 units. Some notes:

Bizarro multiverse Trey

gonna quote skeet this in legislation class this semester

Yeah, I'm *definitely* voting for Stratton now

Were you not “currently clean on opsec”?

It’s not too late

act.dsausa.org/s/4536.Xd0xHm

Incredible. Kalshi is not paying out "Khamenei out of power by [date]" contracts because he died.

I hope you aren’t drunk and took your staff’s advice, Rashida and I don’t know this man and feel confident he didn’t care about us. Please restrain from drinking too much as you have been warned from your staff and stay off social media when you are drunk. I pray in his holy month you find peace and respect for your self,

uhhh oh my god

The thing that’s most remarkable to me about these betting sites with respect to political issues is that anybody is willing to be a counterparty without also being an insider. Pure adverse selection.

I think about this Tony Benn speech much more than I used to

Two categories of analysts who might take a step back, away from the microphone or keyboard, this weekend:

—Those who assured us that Trump was the real anti-war candidate.

—Those who assured us that invading Iraq was necessary and would work out great.

In Iran, air power alone will not reshape the regime. Since WWI, dozens of U.S., Israeli & allied air campaigns have tried to force political change — none installed friendly governments. None! They strengthen nationalism and intensify resistance.

the guy who wrote the literal book on this stuff is dunking on the admin:

Did you caramelize those onions yourself

under submission to the law reviews finally, to the editors that are on here!

Surely it’s the whales excreting it, which explains why they were so critically important to the ACK economy

Cocaine levels in Nantucket's wastewater are growing exponentially. No one is sure exactly why. After measuring 50% above national levels in September, the island saw even steeper increases later in the year.

no one is sure exactly why

The people who run these AI projects are so deeply unimpressive as thinkers.